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Rumint from a wing king who has sat on many boards : promotion boards will eventually see last 5 OPRs only, and any TR/medal/negative records within the time period of only those 5 OPRs. Again that’s just word of mouth and not confirmed…but I too am hoping we can rid ourselves of those golden goose Capts that end up being lazy and/or toxic leaders.

Not anymore! Static OPR close-outs are going to make things interesting, for the better I hope. It was absolutely ridiculous the number of ways commanders could carve up strats (#1 CGO, #1 Capt, #1 in YG etc) and board members saw right through it, doing the individual captains/majors no favors. This will force commanders to find their balls and actually give honest feedback.

Let them cry about it and self implode. We have heard the tired old “republicans are waging a war against women” for over a decade now. Doubt it will sway midterm elections which have little to do with Supreme Court rulings.

The Air Force has a vested interest in making sure non HPOs (it’s still a thing, even without BPZ and school selects) keep thinking they have a chance so that they actually do work and help retention numbers. Can you imagine actually giving a junior FGO feedback to the likes of “you’re bottom 50% in terms of records, you probably won’t go to school, maybe you’ll make 0-5 but probably not command, but hey keep flying for me when you can make 3x or more at the airlines and not deal with my BS in the guard.” It would make the decision to punch that much easy. While I do believe in honest, 360* feedback, a fly only track (without a 20 year ADSC) with a +100k (per year) bonus may stop the bleeding but that’s a pipe dream. Pilot shortage isn’t politically popular to address and our congressmen own the purse. I stayed in because I love what I do and the AF has been good to me personally but I have zero question on why most of my bros decide to punch when the writing is on the wall.

Blew my copilot’s mind when I told him he could talk to his wife on the way to a deployment. He was beaming after.

Finishing sentences is tough, but no mean tweets!! For real guys..who is running the country? It’s not him, it sure as hell isn’t crackles, who is running the country? The lack of answer to that question should worry anyone regardless of what side of the aisle you are on.

$$$$$$ Also soft promises for lucrative contracts/jobs awaiting our GOs when they retire. Eisenhower mentioned something about this a while back.

For your last questions: 1- Public image, it is socially popular to support leftist interests and be woke. Thankfully that’s changing recently. 2- Cronyism, the dems may outwardly attack capitalism but then give tons of benefits to companies that support their agenda. Republicans do it too but it’s more prevalent on the left. Republicans generally support a more level playing field for all businesses with some exceptions like those in the Dick Cheney era.

I don’t understand some active duty senior leadership’s disdain for the guard/reserves. Most mission sets don’t happen without them and ultimately a guard v reserve v AD crew/package provides the same effect in combat. At that point, said disdain just shows how deep rooted the self licking bureaucracy ice cream cone is.

“My Air Force” …okay dude, it’s not *your* Air Force. The Air Force will chew you up and spit you out just like the rest of us peons.

PMCR? It’s in most MDS Vol 3s in the MAF, can’t speak to other communities.

How much longer until Putin’s generals pull a Julius Caesar on him? Most Russians don’t want this war.

Yeah!? I’m really surprised (but not really) other communities don’t. It’s usually an OG/CC waiver and only for mission critical events.

My airline buddies say their jobs yield the most amount of money for the least amount of work. Wrong!…we found the actual winners.

No one I know can explain what this “Airman’s time” is about, nor how is it any different than the basic commander responsibilities of knowing and taking care of your Airmen, nor if CMSAF Bass has actually done anything useful in her tenure.

They can’t go back now, there would be rebellions across the country. Some of my leftist friends are confused why people are making such a big deal about masks. “It isn’t that inconvenient?” It isn’t about the damn mask, it’s about government overreach, which has to stop.

And this makes us more competitive against China…how?

What kind of communist BS is this? I wouldn’t pay a single cent and write to every congressman I could. And they criticized Trump when he talked about moving our bases out of Germany and potentially into friendlier countries like Poland.

I’ve seen masks come back and forth 6-9 times at CONUS bases since Covid started. Utter clown show. At an unnamed base in Texas, there was a policy that you couldn’t go TDY if you weren’t boosted. That quickly got squashed. As for the airline mask mandate, TSA works for Biden, most of his supporters are huge fans of mask mandates. In some weird way many feel that they are doing some philanthropic good by forcing everyone to wear the cloth on the plane and public places. Probably the same people that wear it outside or alone in their car, you know, the ones that have it on for their Facebook picture.

This should come of no surprise, look at our CINC, VP, administration and the views they hold, not to mention the CJCS, SECDEF, and so on. They mask their sheer incompetence with virtue signaling (remember the useless one sided “extremism down days” last year) and race baiting. Putin couldn’t have picked a better time and the Chinese are laughing at us. But hey, at least we can put our preferred pronouns in our email block!

Socialism and fascism are not mutually exclusive. Ask Russia, Venezuela and many others. The former is an economic system while the latter is a form of governance.

Well we still have groups and NAFs, I don’t ever see it going away, less grooming billets for 0-6s and GOs

It wasn’t till I became an evaluator in AMC did I realize how common it is for OGs to be in the Sq CC and DO’s chili with things like evaluations and upgrades. Constantly overriding the Sq CC’s decisions on things like Q3s and discipline.

Most progressives I know are genuinely happy with high gas prices. They feel they are doing their “patriotic duty” in reprimanding Russia and raising the incentive to switch to alternate energy. This sentiment is pretty wide spread.

It is for some people that like that kind of work, for most people it’s a shit deal. Thank god we don’t have to “train” the Afghans anymore, they can have their godforsaken country.