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My class was the last of the fiscal year, and I remember us frantically trying to figure out what exactly that meant. Our's wasn't great in the T-38 side, but the T-1 guys got a fair number of good deals. After watching drops at a UPT base for five years, it doesn't matter, it's all smoke and mirrors. We've tried to look at it from every angle, to include some guys with PhDs from Rand with a little too much time on their hands trying to crack the code if you will, and the only trend is a the lack of a trend. Some classes have a great drop, others are terrible three weeks later. All luck and timing. Prepare for every flight like it'll make the difference, throw in your dream sheet and see what happens.

So this is a PFA, but maybe somebody has some kind of experience with it. When my wife popped out our kid last August, I had a bunch of use or lose, so I dropped three weeks of regular leave and held onto the baby leave. Our intent was to use the baby leave to make a "here's the thing we made" tour to our families back in the states (we're OCONUS) and even had it planned out for LICWO next month. Best laid plans and all, COVID happened. Any chance to get the one year limit to use baby leave extended? Sounds like the personnel Bobs are being pretty liberal working with dude's leave PFAs, but I'm not sure I have a leg to stand on since my justification for keeping my "stay home to keep the little human alive" leave is the fact that I have to stay home.

Is there a list somewhere of guard/reserve squadrons that participate in total force integration? Particularly looking for viper squadrons.

A solo student in the T-6 at Vance last week flew into a cloud in the MOA. Being the steely-eyed aviator that he was, he immediately decided that the best way to recover was to roll inverted and pull as hard as he could in max power. Once he was 80 degrees nose low, he discovered the error in his ways. Let's just say that when you're flying about 20 kts passed the airspeed limitations of the plane and decided to burry the stick in a nose-low recovery, you will 1) pull enough G to ground just about any fighter in the inventory, and 2) amazingly not rip the wings off a T-6.

I almost posted this in a couple other threads, but it didn't quite seem to fit, so it gets it's own. Interesting view from a Lt Col sentenced to the Pentagon. Acquisition Management