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1 hour ago, Azimuth said:
By “weeding out the suck” you mean send to different communities in the MAF, yeah, the C-130 community is just as “guilty” as any other community of doing that.
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http://www.kansas.com/news/business/aviation/article171734662.html
Hahaha, oh god, never met a more dangerous pilot. Fair enough, you got me there. Never said it was right to pawn off problem children to other communities, but not so sure what else to do with them. I wish they would just stop promoting mediocrity like in your example.
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12 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:
Because you can be quite bad at the actual skill of flying and still get the mobility mission done,I don’t think this is the case with C-130s; maybe in today’s permissive environment. However, when you’re talking about flying a low level ingress to an airdrop with radar threats you can’t be a tard and get the mission done.
While those that get pushed don’t have to be “great” in the jet; the one thing this community has done well is weeding out those who suck, maybe other AMC communities have a different experience.
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7 hours ago, TnkrToad said:
My guess is it has something to do with the youth movement in tanker leadership, combined with the lack of tanker experience among those leaders.
Case in point: the ARW/CCs at both McConnell and Seymour Johnson are dudes who pinned on O-6 at 18 yrs and are Wg/CCs at 20 yrs into their careers. Both assiduously avoided the air refueling community for at least a decade.
The McConnell CC never previously flew the KC-135, and the last time he flew the KC-10 was 2005.
The SJ commander is slightly better; he actually started in the KC-135, but was gone from the community for 13 years, from ‘03-‘16.
If the Wg leadership’s dearth of tanker experience is any indication of group & squadron CCs’ backgrounds, clueless/clownish leadership should come as no surprise.
You want good leaders? Put people who know what they’re doing in those jobs.
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Along the same lines, I don’t know what AMC’s obsession is with mis-matching leadership from different communities. For instance, 3/4 active duty C-130 wing commanders come from other communities. They, just like you mentioned, have rose up the “Phoenix horizon”/general’s aid track actively avoiding the ops community. I am skeptical about a C-130 dude leading a tanker wing and vice versa.
Correct me if I’m wrong but the CAF doesn’t usually do this right? F-16 Wing Kings are predominantly 16 dudes, F-15 Wing Kings predominantly 15 dudes. I feel that the CAF values depth, while AMC values breadth - and that is where why we are struggling as a community.
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On 10/9/2017 at 12:00 AM, Lord Ratner said:On 10/8/2017 at 12:59 AM, dream big said:Or when home station coordinates with AMD behind your back to extend duty day to 18 hours so you can bring a tail back home a day earlier for the purposes of an Air show.
This only stops when ACs have the backbone to say "no."
I did say no ;)
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On 10/5/2017 at 11:28 PM, Lawman said:
Is that like when weather always seems like it is exactly within the minimums even when you walk back from the aircraft soaked/covered in snow.
Gotta love that crap.Or when home station coordinates with AMD behind your back to extend duty day to 18 hours so you can bring a tail back home a day earlier for the purposes of an Air show.
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5 hours ago, FishBowl said:
I drop next month and we were pretty much told it was for this exact reason. The b-courses are backed up with not enough manning to support the surge of fighter drops. It’s almost like basic math could have told them this would happen. I’ve been in long enough to experience this “full-on or full-off” knee-jerk reaction from the AF a few times.
Same thing happened to us circa 2011; no fighters because B-course is backed up. Glad to know we learn from our mistakes...
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9 hours ago, Azimuth said:
No one on this side ever argued that standing for the anthem makes you a patriot, much like me shaking your hand when you offer a handshake doesn’t necessarily make me a nice person; but were I to swat it away then I’d be kind of a douche.
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5 hours ago, Hacker said:
Can you give a specific example of this "oppression" in the United States?
I misspoke, I shouldn’t have said “a lot of blacks are oppressed.” I don’t think there is a single law in America that gives Black people a disadvantage. All in all I really think we are one of the most accepting countries having been around a few.
What I meant to convey is that there is some racism (as there is anywhere in the world) and a lot black folks from a young age tend to come from disadvantaged background compared to other races - and were the NFL players actually concerned about this, there are many other venues to go out and fix this instead of kneeling like a bunch of cry babies.
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17 hours ago, Prosuper said:
My take on the whole thing from a NFL fans perspective. I'm grumpy old Crew Chief/A&P who is tired of constantly being brow beat every time I have a opposing view from the left. The term racist and bigot have lost all meaning in today's debate since it is used by weak minds who don't have a decent counterpoint.
