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Don't know how the PME/staff timeline works on the Navy side, but on the AF side guys generally have the most experience/recency of experience as junior-mid O4s or JOs. Coincidentally, that's also when the flight school commitment is up. When all the go-to IPs/IWSOs get out (seen 50% of the...

Are the gas stations subsidized differently? You'd figure in most states gas would be 40-50 cents cheaper at the NEX w/the lack of taxes.

That is a problem for a lot of WSOs; especially under the old program. Guys would get sick maneuvering in the back of a T-39 during reattacks (while the other studnet was up front). They would then associate airsickness with "fighter stuff" since it was reattacks and go B-1s only to find...

Agree - definitely better than the Randolph schoolhouse nav-wise. The biggest issues (at least from the B-1 side) that we see in students coming out of there are airsense (being able to talk on 2 radios at once, navigate, stay task saturated, etc) and airsickness both of which probably stem from...

Congressional hearings.

Bad gouge. Swimming is one of the lowest priority things to worry about at API. If you can't, they'll teach you till you can.

Exactly. In addition, the specific "fighter pilot shortage" that a lot of the articles mention isn't a shortage of line fighter pilots per se - it's a shortage of IPs and experienced pilots to fill all the other jobs that require that background (Weapons School/COCOM/AOC/UAV/ALO(FAC(A))/etc)...

If you want something nonpermanent/easily expandable, get a piece of poly fleece (like the blankets) of the desired color, etc. Pins right to the wall and the velcro will stick to it. Or wait till you have a staff job and stick them on the fabric walls of your cubicle.

Variable wings increase the complexity of CG management and flight control/stability systems, as well as pilot workload (unless you add yet another system to automatically sweep wings). Plus, it's another major system that can break (asymmetric wing sweep=bad) and requires...

The AF instruction for flight orders, incentive flights, etc: The AF also has another instruction for PTDY/leave which lists 48(!) specific reasons which are the only ones that permissive TDY may be granted for, as well as instructing COs not to use PTDY for situations when an official business...

Question from the AF side... we have AFSAS: http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123306955 which only safety personnel have access to (to enforce privilege) but they can pull any report to share w/those authorized privilege. Does the Navy formally "compartmentalize" the SIRs or is it just an...

Probably dealing with all the noise complaints/encroachment issues/surrounding property owners whose land just doubled in fair market value. The environmental impact statements alone miight kill them; the AF has been trying to expand a MOA (badly needed) that sits in some of the lowest...

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The AF is back to IFS now - a TDY program at Pueblo - since many students had problems adjusting to the regimented nature of AF primary. By creating an IFS with military-style instruction, boldface, standups, formal release, etc. they figured they could weed out the non-adaptable or DORs much...

It seems to be fairly clearly established that only the FAA (and NORTHCOM/NORAD/Customs air/etc in extreme cases) have authority over aviation (federal preemption and all that). Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, obstruction, etc. are all fairly wide offenses that can be...

Some other airports (ORD seems to be relatively consistent for one) may let you use the crew security check line with mil ID as well - not necessarily less screening (vs PreCheck) but shorter lines in general.

He certainly can do either. See CENTCOM GO1 or ask any of the Navy folk going through the Army EST/CST/whatever it's called now before going on an IA and not being able to drink, wear civies, or drive POVs in their time off stateside.

Interesting scientific perspective on the issue: http://www.stripes.com/news/restrictions-on-servicemembers-in-japan-could-create-more-issues-1.199357

Looks like the pedestrian/passenger/driver breathalizing is on the way out of base; at least according to the AF public announcements, the intent is to keep drivers with a BAC>0.03 (the Japanese limit) from leaving; intoxicated pax/pedestrians will be allowed to leave but are only allowed to go...

Total off-base drinking ban now (as well as breathalyzers leaving base): http://www.stripes.com/news/off-base-drinking-ban-imposed-for-okinawa-servicemembers-1.198968. Last call at 2200 for on-base establishments as well.

Both Navy and AF IFS are for screening; Navy is geared more towards the desire/basic aeronautical adaptability as described by most of the people in the thread. Air Force UPT is the more regimented/hazing version of the 2 pilot training programs (see the Vance threads for stories of standups, 12...

Bingo... It's the AF cultural difference more than anything else - the NATOPS "here's the book of everything you can't do" vs. AF "here's a 4 foot stack of pubs with the only stuff you're allowed to do". I'll bet the aircrew would have been fine with helping you out individually, if not for a...

