AMD is trying to have a compnay picnic at the barbecue area by the Bra, and apparently whoever will be manning the grill needs to receive food safety training from the EFSS before we're allowed to do it.  I'm rolling my eyes as hard as I can.

"personing" the grill, please

At least there is a reliable chance of food at a barbeque. I'm not so sure the same can be said at the chow halls, given the state of the last few meals.

(Background: They're switching over contractors for food services and don't have the people, processes, or supply chains unfooked yet. A major for EFSS was taking out the trash bags of disposable plates as SNCOs were manning scrambled eggs serving spoons this morning at the BPC for breakfast, trying to make up for the manpower shortage with 'leadership' and bodies from everywhere else on base. Strongly correlated rumor has something about the previous contractor's penchant for human trafficing as part of that bid change decision.)

The 'Deid - "You're complaining about housing again? Let's give you something to really complain about!"

Other items - the base leadership has directed that 'we'  will work to co-locate those who work together (i.e. comms guys with comm guys, cops with cops, etc) so that commanders can do commander shit better. That will translate to waves of people moving out of their current room and moving into another room in the same or nearby buildings. 

On 3/15/2018 at 5:54 PM, spaceman said:

AMD is trying to have a compnay picnic at the barbecue area by the Bra, and apparently whoever will be manning the grill needs to receive food safety training from the EFSS before we're allowed to do it.  I'm rolling my eyes as hard as I can.

Are these the same jokers who regulate squadron bars home station? Oh I’m sorry..”heritage room”..”bar” may offend some people. 

19 hours ago, Stretch said:

The 'Deid - "You're complaining about housing again? Let's give you something to really complain about!"

EFSS is an absolute abortion out here.  The lodging office has flat out refused to communicate or cooperate with the bomb squadron. 

Edited March 17, 20187 yr by 08Dawg
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2 hours ago, 08Dawg said:

EFSS is an absolute abortion out here.  The lodging office has flat out refused to communicate or cooperate with the bomb squadron. 

If it helps any, they won't communicate or cooperate with any squadron. 

 

12 hours ago, dream big said:

Are these the same jokers who regulate squadron bars home station? Oh I’m sorry..”heritage room”..”bar” may offend some people. 

Is this the DRAM thing? Several years ago Travis AFB declared that every flying squadron wasn’t allowed to pour beer in the bar unless everyone was trained to recognize when somebody was drunk.  Seemed to us at the time to be an obvious plot to get people to drink in their shitty combined club. The OG recognized the bullshit ploy, but was made to enforce it anyway. He held a special CC call and told us the bad news. Then, after watching a 5min video used for training Applebee’s waitresses, he declared the entire OG to be “DRAM OK”, pulled back the curtain to reveal a bunch of kegs and solo cups, and gave us the rest of the day off. A great piece of theater, and the only cool thing he ever did.

Majestik, that is a fundamental example of what's wrong with the Air Force - and why the enemy is "us."  No E-9, shoe clerk commander or other douche is able to have any power without a pilot giving power to them at some level, whether it be at the O-5, O-6, or CSAF level.  Have we ever had a CSAF who's not a pilot?  No.

 

Bottom line, it's high time for PILOTS to reclaim their monopoly on power and crush the non-mission-focused others.  "We" got ourselves into this mess by delegating authority to the worst sorts of people.

 

(disclaimer: other aircrew and SOF also included, y'all just haven't been CSAF yet!)

On 3/16/2018 at 3:44 PM, Stretch said:

At least there is a reliable chance of food at a barbeque. I'm not so sure the same can be said at the chow halls, given the state of the last few meals.

(Background: They're switching over contractors for food services and don't have the people, processes, or supply chains unfooked yet. A major for EFSS was taking out the trash bags of disposable plates as SNCOs were manning scrambled eggs serving spoons this morning at the BPC for breakfast, trying to make up for the manpower shortage with 'leadership' and bodies from everywhere else on base. Strongly correlated rumor has something about the previous contractor's penchant for human trafficing as part of that bid change decision.)

The 'Deid - "You're complaining about housing again? Let's give you something to really complain about!"

True enough.  I think we'll just start sending someone off base for a shwarma run every day.

