DirkDiggler
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7 minutes ago, McJay Pilot said:
A formation of MC’s… ironic coming from him since he, you know, wanted to kill formation.
That was an amusing discussion amongst the bros, that had the request happened a year later, there may not have been enough form qual'd pilots to do it. I guess they could've stayed 30 seconds in trail; that would've looked awesome/s.
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13 hours ago, hindsight2020 said:
Here's the problem green suiters never seem to understand about this tired "contractor deus ex machina" COA. Every.single.time the question gets posed in the real world (and it has, ad nauseam) it boils down to the same self-evident retort: "Where and for how much?".
And the answer continues to be the same: "No thanks." The contractor undergraduate training pipedream cannot be scaled to the requirement, unless and until you get rid of the unholy Trinity: Laughlin, Columbus and Vance.
I'd give details of what it takes to staff the place, but I don't want to doxx myself, plus I'm not even sure some of the stuff I've dealt with is fully JTR-kosher anyways, so 1 2 3 4 fifth. "Senator, that hooker was dead when I got to the gangbang....." 😄
BL, it is my lived experience that what you people want, cannot be had for what your bosses are willing to pay. A few townie-married check o the month types willing to teach "back waivered" UPT in a Grob are not going to save this enterprise.
If you don't move the enterprise to metro USA, that COA is DOA. Reality.
There's zero political will to move XL and CB. Reality.
The number you get is equal to however many green bags you can non-volunteer to do the job for 3 years at a time + the aggregate cost of 7-day opts. Reality.
Lotta really good/true words here.
I just retired and am about to start the simulator contractor life at the FTU for my airframe. If there had been an opportunity to fly and instruct at UPT as a civilian (contractor or GS) I'd have been very interested (not interested in the airlines) but I'm not doing that at CBM/DLF/END. It's just not in the cards for me post-AF. I didn't mind being at what some would consider less than desirable locations while I was in but after retirement I'm looking for a good place to live in a location where my wife can travel easily for her career. None of the current UPT locations provide that.
As a side note on this topic, I'm not sure if this is new to the AF but it was new to me. As my retirement date approached I kept getting emails from AFPC (think it was them) asking me to consider taking a GS job at Randolph teaching sims remotely. Apparently the AF is having trouble getting enough blue suiters to live in CBM/DLF/END that they're offering guys the option to work at Randolph and instruct sims via VTC to the students at UPT bases. I feel like that would be less than optimal training for the students but that's where we're at today.
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afterthought9 hours ago, Danger41 said:Amen. And not to be a prick, but why is he entitled to get moved to another job as a 3 star? It didn’t go well in charge of a MAJCOM, that’s it. Retirement time. Thanks for your service.
He personally called the 27 SOW/CC to request (demand really) a two-ship flyover of MCs for his USAFA CoC, because with everything else we have going on, yeah sure, we've got the time and assets for that.
Edit to add: my first question when this came down was "Does anyone care/does it matter that he got soft-fired?" Anyone, I'm the only one, ok I'll shutup now.
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3 minutes ago, Blue said:
Am I missing something? I just see a handful of tweets, basically saying "poor coordination between supporting LEO agencies?"
There’s that. He also provides a viewpoint on why the counter snipers may not have seen the shooter until after he fired; it wasn’t the tier they were assigned/focused on.
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9 minutes ago, Biff_T said:
These good people keep getting their good name dragged through the mud for conspiracies.
Break, break
Trump is one lucky SOB. I think our country is as well. Shit would get real bad if he died.
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15 hours ago, McJay Pilot said:
Jesus… can’t wait to hear the conspiracy theories from this one.
It literally started happening within hours of the attempt. Bunch of people on the left think that it was some false flag operation to boost Trump's polling numbers or to unite the right. Bunch of people on the right think it was ordered directly by Biden himself. I think I've also read various places that it was (in no particular order) the work of global elitists, Jews, Satanic pedophiles, the CIA, the Deep State, disgruntled Republicans, China, the legacy media, the DNC, or possibly Jason Borne.
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31 minutes ago, dream big said:
This should get interesting, I haven’t done an open ranks inspection since I was a cadet. I wonder if other MAJCOMs will follow suite?
AfSOC has already been doing this for the last couple months thanks to CAT 5.
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1 hour ago, arg said:
"an LCSO Special Operations Unit sniper fired a "planned and deliberate shot through a computer monitor"
Let's be honest, we've all been there after a frustrating day trying to fill out grade sheets in ePex or vouchers on DTS.
In all seriousness, good on the officers in this situation.
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There’s still leaders in the AF that do right by their people and who give a shit about getting the mission done. Never worked for/with Mini but glad to see a guy who had such a positive impact on his formation go out with style.
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Russian Ukraine shenanigans
in General Discussion
Almost as if there’s already a room (or thread) for this stuff.