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We have adopted a softer, more caring approach where firewall fives and captain America bullet points are expected on performance reports.
I would argue it is pervasive in U.S. society, not just the military. On that topic, can't wait to read "Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture"
As far as the shooter, that's not something that should be on his OPR, it should be part of an OSI (or CID in the Army's case) investigation. Why no one connected the dots would be my question. Not wanting to link him with being a radical Islamic goes back to what Steve Davies posted
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I'm pretty sure no one at creech is drawing "combat pay."
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Anyone from Cannon, throw spears if I'm painting the wrong picture for this dude.
Work Hours-ACC (Creech, Whiteman): 8 hr shifts (3 non-overlapping per day) which at Creech will end up being 10 hrs away from home when you count transit and showing early for the shift brief. 5 days on-3 off, or 6 on-2 off; depends on job manning (P/SO/MIC) and squadron [for instance, some sqs have pilots on 5-3, whereas the intel kids are 6-2 because the intel manning is short]. Change shift about every 4-5 weeks.
-AFSOC (Cannon): 12 hr shifts (3 f'ed up overlapping per day... at least how it was explained to me). Probably have similar transit issues in the Clovis/Portales metropolis.
In ACC most SQs deploy for LRE, and from what I've seen it is on a volunteer basis as often as you please, 4 months at a time. Some guys deploy and end up going right back because they wanted to.Deployment Schedule
Less than it used to be. The AFSOC SQs are people hungry, and Whiteman has just opened. Many of the guys dropping UAVs lately have been tagged for Whiteman, but the SQs still at Creech are all still growing (except the reaper only sq, which is offset by the greater magnitude of growth of everyone else there).Likelihood of ending up at Creech
Supporting ground units, helping eliminate terrorists, defending freedom. Working with return to AD Lt Cols; some of them have some crazy life stories and they're all good dudes. You become pretty close with the people on your shift. Also: Supposed promise that all from UPT will get to go to a real cockpit.LikesDislikes-Having to experience the "liked" activities from a UAV GCS (it is NOT the same as flying, but it's better than "working" in MPF [except that the MPF "work" schedule seems to be every third Tuesday, which is probably nice])
-95% of the time it isn't mentally engaging, and there are no windows
-Having a community with no coherent way of operating. Every squadron has radically different standards, techniques, and operating principles. Our "tactics" are devoid of any useful information. When you put these together, it makes the collective operation inefficient because the people we support expect one thing from working with one unit and get another from the next, or they have inexplicable and unfulfillable expectations.
-The Pred/Reaper and GA GCS combo... quite possibly the most poorly designed weapon system, ever. Given the lack of contract/bidding process, testing and evaluation, and buying a computer company's airplane, we have an abominable control interface paired with an equally abominable aircraft. The "upgrades" we keep getting are stiiiiiiillll total crap. In the last 15 years, and $690 million they haven't had the time or resources to employ anyone who has human factors or aircraft design experience. What the TEG does is also questionable.
-Having the intel community talking to you for 8 hrs straight (i.e. back seat driving, sq dependent)
-Switching shifts is awesome NOT
-You really only have the chance to know 1/3 of your squadron, and due to 24/7 ops in most units, it is pretty much impossible for a whole sq event to take place
-The commute
-Vegas (Great place to vacation, weird place to live, but that is def a personal opinion)
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So you're telling me you aren't sending your P90X before/after photos to random chicks on craigslist while claiming you aren't married?
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Yes, I know the pipeline, which is why his statement was surprising and why I asked the question b/c I hadn't heard any changes to the training process.
I'd uphold your assessment of shenanigans.
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WTF?
Anyone who regularly watches this excellent show knows that no one is immune from the humor!
2! Unlike the tame American version, the Brits have no filter and bash everyone equally.
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What's the worst that can happen? They banish me to drones for the rest of my commitment AGAIN? I think I'll roll them bones...
I agree.
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Details from Crossflow meeting with AFPC, paraphrase of their words:
AFPC expects UPT direct to go to manned a/c after this tour in UAVs. They have made room in the pilot accessions manning forecasts. T-1s most likely to MAF, T-38s to possibly CAF or MAF. Expect 90% overall to MAF aircraft. Majority of that 10% to the CAF can expect bombers, primarily due to the T-38 spin up/IFF to send anyone to a fighter.Previous airframe guys wishing to keep AFSC (11F, 11B, 11M), most likely to be released for flying assignments if you were AC/IP/experienced aircrew. Limited TX course availability for everyone else.
In either of the above cases, "released to the needs of the Air Force" was a frequent catch line, so think rated staff or ALO.
Those who want to recat to UAV (11U), your functional manager will change, so your assignments will be considered within the UAV frame vs your old AFSC group. The UAV community is looking to promote from within, so if that's your thing, then this is a way to keep your foot in the door for future leadership positions in what is a growing community. If you don't recat, you run the risk of losing assignment consideration to folks with the most experience and demonstrated ability in your former platform.
So, do you want to take the risk and go back to manned aircraft, or be in the growing community with many career and promotion opportunities...
Life is about choices; you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?"
