What's wrong with the Air Force?

[Champ Kind]

Aaaaaand..?

[di1630]

Heard Faips were F-ing students......truth? Same as always, only they got caught apparantly.

[LookieRookie]

Heard Faips were F-ing students......truth? Same as always, only they got caught apparantly.

Rumor mill is this goes much beyond FAIPs at Laughlin

[Azimuth]

Happens at the FTU as well.

[Guest ThatGuy]

Is this going to be the same propensity as Lackland Gate?

[SocialD]

So is that better or worse than banging enlisted chicks?

[discus]

So is that better or worse than banging enlisted chicks?

"The sport of kings"

[Vetter]

How this came up is a good question, but another question worth asking is why 5 dudes with career-enhancing DG accolades decide to get out of the AF? Of course this question is rhetorical since this thread explains a lot of it, but it is a question the AF should be asking but probably doesn't recognize the significance of it yet.

It didn't come up. We were too drunk and happy to be there. I was being sarcastic. No one...let me repeat, NO ONE...gives a shit about DG.

Now, FAIPgate...pics or it didn't happen.

Edited August 20, 2014 by Vetter

[BitteEinBit]

Now, FAIPgate...pics or it didn't happen.

I like the way you think.

Is this going to have a negative impact on this year's FAIPAPALOOZA?

[PlanePhlyer]

I like the way you think.

Is this going to have a negative impact on this year's FAIPAPALOOZA?

What FAIPAPALOOZA?

[matmacwc]

What FAIPAPALOOZA?

It's where they think their opinions matter.

Now back to the shenanigans.

[BitteEinBit]

It's where they think their opinions matter.

Now back to the shenanigans.

Oh, I didn't think they actually talked about anything...I thought it was just a weekend of debauchery, booze, and banging random chicks. FAIPS actually talk shop at those things?! Ok, forget I asked about it...

[LookieRookie]

I like the way you think.

Is this going to have a negative impact on this year's FAIPAPALOOZA?

There hasn't been one of those since 08ish IIRC.

[AlphaMikeFoxtrot]

There hasn't been one of those since 08ish IIRC.

It was planned to return, but that quickly got turned off with the current BS.

[di1630]

Can someone give some accurate details on the shenanigans? I'm not asking for names, just pictures of the chicks, types of booze and how many FAIPs ended up in AWACs. Emphasis on the photos.

[Guest ThatGuy]

Can someone give some accurate details on the shenanigans? I'm not asking for names, just pictures of the chicks, types of booze and how many FAIPs ended up in AWACs. Emphasis on the photos.

I think "it" got C-17s to Hawaii. Type of booze was the everlasting Soju.

Edited August 22, 2014 by slick999

[FUSEPLUG]

Can someone give some accurate details on the shenanigans? I'm not asking for names, just pictures of the chicks, types of booze and how many FAIPs ended up in AWACs. Emphasis on the photos.

From what I've heard, it sounds like the DLF Wg/CC has it out for FAIPs after some adultery crap at his base involving a non-FAIP(?). Meanwhile, the rest of the AETC Sq/CC's are being called to San Antonio to discuss the instructor/student relationship situation with the new boss.

Now that we are out of Iraq (kinda) and soon out of Afghanistan (maybe), I truly think the Air Force has nothing better on which to focus. Once again, the whole shitting of pants/diapers thing is in effect. Perhaps someone at Laughlin could chime in...

[17D_guy]

Got this from a buddy @ Sheppard AFB today -

"So, while doing my orders in DTS for this course at Shepard, I found that they now only allow you to travel the day before class if overseas. They used to allow two days of travel so that one could adjust to the jet lag somewhat. When inquiring as to the reasoning behind such a massive FU, I was told that "AETC is in a financial crunch, and has to make cuts on travel orders".

Yesterday I found out why. Whilst walking into the building in my beloved Blues, I found a civilian standing at the door with a clipboard. Looking around, I found a civilian at EVERY door with a clipboard. Turns out, they've hired something like 40 civilians to stand outside of every building each Monday and take down the names of anyone not in Blues. This report then goes to the General... Stellar job AETC, stellar job."

[SuperWSO]

That's easy to have fun with. Borrow a few name tags before you leave home. Step 2: visit every building on base in flight suit but keep changing name tags. Make sure your SQ/CC is represented too. Pro-tip: don't do it at a base when you are the only guy there from your squadron. Plausible deniability gets lost that way.

[17D_guy]

We're not zipper suited sun gods. Our only movable name tags are on blues.

[ARIs 'R' Us]

We're not zipper suited sun gods. Our only movable name tags are on blues.

My name tag/wings are on Velcro...I must be special.

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That's easy to have fun with. Borrow a few name tags before you leave home. Step 2: visit every building on base in flight suit but keep changing name tags. Make sure your SQ/CC is represented too. Pro-tip: don't do it at a base when you are the only guy there from your squadron. Plausible deniability gets lost that way.

I remember the day at SOS where they made a last second change to the schedule that resulted in our flight being the only flight in FDU/ABUs in Polifka. Several processes were implemented immediately to prevent such an atrocity from ever occurring again.

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Edit to add: I don't read good.

Edited September 10, 2014 by ARIs 'R' Us

[17D_guy]

My name tag/wings are on Velcro...I must be special.

Can confirm.

[AnimalMother]

"Guys, the Chief of Staff won't be around much longer, get your master's degrees done. You don't want to be caught off guard when they change it back." Just a FYI stake in the ground from my sq/cc at our commanders call the other day--in case anyone is looking for a benchmark at how well the CoS' changes are being received down here at the sq level. Anyone else seeing similar?

[SurelySerious]

"Guys, the Chief of Staff won't be around much longer, get your master's degrees done. You don't want to be caught off guard when they change it back." Just a FYI stake in the ground from my sq/cc at our commanders call the other day--in case anyone is looking for a benchmark at how well the CoS' changes are being received down here at the sq level. Anyone else seeing similar?

Effing bureaucracy. Maybe Welsh is too nice (apart from his tour being nearly complete). Sometimes, you might need a person both revered and feared.

[StoleIt]

Effing bureaucracy. Maybe Welsh is too nice (apart from his tour being nearly complete). Sometimes, you might need a person both revered and feared.

A good read. This caught my eye:

If you are always on the hunt for complacency, argues Mattis, you will reward risk-takers, and people who thrive in uncertainty. "Take the mavericks in your service," he tells new officers, "the ones that wear rumpled uniforms and look like a bag of mud but whose ideas are so offsetting that they actually upset the people in the bureaucracy. One of your primary jobs is to take the risk and protect these people, because if they are not nurtured in your service, the enemy will bring their contrary ideas to you."