Next VCSAF. We hit the absolute jackpot here.

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/12/trump-taps-lamontagne-as-next-air-force-no-2/

11 hours ago, HeloDude said:

If you think Mandani’s policies are bad (they are), then take a look at the new mayor-elect of Seattle.

 

Seattle, New York, NJ… utter shitholes. They are not representative of the rest of the country. Worry not!

On 11/3/2025 at 3:23 PM, ClearedHot said:

Cruiser was confirmed today...god help those still on active duty.

Could be worse, could have been Slife. 

6 hours ago, 17D_guy said:

So...you were right. Could have just been an email. 

You’ve led people before I’m sure. You are about to roll out a massive change in your organization’s culture and direction. For argument’s sake let’s say most of your minions are geographically separated. You’re saying you would do it over email? 

3 hours ago, Standby said:

“Station calling Djibouti???!!?”

“Clearance is as follows, Djibouti Djibouti!”

“Line up and take off behind the A330”

On 8/15/2025 at 11:27 PM, SpeedOfHeat said:

I honestly don’t understand the implication here.  “Power move?”  How so?  

Trump:  “Hey look, we have B-2’s and F-35s.” 

Putin:  “yeah, I know.  Cool.”

Is the implication supposed to be “watch out, cause we just might use these against Russia?”  

Putin knows there’s zero chance of that happening.  Besides, I think he’s probably much more worried about drone swarm attacks, like the kind that took out most of his bomber fleet, than he is about fat Amy.

This is classic Trump.  Using the military as a symbol of strength to try to mask his weakness and ineffectuality.  Putin is going to get Ukrainian territory out of this, and Trump is pressuring Zelensky to surrender it to him asap.

But yeah, cool air show.  

“Vlad, look at these static display F-22’s.  Badass, huh?  …..Now, go enjoy the Donbas.”

What?

3 hours ago, mcbush said:

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4278007/air-force-chief-of-staff-announces-retirement/

Gen Allvin retiring on 1 Nov after two years in the seat as CSAF. I'm pretty out of the loop these days as a part-timer, but did anything actually happen during his tenure? The only "accomplishment" I can think of is bringing back uniform inspections...

Good riddance, hopefully he takes his CMSAF with him. Now the question is who follows him?  

26 minutes ago, cragspider said:

Funny thing was that crap was already in the colon ready to shit on the troops before the administration change. They have lost sight of the forest for the trees. Yet can’t figure out why we keep doing dumb things with airplanes….that mess we all knew was coming 6-9 years ago when it was proposed. 
 

I’ll just take comfort in my 214 blanket knowing that it doesn’t matter to me anymore… but then who would have listened then anyway? 

Correct, Wilsbach’s standards push in ACC was well before Trump was even elected and 99% of people even heard of Hegseth. 

15 hours ago, BashiChuni said:

i agree 100%. and it shows how powerful the forces behind Epstein are. remember he was given a sweetheart deal under the bush administration. 

this is a bipartisan issue any American who cares about who truly is running the country can get behind. 

trump is probably not in the files (that'd have come out in 2016, 2020, or 2024 election cycle), but he's obviously being pressured to not disclose them. 

Has anyone ever been able to pressure Trump? He’s done whatever he wants no matter what anyone says. I do think his DOJ will eventually release them and his “hoax” comments is his way to downplay them since they are clearly not this smoking gun that everyone expected. 

11 hours ago, FourFans said:

The one bit of info I'm still curious to hear is where the IRO was throughout this whole sequence.

I may be mistaken but I believe only 2 pilots were scheduled; calling into light the shady work rest cycles of some of these airlines. 

13 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

For pilots. 

 

We forget that the rest of the military isn't officer heavy with the ability to filter for only the highest performing enlisted troops. 

 

Talk to a marine recon officer about the type of shit they deal with, and the discipline side of the military starts to make a lot more sense. Saw a lot of it in Moron, and it was eye opening. Trying to control and motivate an 18-year-old who got his brand new girlfriend pregnant because he heard you make a little more money is an all together foreign experience for most Air Force pilots. I sure as hell didn't have to deal with it.

