What's wrong with the Air Force?

[Clark Griswold]

This 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/03/restoring-the-warrior-ethos-to-the-trump-military/

[O Face]

13 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:

This 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/03/restoring-the-warrior-ethos-to-the-trump-military/

This guy gets it!

[di1630]

Joint Program Office releases this with the knockoff Chinese J-35. Stayed up for a few hours.


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[Lawman]

Joint Program Office releases this with the knockoff Chinese J-35. Stayed up for a few hours.


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PAO winning the war…

We’re not sure who the hell they are are fighting for or with but they sure as hell are wining in their own minds.


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[brabus]

Gov PA across the board will always have the legacy of being horrible at their jobs. I think they may be even worse than Finance, and that’s saying a lot.

[M2]

It doesn't have leaders like MG William Zana...

An Army general’s final ‘walk’ at the Tomb of the Unknowns

MG William Zana, the only guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to reach the rank of general, took a final guard shift on the night he retired.



At exactly 10 p.m. on the warm, last night of May, MG William Zana received his orders and began his final guard shift on the smooth marble stone plaza at the center of Arlington National Cemetery. In two hours it would be midnight, a new day and new month. A new guard would relieve him at his post, he would march off the plaza and suddenly, instantly, be a civilian.

But for the final two hours of his 37-year career, Zana wanted one last chance to stand a shift he had held as a young sergeant: keeping watch over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 

“I was Pvt. Zana when I showed up to the Old Guard,” Zana told Task & Purpose.“You know, all of us who raise our right hand and serve, there’s things that define you. First combat tour, first loss of personnel. For me, volunteering for and serving at the Tomb was absolutely both defining and shaping.”

(Full story at the title link)

I don't know the man, nor do I know much about his career other than what I read in his bio; but based on this article, I have the utmost respect for him!

[Lawman]

It doesn't have leaders like MG William Zana...

An Army general’s final ‘walk’ at the Tomb of the Unknowns
MG William Zana, the only guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to reach the rank of general, took a final guard shift on the night he retired.



At exactly 10 p.m. on the warm, last night of May, MG William Zana received his orders and began his final guard shift on the smooth marble stone plaza at the center of Arlington National Cemetery. In two hours it would be midnight, a new day and new month. A new guard would relieve him at his post, he would march off the plaza and suddenly, instantly, be a civilian.
But for the final two hours of his 37-year career, Zana wanted one last chance to stand a shift he had held as a young sergeant: keeping watch over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 
“I was Pvt. Zana when I showed up to the Old Guard,” Zana told Task & Purpose.“You know, all of us who raise our right hand and serve, there’s things that define you. First combat tour, first loss of personnel. For me, volunteering for and serving at the Tomb was absolutely both defining and shaping.”

(Full story at the title link)

I don't know the man, nor do I know much about his career other than what I read in his bio; but based on this article, I have the utmost respect for him!

It’s serious how the members of Old Guard take that duty. I’ve seen several enter the Army warrant community in aviation and they will all tell you their time as a tomb guard was one of the must solemn moments of their lives performing that job.

Bystanders also have no idea who is standing there performing the job because they intentionally don’t wear rank, which permits anybody to include very senior personnel to perform the watch as a Sentinal like the General did.


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[ClearedHot]

Policy by Powerpoint - Slife's master plan eviscerated by reality. 

He always thinks is he is the smartest guy in the room when in fact he is a narcissistic clown penis.

[dream big]

4 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Policy by Powerpoint - Slife's master plan eviscerated by reality. 

He always thinks is he is the smartest guy in the room when in fact he is a narcissistic clown penis.

Don’t speak about the future CSAF like that! 

[HeloDude]

6 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Policy by Powerpoint - Slife's master plan eviscerated by reality. 

He always thinks is he is the smartest guy in the room when in fact he is a narcissistic clown penis.

I can only hope he is also shown the door for supporting all the DEI nonsense.

[08Dawg]

11 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Policy by Powerpoint - Slife's master plan eviscerated by reality. 

He always thinks is he is the smartest guy in the room when in fact he is a narcissistic clown penis.

Anyone with a quarter of a brain could’ve seen AFFORGEN was doomed from the start. Same thing with this A-Staff construct at the wing level. 

[SurelySerious]

Anyone with a quarter of a brain could’ve seen AFFORGEN was doomed from the start. Same thing with this A-Staff construct at the wing level. 

Shocking that you can’t theoretically just pick up a whole wing of the nuclear enterprise and deploy it with no consequences.

[contraildash]

It was a shitshow in AFSOC/HQ with him and Davidson pushing this crap. The best part was bringing up any of the off cycle contingency stuff or MDS’ that didn’t have enough resources to support the construct.


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[08Dawg]

On 12/2/2024 at 10:18 PM, SurelySerious said:

Shocking that you can’t theoretically just pick up a whole wing of the nuclear enterprise and deploy it with no consequences.

Or when every COCOM wants BTFs

[SurelySerious]

Or when every COCOM wants BTFs

You get a BTF, and you get a BTF, and you get a BTF!

If only we had a structure in place to adjudicate global force management and allocation…properly

[yzl337]

On 12/2/2024 at 11:57 PM, contraildash said:

It was a shitshow in AFSOC/HQ with him and Davidson pushing this crap. The best part was bringing up any of the off cycle contingency stuff or MDS’ that didn’t have enough resources to support the construct.


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best part of the day, every day, bringing up that fact in every single forgen discussion. It's fine though, we'll ride this burning train off the cliff, then leadership will look around and ask again "where'd everyone go?"

[AC&W]

2 hours ago, SurelySerious said:

If only we had a structure in place to adjudicate global force management and allocation…properly

The structure is there, the incentive is up for debate.

In a peacetime environment who has the most to benefit in advertising USSTRATCOM assets within the DoD?

Is the leader of an organization with proximity to middle America included in the the answer?

When you can't advertise the other two, the airborne asset is the lead singer, readiness and morale be damned.