So I turn on the TV on a Sunday afternoon to watch some football. I used to play in High School and USAFE in the 80's when every base fielded a tackle football team, great times. I just want to watch football and not be lectured by guys who have always been on the wrong side of a conversation with a cop. I have been pulled over for your average traffic infraction but never had a bad encounter, is it because I'm white or is it I just cooperated and said I brain farted. The NFL is entertainment short and simple, I want to root for my team or watch some well played games. Most of the times now even without the kneel downs the product is just not good with the stoppages of play, constant penalties and crass advertising. Now you got black players whooping it up when they destroy a white player, I didn't put up with it on active duty and sure don't want to see on my TV. Now if these players are serious they need some skin in game away from the playing field, some give back with their foundations but most these guys could start setting the example by being decent fathers, husbands and friends and stop acting like thugs between Sundays. Start incentives for good behavior for inner city kids who get good grades and come to games as their guests etc. Now get off my grass.
100% agree. I’m tired of being lectured to by the left. Quit telling us this is about “racial inequality.” It is about attention. It is about a bunch of spoilt, whiney, overpaid millionaires yearning for attention because they know they are inadequate.
Racism does exist, a lot of blacks are oppressed; so if that bothers you - go mentor youths at an inner city school, go coach at said school, start a scholarship, etc. Kneeling during the flag? Sorry, not buying the racial inequalities arguement.
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Just fail your next 4 PT tests Duck..zero judicial or criminal consequences, free ticket out of the Air Force and doubt the airlines will care!!
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Well, so much for “re-vitalizing the squadrons.” An unidentified active duty Airlift Wing in Texas’s Wing Commander is still making 09 guys submit PRFs. My exec bros are in on the weekend to edit the PRFs before his deadline...
He also has a new policy of limiting flying bullets on OPR to two per OPR, even for LTs. What in the actual F@&$?
I have to admit I have tried to be optimistic about these new changes, but for those of you who are beyond the point of reproach by the Air Force (Duck), you aren’t wrong. There are deep rooted cultural issues in the Air Force and the one that upsets me the most is the lack of focus on getting metal in the sky and obsession with OPRs, records and careerism.
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6 hours ago, TreeA10 said:
I've always thought limits were set for a reason. If anything goes wrong, whether fatigue related or not, extending your day is going to be questioned by just about everybody and will be the first nail driven by the higher food chain CYA crowd.
I always thought the rules in the 202 and 11-2X were written not for our safety but to enable the Air Force to fry us when we screw up?
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15 hours ago, AlphaMikeFoxtrot said:
So at what point prior to the next board is the AF going to provide CC's the spine to truly mentor and state an individuals worth in the squadron to their face? This is a novel concept by the Secretary, but I posit that it will not happen in the next 4 years. CC's typically let someone else do their dirty work or have become all too accustomed to utilizing PRF subtleties to eliminate an individual.
While I agree with you, it is not up to someone else to tell me as a leader to be a f$&king man and give someone feedback to their face. My old Sq/cc would rack and stack everyone, and wouldn't hesitate to tell someone they were his #99/99, why they were 99 and what they could do to fix it.
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Last deployment, we in-processed with PERSCO. Similar situation, there was some issue with paperwork, didn't affect combat pay. We were flying missions through the day before we left. PERSCO SrA tries to tell our leadership, a major, that we can't leave country unless we inprocess*, after we fu&king out-process. Of course we didn't do it, we literally walked past her as we stepped to the planes.
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5 hours ago, HeloDude said:
If you were originally going to be passed over to O-4 your chances of making O-5 is pretty close to zero. I would also like to add that only insecure people are against a higher promotion rate to Major.
Exactly. JQP of course wrote an article about how he was against it, you should see some of the drama queen comments on there...
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I feel like we could make this thread a sub-forum of what is wrong with the Air Force.
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17 hours ago, DUNBAR said:
I think we're really missing the most noteworthy part of that AFPC news release. Specifically, there is actually a duty title called "Chief of Workforce Development for the Air Force Talent Management Innovation Cell."
I wonder if there's a Deputy Chief as well.
Dude, we found out where to cut the staffs!!
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6 hours ago, drewpey said:
Is this something to be angry about? It was already a 90% promote rate, and if you are looking to get a strat you aren't concerned about pinning on, but rather getting a school slot. This doesn't change that.
