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46 minutes ago, HossHarris said:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Project_K_nuclear_tests
My thoughts exactly. This just political theater, and dumb political theater at that.
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Lots of interesting RUMINT in the ether this week regarding the early replacement (soft firing?) of the current AFSOC/CC. Not sure that I'd put money on it given who his daddy rabbit is but here's to hoping.
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On 2/15/2024 at 7:29 AM, brabus said:
The actual staff can’t even “A-staff”well, but I’m sure the wing level will nail it.
Ha! Maybe so. I get that new things/changes sometimes take a while to implement and function correctly but right now getting the same RFIs 3-4 times a day from the same part of the A-staff cause they're not talking to each other and whatever O-5 happens to have a burr up his ass about said RFI making the most important thing in the world is kinda frustrating. I AFSOC fucked up by not having the A-3 be an O-6; probably wouldn't have been able to find another O-6 to come to CVS anyway.
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Seems kinda Army-esque, at least with regards to how the proposed garrison/base commander and combat wing commander is being proposed. Ditto with reorg of MAJCOMs.
In other news the move to A Staffs/groupless wings seems to be going swimmingly at my location/s. So far from what I can tell the A Staffs' primary purpose is to annoy the shit out of the line units with RFIs that they could answer themselves if they put 2 minutes of effort into it. Who knows, maybe it'll get better.
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8 minutes ago, SocialD said:
Honestly this read like a plan you'd create if you wanted to look like you're doing something, but don't actually want it to work. Maybe it gives them to something to point at and say "see, we tried," I guess it's on to stop loss lol
Maybe the Bobs accidentally selected the throwaway COA and no one on staff spoke up…..
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26 minutes ago, uhhello said:
I honestly can't come up with a scenario where someone would do this. Financially or quality of life wise.
I’m getting ready to retire this year after 21 and change. If the no shit ballon would go up with China, Iran, or Russia I’d do this, but probably nothing before that scenario.
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Can't speak to the renovation piece but we just went through this at my location WRT to alcohol consumption at the Sq. Have your Sq/CC draft an MFR stating where/when in the Sq people can booze. Have him put a blurb in there at the end that says something to the effect of "or any other location/time that the Sq/CC deems appropriate". You should be gtg after that.
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Pretty good secondaries on some of the open source videos coming out, hopefully they hit some solid targets.
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China's Economy Is Shrinking. That Should Worry the US and the World. (businessinsider.com)
I'm not smart on global economics at all but I found this article interesting, don't know anything about the author.
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44 minutes ago, SurelySerious said:
Well next time you pretend to be a veteran at a restaurant asking about a discount, you can show the actual veterans how.Pretty sure it was the return of that Shazam Martian. Weird, non-sensical self-aggrandizing posts followed by family insults when people called him on his bullshit. Looks like the mods already cleaned it up.
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Glad everyone got out.
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1 hour ago, HuggyU2 said:
How did he get the Cat5 callsign?
Isn’t a call sign, it’s a nickname coined by some guys in the 15th when he was the DO & CC. Came from his habit of rolling into offices in the unit, completely upending/wrecking everything and leaving nothing but destruction in his wake. See Danger’s above comment as an example, when he was a Sq/CC he gave out 34 commander directed Q3s.
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28 minutes ago, LookieRookie said:
Was CAT-5 the OG that scraped the CV-22 on tree canopies on approach and made it go away for himself?
Yes
Technically he didn’t make it go away, he was Q3’d for it by the 1st SOW/CC, then Col Slife. Obviously it didn’t impact his career any.
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3 hours ago, tac airlifter said:
I was surprised the WG/CC wasn't fired in addition to the OG.
Based on what I saw coming into CVS I’d 100% agree with you. My personal opinion/observation is there was a serious absence of leadership at the Wg/CC level (I’d argue the whole Wing command team and staff agencies) from time I arrived here till the UEI. I told my boss months before the UEI that I thought the Wing was in serious trouble going into the inspection; unfortunately events proved me correct. I say unfortunately cause now we’re suffering through the 2nd and 3rd order effects of playing catch-up/prepping for the re-inspection, which is real annoying.
It’s been said on here before but the general belief, at least here at CVS, was the Wg/CC wasn’t fired because he’s AFSOC’s first black general and AFSOC leadership (CAT 5) wasn’t going to fire him based on that alone. I have no idea if that’s actually the case but I personally believe there’s truth to it.
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12 minutes ago, Biff_T said:
No one will.
Just because you have golden hands doesn't make you a good general officer.
I flew with a couple AFSOC O-6s in my life. They were always good sticks and some were cool as fuck in the cockpit. But my god, they shouldn't have been leading outside of a squadron level.
I think we’re actually in agreement here. I would agree that just because someone is great at their primary crew position doesn’t mean they’re a great officer/leader. The best Sq/CCs I’ve had all happened to be extremely credible in the airplane; I know guys in other Sqs who have had CCs that were great in airplane but shit leaders.
At least in my corner of AFSOC most guys/gals are willing to call out leaders who are bad sticks. Reference Sock Puppet as a prime example. Didn’t stop him from making O-6 mind you, but everyone acknowledged he was a bad pilot with great paperwork.
