Bigred
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15 minutes ago, bennynova said:
can you just post all the categories? Or is it on Mypers?Ah, my bad, and sure. This will be promotion rate/DP rate. Dunno if it's on MyPers yet.
LAF-A: 90% / 50%
LAF-N: 85% / 45%
LAF-S: 90% / 50%
LAF-I: 90% / 50%
LAF-C: 85% / 45%
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4 hours ago, bennynova said:
Any real memo on promotion %?
and what might DP rate be? I think it’s around 50% or 55% DP for the previous 75% rate??
or ya the rate been higher than 75%
For the LAF-A category, the final allocation memo states 90% selection rate with a 50% DP allocation.
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1 hour ago, 17D_guy said:
You're not allowed to say that anymore. Report for re-conditioning.
Ok...gay ‘athletic endeavor’.
Better?
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2 minutes ago, ThreeHoler said:
So you’re saying there’s a chance...
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile appI gotta imagine there’s enough turds in the punch bowl with uif or prt failures that’ll make up that 10%.
So yeah, there may be a chance.
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DP allocation attachment is floating around now for the upcoming O-5 board (at least for USAFE). I'm hearing that it's a 90% promotion opportunity in the LAF-A (pilot/spec war) category. The other categories are between 85-90%.
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It’s Ukrainian and a passenger on board had information that would’ve led to the arrest of Hillary Clinton...🤷♂️
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I realize it’s only been 12-ish hours, but the rockets/missiles, a whole lot of bark but no bite?
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Interesting developments. Must be considered serious if it’s impacting the bottom dollar.
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4 hours ago, Sprkt69 said:
Fighters vs Heavies. If you really want to get spun up, how much of her time was from the Thunderbirds?
Not getting spun up, just recaging ‘normalcy’ I suppose. Before I left the Navy most every O-6 pilot that hadn’t switched over to acquisitions, logistics, etc, had at least 3,000. Granted, to make O-6 as a pilot you had to have been an operational squadron commander and typically had a lot of flying tours.
To frame how I’m personally looking at it, I’m a major up for O-5 this year, and I have almost 3,000 hours in helicopters across about 1,200 sorties. I’ve yet to log actual flight time in the -135.
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4 hours ago, viper154 said:
Ya they got it all wrong though, it wasn’t a F-16 that started WWII, the mother er was a drone.
Little known fact, when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, they used drones.
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5 hours ago, Danger41 said:
Don’t make snap judgements of a senior leader based on a bio. Luck and timing has a lot to do with combat as well. Back in the day, Rainman talked about not logging combat time in OSW and ONW and that was common in his squadron. Maybe a similar thing here, who knows. And by this logic you could say “she didn’t even kill one MiG over there? Dudes got kills!”
Combat decorations for quantity don’t signify anything other than participating. My community is a great example of a few guys with a crap ton of combat time and air medals that don’t have very good tactical credibility.
I’ve never met this Colonel or the OG and don’t know anything other than what’s in this thread. I do wonder if there is a single leader that the unwashed masses of this site think isn’t “toxic”.
I get the combat time, wrong place at wrong time can make all the difference in chest candy.
I still think 2,200 hours is exceptionally low for a O-6 pilot. Am I off on that?
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29 minutes ago, BADFNZ said:
2200 TT and 100 combat hours? Is that normal for an O-6 C-model driver?
Beat me to it. 2200 hours for an O-6 seems exceptionally low, even for a pre 9-11 winged pilot.
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12 minutes ago, WheelsOff said:
Bottom line, he took the fall for a weather evac of T-6s gone wrong. T-6 wet crosswind limits were mistakenly waived so some T-6s could launch with winds out of limits (a dash-1 limit).
Who is the waiver authority for something like that?
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Not a commander, but still shows that if you polish a turd you just end up with a shiny piece of crap.
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Just now, 12xu2a3x3 said:
. hell, the navy has one and it works pretty damn well from what i've heard.
The Navy does have a process but the numbers are exceptionally small that do it. The irony is the Navy seems to make it easier to do (as compared to the AF) but less guys do it. From what I’ve seen it’s mainly because of how the officer career path is built and crossing from rotary to fixed, etc, can be difficult to recover from career wise.
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Almost got me. Not today ISIS.
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4 hours ago, StoleIt said:
Star Wars was meh. It wasn't bad...but I went in with high hopes and it didn't really deliver.
