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7 hours ago, ThreeHoler said:
Easy. Don’t join spouse. Sucks to be you but you both did sign up for the shitshow of the AF managing your combined living togetherness. Newsflash: most people in join spouse families don’t live together a lot.
Copy all, and it's no newsflash for us.. we know many couples who elect to live apart to continue both careers as far as they can. That's not for us. I'd rather sit tight in my current job for an extra year and separate before we live apart, hence wondering what they can force us to do if I've still got ADSC and we both are on the VML.
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So we (join spouse) will PCS summer 2019, i'm currently not flying. My UPT ADSC expires Oct 2020. if AFPC is not able to match us to an assignment with my old MWS, can they force me to take a white jet (Scott, Tampa) and therefore 3 year ADSC that would go past my UPT commitment? I say those locations because my wife's rank/job essentially requires she work at a HHQ location.
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11 hours ago, Homestar said:
At least all of my flights have ended with me sleeping in either my own bed or a hotel. I’ve never stayed at Hilton that I wasn’t free to leave the next day.
But yeah, he does seem to think we’re overpaid as it is.
True, but the unfortunate events that happened to him are a separate discussion from pay.
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Ironic on his part.. inflation adjusted, we get paid less than he did to fly.
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7 hours ago, Fuzz said:
Just remember we could still be part of the Army.
As someone currently assigned to an Army unit - I'm not surprised at all. How anyone does 20 in that branch is beyond me.
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Either my googling sucks or McGuire's PA just stopped showing up to work.. Either way, the AF nailed it with two new commanders there. Marc Greene is running the 305 OG & Jim Kerley picked up the OSS. Two of the best people and officers I've known.
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8 hours ago, dream big said:
To be fair, sometimes when you go off to an attached job your boss micromanages your flying schedule and shits on you when you’re gone. Then yes, sometimes some pilots hate flying- detracts from building their CGOQ package.
Hah. I had a sq/cc who would call people on the road and bitch at them for letting their email acct lock due to being full. If this happened while on leave, he'd call you in his office when you returned to work and lecture you about how many auto-responses his email received as he tried to send you crap. Dude was straight out of catch-22.
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8 hours ago, Homestar said:
Has anyone else had their base migrate to Office 365 for email? My 100 MB inbox is now a 100 GB inbox.
Actually, now that I think about it I’m not sure if this belongs in the What’s Right or What’s Wrong thread.... 🤔
It's about effing time. 90mb is a joke. Hell, the Army, with half their folks not knowing what a gb is, doles out 4gigs to everyone.
Now - brace yourself for that old crusty civilian shotgun emailing 10mb flyers for the Friday afternoon donut sale.
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11 hours ago, FourFans130 said:
Your chances look good. The command bullets you've got and the "super P" push are foundational for the current promotion climate. What kind of command push did you get? "Ready for command now" or something to that degree is good. If it's something along the lines of "on track to command", that communicates that you're not ready yet in the eyes of that rater.
My frame of reference is once passed over (about to be twice based on my current PRF) ops guy. WIC, Det/CC, good strats, but never sat gp/wg exec, didn't get good PRF strats nor command pushes for various opaque "command decision" reasons. I've been through the counseling. The command push and command potential is what seems to be the current flavor of the week for the promotion boards.
From what I've been told and what I've seen, your super P and your demonstrated command capability should land you with about a 75% chance or greater.
Note: If you haven't don't the primary mission of the USAF recently, that will not hurt you at all.
What's the current thought on having "Def Promote" in the push line, but a P overall...carry any weight, or meaningless?
I'm IPZ this year and just got my prf back with a P. Loads of combat time, few DGs (though honestly they're from flying programs and not school, so I cynically think they carry less weight), few lower level awards, and small, but consistent strats. I fully expect to get passed over.
You have the number to that truck driving school we saw on tv, Truck Masters I think it was? I might need that.
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7 hours ago, Klepto said:
Right. I’d be at the bottom of the top candidates, with the 45 day-only guy at the very bottom. Makes perfect sense.
Do you actually have 5 short tours? In the communities I've been a part of, that is highly uncommon. I'd be shocked if someone with that many ST's got tagged with a 365 at any point in their career. Perhaps I'm missing something though...