 

That's not to say I would have been on board with the changes, I'm a contrarian by nature, but the aviation wing of the military has always been the exception, not the rule. 

I hear you, but I’ve supervised, rated, and commanded hundreds of enlisted of various AFSCs; while there are definitely some tards out there, most of them were solid hard working Americans. Some needed time to mature, some needed mentorship, but most just did their job and kept their nose down; in ranks inspection isn’t going to move the needle on the underlying issues with the junior enlisted. 

On 7/11/2025 at 12:02 PM, ClearedHot said:

Apparently a lot of the enlisted folks think this is another thing wrong with the USAF.

Not just enlisted… we seemed to finally be moving in the right direction away from queep, chiefiness, sock colors, and reflective belt police..now we are headed back in that direction but now under the guise of readiness and GPC. Boot height, really? Also in ranks inspections are an utter waste of time. 

Well sucks for this guy, for the first time in probably ever, none of the combatant commanders will be Army; CJCS is still Air Force, the Army continues to become  less relevant than Air and Naval Forces especially looking at the IPC AOR. Heck, even in CENTCOM, Army’s main mission is protection, C-sUAS, and missile defense; most ops and strikes are accomplished from the carrier or the Air Force. Anyone who’s ever worked in a joint environment knows how frustrating and annoying the Army can be and I’m glad that’s starting to change. 
 

 

9 hours ago, tac airlifter said:

100% agree and that fact should shame our GOs; their success compared to our prevaricating came from willpower not technical inadequacies on our part.

Just reminding everyone we've been tricked before WRT WMD.

Not saying our GOs weren’t a contributing factor in the mess that was GWOT (Afghanistan and Levant) but I would say most of the failures belong at the political level. 

4 hours ago, Anon1 said:

Back to the Middle East we go. 

What do you mean back to!? We still have a large presence there and many of us get to deploy there every couple years 

21 hours ago, Biff_T said:

LA (the city) mostly sucks.   I live in Cypress CA.  I'm about 30 seconds from LA county by car.  Whenever I go to LA (city) I'm saddened by what a shithole it has become.  It used to be a cool city 20 years ago.  Now, it smells like piss and the whole city looks like that house down the street with 6 broken cars and 69 cats living in the front yard.  

You can thank Maxine Waters. She’s 86 by the way. 

I was dead set on getting out as a Captain. WIC was a huge goal for me and I went later in my career despite adding a year to my ADSC. Afterwords, serving as a patch and feeling like I was making an impact on the next generation was a turning point for me. I loved serving, leading, and having a sense of fulfillment. So I stayed…jury is out whether it was the right decision but I’m essentially locked in to retirement. 

I love flying, and while airlines were tempting, the job wasn’t for me. I’ll likely buy an airplane when I retire to scratch the itch. There is a lot that is wrong and frustrating with the Air Force; but focusing on what is right (the dudes in the squadron doing the mission) and honing in on that pushed me to stay and try to make it a little bit better. 

17 hours ago, disgruntledemployee said:

Dudes, I went to SOS in a Bush admin and the Blue Bedroom had plenty of social lectures.  Shit ain't nothin new.  But does this crap really need SecDef energy?  Between India/Pak shit, Israeli shit, Prez courting the M. East shit, renaming bodies of water shite, Chiner shit, Russian shit, Ukraine shit, Houthi shit, Signalgate dumbass shit, firing staff shit, Defense programs shit, budget shit (better show up with your homework, Pete.. don't be like Pash), dude has a lot of real shit to think about.  I mean, the Gulf of Alabama isn't gonna redo itself on all those maps.

It wouldn’t need SecDef energy if his predecessors hadn’t wasted time on it. 

On 5/10/2025 at 6:32 PM, disgruntledemployee said:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-orders-military-pull-library-192211948.html

Please Pete, tell me there's nothing more important that a good ol book burn.  How many hours will be spent on this?  How many hours so far?  Wait, there's a panel of people?  DOGE them, money saved.  Does the list include the Bible, seeing as it contains racism?  The buzzword is on the ban list.  

