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Awful idea. Instead of fostering a culture where people are excited to come and do one of the best jobs in the world - the Air Force should trap people in so they can’t leave?

Well then hopefully the PIT IPs do their job and wash them out. If they make it through PIT, then hopefully they are trainable.

To be fair, sometimes when you go off to an attached job your boss micromanages your flying schedule and shits on you when you’re gone. Then yes, sometimes some pilots hate flying- detracts from building their CGOQ package.

There comes a time in any organization where people start to get salty. When I showed up it was about the time someone was a mid level major. Now, it’s freaking LTs in UPT. That’s a problem guys.

My favorite are the CGOC bakesale, “mentoring session,” or circle jerk session sent by the CGOC President..who also happens to be a finance LT, no wonder our finance shop is a mess/ never open/ takes 2 months to process vouchers.

So if senior raters get the list tomorrow is it common for them to notify folks?

They can’t do that, where will they find all the FGOs to fill 365 taskers for Chief of PowerPoint?

He’s at the academy, he’s not banging any “hot chicks”..

We are almost getting to the point where the 09 guys will have to re-write PRFs for the December board since they haven’t been selected for promotion yet...AGAIN! Some transparency would be nice, I mean if they hope to retain anyone.

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.