Sua Sponte
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35 minutes ago, Bigred said:
I’m pretty sure I know the answer, but could this Rhat dude take someone busting his balls? I’ve met some pretty big assholes in my day and they seem to soften up when you throw shade back at them.
Of course, this dude does seem to be on a whole different level.
Depends on your rank. Same rank? Sure. Outrank him? No problem. Don’t outrank him? Expect paperwork.
We had a prior Boom that was a newer copilot when I was at Fairchild. Under the radar he was seeing an AFE girl, which became public once they got married after she separated. She was pregnant and Rat did math backwards. He ended up tanking the dude on his OPR and sending him to be an AMLO with the Army in Ft. Riley. I guess on the way out of the door he said something shitty like “enjoy seeing your future kid working with the Army.” He ended up getting out, joining a reserve KC-10 unit, teaching UPT as a reserve unit, now back at KC-10 unit. Great dude, Rat totally boned him, but even I can attest when Mother Blue gives you a bad deal, your an still succeed.
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4 minutes ago, BashiChuni said:
i always wonder if dudes like Rat are embarrassed by their behavior when they look back on their careers
I’ve known Rat for years. He could honestly give a shit what others thought of him. I know that it probably upsets him that he never climbed into GO status being a HPO throughout his whole career and all. I always laughed at how no community claimed him as “theirs.” The Herk bubbas thought he was a tanker dude, which was impossible since he despised the KC-135 and community. He’s a strat airlift dude (-141/-17) by trade, but they wouldn’t claim him either.
Dude was a Captain Sobel who got promoted O-6 status. I will say this, he was a really good pilot flying with him a few times. But the -141 apparently flew like the -135 does, which means a 1979 Lincoln Mark VIII. He was also one of the douches who bounced out of town with his MSM in tow on his way to school when Fairchild failed their ASEV in 2010 while Rat’s old DO, who replaced him as CC, was the scapegoat in that and was relieved of command over it. Thankfully that guy, who’s a great dude, was taken care of by some GO’s later on and made O-6 and was the Vance CV a few years ago.
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27 minutes ago, Bergman said:
We need Azimuth to pipe up here, as he was actually stationed there.
I remember drinking beers at Manas and the Deid with Fairchild crews, listening to the stories, and being utterly amazed. Things like openly threatening to cancel join spouse assignments if someone didn’t cover a TDY. Then he turned up at OTBH as the OG a couple years later when I was on staff and it was as bad as his reputation.
He was my Sq/CC at Fairchild and Manas. He made a copilot, who just had testicular cancer, talk about it in front of the squadron. He ordered a copilot in from his two weeks time off after a deployment with his family to have a formal promotion ceremony to Captain. It pissed Rat off that the guy was super pissed at him for coming in to have a promotion ceremony. Later on the guy was supposed to assume alpha alert early in the morning. The night prior he felt sorta ill, but thought he’d feel better in the morning. He woke up and felt worse, went to the flight doc and went DNIF. Rhatigan was so mad at him, he gave him an LOC/LOR for dereliction of duty since he thought the guy was trying to get out of alert duty (which was a god send to do, since you were away from the squadron and Rat). The guy is in the Guard now last I heard.
I personally flew with Rat on a deployment sortie when he was my deployed Sq/CC. Since we had three pilots on board, I took my copilot back to the boom pod and let him refuel A-10’s and F-16’s all day. I felt bad for him since the cruise out to the AOR meant Rat was GKing him on all of the various Soviet era airfields between Manas and Bagram. If Rat’s reading this, he was pretty good, but I can’t believe your allowed that to happen being the A-Code!
Oh yeah, one more story. Guy that was a copilot/AC at Fairchild was in Rat’s squadron. He ended up going to Kadena and getting into some “TDY Shenanigans” while on a typhoon evac that got him an Art 15. He ended up deploying soon after when Rat was the new OG at the Deid. Rat sends out an email about his “vision” and about himself as the new OG. Guy in question responds with “Hey, maybe we should lunch sometime dude.” Why? Who the knows? He tells me the next day his crew shows up and the ADO tells him that his crew is off the schedule and that he has a personal meeting with Rat. So, he goes and see Rat in his office during meeting time and Rat says “Hey, ###, come on in. Haven’t seen you in a long time.” He walks in, not thinking defensively, and sits down and Rat immediately stands him at attention yelling at him about how he’s a Colonel and how dare he use lack of email professionalism, how he had the audacity to ask Rat to write him a character reference to the Wing King at Kadena when he got his Art 15, etc. The switches tones and says “yeah, we should do lunch with me and your crew sometime, just let me know!”
Rat was an English major at USAFA and speech writer for the SECAF. We used to have to select 93 ARS/All distrobox, then manually remove his name from a squadron wide email because he “hated spam.” He used to print out emails that people would sent him on various day-to-day issues, order them to his office, and proceed to pull out a red pen and correct their grammar in front of them in the email. He’s Selva’s boy (was his Wing Exec when he was a Wing King). That is most likely the only reason when as far as he did. The people I personally know who he ruined their careers are doing well in the majors. I’m not really surprised that he isn’t flying for the airlines knowing the amount of black lists he’d appear on.
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You can also do TAPS at your house. You’re just required to get the briefings by CBT’s and show the Family Readiness Center the certificate at the end.
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Once you go terminal leave, you don't come back unless it's for some kind of administrative thing, which usually isn't good.
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Found the problem.
