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I've got 3 senior airmen in my shop, and only the newest one made staff. I'm sure this won't be awkward at all.
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Aug 19, 2021 20:50
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Fully expect some Early Separation stuff to come around.
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Do we have numbers on how much retention rose during the last year? We're due for the classic AFPC overcorrection.
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Five of the guys in my section made it (out of 7 eligible), so we're going to have a great Friday afternoon when the SSgt results are announced.
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Aug 20, 2021 00:17
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thread is a lot less active than i remember it.
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lite_sleepr posted:thread is a lot less active than i remember it. A lot of GiP USAF members left service this year and last, IIRC we have like two active duty members left.
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I have migrated to r/airforce for any chat because this one is so dead.
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Are you in their discord? It is exactly how I would imagine the /r/airforce discord would be.
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lite_sleepr posted:Are you in their discord? Nope, I’m too busy for any public discords. They take too much time to stay current.
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I just treat them like a chat room, not an RSS feed.
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r/airforce was alright for a while, but it's just overrun with memes at this point Also once everyone gets out and is away from the air force for so long it's kinda like whatever. I have no input on anything current, but I'll tell anyone and everyone signing up to throw pmel on their job list cause it's so loving cake both inside and outside the air force
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djfooboo posted:I have migrated to r/airforce for any chat because this one is so dead. Hotel Kpro posted:r/airforce was alright for a while, but it's just overrun with memes at this point
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I'm DD214'd now and I'm glad I got out just in time to avoid having to deal with the COVID vaccine debacle. There's a staggering number of troops and milspouses who are all of a sudden experts on FDA approval and military law and telling my friends that they're all losing their commissions for giving unlawful orders now. The Amn/NCO/SNCO group page on Facebook is going to be a hot mess for a month.
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CommieGIR posted:A lot of GiP USAF members left service this year and last, IIRC we have like two active duty members left. One of them is me. I have one more year left. Adjustment disorder is... a thing.
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PageMaster posted:I'm DD214'd now and I'm glad I got out just in time to avoid having to deal with the COVID vaccine debacle. There's a staggering number of troops and milspouses who are all of a sudden experts on FDA approval and military law and telling my friends that they're all losing their commissions for giving unlawful orders now. The Amn/NCO/SNCO group page on Facebook is going to be a hot mess for a month. For fucks sake, the anthrax and smallpox vaccinations were unnecessary and would gently caress one up for a day, yet hardly anyone complained about them whereas the COVID one is an actual good thing. This timeline is the stupidest one
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Jimmy Smuts posted:Supposedly some bases are conducting mass vaccinations, and have JAGs, docs, and chaplains there to immediately handle folks who don't want to vaccinate. Yeah when the anthrax vaccine came out, it was mandatory but they made it clear it was experimental, its insane these people have any complaints other than politically fueled ones about the COVID one.
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Just had my final out appt. Now to hang out until 1 Jan and I'm officially retired! Feels good.
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BULLETKISS posted:Just had my final out appt. Now to hang out until 1 Jan and I'm officially retired! Congrats!
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BULLETKISS posted:Just had my final out appt. Now to hang out until 1 Jan and I'm officially retired! I must admit I did get a bit stir crazy on my 93 days of terminal.
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What a way to make rank
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lite_sleepr posted:What a way to make rank Nice
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lite_sleepr posted:What a way to make rank Nice
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lite_sleepr posted:What a way to make rank
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Off to the boneyard you go https://twitter.com/TheDEWLine/status/1443215743710081026?s=20
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2000 and 4000 mean those birds will never fly again.
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The amount of money saved retiring each of those bones is ridiculous.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:The amount of money saved retiring each of those bones is ridiculous. I love stats, how much money did we save? I know they are mx nightmares.
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Godholio posted:2000 and 4000 mean those birds will never fly again. quote:Excess of DoD needs (Type 4000) – Aircraft are sold off whole or in parts Two words. Goon project.
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Sep 30, 2021 01:58
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Let's buy two, one for the island, one for the aircraft carrier.
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I'd rather have a B-52 We'll call it Rock Lobster.
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djfooboo posted:I love stats, how much money did we save? I know they are mx nightmares. Millions. We saved millions. I don’t know how many but it’s in the millions. Those planes are expensive as gently caress to fly and even more expensive to maintain.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Millions. We saved millions. I don’t know how many but it’s in the millions. Those planes are expensive as gently caress to fly and even more expensive to maintain. https://youtu.be/ZcZ8G3oxtUY
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Man, when you think about the amount of money, use, and stress we've put on countless airframes in Afghanistan, and all the forced airframe retirements, it might end up being one of the worst strategic blunders in military history. Like, up there with Napoleon invading Russia or the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor.
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Rekinom posted:Man, when you think about the amount of money, use, and stress we've put on countless airframes in Afghanistan, and all the forced airframe retirements, it might end up being one of the worst strategic blunders in military history. You make it sound like all those airframes weren't already decades old.
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The B-52 and Tu-95 will be the last flying things on Earth when the end comes, guarantee it.
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McNally posted:You make it sound like all those airframes weren't already decades old. B-52s were already decades old, but for our remaining fleet of B-52Hs most of their flight hours has been post 9/11. Until ~1980 Gs and Hs got left home or on the alert pad and hardly flew. The Ds and Es were the mainstay through Vietnam. After 1980 they were retired and the Gs started getting used more while the Hs still got left at home. The Gs got chopped by the lated 1990s as part of the Peace Dividend and arms treaties. Now that they are the only thing left, the H's are really getting used. At forever war usage rates they won't last another 50 years. A lot of wear is based on use and not time since manufacture. Xenoborg fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Whatever happened to Slippery? Did he ghost after he was made as a SQ/CC?
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lite_sleepr posted:Whatever happened to Slippery? Did he ghost after he was made as a SQ/CC? He posts in GBS still. I try to get him to come to GiP but he never does.
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lite_sleepr posted:Whatever happened to Slippery? Did he ghost after he was made as a SQ/CC? Basically, but he pops by every year or two. In addition to the B-52s, the A-10s are going through their second round of wing replacements. The B-1s were teetering on the brink of uselessness 15 years ago, now the AF can't retire them fast enough (so most of them can be stripped for parts). The E-8s are approaching the end of their useful lives so quickly that the AF is going to junk them without even a good idea of what the replacement will be (I suspect the E-3's timeline is slightly better, but not far behind). We actually would've overflown the C-17 if Congress hadn't ordered more jets than the AF wanted. It's not just age, it's hours; in some cases it's how hard those hours were.
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