Posts posted by DirkDiggler
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10 hours ago, EWOhno said:
Hey all,
Facing an FEB in the USAF, my CC just notified me of it. I haven't been given the official reason or letter yet. I know that I don't want to voluntarily give up my wings and that this FEB isn't for a FTU fail to train issue. As I prepare myself for this I'm just searching out any advice or help from anyone that has gone through the process or is aware of what happens during an FEB. Anything is helpful as google hasn't really produced much in terms of results.
Thank you!
Why are you being FEB’d?
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1 hour ago, Lawman said:
It seems leadership and money people confuse the concepts of size/line of effort and don’t understand the criticality of effort or the phases of conflict it exists in.
It’s like the Gulf War I example, conventional fixed wing aviation was undoubtedly the first main line of effort on night 1 of the war. But without AFSOF, a handful of stealth aircraft and Army attack, that line of effort would have waiting indefinitely for that window to open. That doesn’t even mention what was being done by SOF to shape the battlefield for the air war started so all that ass could get to where it was needed. Those big metal shapes at specific Nav points didn’t emplace themselves, SOF did it.
Everybody wants to go see the rock concert, but nobody wants to acknowledge the bus drivers and crew that get the band on stage. They may not be the one making the music, but it’s pretty damn important to the concert happening.
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On 8/15/2024 at 8:36 PM, Magellan said:
Not Applicable in the high end near peer fight if you ask anyone outside of AFSOC.
I think the better way to state this is SOCOM/AFSOC aren't the main show in the high end near peer fight.
This whole "identity crisis" or whatever you want to call it that SOCOM and AFSOC are currently going through is kinda amusing to me. For the from '01 to '21 SOCOM was the show, budgets were huge, and the command grew quite a bit. It was also made very clear to me a as young guy, when asked what our mission was while we were simultaneously supporting OEF/OIF/GWOT, that the correct answer was "to do what the fuck we're told to do", and your job was to find a way to make it happen.
I've heard the phrase "maintain relevance" thrown around quite a bit by senior guys in AFSOC this last year. What they really mean is they're worried our budgets will shrink because we're not leading the charge on night one into China/Russia.
AFSOC's part in the high end near peer fight right of bang is limited for a multitude of reasons. IMO, AFSOC will be in a supporting role, which historically is where SOF usually existed prior to 2001. There's absolutely things we can contribute to that fight, the discussion of most of them exceed the classification of this forum. But the idea that we're going to be a main LOE is pretty silly with our current equipment.
We have tons to contribute left of bang, and the C-VEO fight isn't going away anytime soon. There's also a ton of smart, motivated people working to find ways for AFSOC to support the high-end fight. I think AFSOC/SOCOM needs to calm down a bit with the "identity crisis" thing.
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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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What is right with the Air Force
in General Discussion
The ham slice from the old MREs used to be the shit if you had a fire to grill it over.