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Vodafone: Egypt forced us to send text messages
Literally forced? As in they went and strong-armed you to push the send button? This seems more accurate:
Vodafone accuses Egyptian government of co-opting network
Vodafone said the Egyptian authorities had instructed the mobile networks of Mobinil, Etisalat and Vodafone to send messages to the people of Egypt and had been doing so since the protests broke out against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-rule.One text message sent on February 2 and seen by Reuters announced the location and timing for a mass demonstration to support MubarakHowever they word it, that's pretty messed up. It sounds like Vodafone could refuse to send the message, but they won't because then they would lose their business in Egypt.
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what benefit do zoomies actually get in the AOR aside from shoeclerk indoctrination
Generally the ones that go are toolbags 96.9% of the way to shoeclerkdom anyway; they might as well finish at a prestigious graduate-level clerk training base like the Deid. Most people try getting vacation spots in Europe, Hawaii, Alaska or on one of the coasts of the lower 48.
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That should be on the CSAF reading list, right next to Red Eagles. This is definitely the crown jewel of USAFA's MSS Dept.
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Anybody recently been to IFS that knows what their two month long program entails? Do they get their full PPL?
When I went through a few years ago pilot-selects were only there for a month and navs only like three weeks. Just curiuos as to what they do the extra month since I had heard part of the limitations of a RPA only career field is that they weren't able to fly them in the US because of FAA rules that they didn't have their license or something.
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Technically wouldn't it be in Pashtun even though most of them are illiterate maybe Arabic for those hard core Al Quieda still left in the theater.
Hah, right, for the 6-9% that can read.
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how are they going to stop the hadjis from shooting at the freakishly large blimp?
floating 20,000 feet above the warzoneAlthough I could see a problem when it needs to land and refuel.
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Ok, I'll bite: what ever happened to the Comm/Inst requirement from the feds? Did we relent and agree that we were never going to use public airspace?
The word is that since the Air Force is its own certifying authority (and they want 6900 new 18U personnel), the AF has ignored the FAA’s desires and gone with a shorter training path. Technically, all of our pilots (unless you take the equivalency exam after UPT) are flying around without an FAA Com/Inst license. This new quasi-IFS, though, seems like a huge improvement; it will be interesting to see if between the new IFS and the T-6 instrument sim work at Randolph, the new 18U trainees have more refined skill sets than the old beta test which had substantially less real flying. If they find it deficient, however, and remedy it by adding more flying training, they will eventually realize no timesaving because it will take the same amount of time as UPT.
I think the national airspace battle is only slightly influenced by this issue.
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Just finished reading Biggest Brother a few days ago... amazing guy.
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This is a forum where varied opinions are welcome and hopefully our combined knowledge can lead to a better understanding of whatever subject we are discussing.
In light of that, people like shadyisgay, who have no frame of reference or personal experience, should stop speculating what the perceived problem is. While they may have an opinion, they also have no foundation of knowledge with which to base it on, so it is just a waste of time/bytes and makes them sound like idiots. All the while this nonsense rambling on their part impairs the intent of the forum because people who don't know any better reading this forum for help and direction in their career read it and think that the blowhard knows what they're talking about. The reader is thus dumber for having read it, but doesn't know the information is crap. And now everyone's time has been wasted even more.
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No need to get your panties in a wad. You could have just answered "Ego" instead of proving it with your unprofessionalism.
Conversely, you could stop screaming, "I know nothing about the UAV community, 'professionalism', or pilots," and listen to someone who has some experience in the matter, but you haven't.
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Low/no deployment rate people still deploying on a regular basis, upcoming technology 16.9 year old technology that they keep making worse
Fixed that for you.
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4 engine super hornets:
nuclear super hornets:
Rescue super hornets:
Airborne C2 super hornets:
Also 4 seat EW super hornets and cargo super hornets.
Well played.
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You must have different GCSs than we do. I know what mine looks like, and I know when I am exahusted and accidently stroll into a MQ-9 GCS to give a piss break, the sh!t looks mighty different.
I can't vouch for that guy (who, if he is just going to IFS as he claims, can't know too much), but at Creech they're all the same. The only difference is the graphics on-screen.
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Went down nearly $100 in Phoenix area...
Las Vegas, same. Glad I'm not PCSing in now.
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The ground systems for the Predator, Reaper and soon Avenger are all the same.
Totally off the discussion topic:
The GCS is indeed common to all GA products: fing terrible. Hopefully they don't actually procure GA's latest abomination; please let us buy something from an airplane company. Those retards at GA apparently still have never seen the inside of a real airplane, or employed a human factors person. We've paid them $690 million, you think they could employ one. After that, maybe they could revise the -1 to not be 16,900 pages and impart it with useful information on the aircraft systems so the whole pred/reaper community doesn't operate on WOMs.
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I actually think the C model is pretty nice.... It's pretty nice to be able to simply go GPS-direct to any ICAO point, as well as have 3 different bearing pointers going to three different NAVAIDs.
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Boeing Wins $35B Tanker Contract
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Haha, my german is rusty (i.e. nonexistent), but I take it the article says EADS won (EADS gewinnt... gewonnen) because the A330 is more modern and bigger (weil die A330 im Vergleich zum Konkurrenten Boeing 767 moderner und größer ist). NICE!