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So it's non flying, involves 50% staff and 50% trying not to be the next incident of green on blue? Awesome If it is 4 years and you are within 4 years of ADSC are you essentially immuned? Or if you get selected, would you just incur any ADSC due to PCS and serve the rest of your <4 years in AFhands?

Well we know he is at least a 3 star since he is on a first name basis with "Gina" Grosso.

I'm sorry, if a harmless joke such as a dildo offends you, you have no business being in the military. What a bunch of sissies. When I was serving our old OG and his wife a beer at the squadron BAR when I was a LT, the wife noticed our bottle opener was attached to a pair of kangaroo balls. She thought it was hilarious and kept opening other people's bottles with the balls. No one complained. Then the purge of 2013 happened and they thing vanished :(. I sent my copilots on a spirit mission to find it since rumor was it was in one of the 0-5/0-6s house. No luck. You don't need dildos to have a good time in the Air Force but it's little harmless fun like that that can make it bearable sometimes.

And for years I wondered if it was the same Toro... If it makes you feel any better, that email was circulated around the cadet wing and hung up on walls. Poor guy had to feel the after-effects of it for the rest of his time there haha.

Dude, you do realize most guys on this forum have already made their decision to punch right? No one here gives a shit about making 0-6 or general. I, like many on this forum, still care about being a good aviator and getting the mission done. You and your cohorts are to blame for this mess. If you were upper management at a company in this kind of mess you and your cohorts would be in jail for fraud/mismanagement/the list goes on.

I've been telling young guys wanting to join to go guard/reserves. They can still serve their country, fly the mission, for the most part without having to deal with careerists like yourself. The guard/reserves provide the same product to national security as their active duty counterparts (some part time and some full time.) In fact, some are better at it because many of them prioritize mission excellence over careerist queep. By the way you have 328 dislikes, that should tell you something.

We paid MTIs to come TDY to bark at people about their zippers? That's it, I'm done.

Ugh sounds so familiar. break break.. Don't blame these LTs for talking about the airlines during MQT....fear deeply for the state of the Air Force that we have young soon to be copiglets/wingmen already thinking about the airlines. God we are so f8cked

Great attitude. Not sure why specifically you wanted T-38s but part of the reason many want it is to put bombs on the bad guys. There are a few opportunities to do that in the T-1 track (gunships, AFSOC in general.) Best of luck to you

Funniest response I've seen here in a while.

More than the previous SECAF who was pretty much worthless

Lots of hideous strippers and the local men try to start fights with you just because you are American. But there is a beach, and good burgers.

Nailed it a few months after IP school: "your job isn't to fly, oh by the way why didn't you contribute to the squadron chili cookout?" well maybe that's why most of our copilots can hardly land the plane. Heaven forbid we are actually tested in a real combat situation.

His speech to my SOS class was god awful, he probably single handedly validated most of the CGO's decision in the room to leave this failing force ASAP. Someone asked the question about a pilot shortage and his response in a nutshell : "there is no pilot shortage, stop your whining." Noted General sir.

Go guard/reserve...seriously! you still get to fly military airplanes, you still get to serve your country, all without the added bullshit (depending on the unit.) Yes guard units have their own issues but generally as a military pilot who actually likes to fly and eventually instruct you will be much happier.

We had a 1LT go to AC school at Yokota.... many guys are going under two years from inprocessing. No, some are not ready, hope they do okay on the road.

Any guard/reserve bubbas on here that can speak to how WOs are utilized in their units? I understand it may vary by airframe.

Big f*ing +2 man keep in mind this patch was the first patch working in the squadron in over 3 years...less than half a year getting the squadron back to a tactical mindset and off he goes. FYI I'm pretty sure he's going to punch asap. There goes more talent out the door. Well done big blue.

Yokota

Our patch wearer got back from weapons school in January, a few months later he went off to the wing to be an exec. Now the squadron lost their only patch. That's what is wrong with the Air Force.

We are already seeing this at the squadron level. Our DO asked each shop to rank order our additional duties. They are going to rack and stack them and just make a cut off, below which additional duties will no longer be done and the commander will accept the risk. There is absolutely zero reason for a young LT/wingman/copilot to be worried about equipment manager, building custodian, records custodian, whatever bullshit additional duty in place of being the best aviator they can be. That's LRS/CE/FSS/etc's job. Mission first.

C-130H at Yokota Take all this with a caveat since the C-130H is going away and being replaced with the J (same mission, just no engineer, navigator and much more advanced systems.) Also, I'm at Yokota which is one of the best flying assignments in the Air Force, so what I say will not necessarily mirror Little Rock or Dyess. Maybe Ramstein.. 1. Ops Tempo/Deployment: We don't deploy anymore but the ops tempo is absolutely crazy. This is cool if you like to fly like me, not so cool if you value family life. That being said most families love Yokota/Japan. Tight knit community here and the Japanese are absolutely wonderful people (although robot like.) We fly about 30 local lines a week, and about 20 off station missions a month as a squadron. Not to mention, exercises (to awesome places like Thailand, Guam, Philippines.) Life is busy. Young guys can expect to fly their asses off and I'm sure that will continue with the J transition. Captain-Major types, still expected to fly the line often (which is great,) but also manage a flight, 18 additional duties, MC for an exercise and be in-charge of the air-show. One thing that sucks about the H is that it breaks ALL the time. Very frustrating to go try to fly the line and the plane has a 3 hour ETIC thus your line cancelled. Your 2 day off station can turn into a 30 day real quick. Not too bad if you are single and like being on the road but very unstable. 2. Lifestyle/ Family Stability: As a young guy it is awesome. I've been to 80% of the countries in Asia in the C-130. While we don't deploy, we go to some very challenging, remote airfields that really put your PIC skills to test. We go to Nepal often and as a bro of mine would say: "there is no way to legally take off out of that place." Mt Everest is 29,000 feet and we can't even climb that high. As I mentioned, most families love Yokota, all families live on base and single dudes/dudettes live off base. 3. Community morale: The base sucks, plain and simple. Worst support service I've ever seen. Not knocking on any one individual, I know many great dudes in comm/finance/etc. but as an organization the base is horrendous. People care more about keeping track of resiliency training/SAPR/w/e than launching planes. 4. Advancements & Future of the airframe: Future? Guard/Reserves or go J. Most H guys are going J so that's cool. Advancements? We get a lot of opportunities here that you won't get elsewhere. Young captain as mission commander of a combined/joint exercise with Philippine/Korean/Japanse/Aussie C-130s flying together in formation? Hauling cargo and people into third world countries? Dropping Cambodian paratroopers out of an American C-130 and planning the whole thing? A lot of advancement. 5. Preferred PCS locations : Yokota or Ramstein. Dude, at the end of the day, I love the C-130. We get to travel the world like our C-17/C-5 brothers but yank and bank like our fighter bros, 300 feet of the ground, in formation, to an assault landing or throw shit out the back like our bomber bros. It truly is the best of all worlds.

Are you kidding me? And this is why 99% of the senior captains/majors I know want to GTFO ASAP.

Is McDew the dude that took away the C-17 pilots' wings even after the FEB recommended retention (while McDew was either 19th AF/CC or AMC/CC)?

Which base? ...I kid I kid!