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On 10/25/2018 at 10:47 PM, Fuzz said:
KMWH is busy pretty fricken busy between the flight school, Boeing test flights, test flights from some other companies, regular GA traffic, firefighters in the summer, McChords primary AUX field (3 squadrons + the C-17 WIC), and the Growlers out of Whidbey. The airspace is wide open sure but Moses is on any given weekday is about as busy as a UPT base already.
-135’s from KSKA go there as well.
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12 hours ago, MC5Wes said:
If only there was a DOD inspection Agency that could verify the work being accomplished. And was done correctly.
DCMA
When I worked for Boeing on the 757 line. All of the major airlines had representatives in the hangar. Prior to closing and sealing up areas. We had to have them inspect and sign off on the area being closed.
Have the DOD inspectors onboard. And charge Boeing for the work. Until they get their act together.
Knowing who one of the DCMA pilots are in Seattle, I’m not surprised this happened.
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48 minutes ago, brickhistory said:
Soooo, if two of the group's squadron commanders were fired and a commander is responsible for the actions (or inactions) of those under him/her, why wasn't the group commander also fired?
Different spanks for different ranks.
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18 hours ago, ihtfp06 said:
Thanks azimuth.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkYou’re welcome C-17 USAFA grad who has T-Mobile, dad went Stanford, and enjoys Euro cars.
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1 hour ago, Vito said:
“Empire Building”. Like the old guy at Charleston AFB in the 80’s and 90’s whose sole job was to sit behind a window and hand out pubs to crews. God forbid your chart got ripped or you needed a new chart or approach plate. I made the mistake of walking into the pubs room and grabbing a chart I needed! He almost called the SP’s on me!
Otherwise known as any GS that works in the student admin flight of any TRS.
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3 hours ago, matmacwc said:
He's not pointing out what's been done, but what's expected, and specifically, what Obamas people expect. It make more sense if the date on the article was in the last few weeks vs. 6 months ago.
A lot of it is grand standing. It’s still gray area if a president can pardon himself while in office. And as most everyone knows the president has wide discretion to issue a pardon to whoever he wants. Which is really the catalyst why the NY AG/DA indicted Manafort and possibly more of Trump’s family knowing he has no pardon jurisdiction in state proceedings.
I expect the Mueller Report to blow up in the face of the Dems much like the pitchfork raising Republicans had the Starr Report/Impeachment blow up in theirs, specifically Newt Gingrich in the 90’s.
If it does, it’ll be a landslide re-election of Trump for another four years.
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On 3/22/2019 at 5:51 PM, brickhistory said:
Mueller Report delivered; no further indictments (and just to remind, the ones handed out were for unrelated and/or fibbing to the FBI, not "muh Russia" charges) to be filed. Will be interesting to see what the thing actually says so it's too early for a "wah, wah" yet.
Huh?
Pretty sure most of the people on that indictment didn’t talk to Mueller’s Special Counsel or are in the U.S.
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Before he was jerking off in front of chicks, he had a great skit on divorce.
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http://ktar.com/story/2244099/martha-mcsally-says-shed-vote-to-confirm-brett-kavanaugh/
“We also need fairness where individuals can’t just have one person without any corroboration impact such an important decision,” she said.
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2 hours ago, LookieRookie said:
KC-46 selection board v3.0 results were released. Best part was the comment about selectees should feel free to apply to other assignments.
Some of the original -46 FTU IP/IB’s might actually be able to instruct in the -46 for less than a year, out of a 3/4 year tour, before having to PCS.
But probably not.
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5 hours ago, Danger41 said:
My college roommate was a small time weed dealer and when they came to talk to him, he grabbed all of his merchandise and headed for the state line. He called me about 10 times in an hour and told me how he wasn’t a rat and wouldn’t tell them anything (of which there was nothing to tell). That was an unintended hiccup to that process.
So, don’t list your buddy who’s a weed dealer as a reference?
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The camera system looks like a black and white version of a 7/11 security camera.
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How the would they know if you don’t mention it?
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51 minutes ago, SocialD said:
Lol funny enough, any time we have AD inspectors on our base, they send out a base-wide message asking us to not talk on our phones while driving on base. They want to avoid having to explain it to every inspector after the first few complained . Guard bases are actually State property thus we're allowed to talk on our phones while driving on base.
That would depend on the state. Washington State considers talking on the phone without a hands free connection a “E-DUI.” First offense is $136. Second offense, if within five years of the first offense, is $234.
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No Roger Stone talk? Odd.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/roger-stone-instagram-judge.html
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30 minutes ago, Hacker said:
The AF has long since become not just a "One Mistake Air Force", but actually a "One Perception Of One Mistake Air Force."
You'd be surprised how frequently a CDI, conducted by someone basically untrained and containing evidence and information unconstrained by any functional legal standard, is used for quite severe administrative actions under the authority of the Commander -- actions which, too, have such a low legal standard for evidence and justice so as they may effectively be given based on the whims of that Commander.
A low legal standard which is reviewed by JAG’s of this caliber.
https://afcca.law.af.mil/afcca_opinions/cp/khalji_-_39304.u.pdf
Administrative action is just a fancy way of saying, “I don’t have enough for a beyond reasonable doubt legal standard conviction with this issue, but I can still tank your career anyway since I don’t like the alleged conduct you’ve displayed.”
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3 hours ago, torqued said:
Can you provide some examples of highly secure areas that have only alarms and no physical barriers?
Area 51 airspace
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KC-46A Info
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My favorite was the “Fear the Rat” that was etched on every shitter on Manas, even the one in OG building.