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36 minutes ago, pawnman said:
It's about that time again...
1. Over in the bonus thread, there have been rumors about making the promotion zone a 5-year window and eliminating BPZ instead of "one and done". Love to see any official guidance on this. It's not that I doubt y'all...but I've seen nothing from my base or AFGSC about these changes.
2. What are you guys doing with the two-line PRF? My boss used the top line as basically his push line, leaving the bottom for the WG/CC push line (#x/xx I/APZ, #x/xxx majors, command, SDE, blah blah). Is your leadership trying to stick with the "normal" top line of all your best strats, flying hours, combat time, awards, etc? Or are they using it as a narrative and counting on the record to speak for itself?
3. What are you guys being told for timelines? Even between B-1 bases there's confusion. Ellsworth guys don't have the PSDM (and I haven't seen it either), but at Dyess the DS has the timeline, with the 150 accountability date being 4 Oct and PRFs due to NAF back on the 14th, with an MLR happening in early Jan (8th and 9th, IIRC...but obviously I'm not at work)
4. More opinion than fact-based...do the illustrious members of forum believe that the 2-line PRF, shift to competitive categories, and this rumored 5-year window will help or hurt the flying community's promotion rates as a whole?
Help, and here is why: The guidance on two line PRFs are that you can’t put bullets or data from what is already in your OPRs or TRs, meaning the board actually has to read your OPRs. This helps those who hack the mission instead of planning the LGBTQ bake sale. This is of course assuming your OPRs are sound. Further, competitive categories help since you’re solely being compared against your peers, apples to apples instead of comparing you to some FSS major who has already commanded. From my understanding big Air Force decides cut lines for each category based on mission needs - can’t say whether promo rates go up for aviators or not but they definitely have a potential to.
As to the 5 year window? Won’t change much for your BPZ/HPOs, they’ll still get promoted early but maybe it will remove the stigma from APZ? And hopefully enable late bloomers.
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7 hours ago, pawnman said:
Am I the only one who wants Trump, Biden, and the Clintons investigated in relation to this whole Ukraine thing?
I don't care what letter you have after your name... If you used your government position for personal gain, I want you prosecuted.
Hey man as long as it is impartial and not politically biased then sure. I think the gripe many of us have is the hypocrisy (I.e not a word about the content of Trump’s call: Biden’s shady involvement in Ukraine but a lot of hoo hah about impeachment.) That being said, I don’t see anything impeachable in Trump’s transcript, and given the current political animosity towards the president - am skeptical about this Lt Col’s intentions. Maybe if we hadn’t heard about impeachment and crying wolf since before Trump took office we would be a little more interested.
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5 hours ago, GKinnear said:
Performance ranking reduces meritocracy...
"Many of us have given in to “adopt and adapt” at some point in our careers, and not always comfortably.
You’re sitting in front of a manager for an annual review, thinking: well, how’s this going to work? The manager in question is universally regarded as average, but he’s the one that gets to rate you, and the shortest path to a better ranking is probably to follow his advice."
Link: https://cosmosmagazine.com/mathematics/maybe-you-shouldn-t-follow-the-leader
Study: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191255
Common gripe in the OPR / EPR threads is the strat methodology and favor given to the junior O's who conform earlier to the game. I'm not sure the authors fix, serendipity (fancy word for luck), is any better due its unpredictable nature...but it's refreshing to see a study confirming my preconceived notions.
Post could have gone in the Promotion thread just as easily
All the gripes about the promo system are valid, but I’ve seen positive changes: 2 line PRFs (forcing board members to actually read your OPRs), getting rid of school selects of the majors board, rehaul of the promotion system with AFSC specific boards, now there is talk of getting rid of BTZ.) At least some of our senior leaders are realizing that choosing your golden children when they are young captains is ridiculous.
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On 11/3/2019 at 2:11 PM, drewpey said:
Yes he thought Trump's method of conducting foreign policy was illegal. He went through appropriate channels and was silenced. When another investigative body comes along and asks questions, you think he should just shut up?
Is that your answer for anytime a military person thinks they see someone break the law? "too effing bad"...keep your mouth shut and if you can't take it then quit? Jesus I hope you aren't in any sort of leadership position.
How is it illegal? Show me where Trump’s foreign policy decisions are illegal and I’ll concede that the Lt Col made the right call and Trump needs to reign it in. The Lt Col even admitted that he only “had concern,” nothing anywhere about illegal activity.
