What's wrong with the Air Force?

[Standby]

36 minutes ago, Boomer6 said:

Still shocked the DoD allows combatants to maintain social media accounts.

“We” only censor sitting presidents and scientists/doctors that speak out against the erosion of civil liberties. 

[pbar]

1 hour ago, Lawman said:

We had a cyber war guy brief a theory paper on “non kinetic disruptive attrition.”

Essentially, you don’t even have to kill us to hurt our combat capability. Anybody above the rank of major just have those warehouses full of hackers and bots start running up credit cards in their name, issue police reports or swat people, start emailing their wife the “it’s his baby and I want my money” or nudes from some girl in whatever city your last TDY was… that type stuff… basically everything you see when the hacker wrecks the life of somebody in a movie.

Do that simultaneously to all the leadership out there, then while that’s going on do something akin to Russia when they went into Crimea. With the amount of information the government already handed them through our own stupidity plus the amount of social media we already put out on ourselves, it wouldn’t be hard to severely hobble the command channels with issues that result in delayed action. For those of us that remember the Ashley Madison hack and the shit show that ensued when peoples wives started googling names… now do it with the benefit of AI.


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Probably won't be beyond the realm of possible to scrape the internet to find pictures of military kids and use AI to create a fake image of them in front of their school or at little league practice and text those to military parents with a warning.  Or imagine you're a FO/GO and you get a text that if you participate in ops against China all of your bank and retirements have been hacked and it will all disappear.  I'm sure they would do their duty but what a mindf$@ck.  The possibilities for troublemaking are endless and it would work far better against us than against our adversaries...

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[di1630]

Anyone know where I can get my favorite communist Cuban or Venezuelan colors to fly on base today?


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[Biff_T]

1 hour ago, di1630 said:

Anyone know where I can get my favorite communist Cuban or Venezuelan colors to fly on base today?


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Can the participants just wear a CA shirt?   There are more Hispanics than any other race in the Golden State.  

Edit:  I find humor with the Hispanic heritage 5k run/walk.  Think about it.  Lol

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[dream big]

2 hours ago, di1630 said:

Anyone know where I can get my favorite communist Cuban or Venezuelan colors to fly on base today?


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They even have their own org box, cute…I’ll take most useless jobs in the Air Force for $500 Alex. 

[Swizzle]

2 hours ago, di1630 said:

Anyone know where I can get my favorite communist Cuban or Venezuelan colors to fly on base today?


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Speaking of races (pun?)

 

Its all relative and normal...

[di1630]

They even have their own org box, cute…I’ll take most useless jobs in the Air Force for $500 Alex. 

Org box?!! They have a large office and full staff.


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[TonyLostHisGun]

 

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[LookieRookie]

1 hour ago, TonyLostHisGun said:

 

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Did he have to actually take a test recently?

[ClearedHot]

4 hours ago, TonyLostHisGun said:

 

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Epic!

[Sua Sponte]

Saw this dude on the tanker meme IG.

[StoleIt]

58 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:

Saw this dude on the tanker meme IG.

I'm confused. What is going on here besides some AETC dude wearing a bag to something he probably should be in blues for?

[brwwg&b]

51 minutes ago, StoleIt said:

I'm confused. What is going on here besides some AETC dude wearing a bag to something he probably should be in blues for?

RUMINT: He went on leave and spoke to press and supposedly the president of Kosovo - in uniform, without any oversight or pre-planning/official coordination.

[StoleIt]

5 minutes ago, brwwg&b said:

RUMINT: He went on leave and spoke to press and supposedly the president of Kosovo - in uniform, without any oversight or pre-planning/official coordination.

Confirmed (thanks Google reverse image search!): https://atlantiku.com/albanian-american/first-albanian-usaf-pilot-edmond-smajli-makes-a-memorable-visit-to-kosovo/2023/10/14/

Wow, that idiot deserves to get crushed.

[pawnman]

4 hours ago, Sua Sponte said:

Saw this dude on the tanker meme IG.

Can't blame him for shooting his shot. Hope he didn't say anything too embarrassing while he was there. 

[HeloDude]

I doubt anything negative will happen to him.

[dream big]

4 hours ago, HeloDude said:

I doubt anything negative will happen to him.

If he was black or female he would probably be safe. He looks too privileged to not come out of this with some scratches. 

[M2]

6 hours ago, dream big said:

If he was black or female he would probably be safe. He looks too privileged to not come out of this with some scratches. 

He should immediately identify as female, better yet a black female, making this a lesbian encounter!

No one would touch that with a ten foot pole!

[HeyEng]

C.W. Lemoine breaks down the “Air Force Era of Transformation” on his podcast.

 

 

[Clark Griswold]

C.W. Lemoine breaks down the “Air Force Era of Transformation” on his podcast.
 
 

Decent discussion
I think it (however you define the problem) is as Thomas Sowell said there are no solutions only trade offs
If we institute a WO or flying only career track does that start to turn the AF into a subordinate service maybe not in name but reality, if we compare officers only to officers from the same career fields does that inevitably block some career fields from Col / GO slots, if we allow for promotion deferment do we set ourselves up for an unbalanced officer cadre?
My two cents, experimenting with the above and other policy changes is probably worth the risk at this point


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[gearhog]

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This test launch is part of routine and periodic activities intended to demonstrate that the United States’ nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable and effective to deter twenty-first century threats and reassure our allies. Such tests have occurred over 300 times before, and this test is not the result of current world events.

“A test launch displays the heart of our deterrence mission on the world’s stage, assuring our nation and its allies that our weapons are capable and our Airmen are ready and willing to defend peace across the globe at a moment's notice”

 

We got vital data before terminating the test for an unexpected anomaly! Great success!

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[HuggyU2]

On 10/30/2023 at 12:02 PM, brwwg&b said:

RUMINT: He went on leave and spoke to press and supposedly the president of Kosovo - in uniform, without any oversight or pre-planning/official coordination.

The stories about this guy coming out of Laughlin are... incredible. 

I look forward to hearing about his upcoming FTU training.  

[08Dawg]

3 minutes ago, HuggyU2 said:

The stories about this guy coming out of Laughlin are... incredible. 

I look forward to hearing about his upcoming FTU training.  

Well??  Inquiring minds want to know!

[pawnman]

15 minutes ago, 08Dawg said:

Well??  Inquiring minds want to know!

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Don't leave us hanging. 

[HuggyU2]

I'm sure there are plenty of folks here with first hand knowledge of his exploits.