Also, BPC DFAC wins the award for least appropriate smiley face (x2)

1 hour ago, FlyinGrunt said:

Majestik, that is a fundamental example of what's wrong with the Air Force - and why the enemy is "us."  No E-9, shoe clerk commander or other douche is able to have any power without a pilot giving power to them at some level, whether it be at the O-5, O-6, or CSAF level.  Have we ever had a CSAF who's not a pilot?  No.

 

Bottom line, it's high time for PILOTS to reclaim their monopoly on power and crush the non-mission-focused others.  "We" got ourselves into this mess by delegating authority to the worst sorts of people.

 

(disclaimer: other aircrew and SOF also included, y'all just haven't been CSAF yet!)

Agreed. But we had a SOF CSAF who was a complete doofus with a bowl cut and blues Monday. 

What is the deal with the internet now. Its been over 5 years since I have been out there and getting ready for my farewell tour. The rumor I heard was that you now pay for your usage and it is expensive. I bet that kills the World of Warcraft crowd that was hogging all my bandwidth back in 2011, bastards.

Games contrary to common belief are not the major users of bandwidth.  FaceTime, Skype, Netflix etc are all 100x more intensive on bandwidth than any game.  

 

5 minutes ago, DirtyFlightSuit said:

Games contrary to common belief are not the major users of bandwidth.  FaceTime, Skype, Netflix etc are all 100x more intensive on bandwidth than any game.  

 

NERD!!!

14 minutes ago, Duck said:

What is the deal with the internet now. Its been over 5 years since I have been out there and getting ready for my farewell tour. The rumor I heard was that you now pay for your usage and it is expensive. I bet that kills the World of Warcraft crowd that was hogging all my bandwidth back in 2011, bastards.

There's a free service but you still have to make an account and sign in every time you want to use it, for some reason, and it's like dial-up speed.  So it's not very useful.  The paid service works fairly well, but you have to sign in all the time which is a pain in the ass, and they do limit how much data you get per month.  I think the prices range from like $30 to $180 a month and each tier has its own speed and data cap.  I have the middle level one that is 100 GBs a month and the speed is good enough for netflix, skype, youtube, etc at good quality.  It's $98 a month which is a fuckin rip off but whatever.

Is this internet change just a Deid thing or is it happening at other AFCENT based as well?

I think it's just the Deid.  Tell me about it; everything here is done in the worst/dumbest way possible so the internet situation doesn't even stand out to be honest.  I don't have the thing that shows the data caps for each plan here at work but these are the plans:

Somebody is making ALOT of money off our backs.  I'd imagine the cyber dudes could hook up some people, not that I'm advocating for that......

Edited March 18, 20187 yr by matmacwc

Does JohnQ know about this extortion? I don’t mean to complain, I know there are places where people would have paid anything to be able to skype home and there was no internet available. I just don’t get where free internet turned into $100/month.

36 minutes ago, Duck said:

Does JohnQ know about this extortion? I don’t mean to complain, I know there are places where people would have paid anything to be able to skype home and there was no internet available. I just don’t get where free internet turned into $100/month.

It’s Al Udeid...”Always different, never better”

 

FWIW I got the $60/mo plan in Oct-Dec and it worked great for my laptop and phone.  It is a PITA to log in every time you switch buildings/routers but at least it works well once you’re logged in.

Edited March 18, 20187 yr by Bergman

The internet is free at the Deid and it's fast enough for Netflix, skype, phone calls etc.   There are pay options too if you want faster stuff.

9 hours ago, spaceman said:

True enough.  I think we'll just start sending someone off base for a shwarma run every day.

 

At least one of them delivers to the gate, if you call ahead...

Pro tip- get a router and split one login.  You can log on three devices at once and the router doesn't count against your total.  Four dudes/dudettes can share the most expensive plan for $45 out of pocket each.  Still a pain in the ass, but hey, fight the system however you can right?

4 hours ago, Duck said:

 I just don’t get where free internet turned into $100/month.

Trend item out here- services and contracting are incompetent. 

At least one of them delivers to the gate, if you call ahead...

I was about to say I need to find these guys because it would save a lot of time, but time is exactly what I'm looking to kill when I'm at work!

Pro tip- get a router and split one login.  You can log on three devices at once and the router doesn't count against your total.  Four dudes/dudettes can share the most expensive plan for $45 out of pocket each.  Still a pain in the ass, but hey, fight the system however you can right?

Dang that's a good idea, I might do that

We got the government to fund the WiFi bill at another location/aor. Have to have WiFi to sync the pubs on our iPads. Boom.