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Congress f&&king over the Air Force? Say it isn’t so. Edit: Don’t we have a guardsman on here who also happens to work at the capitol building? Man, what a great way to right a wrong and build an immense amount of respect from his fellow Airmen. Just saying!

Honestly I think this Russian collusion/conspiracy thing has been beat to death, on both sides. It has been one of the biggest distractions from the real issues thanks to politics from both sides. The public has neither the patience nor interest anymore, unless you can’t go a day without posting on Facebook how evil Trump is. Also, the more people try to perpetuate distractions such as Stormy Daniels (good lord who the f cares?) or Russia they are just guaranteeing Trump’s re-election. Honestly, at this point, thank god.

Good for him! Although It probably helped that he spent the last 3 years mastering the T-38, while his IFF classmates had just finished UPT. Regardless, it shows that MAF to CAF can be successful. Hopefully he continues to excel in the B course.

Idk about AETC but almost 100% of our waivers in AMC bypass the NAF and go directly to the AMC A staff. The only thing I’ve seen the NAF do is get rid of toxic Wing Kings

They have their uses overseas. Think PACAF; you have a NAF for Air Forces Japan, Alaska, Hawaii etc. It makes sense for different sub-AORs. However, I think you could absolutely get rid of 18th AF in AMC for example. Now, would it be weird for Wing Commanders to report directly to a 4 Star MAJCOM/CC? Not sure.

I’m for it, no more middle man. No more “I’ve got 8 bosses bob.” No more scrambling to get slides ready for the OG meeting only to brief the same god damn info at the Wing meeting. Hopefully, no more OG to MXG/CC fighting on a Friday afternoon while the schedulers are sitting around wondering what schedule to execute.

This is a fact. He would also personally sit in on cert boards and lecture upgrade candidates for an hour while the OG and SQ/CCs sat on their thumbs ackwardly.

Haha! Any one of the 10 or so dudes from Dyess who bailed/retired to the airlines this past year.

No, he was a prick who threatens his Squadron Commanders and DOs, threatened to cancel flying lines if people didn’t show up to his gay morale parade, probably sets a record for kicking back OPRs and award packages, cares more about looking green on mobility slides than actual mission effectiveness. He absolutely created a toxic environment at Dyess that anyone here can vouche for. He completely deserves to be fired and I for one am happy and hopeful that senior leadership is watching and trying to make positive change. Maybe other commanders will now be put on notice and realize that if they don’t effectively lead and foster morale they’ll be canned as well.

It’s also just temporary. May be overthinking it, but this guy’s shinanigans has been made pretty public on these forums. He has pretty much gone against every initiative from higher HQ to at least try to turn the ship around. It’s also no secret that 3 stars and above frequent this board. Coincidence?

“Allah has the airplane” - scariest moments for a T6 or T38 IP..!

Not all heavies are equal, sometimes big AMC forgets about us herk guys and I would venture to say that being a herk dude down in the tactical mission set while when we aren’t getting boned by TACC has it’s useful challenges, certainly not easy by any means.

Well that escalated quickly

This is actually one of his sons. He went through pilot training a few classes ahead of me. How else would he have a voice on foreign policy magazine? Haha

Look who is dad is, make no mistake that the guy has ambititions - that are unfortunately not in line with actually fixing the pilot shortage.

Yes, and I highly recommend choosing the Guard/Reserves over active duty.

Don’t even get me started! The major EP/WIC types that should be in the squadron mentoring the copiglets are staying at work till 7pm in whatever useless Wing job they have, flying once a month and then going home and working on ACSC...truly sad.

Maybe severe prop over speed? Rare but can turn into a death spiral if not handled promptly. So sad, a toast to the crew :(

Yeah, no way this leads to more accidents down the road. Jam pack everyone through to make the slides at HAF look green.

Let’s start with not paying them billions of dollars? Lets see how this North Korea thing plays out..because right now, despite all his haters and naysayers it looks like he is on to something. Not saying that he is the end all be all- just that there is some positive pragmatism to his approach when it comes to potential adversaries.

He should’ve torn up that abomination of a deal the moment he entered office. Too bad we can’t get the billions we have them back.

Of course we care, many of us zipper suited sun gods have enlisted aircrew and/or work in OSSs where we supervise enlisted folks. Anything that allows them more time focusing on their primary job or more time with the family instead of idiotic PME is a win for everyone!

Not an embassy gig, it’s a straight up white jet assignment, kind of like C-21s. They mostly just shuttle the 3 star around Japan.

Blues Monday, the RIFs, reapings, practice bleeding, etc.....basically all the things we are gripping about today and reasons the good dudes are leaving were all exacerbated under his watch.

Interesting, why did wing commanders have to provide a “yes or no” if they were going to second guess all the recommendations!? God this level of incompetence...