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    Days of availability guard/reserve

    in General Discussion

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    I couldn't imagine giving a guard unit 8 days a month. That's a literal part time job at that point. But this sounds very much like a negative experience I had talking with a KC-135 unit that wanted all of their DSG's to live within 50nm of the base so they could be called in as DNIF coverage during the week.......
    Hahahaha..... Wow. Do people really still have their heads in the sand these days? My unit has O-4's that don't even want to stick around anymore.

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    Days of availability guard/reserve

    in General Discussion

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    8 days!? Yeah, I am wondering where they get the funding for all of that as well unless they are counting a few days of AT. I averaged 4-5 days a month in a tanker unit but have recently tried scaling it back to 3. I go to drill and fly once, but that hasn't been easy being in a DSG "leadership" position. I am on 5th year pay with the airlines, and yes, I lose money going to the unit even as an FO. My answer? I grabbed an IMA job with promotion potential (O-6). I bail from the ANG in the next few months. I could retire as an O-5, but I wasn't quite ready to hang it up yet, especially if I can grab another promotion. Instead of going to UTA and flying, I will pick up another 2-day trip and do AWC in my room.

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    Release of the B-21 Raider

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    AMC only picks the best for the KC-46. That's the previous Sq/CC as the PF.
     

    Was he previous C-17 qual'd?

    I love it when the brakes lock up around 0:32. Like I say to my kids all the time - "This is why we can't have nice things...."

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    Release of the B-21 Raider

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    Hopefully they try to avoid the poisonous, backstabbing, terrible environment that went with putting a bunch of #1 strat/fast burner types all in the same squadron that McConnell experienced...but doubtful.


    Quite ironic when most studs out of UPT in the bottom of their class got "stuck" with the -135. All of a sudden, with a new airplane that is much easier to fly, we need the "cream of the crop"...

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    Shoot down over Alaska and Canada

    in General Discussion

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    The powers that be keep insisting that these are not balloons, but also not saying that they are lighter than air vehicles, i.e. dirigible or airship which is what I assume they are. I don’t know why there is such a marble mouthed narrative to these latest shootdowns compared to the first balloon, but maybe because there were photographs of the first balloon out there so it was much harder to control the narrative!


    Maybe we are embarrassed we got trigger happy and went through over half a million bucks worth of missiles shooting down research projects/part balloons.

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    Shoot down over Alaska and Canada

    in General Discussion

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    Last three shootdown targets are suspected to be commercial with no china connections apparently.  As of now. 
    All of these commercial contraptions should be required to have an ADS-B out device on them. I'm not sure why this hasn't already been implemented with how cheaply this can be done. If you are going to deploy a device that can enter our NAS, it should be able to be tracked.

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    Shoot down over Alaska and Canada

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    It is more than possible for a mylar party balloon to get to 20,000 feet in the right conditions. I was providing tanker support for a POTUS CAP over NYC years ago when Trump was president. It was fun listening to a birthday balloon intercept unfold over tac freq. The Strike Eagle drivers got pretty fired up over not being able to ID this thing for about 10 minutes in between a few overcast layers. EADS was able to pick up a mylar balloon over NYC at about 13,000 feet. In light of recent events, I could see us using excessive force on a party balloon.

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    China & Chinese Shenanigans

    in Squadron Bar

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    The leadership infrastructure in AMC is built upon a system that this guy is trying to flip over. That means the leaders now are literally the opposite of the leaders he needs. The AF picked the current AMC sq/gp/wg commanders based on ability to process and adhere to administrivia. Now he wants leaders who excel in undefined environments, with a much, much higher probability of failure. We're talking polar opposites in terms of leadership characteristic. Is the air force ready for what accompanies those types of leaders? Considering the last decade of squadron-culture-eradication, I doubt it. 
      


    That is all great, but what comes with that are O-6's (leaders) with brass balls big enough to tell him that he is off his f$cking rocker and that they are not sending their people to the range to waste ammo dualing it out at 10 paces with a cardboard Chinaman. No negotiating? Please! There are better things to worry about when it comes to our tanker force than deploying DJI's out of the sextant port. I admire his drive, and I am all for innovation, but he really needs a spokesperson to write for him. The memo started out great. I was tracking his intent, and then he maybe got too far down into his bottle of scotch.

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    The new airline thread

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    My understanding was this guy got caught because he cleaned the wood chipper. The machine was so clean the people at the rental store remembered him and when he rented it. 
    This was actually a Forensic Files episode for those who watch it regularly. I am always trying to learn new ways to strangle the wife...

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    The new airline thread

    in Squadron Bar

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    Interesting. I can swear l have had to send APA union dues on ML for 30+ days, but maybe I am imagining things. Are you inactive if you still pay dues?

    It probably should have been something written into USERRA, but it was forgotten.

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    New Tech/ART pay tables

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

    Posted

    Question for the group,
    Would an O-4, 2500 mil time, going to an AFRC unit of a different MDS be hired as a GS-11 or GS-13?
     
    Referencing the the AFRC pilot opportunities guidebook, appendix 7 and it looks like Gs-13 but I am looking to confirm.
    Thanks all
     
    They also don't have to be hired into Step 1. They can hire into a higher step if your qualifications justify it.

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    The new airline thread

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted


    American was rumored to be in the process of doing that.
    American has been doing this for years. It just wasn't as publicly official as Delta's announcement. When I got hired at AAL in 2018, there were guys hired in my group that were 6-8 months out from retiring.

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