There is a dangerous precedent to be set when military members think that they can influence policy because they disagree with the administration. Generals for example advise, but in the end if their advice is not taken they either A. shut up and color or B. resign.
Thanks for your concern about me being in a leadership position, I happen to be in one and encourage my subordinates to pass feedback on my decisions. But I’m not a civilian leader in charge of the military making national policy.
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23 hours ago, drewpey said:
The rub is someone thought there was a problem and is using the proper channels to voice their concerns. This is what we should all want on either side of the aisle, and I'll take hundreds of dudes testifying in uniform over one Reality Winner thinking the only way to voice their concern is to jeopardize national security. One of the golden rules...don't make it hard to do the right thing.
He “thought” there was a problem with the way Trump conducted foreign policy. Well too effing bad. Military members don’t make policy, the President does; we execute that policy. If we don’t like said policy we can get out of the military and do something about it. This guy is either a shrill looking for attention or a complete fool. Either way, he’s about to become the darling of the left.
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5 hours ago, brickhistory said:
So an Army LTC appears before the House inquiry today in full dress uniform despite him working in civvies in his job at the NSC.
And his apparent testimony is that he had "concerns" about President Trump's phone call to the Ukrainian President and what it might do to bipartisan relationships between the US and Ukraine.
Is that how it works now? O-5s get to make/wreck national policy? Wish to sh1t I'd known that...
edited to add: Remembered Marine LtCol Ollie North of Iran-Contra fame and also of the NSC after I wrote the above, so I answered my own question.
The optics and questionable ethics won’t matter to the left. This man makes Orange man look bad and that is all that matters. To them he is a hero.
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8 hours ago, MechGov said:
Wow.
I’m seeing the opposite in SOF. We brought in a bunch of O-5s and probably will have 5-7 non-command O-5s by the end of this year. And you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a major. There are something like 12-15 “ADOs” to make space for all of them. Granted most of the FGOs are 12S...most of the pilots are Palace Front/Chase as soon as their commitment ends.I envy you guys, hopefully that means a lot of mentorship for the young guys. The best flying mentors I had were sunset Majors / Lieutenant Colonels with zero f$$$ to give. In our corner of AMC, there are about 15 Majors in the OG with most at Group / Wing jobs.
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Even if we could afford free college for all, is it worth it or even necessary? Not everyone needs to go to college. Unless you major in STEM, business, medicine, law and a few others, your degree alone is not of much use. Now, trade schools? I’d be intrigued because we need more of that. Guaranteed that the plumber makes more than the dude who majored in gender studies. However, that doesn’t fit Bernie’s narrative because then he can’t brainwash our youth.
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4 hours ago, Sua Sponte said:
I mean, having a huge turn over multiple times in your administration and having the House initial an impeachment inquiry isn’t exactly a positive status quo.
Turnover within presidential cabinets during a presidency is nothing new and far from a cry for concern, as to the impeachment inquiry: I think that speaks more to the desperation and madness of the democrats than to Trump’s actual performance.
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4 hours ago, Kiloalpha said:
The great gamble is whether the moderate Democrats can gather behind Biden/Warren. Several swing states are showing Democrats losing registrations, with independents (and some republicans) gaining ground. NC is hemorrhaging registered D's in several areas, and seeing a lot of first time voters, just as an example. Large portion of those are Eastern NC blue collar Democrats who saw the textiles vaporize after NAFTA. You tell me who they're registering to vote for...
If it's Biden, Trump wins in a "biggly" way.
If it's Warren, Trump wins, but not so "biggly."
If it's Gabbard? It'll be a good fight and he'll lose by a large (historically) margin.
If it's Buttigegggg, Trump wins.The ultimate irony is that Tulsi would wipe Trump off the map, but the Democrats are too preoccupied with Socialistic posturing and nonsense to notice it. She's been my dark horse in this thing from day one, and that's before Hillary said she's a Russian operative!
Gabbard may be the least crazy of the clowns but she’s still either A. Highly ignorant of economics / foreign policy for an Army Major or B. Pandering to the SJW crowd. Also, she is a thorn in the democratic establishment’s side so they’ll never let her get that far. I hope she runs as an independent, fragments the democratic vote and Trump wins in a landslide, embarrassing the left once again.
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On 10/18/2019 at 12:41 PM, Richard_Butte said:
It wasn't enough. I don't forgive him for joining that dumpster fire of a presidency then bailing. And that weird blood racket operation too...
Mcraven is the hero here. He is calling it like it is, completely apolitical and just remaining loyal to the US.
What dumpster fire? Is that what CNN told you?