Couple exceptions: B-1s: http://www.dyess.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123272299, B-52s: http://www.barksdale.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123118162 as well as Mining Ops.

Enid asian:

http://www.tyndall.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123254867 http://www.luke.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123253938Basically they get the rebate (60-70k a quarter for those bases); whether they get the rebate depends on if they're meeting delinquency targets (hence pressuring people to pay off the card...

The real reason GTC use is mandated is the rebates the government gets from the card (same thing as your personal card cash back/rewards/etc). For most bases it can be several hundred K a year in no-strings-attached money (i.e, more flatscreens), depending on travel spending and delinquency rates.

Yep, and the director of that lab is Dr. Dove (seriously, google it).

JFTR also says in another section that, unless POV use is authorized on the orders or deemed more advantageous to the govt (mileage cheaper than airfare), you will only get 1 travel day/travel per diem. Had this issue with a couple guys driving to a 2 month long PME course so they would have cars.

Rumor is Navy/CNATRA types are investigating an AF style program. While there are certainly spears to be thrown, the AF program focuses more on the screening aspect to filter out more who don't have the motivation / basic adaptability with a few relatively cheap DA20 hours instead of more...

There are several squadrons that develop CBTs/courseware/audio and video for all the various A schools/technical schools/upgrade training /flight training. May be one of those

+1 to everything on here - also check your state's SCRA equivalent, some give it further coverage w/bigger standard military clauses.

Nothing "official" on it - just the Airman Snuffy eval gets kicked back for revisions with a week suspense before you leave, etc. No one is forcing you to do office work on leave, better time management on your part could have prevented it. No one is "mandating" the leave on weekends - if...

Yep, at least on the AF side. While use or lose should be a personal problem, and most guys don't care if they lose it since they most likely can't take the 60 days they do have, losing leave is tracked and reported at some higher level. People in the unit losing leave then reflects badly on...

Don't y'all have the use or lose problem then (i.e, front office making people take 2 days of leave every weekend so the leave slide shows green again)?

Not even ambulance chasers - congressionals, bad media attention, and the normal TRA vs ORM in the chain.

DUI checkpoints won't give a woman a pass on 5 drinks...

Generally they will punish without regard to the status of civilian courts. Know a number of troops doing the park at gate DUI lot/walk of shame or catch a ride since they're still serving their 1 year on base driving suspension even w/charges dropped.

Also makes longer duration missions easier since you don't have to worry about running out of LOX/leaks etc

If the mechanism is already there then why swear us to it as well? Like a backseater ejecting, if you invoke the Constitutionality rule when not warranted, you'll only get yourself in needless trouble and look stupid. However, everyone develops their own thresholds (radalt showing 150' and...

Don't they take DNA samples for the whole mil anyway for casualty ID? Sent from my DROID Pro using Tapatalk 2

USB mini-GPS receiver? Wifi can probably be disabled by opening the case and clipping/disconnecting the wireless antenna, same for the microphone

Fixed that for you :cool:

Plenty of CAS/orbit time with just enough heavy strike / low level at home to keep things interesting. We have an air-to-air radar now so reattacks are actually relevant for rendezvous. Although given many of the tankers I've seen, Strike Fighter might be more useful :D (uncooperative...

No more reattacks for the Strike pipeline?

WRT the diversity idea, the extent of our "diversity" should be not discriminating in the selection board <either way> based on gender, race, etc. instead of reverse discrimination through affirmative action. The board is not allowed to use it as a discriminating factor due to the equal...

The services do have a responsibility to uphold the Constitution which sets out that no one should be punished for an alleged offense without conviction by civil or military justice (due process).

What if BUPERS had data showing that people from <insert town/zipcode here> were statistically more likely to become criminals?

The base command chief here (AF) was out with the gate cops one Friday night watching their 100% DUI check for a few hours. During a lull he decided to try the field test. After having been at work 18 hours he failed it stone cold sober. On the acceptable losses front, there's a huge difference...

YGBSM! Aren't MOS/other badges required to be worn by uniform regs (other than when sanitized, etc)?

Just to clarify, those are the AIB (Air Force version of the JAGMAN); they are not allowed to consider aircrew statements given under privilege or other privileged evidence. SIBs are not releasable outside the target AF audience. I will agree, though that the AF is good at sharing those w/in the...