Based on all-calls with CNATRA staffers and the previous CNATRA himself, I'm under the impression is they want to make Primary through Advanced more linear than it already is.
I'm also under the impression that USAF (UPT at least) will keep a guy on schedule by flying him on weekends when he gets a day behind, doesn't give CO's as much discretion to approve student leave (I've seen this pendulum swing back and forth depending on the CO wrt to SNA leave), and their XC's they fly every day with no more than 1 night in the same location. Additionally, they were assigned flight leaders (used completely differently than we do in the VTs and HTs) that they almost exclusively fly with and those O-3 types are the ones responsible for keeping them on their timeline and it's their weekends they are giving up. All of this is according to my former squadron mate of mine there, they still miss targeted completion dates... we had an academic discussion trying to dissect what worked and didn't for a Master's class I was taking at the time.
I assume
@HuGgYu2 has better insight as to one IP's perception of one squadron, but it's a data point.
*I only quoted the above, but this is in reply to all the USAF JSUPT discussion...
This was the case, at least in 2007, when I went through VAFB. You spent all fucking day at the squadron until the last third of the program. I lived on base and had an infant, so I found ways to get out of there, just to avoid a blue on pink incident against my AF overlords.
Ridiculous things said were:
“You can’t smoke while in a student status.” (I immediately walked to the gazebo with the MX guys and burned two just to prove a point)
“You can’t take leave while a student.”
My stepmom retired after 31+ years in the Navy and they initially denied my request to take a Thursday to Monday to attend, until the 3-Star AF Officiant sent my flight lead a request for my presence on his letterhead.
“Standup EP’s are important.”
We discovered they weren’t a gradable item for USN so we stopped caring about getting “sat down.” We still tried, but didn’t get wrapped around the axle about their patronizing questions.
The thing they did well, and that we used at VT-3, was you were always ready for your next Sim AND flight, and were expected to be ready to go if called up on standby.
We would hard schedule anyone opted for a flight event into a STBY period (AM or PM) and they checked in with Sharon (FDO executor) and we’re ready to go in place of the inevitable IMSAFE (or if we just didn’t feel like flying with the Saudi kid that day).
They (the Air Force) put the almighty schedule ahead of all, which had results, but at a cost of QOL and maturity level for their JO’s. They got treated like kids, and acted as such.