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On 9/8/2023 at 4:42 PM, Lord Ratner said:

It may suck to be a warrior in a time when warriors are not needed, but it sucks more to be a warrior in an organization that is openly hostile to warriors.  

That's a quotable quote. 👍

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Just as I would never trivialize the sacrifices or challenges our airmen faced in Vietnam or WWII, I would expect our officers to not trivialize the sacrifices and challenges our military has faced si

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I'm deployed and busy. I still check the forum to see what's new. I'm tired of reading posts from whiners who continue to bitch and moan about not being required to get an AAD until Col. Drama quee

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The irony is the products of IDE do not in general meet CQ’s stated requirements in the article. Talk to 99% of staff, they have no fucking clue. The 1% can’t overcome the bureaucratic inertia of the clueless. 

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I laughed a bit at the “top 60% of the top third” line. Admittedly I’m a product of public school and OTS but my math equates that to about the top 20% of total. Which I thought was where we were at already…

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2 hours ago, Danger41 said:

I laughed a bit at the “top 60% of the top third” line. Admittedly I’m a product of public school and OTS but my math equates that to about the top 20% of total. Which I thought was where we were at already…

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On 9/8/2023 at 2:50 PM, Danger41 said:

This came out a few years ago and then there were 3 subsequent article written by a black ENJJPT grad that claims he was targeted for wanting to fly heavies and being black (https://www.airforcetimes.com/opinion/commentary/2020/07/12/the-consequences-of-implicit-bias-at-euro-nato-pilot-training/).

https://www.drnathandial.com/
 

^Author’s personal page. Looks like he’s done very well.

I don’t think there will be any more “white people bad” meetings in the near term as a result of this video.

I aways wondered what became of ol’ Nate. At the time, I never pictured he’d go back and blame the system. When we sent him off to EC-130s, we figured a crew plane was the way to go. I think its hard to blame the system when you really struggled with the T-38 by yourself in the front seat. 
 

Honestly, I was really mad to read an article like that. I flew with a lot of students. None tried to kill me like the way this kid almost did. Sure, blame the system I guess.  I’m glad he did well in an airplane that goes a fraction of the speed of that trainer. 
 

If that story about the check pilot is even remotely true, god help us. If I knew at the time I would have filled an IG complaint myself, against him.  A few black students came through while I was there. Some did great. Some, not so much. The one kid we did (try) to washout was a different kid (read white kid). I think he was recycled to preds or something. Nate was just going through the prog check system like a few kids do. I guess he’ll never see it that way. 
 

Now I’m a racist as well as an ahole. 

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10 hours ago, Danger41 said:

I laughed a bit at the “top 60% of the top third” line. Admittedly I’m a product of public school and OTS but my math equates that to about the top 20% of total. Which I thought was where we were at already…

I thought the point was that the upper, upper echelon got to go to sister service schools for that sweet "joint" experience. Now they want to push those guys back into Air Force schools. 

I have a feeling it's just going to result in more declinations until the bottom 50% are the ones at Maxwell. 

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4 hours ago, pawnman said:

I thought the point was that the upper, upper echelon got to go to sister service schools for that sweet "joint" experience. Now they want to push those guys back into Air Force schools. 

I have a feeling it's just going to result in more declinations until the bottom 50% are the ones at Maxwell. 

Probably what they're trying to avoid. I always thought that was a bait and switch where you can go to DARPA or the Willy Wonka factory or whatever else for IDE but still had to do ACSC online to get IDE credit. 

I hope they still have guys go to the sister service schools so they can come back and act all superior and speak some filthy Pig Latin about "METT-TC", "MDMP", and "it's not gay if it's underway" and the like.

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“MDMP sir? you mean the process that facilitates analysis by paralysis and drowns out critical and adaptive thinking? Yeah sounds great, let’s do that.” Yay PME!

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19 hours ago, GettinReady said:

I aways wondered what became of ol’ Nate. At the time, I never pictured he’d go back and blame the system. When we sent him off to EC-130s, we figured a crew plane was the way to go. I think its hard to blame the system when you really struggled with the T-38 by yourself in the front seat. 
 

