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You bring up an excellent point. We all gripe about lack of mission focus and non-rated not supporting us but how many of us would be willing to go be the FSS commander or work on staff? I sure as hell would bitch about it haha! But at the end of the day, those pilots that do stay in do need to do their part to ensure there is mission focus and part of that is leading from the front up on the staff and orienting the ABU wearers to the real mission. I don't think the issue is that guys who stay in have to work staff. The issue is these staffs becoming so bloated that you send an experienced pilot to the Died for a year to work powepoints. I think that kind of misuse of manpower is what people get mad about, and rightfully so.

KL has nothing on Bangkok, and other "hot-spots" in Thailand!

Exactly! If we have a pilot shortage why in god's name are we yanking experienced aviators!? Send some intel or other non-rated folk if this program is that important (to be fair I'm sure it's being pushed from high above HAF..). I know some non rated that would gladly volunteer for this and benefit their career. While we are at it, evaluate the need for a rated dude in various staff positions. I bet most of that could be fulfilled with non rated guys; likewise evaluate whether a 11M could fill a 11F staff billet and vice versa. How did these bean counters pass HS let alone college?

You're not good at making friends are you? As others have asked you with other threads: go with quals:

Copilots in AMC usually don't upgrade for 2-3 years. If they flew 38s they have no less "PIC" time than wingmen going to IFF from 38s, with probably a heck of a lot more experience and airmanship.

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.