Higher promotion rates are better for everyone. It gives people more flexibility in their careers without getting completely hosed because they didn't follow the expected career path. Sure old crusties get their panties in a wad because "major used to mean something"...but the more off-ramps the USAF removes on the highway to LtCol the more likely the "flying-only" career path is for guys who just want to fly. The checking of boxes for career progression (SOS, Masters, Flt/CC, ADO) is the epitome of kabuki theater, and the easier they make it to get promoted the less box-checking we have to deal with.
I for one welcome more FGOs into the court martial duty pool.
There are people mad about this along with eliminating school selects from the board: they seem to be the CGOC/nonner types who are mad they can't get ahead by out volunteering those actually deploying and doing the mission. Heck, if for anything, I love these changes as it is a slap in the face for every careerist CGO.
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Yes! How many man hours do we waste taking a line flying IP and making him do exec work, all because he "needs it for major/ school select?" How many man hours does he then waste editing OPRs and PRFs for 0-4? I may be optimistic, but hopefully this news coupled with eliminating school selects means we at least delay the fray of queen that a mid level captain faces allowing them to focus on the mission/ their primary job.
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If you want to build hours fast, 130s may not be the way to go, we sit on the ground a lot unloading/loading while deployed and guess how much time you are logging while on the ground?: zero. I can only speak to active duty but general consensus is 200-300 hours a year is considered good.
Now if you want to go to some "interesting airfields," while performing airdrop and low levels..130s are where it's at.
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14 hours ago, ThreeHoler said:
Finance does random audits of all paid vouchers. If they differ in opinion from what the AO approved...they'll kick it back months or years after the fact...even though the AO can pretty much approve anything "reasonable."
Truth, they'll come after me 5 years later over a minor discrepancy in a complicated 7 month TDY-Deployment; when I "owe" then money it magically disappears but when they owe me money it takes months. Worst organization in the military, besides MEO.
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7 hours ago, pawnman said:
To be honest, I don't think we really need a fly-only track and a leadership track. We just need to stop punishing people who end up flying the line on promotion boards. At a time when we can't fill cockpits, we're still not promoting the very guys we need to fill the cockpits - the senior, grey beard IP/EP (or, in my case, IW/EW) who has deployed multiple times, worked in safety, worked in stan/eval, etc. These are THE experts that the commanders lean on for flying knowledge, and they're essentially being told they are less valuable due to not going to staff...even though we're also telling them they can't go to staff because there aren't enough people to fill the cockpits.
I get that the shiniest pennies will go to school followed by staff...but that's only your top 10-20%. What should be of far greater concern, to both us on the line and the Air Force as a whole, is what do you do with the other 80-90%?Valid points, I'm lucky to be in a squadron now where the commander values those types and empowers them to run OPS in the squadron instead of penalizing them for not wanting to be an 0-7..but I have also seen combat tested experienced EP/WO types thrown on the sidewalk for not wanting to play the game. I do feel that a defined track system would help fix many of the issues we gripe about here if not the actual pilot shortage; because at the end of the day, we can all agree that uncertainty and lack of control in our lives as AF officers is one of the greatest morale killers.
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14 hours ago, Smokin said:
A little off topic, but I'm not sure what you propose is any different than it is now. Guys get selected for school out of their major's board are auto leadership track unless they decline (which you can do now without being a 7-day opt). Others get picked up for school on later looks and join the leadership track. Want to be on the flying track? Don't go to school. Done.
There was (until this past majors board) a specified leadership track. There has never been an official technical track. It's 50/50 whether the major who turns down school and just wants to be a line flier gets to be that quintessential grey beard ADO with 4000 hours or the poor SOB that gets tagged with a non flying 365, passed over for 0-5 and shoved in a closet somewhere...
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20 hours ago, carminsandiego said:
not trying to make this about O vs E thing but why does E aircrew need a bump in flight pay? I'd rather have that extra bit of cash going towards my crew chiefs who are getting screwed on a daily basis
It's supply and demand man. Don't get me wrong, I 100% agree that our kick ass crew chiefs deserve a pay bump more than I..but at the end of the day it's not like Delta maintenance is on an unprecedented hiring boom threatening to steal all our experienced maintainers.
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Because most politicians and interest groups don’t give a rats a$$ about us. We don’t bring them that many votes.