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Well the first week of SOS ended smoothly, and then a physical brawl broke out as everyone was leaving the O-club, something about someone's wife...?

Just my personal experience with him: the guy is pure gold, solid leader who gets it.

This is the kind of crap key leaders are wasting their time on? Still not surprised. For the record I am a minority pilot

FWIW, the best C130 instructor I ever had WAS the guy teaching tactics in the bar to LTs, he was also the wing exec yet one of the most proficient pilots I've met. He's a school select now and a U2 driver. Not sure why being tactically proficient and getting promoted/checking boxes is mutually exclusive.

Rugby players are generally bros, I wonder at what point he became such a tool. I can't wait for him to become AMC/CC a decade from now. That would be on par.

2, I found him to be an awesome dude. Very charismatic and always interacted with everyone, including us young LTs at the time. I think he will be a solid wing king especially after Rhat.

Amazing, but busy. We have more hours than we know what to do with. Expect to fly several times a week locally. Tons of off stations: mostly Guam and Kadena but the occasional Thailand, Hawaii, New Zealand and Maldives trips drop. In the spring we go to a ton of exercises. You're still expected to do your ground jobs so it gets busy. Current leadership is fantastic though.

What is hawk or eagle command?

Proud to say I am the herk's newest aircraft commander. Here is to being able to actually fly assaults and hopefully land in the zone, saying gear up instead of doing it, not having to buy the first round, not having to take the fat chick, and keeping loadmasters out of Thai prisons.

Don't try to John Wayne it unless you like getting beat in the face. Actually don't do it period since you'll get everyone else in trouble. Take plenty of wet wipes.

Because he doesn't give 2 sh*ts?

Not sure but we were stuck in the airplanes engines off with ITS near 100 for 3 hours. If I find out who it was I'm dropping a deuce all over the inside of their car.

So? At the zoo we had track stars fall out occasionally. Standing at attention for 45 minutes listening to a scripted speech is stupid.

One of our top officers in the wing got a DUI back in UPT. Played his cards right and bounced back.

It was exactly a year ago. The CC recalled everyone, when we walked into the squadron the entire chain of command and chaplain was there. Several people were crying. Darkest day I've witnessed in the Air Force. There were a lot if young LTs and airmen that had never had anything like this happen in their squadron before. If anything good came out of that incident, it taught us to never ever be complacent and to take this job as seriously as possible. A toast, rest in peace brothers.

Much better! Awesome leadership, lot of tactical flying and tons of awesome TDYs (ie New Zealand, Hawaii, Malaysia.) That being said it's a dead end in terms of the legacy 130 community, unless you're one of the few that have the pipe dream of being initial J cadre.

We have a new CSS comm type airman working in our squadron, it's taken her more than a month to get people folder access. She is pretty much useless.

Maybe this belongs in the UPT sub forums.. I envy this kid, UPT was awesome. All I had to do was learn how to fly, study, drink, chase the wonderful women of Enid and take videos to try to impress said women.. Now I get OPRs, paper work, more paperwork, masters, SOS, "career development" and hey sometimes get to fly as a hobby. Enjoy UPT, and save that GoPro for your class video, our OG/cc was cool and approved it for our class video

You mean like your Phase 2 students who get lost on their solo ride? (In Pensacola where there is nothing but Gulf Coast due south). Or like those marine hornets who busted through our altitude block four times over an undisclosed location in Asia?

He didn't get fired for saying Chiefed. The F-16 squadron commander got fired for telling his dudes to "grow those bitches out," after the wonderful wing king at Kandahar told the sq/cc to tell his guys to shave the mustaches. Robin Olds maneuvers don't fly in today's Air Force..

While the guy sounds a little more promising than his predecessor, as long as he is a puppet of the Ayatollah then not much will change.

One of our weapons school guys and best instructors was also the wing exec, granted he was voluntold but I don't see how those two things are mutually exclusive.

Well...sh*t. Thanks for the memo. So much for wanting to grow in the 130 community.

2, besides, we can't really focus on our primary job since leadership will probably insert some other useless waste of time in place of all the flying hours just lost.

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