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3 hours ago, di1630 said:
Thoughts on the communist....I mean democrat candidate debates?
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile appTrump landslide in 2020 and libs go absolutely insane.
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16 hours ago, KState_Poke22 said:
I’d say the SDF have done a pretty damn good job of fighting their own battles the past few years. To the tune of thousands killed fighting ISIS.
Oh btw, now that US forces have pulled back and SDF have to focus on repelling the Turks, a bunch of ISIS prisoners are now free. Yay
Okay so when does it end? 19 years in Afghanistan and the Taliban are still killing our soldiers. 20 in Syria? 40?
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On 10/7/2019 at 8:04 PM, pawnman said:
I don't know what the answer is, but I know if we keep abandoning allies like this, we're going to have a hard time finding new ones when we need them.
America has spent countless money and blood on our “allies.” Asking our allies to step up and fight their own battles once in a while is not abandoning them nor will we be alone all of a sudden. Diplomacy and alliance is a critical instrument of foreign policy but it should never be the ultimate litmus test for policy. Further, If we keep wearing out our troops on proxy wars around the globe, they will never be ready and motivated when it matters.
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12 hours ago, LookieRookie said:
All these UPT IPs will be great at teaching C-172 and C-208s in Afghanistan again.
Wrong, they’ll be execs and coffee getters for the 7th AF/CFACC
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Got to experience some of these PTN VR sims this weekend. They are great for learning the switches, the pattern and callouts but in no way shape or form could I see these replacing traditional UPT, unless leadership is willing to get people killed. Just because a test bed of hand selected individuals are doing okay doesn’t mean that they are representative of your average UPT student.
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2006-2008 YG PRFs due to the wing in a few weeks, seems a bit early. Are 0-5 boards rolling left for some reason?
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On 9/18/2019 at 8:45 AM, nunya said:
I think you'll rue the day Trebek you said that. If a CC is getting graded on your PT test, that incentivizes him to have more mandatory fun runs, unit PT, mock PT tests, etc. If I'm a CC getting called on the carpet about your 69 failing score, I'm at least going to have documented all of my efforts to fix you.
Exactly. This will just make it more painful for those who maintain physical standards in the squadron.
That’s being said, If you are an able bodied 20-30 year old, you have zero excuse for failing the test. Most airmen in my squadron that fail just don’t care.
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On 9/19/2019 at 6:27 AM, zachbar said:
Too expensive. Free AAFES pogs might work better with the MWR budget.
Better idea, fire AAFES all together, they are worthless at most bases.
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15 hours ago, WheelsOff said:
I’d be curious to hear from the F-35 bros just how “successful” they are compared to the guys who earned their wings the “real” way. I know, I know...a little jab at PTN. No offense to these guys who went through that program, it’s totally not their fault. And I hope they truly do well for the sake of our lethality/dominance over our peer adversaries. This whole PTN thing is just yet another one of the AF’s weird social experiments, brought to you by the Kwastinite gang. By the way, what happened to that guy? 😏
Probably in the holding pattern for CSAF...next up, virtual BMT!!
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On 9/10/2019 at 1:52 PM, JustHangingOut said:
pass me the crayons!
Thanks for the response. My plan is and has been to go and be a sponge. Adsorb as much as i can, put my best foot forward everyday, and help the folks around me succeed as well.
That last part is the most important. Please don’t ever forget that in your career!
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22 hours ago, ayz33 said:
Not sure why you're so riled up about this. I'm just saying I'm not just a kid who just came out of high school.
See you at Sheppard
You are like every other UPT student who has walked the halls of a UPT squadron before you, and I guarantee an “I know what I’m doing” attitude is the fastest way to get to the bottom of your FLT/CC ranking, despite your “performance.” Let me give you some sage advise : “Never pass up an opportunity to STFU.” UPT can be a blast but it can also be very painful if the IPs sense a chip on your shoulder.
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On 9/5/2019 at 8:20 PM, Chida said:
But but I was PTWOB! or I was a SOAR IP! therefore due to my superior cadet status I should skip UPT!!
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkSaid no one ever
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16 hours ago, JimNtexas said:
Question from the peanut gallery: UPT Next: Threat or menace?
I’ll hold my breath until I see graduates of PTN roll through our ops squadrons and perform.
Generally speaking, I’ve seen a decline in the airmanship of new LTs the last couple years. Good dudes and all, just seem to lack some of the basics that should be taught in UPT.
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The infamous “bro check”...bottom line, don’t be a douche.