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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, ClearedHot said:

    Unfortunately, no other than the failed UEI has several layers. 

    In general if you fail are offered a SAV and decline there is very little wiggle room when the command shows up for a UEI and you have multiple people actively flying airplanes when they are non-current, along with a host of other issues. 

    Describing the draft UEI critical/significant deficiencies as a train wreck would be like describing gang rape as a mild social deviation; it’s really really bad.  Totally agree it was a leadership failure at multiple levels.

      The issues and problems were so pervasive across all the Groups in the Wing that canning just the Ops Grp/CC is like putting a bandaid on an arterial bleed.  And it was specifically said it wasn’t UEI related though I guess you could describe the issues in the Ops Grp as not UEI related, just uncovered during the inspection.

    Either way this place is fucked up like a football bat and I fear we’re in for a rough 6 months.

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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    38 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:

    Wing CoC is next week and the outgoing Wing/CC is a BG Select...we all know AFSOC won't easily sacrifice a star.  That being said, fail a UEI when you have not asked for a SAV is a big fail.

    I have no doubt that the current Wg/CCs position and timing played into whatever the reasoning was.  However, direct from the Wg/CC’s mouth “this was not character or UEI related.”  When a sitting Sq/CC asked what he should tell his formation the reasoning was Wg/CC’s quote was “look in the mirror and fix your culture.”

    Whole thing seems odd to me but totally within CAT 5’s MO.

    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    2 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

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    I’m sure that had something (probably a big something) to do with it but the timing is odd.  Wg/CC CoC is next week.  Inspection final report hasn’t come out yet (I expect heads to roll then).  Answers given as to why not but no real answer as to why.  Kinda odd all around.

     Edit to add, Grp CoC was supposed to be in 6 weeks so he was right at the end of his tour.

    Gun Talk

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    1 hour ago, M2 said:

    I just put a Vortex Strike Eagle 1-8x24mm LPVO on a AR-15, PSA had a great deal on them the weekend before last, $355 delivered with mount!  

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    It has BDC references to 600 yards for standard .223/.308 loads...

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    Outdoor Life crowned it the best LPVO for 2023!

    https://www.outdoorlife.com/gear/best-lpvo/ 

    I’d looked at those this past weekend, they got really good reviews.  Thanks for the recommendation/data.

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    Gun Talk

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Anyone have any personal recommendations for a good scope for an AR-10?  Just got a Springfield Saint, looking for something that can be used close in and then out to around 2-300 yards.

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    Posted

    20 minutes ago, Boomer6 said:

    Well I never heard of any B-29 crews executing a mutiny or trying to kill Lemay when we fire bombed Tokyo. If your counter is to say, well they started the war.. I’d day, who, the thousands of ppl that we burned alive? I’m not saying anyone needs to feel guilty about killing an enemy soldier, but I have no problem with someone feeling bad that some poor Russian kid is getting killed for a war he has no viable way of getting out of short of committing suicide or relegating his family to the gulag.

    I maybe can understand that sentiment for some Russian 19 year old that was forcibly conscripted.

    The scumbags in the video I posted were part of Wagner, a private military company (mercenaries) that are all volunteers.  No one forced them to join shit.  Even the mass of convicted criminals recruited out of prison had a choice to stay in prison or volunteer to fight in Ukraine.

    Wagner employees routinely commit atrocities across the countries they conduct missions in.

    How anyone would feel sorry for any of them is beyond me.

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    19 minutes ago, Biff_T said:

    Don’t worry, we all will get to hangout with them in the end.  

    Edit: @DirkDiggler, @pawnman

    I'm on your team btw.   Sometimes, I feel exactly how you guys do. Just sometimes,  I can’t hide the fact that it hurts my stomach to see the dead piled up on display.  I respect anyone who is willing do the dirty work the rest of society gets to ignore.  Good or bad.  

    Fair enough

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    Posted

    42 minutes ago, Biff_T said:

    Thanks. 

    You’re a killer?  And you like to kill for freedom, money or patriotic bullshit?  So did the Russians, Wagner, Taliban, Nazis, Romans, Americans.   We all did it for some sort of compensation.   I don’t like the people I’ve killed anymore than the next guy, but I respect them.  

    I can’t wait to find those WMDs in Iraq.  I’m really glad we destroyed that whole country because of some really, really bad intel.  I’m glad we got to burn a few civilians too that’s what real bad asses do. We are not as innocent as we like to believe.  It’s a hard pill to swallow.   

    Beleive what you want, but I have more in common with those dirtbags fighting for their country, freedom or patriotic beliefs than I do with the fine men and women working for us in Washington DC.   I have more in common with a guy (bad guy, good guy, who cares) who shot his enemy than a Karen working at Home Depot.  

    If you truly feel like you have more in common with some guy from ISIS who's supportive of child brides, slavery, executions, torture ect than you do with some obnoxious American citizen working at Home Depot than I'm not sure we're having the same conversation.

    I don't believe WMD in Iraq or politicians in DC are relevant to the topic at hand.

    My statement/sentiment still stands.

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    Posted

    22 hours ago, Biff_T said:

    War sucks.  The dead in this video have found peace.   Regardless of what side you are on, the people fighting get sent to war by politicians who need more.  More power, more money and more dead bodies.   In the end, the people actually doing the fighting have more in common with the enemies they’re fighting than they do with the politicians sending them to die.   

    That's nice.

      I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the average Ukrainian solider doesn't have a huge amount in common with some Wagner scumbag that volunteered to fight in Putin's war so they could get released early from prison for whatever murder/rape/theft charge they were in for.

    I'm also pretty sure that I have very little to nothing in common with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or ISIS; I'm glad I did my part to help turn some of them into fertilizer.

    As I stated previously, good looking Wagnerites in that video/glad they're gonna be pushing up daisies.

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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

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    Posted

    18 hours ago, BeefBears said:

    Im sure you can't say but is it any worse than, "let's bring everyone back and deploy all the tired, worn out FGOs to staff positions downrange?"

    With only a few exceptions, all the sharp dudes in my neck of the woods got out recently and the douchers all went to aide de camp jobs... 

    not trying to derail the thread but short answer is yes.

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