BrightNeptune
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37 minutes ago, nsplayr said:
... rule of law...the oaths I’m pretty sure nearly all of us swore? 🇺🇸
Please point to me the exact phrase in the Constitution that allows for the FBI to exist.
There are millions of things that go against the oath we all swore. The oath is useless and Constitution means nothing.
None of us actually defended the Constitution. We supported and continue to support our destroyers.
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1 hour ago, the g-man said:
Did you get paid severance?
Those that write a letter to get passed over or decline continuation are not entitled to separation pay.
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For any '14 people on their first board or '13 people facing their second after getting passed over: If you are at all interested in getting out I can share what I learned through my process of writing a letter to the board and cutting more than a year off my UPT ADSC by getting passed over a second time. I was hired by a legacy airline that asked zero questions about rank, timing, OPRs, additional duties, job titles, or any queep that only matters in the Air Force.
If you want out early you can 100% do it by playing by their rules.
PM for details.
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Did you know that the year two pay at UPS for first officers is $206 per hour/~173k per year minimum? After ten years when you're a captain, you're pulling in $344 per hour/~$289k per year minimum.
Heck, you don't even have to sign a ten year contract, live in Clovis, or deploy!
Even a $75k per year bonus can't touch that.
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6 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:
Nope...much MUCH higher.
I found a AT-802 manual that says the service ceiling is 12,500'.
Did they add a pressurization system?
What about icing protection?
Can it go into IMC?
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48 minutes ago, GrndPndr said:
SPAR19 - Setting up for...
Nothing happened, nothing is going to happen, and she was never at any risk. She would not go if a deal had not been struck that ensures her safety while letting China save face.
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Is the ceiling for that thing really 13,000'? Good thing we'll never have to go back into Afghanistan...or worry about MANPADS...
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10 hours ago, di1630 said:
Would be horrid but for those of you who didn’t know, they don’t count a non-taker as:
-Anyone who separated in ‘22
-Anyone who set a separation date
So basically it no longer accounts for a bunch of people who might have otherwise stayed meaning these stats are complete sh-t.
"It's about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all." - Joe Biden
"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." - Some other guy
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AFSOC doesn't even let dudes fly the PC-12, which is a single pilot plane, with only one pilot. Zero chance this happens.
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16 hours ago, dream big said:
Good luck
People would roll over just as easily as they did last time. Med groups are still in masks and will be forever.
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3 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
sit on station for 6-8 hours
Imagine sitting in that thing for 8+ hour missions on a regular basis. How much storage does that thing have for piss bags?
The best solution was turning the Dornier into a do-everything platform.
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Holy god the new site is bad. One whole page just to show big ass buttons, a big ass picture of a dude sitting on his floor making arts and crafts, balance, and return YTD.
I'd like to know how many tens of millions of dollars they paid to create this abomination.
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Holy crap, 8 years? Just commission. I'd sure like to talk to anyone that signed up for that and find out why they did it.
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8 minutes ago, DuckHunter said:
I’ve noticed the AF has been a little more hush hush the last few years in regards to firings.
I noticed that it didn't make the news anywhere. If there is nothing publicly available, I have nothing to add.
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I'm surprised no one brought up that Laughlin fired another squadron commander a few weeks ago...
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11 minutes ago, hockeydork said:
Just guessing, but maybe because if they don't need you in 3 years they can cut you loose? Instead of having to pay ya for 10 years? And they save money by not making you an officer/not paying for any of your education? Idk, spit balling.
As to why people who are applying wouldn't just go become AF officers, maybe they wanted to but couldn't get the stars to align to make it happen the AD route and that ship has sailed, or they have a condition that makes them non deployable but totally fine to teach flying, or maybe they are actively trying to get hired in the guard but haven't gotten picked up, would rather stay teaching the T-6 for three years than move onto a C-130 etc.
Side Question: Can you get hired as a reserve T-6 IP off the street?
It's not about the pay. The Air Force is giving bonuses to people to get them to stay past 10. There are plenty of T-6 IPs that are bailing at 10 when they make $120k+/year. They would love to have a GS-8 fill that slot for half the pay.
I've never seen a LT reserve IP. I'm pretty sure no UPT reserve squadron is hiring off the street.
I've flown with civilian IPs at my MWS schoolhouse. They were good, but they were not off the street either. They had a ton of experience and were all retired AF pilots. They were also not GS.
A civilian T-6 pilot that this program is targeting is going to get zero respect from the current IPs.
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1 hour ago, panchbarnes said:
...exec/CAG/XO/Aide tour...
...play the promotion game...
Do you know what all of those positions have in common? They don't fly and suck at executing the mission. The Air Force spent millions of dollars teaching them how to perform a combat mission. The Air Force did not spend millions of dollars to make them secretaries, which is what those positions are.
Some of us refuse to play the game. I knew the Air Force was broken when they described the (old) EPR process to us at OTS. Any organization that supported that, or supports the current system is irreversibly broken. SOS only confirmed this. Remember the "Color of Money" game? I felt like I was taking crazy pills when I explained how F'd up that was.
The Air Force does not exist to win wars. The Air Force exists to promote people that do busy work and tow the company line.
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4 hours ago, DirkDiggler said:
That kinda surprises me given that on a day-to-day basis that community is doing its primary mission, more so I’d argue than the AC/MC/CVs are
Doing the mission does not matter. Having thousands of combat hours and dozens of air medals does not matter. Risking your life does not matter. Killing the enemy does not matter.
