HarleyQuinn
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I filled out the form and I don't have a wife or any damn kids. The form was required to be filled out in order to receive orders. Thanks AF queep.
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If you are charged with anything lawyer up. The JA office fears civilian lawyers. I had to lead a CDI and there were so many issues I found. It wasn't even funny.
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1 hour ago, flyusaf83 said:
Geez. Glad they fired the commander before figuring out WTF happened first.
Guilty until proven innocent per Judge Advocate office.
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Can I change the subject? The next time we all hang out, I'll take the grenade for the team since I'm a great wingman.
I was taught here from you guys knowledge from way back when the board usually gets it right. I had someone walk into my Wing Snacko office (next to the soft drink machine) to tell me the Gp Exec told this individual they got promoted.
Under my breath, I said to myself the AF is fuc.d! A bunch of toxic officers and Execs will be running the AF into the ground soon enough. I guess not being a Flt/CC doesn't matter anymore either. Even if you are the squadron piss monitor you will be promoted. Or how about we play spin the rank for the next board to determine who gets promoted?
Rant complete.
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In war on ‘queep,’ Air Force aims to give squadron commanders new weapons
Queep example - WG/CC has every officer on the entire base fill out a court member data form. Who has the most officers? Flying squadrons. This WG/CC made a tough decision and probably loses sleep over queep. Definitely 2 star material for sure. How about a software program for JA to pull SURF and ribbon data into a format specifically for them? So I don't have to waste time filling this sh...t out.
Pilots, you can find the exit doors to your left and right, just follow the emergency lighting. Please put your masks on first before helping any of the Lts. Your seat cushion can be utilized as a floatation device if you want to float away from this constant BS!
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1 hour ago, Broke said:
Why did you write the letter in the first place? If it was in order to get non-continued so you could (no pun intended) duck out of your ADSC then you are not entitled to pay. If you try to get paid anyway then you are committing fraud.
Oh snap, BODN/JA is in the house. Log off everyone or you will be hit with court martial duty if you don't.
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Study: To fix Air Force pilot shortage, look to contractors — and forget about warrant officers
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1 hour ago, waveshaper said:
Another one of our adversaries made a similar maneuver in the WESTPAC during the 1920s/30s and we know how that turned out. Back then Folks didn't start shaking in their boots until Dec 1941. See - the Japanese Mandate for the South Seas Islands/South Pacific Mandate.
The terms of the mandate required Japan not to fortify the islands. However, these terms were ambiguous and poorly-defined, specifying only that Japan should not build "fortifications" or construct "military or naval bases". From 1921 the Japanese military began making surveys and plans so that rapid military deployment to the islands would be possible in case of war. The Imperial Japanese Navy divided the territory into five naval districts in Palau, Saipan, Truk, Ponape and Jaluit Atoll, all reporting to a rear admiral at the naval headquarters at Truk.
During the 1930s, the Imperial Japanese Navy began construction of airfields, fortifications, ports, and other military projects in the islands controlled under the mandate, viewing the islands as "Unsinkable Aircraft Carriers" with a critical role to play in the defense of the Japanese home islands against potential US invasion. These became important staging grounds for Japanese air and naval offensives in the Pacific War.
Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands was a major base supporting the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Wake Island.
Palau was used to support the invasion of the Philippines by Japan.
Saipan in the Mariana Islands supported the Battle of Guam.
Truk (now known as Chuuk Lagoon) in the Caroline Islands became the base for amphibious landings on Tarawa and Makin in the Gilberts, as well as Rabaul in the Australian mandate Territory of New Guinea.
Majuro in the Marshall Islands was used in air strikes against Howland Island.Jaluit Atoll, also in the Marshall Islands, was the base from which the Japanese Navy seized Nauru and Ocean Island (now known as Banaba Island).
The Imperial Japanese Army also utilized the islands to support air and land detachments.
This isn't the 40s and our economies would be wrecked from going to war. Both the Chinese and US economies would be decimated. The Chinese depend on us to buy their crap from Walmart and someone has to take on US debt. There are Air University classes on this stuff. I learned something in the SOS auditorium.
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1 hour ago, 17D_guy said:
Our allies in the region are shaking in their boots with the expansion in the SCS. For some reason we're still in the mindset that the Pacific Ocean is going to protect us from Chinese shenanigans.
The Navy has brought it up a lot.
While I'm not scared of their engineering, I am scared of their numbers. They're also just as resourceful and cunning as we are and have a culture built on "fighting outsiders."
Their cyber capes are pretty detailed in Open Source info, but it's like the rest of their capes - mass makes up for a lot of other issues.
Huge cell phone nerd here. People wonder why the US government has worked behind the scenes to ban the Chinese from flooding the US with their cell phones. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what they are trying to do.
We can unleah the Kracken known as the Japanese on China. They already have F-35s and what looks like 2 amphibious ships to carry them I believe. I'm willing to bet it would peel the Japanese away from anime and digital porn if they had to focus on China a bit more.
When the rhetoric gens up, the US starts spending more money to help out the little guy. After countries start to feel safe again, they tell us to piss off. Bush jacked up Iraq and Obama totally screwed up Libya. Our track record says we need to chill out for a bit. History repeats itself...