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57 minutes ago, Bode said:
It took 15 people for one to stick with my deputy group. It was an 11G billet. The two other fixed wing advisors replacing myself and a Maj both volunteered.That's the type of example I'd love to hear a more senior dude's perspective. I'd like to think that OG or WG/CC mentioned to their MAJCOM/CC that they just lost 15 highly qualified folks to fill an 11G spot, and the MAJCOM/CC call CENTCOM (or wherever) and say WTF OVER. Was it really worth it? Did they *really* do a complete scrub of deployed billets and deem each one worthy of the cost to fill them?
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6 hours ago, nunya said:
The stack will be so short though that being at the bottom of it won't mean much, especially if the top-o-the-stack guys have top cover, or put in retirement paperwork to get skipped over (and then pull it back).
This. Aside from almost everyone having 45 days in the last 5 years, the last number I heard was that we're going through 7 folks to fill each 365 due to retiring, bailing at 15+ years, etc. From what I've seen in my neck of the woods, that seems in the ballpark.
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7 hours ago, Klepto said:
So you can have 5 short tours, but if you were lucky enough to get a break for 5 years (or if you are in a job where you're TDY a lot, but never "deployed") you'll be at the top of the list, with guys that have only ever deployed 45 consecutive days in the last 5 years.
Tha AF and all their clever equations... *facepalm*
No. I believe the criteria was posted already. IIRC Anyone with 45 consecutive days or more in the last 5 years goes to the bottom. Number of short tours, STRD, and ODSD are then used. So in your example you'd very likely not be a candidate.
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9 minutes ago, Seriously said:
It's lazy/uncourageous leadership looking for easy discriminators instead of getting know their people (and giving them honest feedback).
Hah. I completed ACSC in correspondence as a Capt almost a year before I pinned on O4 (we had a kid on the way, overseas PCS coming, and other stuff so wanted to get acsc off my mind). My sq/cc told me I should have completed it the previous calendar year (I finished in jan) so it looked even better on my SURF. UFB.
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She recited the enlistment oath with a t-rex sock puppet on her right hand. It's pretty cringe-worthy.
Joke or no-joke, I can't imagine what went through her head, the O6 on the left, or the dude filming when they thought it'd be a good idea to post it online. I'm by no means the most reverent person around and I thought it was pretty bad.
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My grandfather built and flew a RV4 back in the 90s.. O320 160hp motor. IIRC it burned about 7gph and would cruise at 165I. I do recall him saying he didn't like taking guys over 200lbs in the back b/c of the CG, but would do it on occasion. Other than being limited on space, fantastic airplane.
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6 minutes ago, ColoradoAviator said:
Link? My Google-Fu is weak today.https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-113
The 69-page report is linked at the top of the page.
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59 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:
The GAO is out with a new report sounding the alarm of the Fighter Pilot shortage across DoD. Fully 1/4 of all Fighter Pilot billets are now empty. There were some interesting gems in the report like how the Navy tried to normalize some of the shortages by EXTENDING deployments. Also, over the past four years over 1/3 of the USAF's Fighter Pilots have elected to leave the service.
Yea, that caught my eye as well.
For example, the Navy told GAO that extending fighter pilots’ deployments helped them reduce that 2017 first tour pilot gap from 136 pilots, or 26 percent, to 75 pilots, or 15 percent.
Sounds about right for a short term fix that becomes a long term problem.
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I'm not surprised that there is a spike, but what does surprise me is that every single airframe's mishap rate increased... curious to see what this will be attributed to.
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You've got to be a damned good swimmer to go in rough water and save someone.. let alone multiple adults. hats off to the guy for putting others' lives before his.
Knowing how often people die trying to save someone else, I'm not sure I'd have the same nerve as Mike unless my own kids were involved.
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Failure to meet cleaning standards will not be tolerated!! But my comma splices will be tolerated, we will support the EAMS mission 110% by cleaning someone else's jets!
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27 minutes ago, spaceman said:
Everyone got this volunteer solicitation email chain today; apparently we can't staff the DFACs but we can clean commercial airplanes?!
Jesus that's a poorly written email. Did the CC send it?
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Allow myself to correct... myself.
It's called "Chief Exercises", not planner. My bad. I'm sure the ending result 365 day hell will be just the same for someone, though.
?s on ADSC (Active Duty Service Commitment)
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Scott, Hickam, Andrews, or wherever they get moved. My overall point was more towards the new jet & ADSC rather than that specific location.
Have you seen that in writing? None of the dudes I know in those units has heard squat.
We've been extremely well taken care of for the few moves that we've been married.. I have no room to complain about AFPC in that regard. But yea, I give it 50/50 for this next move based on limited assignment options.