JFC Pete, do you need help figuring out priorities?

Let’s flip the script, how many man hours were spent building radical ideology such as CRT into curriculums at all levels of the military; and said books into the libraries to begin with? CRT and other communist ideology should have never had a place in the military to begin with. Like I said before, most actions occuring now might seem radical but that will be the case when you aggressively course correct back to normalcy. 

On 5/8/2025 at 2:11 PM, Vito said:

My Opinion on this subject is the Democrats ultimate goal of opening the border was to flood the country with millions of new and perpetual DEMOCRAT VOTERS. Period. They saw what happened in the 2016 presidential election , when Trump won by a slim margin and wanted to insure that would never happen again! So, as others have said, they had no issue allowing people to illegally enter the country, but suddenly are all about following legal proceedings for each and every Illegal alien in order to be deported! Again, the courts can’t handle this flood of cases, so these illegally imported Democrat voters will be in our country for years to come, able to do whatever they please, but more importantly, They will be around to VOTE, and WHO DO YOU THINK THEY WILL VOTE FOR?

 Fast forward to 1:11:38

 

And to top off just how dumb democrats are, many Hispanics are staunch conservative Catholics and tend to actually swing right. Yeah most of your dirt bag MS13 types will vote left but “too many” Hispanics lean right on a lot of issues to the point where it should be uncomfortable for democrats. You saw that with DeSantis winning Miami dade, a large sect of Hispanics sticking to Trump and many rising young Hispanic conservatives in congress. 

On 5/9/2025 at 11:09 PM, Pooter said:

I would exert political pressure on that ally (Israel) to knock it off in Gaza. They have more than retaliated for Oct 7 and gone orders of magnitude past that. The stated position of the houthis is that they are attacking Israeli ships "in support of their muslim brethren in gaza." Which I actually believe because so far the only time the houthis have stopped shooting was during the short lived Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire.  I would immediately stop any talks of a Gaza riviera developed by us and Israel. The gaza riviera is a bad idea of biblical proportions that will have Israel cemented as a permanent pariah state, with us as the enablers. 

Of course all of this assumes im king for a day and not completely beholden to AIPAC like the current admin and most of the left are.

edit: The other biggest problem with the gaza riviera plan is that it's the stumbling block preventing any meaningful negotiations from happening to get back the remaining hostages. Think about it from the perspective of hamas. Once you give up the hostages you've given up your last card, then israel is free to completely bulldoze the place. So what incentive do you have to negotiate a cease fire and return hostages if the only thing looming on the horizon afterward is complete displacement?

Why would Israel do that? When you have terrorist living football fields away from your citizens you don’t just tuck tail. 

2 hours ago, brabus said:

Shiiitttt, this guy hasn’t been TDY almost anywhere. He’d have an aneurism if he went to SE Asia or Eastern Europe.

Yeah, we took our First Sergeant (medical I believe) to an Ex with a stop in Pattaya. Dinner on the outskirts of walking street - she about had a heart attack. This was after her perplexity that we didn’t use rank on the airplane. Truly different worlds we live in. Flight doc though? Took a shower in the airline club. 

Fuck Pakistan and its terrorist sharia state. India all the way. Time for Trump to solidify India as the new Ally in the region, something we should have done decades ago. 

On 5/7/2025 at 12:10 AM, GrndPndr said:

https://notthebee.com/article/the-supreme-court-allows-trumps-trans-ban-to-take-effect-immediately

This may well be really hard on the Navy.

This is very much a good thing. The number of issues folks who suffer from gender confusion cause in the military makes absolutely no sense as to why they should be serving. They should have never been given the exception by Obama and then Biden.

On 4/24/2025 at 8:42 PM, Swizzle said:

They're lowering the semester hours total required to graduate USAFA. Nothing to see there...wonder what class requisite(s) will be cut - perhaps Civics and/or Ethics? Elective like basket weaving?

Idk, classical philosophy really helped me out as a pilot and officer. 😶