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29 minutes ago, SurelySerious said:
You still have yet to make a coherent point about how Gates saved the day. Russians still in Crimea? Check. Chinese still expanding in SCS? Check. Afghanistan still run by medeval warlords? Check.
Go back to your parents’ basement.
The Chinese have man made islands. Everyone is shaking in their boots. Nobody has ever marveled at good old Chinese engineering. Hence they steal everything they can via cyber and still mess up the end result.
You like wearing hot pink reflective belts to a bar fight don't you?
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1 hour ago, SurelySerious said:
WTF are you talking about? You think China and Russia are going to stop what they’re doing because of our “cohesion”? If you’re not a bot or high school student, I’d be surprised.
Feb 7 - Russian mercenaries suffer an embarrassing defeat.
March 1 - State of the Nation speech, Putin revealed an array of new, powerful weapons he claimed were being developed for Russia's armed forces. (What a coincidence and a huge pivot.)
Apr 23 - Stealth fighter deal between Russia and India fall apart. (What's the count for US manufactured jets shooting down Russian made jets again?)
In my family's 33 year military history, nobody has touched Russia, China, or North Korea. What is there to gain? However, there is a ton for everyone to lose. The Chinese carries a ton of our debt already.
A US military helo was shot down over N. Korea and we didn't do a damn thing about it in 1994. So lets save the WWIII talk for another day. Seoul, Korea burning to the ground for a retaliatory strike after a helo was shot down would be asinine.
Politicians and some military personnel have this constant mindset of we are in danger of a next huge war. A lot of you have failed to realize we have killed a bunch of top terrorist leaders. They all have kids that will be looking to even the score. This ain't over.
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7 hours ago, Disco_Nav963 said:
23 missions over Afghanistan and 18 over Iraq, dropping 180 weapons (Danger Close 19 times) by the time I stopped counting with two months left in the deployment. GFY. It was possible to adequately support the Land Component without mortgaging the future of air superiority, which is one of our core functions and the umbrella under which the Land Component has to fight in any future conflict where the enemy has airplanes.
I took off for missions in country. We always had countless Army and Marines saying thanks in the chow hall. I see things a bit differently than you. I think 99% of us never left our CHUs (Iraq) or BHUTs (Afghanistan) when the incoming alarms sounded because we were too tired from flying. Let me die in peace while I sleep please.
Our experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq just sent a very clear message to the Russians and Chinese just recently. We have a level of cohesion amongst our services that you shouldn't f with and it was put on full display for the Russians up close. The Russians thought sending hired mercenaries and some Syrian forces to attack special forces at a gas plant in Syria was a brilliant idea. They were messing with US military personnel who all have tons of experience from Iraq and Afghanistan. All that combat time and experience came to bear on 200 now dead Russian mercenaries and Syrian forces in a matter of 4 hours.
Sergey: We lied, those are our men. "Can you please stop killing our guys."
Mattis: Sergey, can you hold for a sec? HIMARS 198...199...200.
On that day US 200 - Russians 0. I will always take those numbers.
You can now walk into a bar with your AF ankle tattoo and at least have a very small amount of decency amongst our ground pounding brethren. Imagine that same scenario minus your tattoo of course, if the AF was fairly non existent in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Well, 70% of men and women between the ages of 17-24 are ineligible of joining the military. Due to weight issues, drugs, arrest record, and just can't meet the testing requirements. Meaning there is no backfill for any career fields. The AF and Gates didn't do this to us. Blame the every kid deserves a trophy parents. Great example is the attempted, but failed 100% promotion rate.
It wasn't an F-22 that found Saddam Hussain and it damn sure wasn't the reason Bin Laden became fish food. If we weren't at Bagram AB, Bin Laden would still be sitting back in his Pakistan mansion. A replica of Bin Laden's compound was constructed at Bagram and utilized as a training ground prior to the raid.
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On 6/16/2018 at 2:52 AM, Disco_Nav963 said:
You also have to think Gates' couple of years as an Air Force intel officer before he joined the CIA hurt us. He was just familiar enough with us to have both a shoe-y contempt for flyers, and especially the CAF, but also enough to have the confidence to throw his weight around with us... Confidence a SecDef without a prior association with the Air Force might have lacked.
How many missions have you flown in Afghanistan or Iraq where HVIs, VBEDs, Taliban leaders, or IEDs where identified and blown to shit from above, there by saving lives? Maybe you never got to see the Army guys eating their first hot meal in the chow hall after being on the side of a mountain for weeks. Or seeing guys close up after their vehicle hit an IED.
If we weren't in Afghanistan and Iraq to fly more missions per Gates, there would have been far more dead mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters from the Army, Marines, and Special Forces. Thanks to the USAF, lots of the enemy got the death wish they were always screaming about on YouTube. No virgins included.
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2 minutes ago, Duck said:
Still nothing at my base (besides the two upper level execs being notified). I did have a friend look me up on the list and my name wasn’t on there, but until I hear it officially, I am holding off on the Duck Passover Party (clothing optional).
