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    Rumor - ORIs Ending?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Any real emphasis on giving credit for real-world tasking when/where applicable to the mission set being evaluated...?

    Our (AMC) ORI is in March and we just received almost 100% credit for it based on our real world contributions since our last ORI in 08.

    What was a fly-away ORE this month and a fly-away ORI in March has been turned into a 4 hour ATSO Rodeo with <100 players base wide. Talked with the CV last week about it, and he estimated over $2 mil in savings.

    Winning!

    More SARC briefings soon.

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    . An LT house with a bar can have whatever suggestive artwork, patches, etc. You can sing whatever songs you want there. Hell, you could wear whatever morale/friday patches you want there too. The house can be passed down through the generations of LTs. Or find a nice dive bar and become regulars. If you get close enough with the ownership, they might even let you put up some stuff on the walls. They won't mind a whole squadron worth of business on a regular basis.

    Our squadron had a houseboat. Does that count? Marina fees and upkeep got too high so it had to go.

    Potential Vision Situation

    in Aviation Medicine

    Posted

    Be advised...they can act like they're your friends all they want, but they aren't.

    Use caution.

    I hate to jump on the bandwagon, but Rainman is right again. Interacting with flight medicine is a great time to be courteous, STFU, and when you have to speak give as little information as possible. Details and past history will typically not help you.

    There are few, if any, people who can screw your entire flying career with one stroke of a pen.

    Finance Problems

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I sent an email asking how to track my accrual voucher (since they generally fuck it up). How awesome is this response? I copied and pasted it exactly as I received it. Signature shows an A1C sent it.

    Good Afternoon,

    You cancheck back with us in a couple of wees and we can check the

    status of your voucher but as of now, theres no way we can really track it.

    V/r,

    //Signed//

    Randolph AFB Finance Callcenter

    My first thought after reading, "Me fail enlish? That's unpossible!"

    As to the actual content, I always had good luck responding with, "Great! Would you mind giving me the name and phone number of your OIC? Thanks." That will usually get them in gear, and if not you will have a good opportunity to interact with the non-rated officers on base.

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    Aerobatic Flying & UPT Applicants

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Just don't expect it to make you do well in UPT, or have the attitude that glider (or any flying) experience makes you any better than anyone else..

    Agreed.

    FWIW we had a USAFA glider guru (1000 hours or some such) and he finished dead last in my UPT class. Five years later, he was happy to go from his E-8 assignment to UAVs. Great guy, but couldn't think fast enough for powered flight apparently.

    F-22 crash?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    &quot;Oldness&quot; has officially set in. Graff was one of my students in the Eagle at Tyndall.

    I was wondering about that. We refueled the Tyndall guys last Friday; lead was a one star patch wearer and his wingman was a full bird patch. Third guy (separate flight but singleton) was also a full bird. I'm guessing the outgoing WG/CC was the one star?

    NO National Guard in NYC because of the guns?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    For the record, I'd probably trust the NYPD with shoot/no shoot and accuracy before the one weekend a month 2 weeks a year types, absolutely no offense to the Guard they're doing a great job over there.

    WTF? You slam the guard as "weekend warriors" then the very next sentence say, "no offense to the Guard".

    If you really believe that the guard is still one weekend a month, two weeks a year, I suggest you choke yourself.

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    Leadership at the 'Deid

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Bergman

    So, If I am sitting at the Fox bar with the swing shift ops staff and Services Squadron Sparky shows up with an offensive tee shirt or Mandy shows up in the daisies...I guess I'll just jump up and be a leader. "Remove those shorts Airman! That's an order!" Problem solved!

    First off, a foul on you for hanging out in the Fox Bar in the first place. Everyone knows that the Kasbah has better drinks, music that is somewhat quieter than a B-1 in max burner, and usually not as crowded.

    Second, I challenge you to come up with a better swing shift patch than this one. Your buddy Tulsa Todd, the resident Mormon, designated driver after the Kas kicked us out, and all-around great guy, had them made for us.

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    Your post seems incoherent to me as well. You typed that you want to drink your three beers and be left alone. If you are drinking your three beers and want to be left alone, you are probably not worried about what your Airmen are doing. What would your "briefing" to your Airmen consist of exactly? What you are missing, is that officers who are detached because they are god's gift and rated and such, and therefore are entitled to sit back and be left alone, is that your Airmen need your top cover. From my perspective, as I typed before, you are the problem. You are concerned with numero uno. I'll get more top cover and unass your Airmen from the queep more effective than you every time. I understand the reason for the queep, therefore, I know when to adjust the rheostat on taking liberties with dress and appearence and so on and so forth. I've seen your act, not impressed. And when you qualify this with "i've been doing this for a long time," you may or may not believe this - I've seen a lot of people in this service do something wrong for a long time.

    You, sir, need to calm the fuck down. I have known Scooter since his very first day in the Air Force, been stationed with him for 5 years, been crewed with him more times than I can count, and been friends with him and his family for going on two decades....so I feel well qualified to say that you are just a bit off the mark on your assessment of him.