Honestly, I was really mad to read an article like that. I flew with a lot of students. None tried to kill me like the way this kid almost did. Sure, blame the system I guess.  I’m glad he did well in an airplane that goes a fraction of the speed of that trainer. 
 

If that story about the check pilot is even remotely true, god help us. If I knew at the time I would have filled an IG complaint myself, against him.  A few black students came through while I was there. Some did great. Some, not so much. The one kid we did (try) to washout was a different kid (read white kid). I think he was recycled to preds or something. Nate was just going through the prog check system like a few kids do. I guess he’ll never see it that way. 
 

Now I’m a racist as well as an ahole. 

Oh Nate, he landed a USAFA glider off the airfield, well off the airfield back at the Zoo. Flying has never been his forte, politicking and brown nosing, very much so. 

He got ENJJPT because of his GPA, you know because a good GPA correlates to flying fighters or something..

He’s going places though, he has taken full advantage of the intangible opportunities presented to him. Plays the race card like no other. 

HuggyU2 Gray Beard

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That dude looks like he needs to cut back on the jelly donuts. 

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8 hours ago, dream big said:

Flying has never been his forte, politicking and brown nosing, very much so. 

These make good generals lol.  

15 minutes ago, HuggyU2 said:

That dude looks like he needs to cut back on the jelly donuts. 

Id like to see him do a sit up lol.  Not in a sexual way but for comedy lol.  

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I still remember (then) Colonel B, the high-calorie human pictured above, coming to an undisclosed location where I was deployed with a retinue of minions. In our TOC there was a plywood box room intel normally used that had our high-side computers.

He commandeered the room for the duration of his stay (sorry intel bubbas!) and one of his lackies put a sign on the door saying, "Do Not Touch Col. B's Giant Computer!"

We all were ROTFL because yea, I mean he's a real big guy, maybe he does need a "giant" computer 😆

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11 hours ago, dream big said:

Oh Nate, he landed a USAFA glider off the airfield, well off the airfield back at the Zoo. Flying has never been his forte, politicking and brown nosing, very much so. 

He got ENJJPT because of his GPA, you know because a good GPA correlates to flying fighters or something..

He’s going places though, he has taken full advantage of the intangible opportunities presented to him. Plays the race card like no other. 

Dude's Linkedin is a gem. First five years of his Air Force career is simply listed as "Various Training, Internships, and Educational Experiences." I guess that's one way to put it. 

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4 hours ago, kaputt said:

Dude's Linkedin is a gem. First five years of his Air Force career is simply listed as "Various Training, Internships, and Educational Experiences." I guess that's one way to put it. 

He yadda yadda yadda'd the best part of your career! Well, at least one of the best parts of my career maybe...

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I love how that guy gets a paid 3 year stint to get a PhD under the CSAF program only to be dropped back into a random ops squadron to be an ADO 😂

Making real good use of all that schooling there bud! Hell, it don’t take a PhD to do that job, ask me how I know…

I’m sure it’s to groom him to take command and become a general one day blah blah blah but like, why do we have these intensive education programs only to give the guy literally the exact same assignment as any random center-of-mass FGO can/will get at some point?

Seems like kind of a waste of time & money to me. Do we sent guys to TPS with an immediate follow on assignment handing out gym towels at the Deid?

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Calls himself a doctor with a bunch of worthless poli sci degrees under his belt, and flightsuit zipper damn near at top of nametag - tells me all I need to know about this guy…

 

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48 minutes ago, nsplayr said:

 

Seems like kind of a waste of time & money to me. Do we sent guys to TPS with an immediate follow on assignment handing out gym towels at the Deid?

No shit there I was at Nellis (WIC IP) about to graduate a WIC class when I start getting calls from folks up the chain of one of our students wanting to interview a student to be a wing exec. I told them no and that his focus was WIC until he was done and highlighted the 11-415 requirements for new WO’s. Kept getting leaned on until the O-6 had me on the phone telling me that he was going to interview the guy and that I was going to set up a VTC to do it. Refused, ran it up my chain, food fight ensued and then didn’t hear anything else until the day before graduation I find out the Wing CC went around everyone and got a VTC set up to interview the guy. A week after WIC grad he started as a wing exec. I personally know of 4 different guys that did this. So damn disheartening and frustrating but some people just don’t view anything beyond what it can do for their resume.

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