Sounds like an SOS type of party. Security Forces enter a dark hallway, then an open room. Nothing but naked officers run out and in the other direction. It happened...Naked & Afraid SOS.
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The commander who was fired over a lost machine gun and grenades has a new job in the Air Force
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16 hours ago, alwyn2d said:
Enough young people will bite on the increased SUPT commitment especially after viewing Top Gun 2 Maverick.
Out of 250K sperm cells, you were the fastest one huh? Only if Plan B was a requirement.
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On 6/8/2018 at 4:21 PM, SocialD said:
Don't worry, the network will be down enough...
Try the share drive being down for 8 damn days. Nobody wanted to work over the last 4 day weekend to fix it. Can you imagine Google, Apple, or Microsoft network drives being down for 8 days?
Me: Hey sir, my phone and truck radio is blowing up because we are under a tornado watch with one spotted nearby.
Leadership: The airmen probably went home early on a Friday (standard), that's why the sirens on base aren't being sounded.
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5 hours ago, joe1234 said:
Skeptical about any of this. There's basically two Air Forces, the operation itself, and the bureacracy that exists to perpetuate itself first (and support the operation second).
I can't imagine the bureacracy willingly giving up even a tiny slice of power in favor of improving the operation. I mean, the operation is literally in danger of failing due to a labor shortage because the bureaucracy is that powerful and unwilling to change. No way this plan sticks.
We can't train enough pilots, maintainers, SARMs, CSS, and the list goes on. Love to give you more admin help in the squadron, but giving you a brand new Amn is going to mean he/she will be limited in a CSS. There are certain programs they cannot run. I have a friend who is a SARM that hasn't been PCS'd in 6 years. They are at 40% manning.
Army Air Corps version 2.0 here we come.
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3 hours ago, flyusaf83 said:
The AF released a press release, giving his name and picture to the press. Your point is invalid. The AF made no attempt to respect his privacy, they did the exact opposite.
So let someone submit a FOIA request. Don’t rush to the press in an attempt to save face for the AF. “See? We did something. We fired this guy. Focus on him.” Protect your people, not your image.
Valid, but do you need their name and picture? Why not just fire the guy, and say a commander was fired (if anyone asks)?
Here’s the thing. The AF, in the minds of most of its pilots, lacks trust. It’s about that word leadership likes to use when crushing morale - optics. This is another case of bad optics. I don’t trust the AF to respect me and my privacy if one of my airmen (or me) screws up.
Maybe this guy deserved to be fired. More than likely, he’s a scapegoat for an embarrassing story. I believe that because I have seen gutless moves by AF leadership time and time again. Throwing people under the bus to protect the institution, or higher leadership.
Regardless, there’s no reason for the public shaming.
Do you need any more proof that you’re wrong?
You must be a millennial period. Col Beers privacy wasn't violated in any way. Please show us where the Privacy Act applies in any way, shape, or form. After you take the oath and drive through the gate of an installation, you are owned by Uncle Sam. This isn't liberal Silicon Valley where your feelings matter. We must violate the rights of everyone who receives a court martial too because that information is readily available as well.
Probably, but that is the price one pays for accepting command.
The comment above is spot on. Maybe this is the reason why more people are walking away. I've seen IG investigations closed out but another unsubstantiated complaint us yet again filed against a unit. Putting a CC through pure hell when everyone knows the complaints are BS. Who wants those types of problems?
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How a 4-Hour Battle Between Russian Mercenaries and U.S. Commandos Unfolded in Syria
“The Russian high command in Syria assured us it was not their people,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told senators in testimony last month. He said he directed Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “for the force, then, to be annihilated.”
“And it was.”
Signed "Bad Ass - Mad Dog Mattis"
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2 hours ago, flyusaf83 said:
I’m really sick of the AF publicly shaming its people like this. Why the F would I stay in and jump through the wickets needed, at the expense of my family, only to have the AF drag my name though the mud if some A1C under my command effs something up?
No thanks.
Pretty sure the AF didn't write the article. The AF made a standard announcement regarding the firing of "Col Beers." There is also something called a Freedom of Information Act request even if the AF didn't make an official announcement. The public can request to know anything they want because checks and balances are inherent to our democracy. As a tax payer, I would want to know if you are firing incompetent officers who may send my children into harms way.
The Marines do the exact same thing as the AF: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/05/24/corps-fires-co-senior-enlisted-leader-light-armored-battalion.html
Are you currently tracking on who is our SECDEF? Mad Dog doesn't care if you prefer to wear tampons or maxi pads. Announcing the firings of officers is called accountability, something a lot of leadership now lacks. The AF will post your firing on Twitter too.
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I predicted someone would be fired. We need a way to place bets on this site.
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14 hours ago, Buddy Spike said:
So it's like the Navy.
Maybe they should put finance/admin under the SQ/CC so it's easier to get paid.
Don't you start making sense! There will be none of that talk here.
Promotion and PRF Information
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Can anyone confirm the PRF light is being turned back on for the next majors board? I'm talking P0418D I believe. My Wing is telling us to write them. The PRF cookie monster returns.