    Arguing that because someone wants to drink their beers and be left alone - after a 12+ hour day/8+ hour flight no less - somehow makes them a poor leader or officer is idiotic. There is such a thing as "time off" even at Al Udeid.

    You will probably lose your mind when I say this, but sometimes it just isn't my problem, or it isn't the time for me to be worrying about every junior enlisted troop at the Bra or Kas. That is the exact mentality that leads to every SSgt on the base walking laps just trying to find someone with a uniform out of regs, just so they can leap into action and correct them. Give it a rest! There is a time and place for everything...and not everyone has to be part of the solution all the time!

    Airmen need your top cover.
    They wouldn't need it if they weren't acting like jackasses! Wearing bootie shorts and a bra in the CC doesn't pass the common sense check. Foul on them.

    You are concerned with numero uno. I'll get more top cover and unass your Airmen from the queep more effective than you every time.

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say that, while that may be true, I suspect Scooter probably did better in 5th grade English class than you.

    Leadership at the 'Deid

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Wow, it's been 4 months since the last post here. Just today, the commander authorized civilian clothes for all military on base.

    How long until someone screws this up?

    My first response was, "NFW!" but after reading the rest of the discussion, apparently this is legit.

    I honestly can't believe it!

    Dare I say that common sense is finally making a return to the USAF? I wasn't aware we were having trouble with recruiting/retention (yet).

    Gen Welsh - USAF Chief of Staff

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I am sure that he isn't saying or doing anything different than previous CSAFs, but he always manages to come across as sincere...which is something the majority of leaders these days fail to do. I for one am glad he is in charge.

    Welsh honors two Airmen from AFMAO

    by Lt. Col. Kevin McAndrews

    Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Public Affairs

    10/3/2012 - FORT WASHINGTON, Md. (AFNS) -- Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III recognized two team members from Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations during a recent speech at the annual Air Force Association Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition in Washington, D.C.

    Master Sgt. Antoinette Worthey and Senior Airman Shemiel A. Christopher each received standing ovations and Air Force chief of staff coins for the jobs they do at AFMAO day in and day out.

    Welsh said he and his wife, Betty, toured AFMAO in August shortly after he became the 20th Air Force chief of staff. He was so impressed with what he saw that he wanted to recognize Worthey and Christopher for the incredible work they perform.

    Welsh said he had visited Dover Air Force Base, Del., for dignified transfers before becoming the chief of staff but had never toured AFMAO to meet the personnel who work there.

    "And so I went to meet them," he said. "I had heard they were great, but I had no idea how great they were."

    Worthey, the noncommissioned officer of Dress and Restoration, briefed Welsh during his visit to AFMAO. She explained that her team's job is to wrap the remains that require it and to then dress the fallen before they are returned to their loved ones.

    "You deserve this," Welsh said to Worthey.

    Worthey has deployed 10 times to the mortuary and worked several mass fatality cases in addition to taking care of the service members who died in the USS Cole incident and Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom.

    Welsh told the audience Worthey's job and the job of the Dress and Restoration team is to make sure the uniforms are perfect before they leave and for the remains -- if they can't wear a uniform -- be perfectly wrapped.

    The general asked the audience, "Can you imagine doing this on 10 deployments?"

    Worthey's section once had the remains of a fallen service member who could not wear a uniform, the chief of staff told the audience. To wrap remains of this type, the team uses multiple layers. In between each layer is identification, so if anything ever happens during the shipment, the remains can always be identified. Typically, dog tags are used.

    "As they finalized the preparations for this fallen hero to head home," he continued, "they found out that he'd been promoted posthumously. Now, nobody ever unwraps the body. No one will ever see the remains after they leave the mortuary. But Sergeant Worthey and the team unwrapped every layer, reprinted new dog tags and reinserted them with the proper rank just because that's the way it should be."

    Welsh said the work at AFMAO is technically and emotionally difficult. Worthey leads her team with pride and professionalism because she believes this critical job must be done right.

    "This is just a special, special person and a remarkable senior NCO, and I wanted to have the chance to say thanks," Welsh said.

    Worthey, who lives in Dover, is assigned to the 512th Memorial Affairs Squadron, an Air Force Reserve unit.

    "I learned about this unique mission at Dover through a next door neighbor who was assigned to the 436th Services Squadron," said Worthey. "It was then that I decided I wanted to be a part of this rewarding mission."

    With little time to waste before reaching the reservist age requirement, she enlisted before reaching age 35. She had that birthday during basic training.

    "It was my worst birthday ever," she said. "Since then, I've had a gratifying career providing dignity, honor and respect for our fallen and their families. In my 15 years of service, the mission at AFMAO is by far the most meaningful thing that I have done."

    JSTARS sabotage?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Urrban Legend. I know the supposed members of the ring, and they're both still on AD, and will both probably make O-6. There was a Local National who just knew since there were women, they had to be prostitutes.

    Pictures or it didn't happen.

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