Just manage your expectations and don't expect an Avengers End Game level of conclusion to the saga.
It was good, but something about it was just not there. It felt disjointed in the storytelling.
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10 hours ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:
Can anyone shed some light on which regionals/pilot union may preclude someone from terminating regional employment and transitioning to another large carrier? Example, is there truth that if hired by SkyWest you cannot jump ship for United before 5 years of employment?
I’ll ask some of my regional buddies, but I think the confusion may stem from any bonuses given. I.e., Skywest gives former helo dudes up to 25k for pilot training to ATP, and I highly doubt they’d be cool with you just leaving after 6 months if a major came calling (unlikely I know, but just an example). I would assume like anything, it depends on the contract.
Contrast that with a former Navy O-5 I know. He spent his last three years in the Navy at a desk, so he went to the regionals. He was a F-18 driver so he spent about 7 months there, got current, and got hired on at a major.
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1 hour ago, Tonka said:
Any push back on/requirement for providing "proof" to get it listed on the form? Vouchers good enough, or mission histories required?
The only deployment I didn’t have DTS records for was my one boat deployment. The rest I pulled from DTS. I had them ready when I submitted my info but the clerk working my record never asked to see it for verification.
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1 hour ago, Prosuper said:
Scenario , if your illegally carrying your handgun in your daypack as you go to your workcenter . There is a mass shooter incident going on and you drop him and save many lives does leadership come down hard on you? I remember a Marine recruiting center was attacked and a Marine outside the center pulls his gun and kills the shooter, it put USMC leadership in uncomfortable spot. Is it better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6?
They tried stringing him up but it eventually, quietly, went away. Me thinks it was because of the optics of trying to punish a guy for saving others.
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26 minutes ago, di1630 said:
An ILS to mins is the same execution as an ILS to wx cats except the numbers change. One just has a higher safety margin for error but I’ve never had an ILS with an error so great I couldn’t land and that’s counting the ones on raw avionics.
With 2019 wind corrected steering bars etc, ILS practice should not be the reason we burn 69,000lbs of gas to practice vs a sim.
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile appI disagree. Maybe it’s just me, but it’s the intangible training that comes from knowing the weather is shit for real vs it being the sim.
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15 hours ago, fire4effect said:
This. I've argued for a long time. Place RPAs over Iraq Syria and Afghanistan in as many numbers as we can muster. This avoids a large ground presence that pisses off the locals and denies the enemy our ground troops to target. Bad guys have hard time massing/moving in any real numbers without risking ordnance on their heads. No more Taliban public executions on the soccer field in Kabul without the threat of justice from above. I would say add a robust SpecOps presence in the regions to the mix as they can keep to a relatively small footprint but be available to do bad things to bad people.
The problem with only spec ops is they rely on general purpose forces as a buffer. If it was solely spec ops they’d get over saturated and most likely burnt out quick.
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15 hours ago, zachbar said:
No I think that’s fair. Instruments is straight forward, and the EPs I got in the sim were far more complex than any I have had in the airplane (knock on wood sts). The benefit of real world flying is getting put in weird circumstances and thinking your way out of new problems. There is some benefit to flying different approaches under real world conditions, but I definitely think the mobility tracked Phase 3 can be reworked. But isn’t the rumor that T-1s are disappearing?
There’s also the pucker factor of flying an approach to mins in the aircraft vice the sim.
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1 hour ago, Tonka said:
Any thoughts on Block 18, "Remarks"... I've been contemplating putting in some of the areas that I was TDY to, just in case this "burn pit" thing affects me later in life. Is there anything else I should, or even can, put in there? Working it on vMPF right now, I don't have a draft or anything else. Any other "Gotchas" to pay attention to?
Absolutely put your TDY / deployments in there. I listed ‘deployed to Hostile fire Area (Iraq) from ###-###, deployed to Imminent Danger Area (Indian Ocean) from ###-###’, etc
Its important for things like you said (burn pits), but listing any hostile fire area, etc, can also affect various things once your out.
*Edit: you probably don’t need to put every single TDY, but if you deployed to a combat zone, definitely. Or, if you spent 6 weeks at Nellis and went to Palominos every night, that might also have lasting impacts 🙂
Promotion and PRF Information
in General Discussion
Posted · Edited by Bigred
It was in the NDAA authorizing the changes to the promotion system. The Navy already implemented merit based reordering on their selection boards last year.