I’d also argue that just because a guy isn’t a bro or great fun to hang out with outside the cockpit doesn’t mean they’re a bad leader, people/leaders come in all flavors.Curious, which AFSOC O-6s specifically did you fly with that you felt were good pilots but bad leaders?
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Slife has (at least IMO) a long list of flaws. I personally know a couple guys that flew with him, and, to his credit, none of them said he was a shitty pilot.
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1 hour ago, Danger41 said:
The one that really seems weird to me is the Cannon OG. Scuttlebutt was that was a lot of processes not being followed, poor admin for flying ops (DNIF flyers, etc), and things of that nature. Not personal conduct. If that’s true, that should really be a case study at PME of how that happens.
One guys opinion (mine), CVS was/is a bit of a dumpster fire across the wing, not just in the OG. Proof in the data pudding is the failed UEI; the report is quite damning. I could write a very long post about all the problems during that time period but it’s already been hashed out here.
On a bright note, I do believe that the current Wg/CC is pushing things in the right direction.The weirdest thing about that specific firing is that said OG had tendered a resignation letter and put it on the WG/CC’s desk; he had taken responsibility for the Group’s failure. Wg/CC didn’t do anything with it, so after a couple weeks OG/CC decided he’s in the clear. Then (supposedly, I have no direct knowledge of this, only RUMINT) CAT 5 orders the Wg/CC to fire the OG/CC. When the news was announced to CVS leadership a Sq/CC directly asked the Wg/CC what to tell his formation the reason for the firing was, Wg/CC basically gives an evasive/non-answer. Strange times.
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31 minutes ago, Zero said:
1. Sex with the wrong person.
2. Money
3. Offended the wrong person.
It's usually #1.
I've long thought that Big Blue should publish leadership mishaps like we do for aviation, with the same level of privilege protections and the overall intent that we can learn from the mistakes of others.
You don't have time to make them all yourself, so might as well learn from others.
One could make the argument that the information eventually comes out, but I'd counter with the same "links in the chain" that safety discovers. How many times in a leader's past did we have a chance to avoid the catastrophe waiting in the wings? How can we learn to break that chain earlier in the sequence?
If you fire someone, I think you should have to write that report. Might keep a Bob busy enough to cancel one of the BS meetings that we love so much.
Lotta good words here. Last couple CCs and SELs I’ve seen get canned in AFSOC have come with zero explanation from the higher ups. It would kill the gossip chain quite a bit and possibly let people learn from other’s mistakes if we implemented the recs above. Not to mention maybe giving the rank and file a little restored trust in the system.
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2 hours ago, Chuck17 said:
The way of the future.
Dont be shocked when AFSOC somehow gets nutrolled into this sacred cow slaughter... LOTS of folks will be running for the exits.
OBTW, they've also realized that the USAF isn't only made up of "service-retained" assets, so the wunderkind working on this one still have a big question mark on some of those platforms and communities.
It's a mess but the good thing is the homework is due in January, so Im sure it'll be fully baked by then (s). Im sure it'll be fine.
Chuck
Honest question, what's the so what behind this? What efficiencies or improvements do the powers that be expect to gain as part of this initiative? Are there actual logical thought processes behind what they're trying to accomplish or this change for the sake of change (and promotions).
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22 minutes ago, mcbush said:
Wasn't 4 the max? Or was there some secret HPO deal so the shiniest of pennies could go quicker than that?
Used to be you could 2 BPZ to Major. 2 BPZ to Major, 2 BPZ to LtCol, 2 BPZ to Col, fast burner trifecta back in the day.
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3 hours ago, O Face said:
Remember how fantastic this son of a bitch was as an Admiral and then President?! Man, it seemed a lot funnier in the Hot Shots movies than playing out, in real life, today.
“It seems like only yesterday I was strafing so many of your homes; now I’m begging you to stop making such good cars.”
-President BensonIn an address to the Japanese Prime Minister.
You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down on every one. Come to think of it, I’ve never landed an airplane in my life.
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22 minutes ago, Danger41 said:
I know it isn’t practical, but I wish we could have UPT bases spread out all over the country so kids could learn to operate in the NAS instead of just learning all the base specific crap. That would also allow more comfort with VFR, interaction with various airspaces, etc. This would probably have an effect on later on events at NTTR or otherwise where you’re not used to working in that type of environment but who knows.
I’m kind of a guy that had feet in both worlds where we used to build pubs kits and all that and now have EFB with foreflight. I think GK has actually decreased because CTRL+F stuff is so easy now where we used to have to learn it.
Agreed, a lot of guys don’t seem to actually learn their pubs anymore due to CTRL+F, an unfortunate side effect of the the pubs being on IPads.
Commanders are dropping like flies this year
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I’d argue that the cadets are young and will bounce back. They probably don’t give a shit who is in charge at the top as they’re just trying to keep their heads down and graduate.
Much better him there as opposed to his current position where he’s doing his level best to completely trash/fuck up every part of AFSOC. The level of thrash in the command right now cause of him is the worst I’ve seen in 20+ years.