The Air Force does not promote pilots for doing pilot things. The Air Force promotes pilots for doing things that they could hire people for minimum wage to do.
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5 minutes ago, Danger41 said:
one engine and two massive balls.
lol
I've never heard the Combat Platypus described like that before.
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On 5/24/2022 at 9:17 AM, pizzafrenchfries said:
New account, if it's inappropriate than mods please delete
Looking for some advice, as I got notified I was passed over as well.
Long story short:
- No negative information in OPRs
- Thin strats (kept my head down, did my job, and went home every day)
- 1500 total hours, 500 combat hours
- Still a right seater. This one takes a bit of context so here's my tale of woe.
Way back in the day, I graduated top 1/3 from UPT and got a super sweet platform OCONUS. Got screwed by EFMP and lost the slot in the middle of the schoolhouse, getting diverted to a platform stateside. This platform takes a long time to upgrade but was also shutting down. Spent about 3 years there and was promised AC upgrade if I transferred to another MDS at an undesirable base as there were no more school slots for my platform (schoolhouse shut down).
Got my orders and then the new unit commander called and said, "left seat upgrade en route? That was a verbal from old CC to your CC. We don't do that in my squadron." Old CC was like "sorry buddy, there's no turning off these orders". Basically was meat to the grinder.
PCS'ed a bitter man, worked my ass off and got qualified and then nominated for upgrade in an extremely short time. COVID hit and severely disrupted ops but I was still able to start upgrade. 2 weeks prior to my checkride we get the news that our son has a lifelong medical condition and we need to PCS because there's no facilities at this base. Also we're pregnant and it's gonna be high risk.
That really messed up my mojo. Flew a crap checkride and Q-3'd, first failed checkride ever. Totally own that, as it was bad flying. Really spiraled, had a bad time, did not finish remediation rides as I was in a pretty bad mental state and we were packing to move at the same time. My spouse was dealing with some severe medical issues stemming from the pregnancy. Basically made a shit sandwich that the air force wrapped in a turd. This was right before the PRF closeout, so no time to recover or fix my problem. Pretty much the worst timing ever. Went to therapy (not mental health!), learned to stop blaming myself for things completely outside my control, and got healthy again.
PCS'ed again to a new base and was reassigned a different platform (#4 if you're counting). About 6 months of being stashed at a non flying job while they figured out what to do with me. Honestly a godsend, if we didn't have the time to make our lives right I don't know if my family would still be together or not today.
Still a copilot. Did terrific in the schoolhouse as right seat (pretty good at it by now) and am now in a flying squadron that I love. We're expanding, not contracting, and the mission is amazing.
So here we are now, basically starting over again. Did OPD with my new commander after the notification and the only thing he could see that was stood out was the copilot AFSC. He promised me that I would upgrade by the time the next board rolls around.
All of which sounds good and I'm confident that he'll make it right.
HOWEVER, my experience so far makes me pessimistic that we'll get this sorted out in the next 5 months before the board meets again.
What should I do? I have three main fears...
I am afraid that I don't have enough time between the Q3 and a possibly forced separation to look competitive to the airlines (or guard).
I don't know what I can constructively do in my career in the next 5 months (aside from upgrading) that can increase my chances of getting picked up on the second look. I do good work, I am not a dirtbag, I work for my pay.
My kiddo's medical treatments are EXTREMELY expensive. We will be in the poorhouse if we lose insurance.
A regional will hire you without question if you choose not to continue after getting passed over the second time. A major will grab you after you show you're not useless. You're in a good position.
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1 hour ago, SurelySerious said:
It still stands that no one tries training anyone in a level D until they have hundreds of actual flight hours. Airlines aren’t taking Joe schmo off the street and making him an A320 FO in a year of sims only.I understand that. Airlines also don't let 24-year-olds with <150 flight hours act as second in command with hundreds of people in the back. The Air Force will.
The statement I made was aimed at those that think the current T-1 flight training device can replace all of the training that is currently being done in the T-1 airplane.
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There is a huge difference between training people in a modern level D sim vs the trash that is the current T-1 flight training device. There is no T-1 simulator per the FAA definition of a simulator.
UPT is simply going to graduate a different product for those that go non-fighter/bomber. FTUs will have to pick up the slack.
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Why wouldn't the Air Force just "promote" the second-time look pilots to keep them in? Give them an August pin-on date. Their ADSC would expire only a few months after they pin on and they might even go on terminal before pinning on.
What's one more dirtbag major compared to another year or so of having a pilot?
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32 minutes ago, the g-man said:
I just heard of a guy passed over last year that made it this year.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkHow does that promotion work? I heard mixed answers.
Will he get in line with everyone from '13 and probably be at the bottom or would he be at the front of the list since it's the second look?
Today in hypocrisy...
in General Discussion
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Care to make an argument instead of clutching pearls?
Please tell me how your service, or mine, has defended the constitution from enemies, foreign and domestic.
Please tell me how we have more freedoms now than when when we joined the military.
While you're at it, make a case for all of the service members that were killed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other hellholes in the last 25 years. How did they die for the constitution? How are the millions of dead civilians in line with the constitution? How is going to war without declaring war in line with the constitution?