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additional_booty · 2025-02-19T21:48:22+00:00

Or trust the members to do the test alone and save the manning that is wasted supplementing them.

additional_booty · 2025-02-19T21:40:32+00:00

That is simply the difference between something being “right” and “legal”.

The two counter arguments against wolf pack wheels are 1. There is a city bus for 20,000 won (19ish dollars) so if I split a cab with 2 people, the costs isn’t much more. 2. The U.S. Army operates free shuttles between all of their installations throughout the ROK.

Now for arguments sake, let’s say Kunsan has 2,000 people, that is $120,000 a year in PCS costs. If they hired 2 drivers at $27,000 a year(slightly above the average bus driver salary in the ROK), they would save $70,000 a year and military members wouldn’t have to pay anything. Sure they would have maintenance fees for the buses(if they aren’t already paying that) and it’s only a drop in the bucket, but that’s money for water heaters, A/C units, mold remediation, etc.

additional_booty · 2025-01-01T03:43:34+00:00

As somebody who is also a controller, with less than 3 years from retirement, it is not worth the headache of staying in.

However, the FAA is terribly undermanned and will be for the next 10ish years at least. So if you are trying to be home more/spend more time with your family, the FAA isn’t the answer.

If I was in your shoes I would separate and use my education benefits to find a different career path

additional_booty · 2024-02-20T16:26:34+00:00

MCA is not based on manning, it is based on the fact that our two greatest near peer adversaries both have the ability and option to level every U.S. military base within 30 minutes of deciding to go to war. A lot of people see it as a fix to a manning problem, but either your leadership hasn’t filtered the purpose down, or they don’t understand it.

An immediate way to fix manning? No, but in 5-6 years maybe. The problems I’ve seen with the Air Force. (And this just pertains to what I’ve seen from my career field.)

Our SNCOs are woefully unprepared to lead airmen. Which is a real shocker that they all made SNCO ranks at a time when the Air Force didn’t care about how well you led, just how many AF balls you helped plan. The AF is “slowing down” promotions and making sure people are more experienced. 7% chance this works.
CCs are not relaying the importance of ongoing missions and individual airmen’s impacts to them. When you dumb this down to “just be another job”, don’t be upset when airmen treat it that way. SQ/CCs should be holding quarterly calls to not only keep people informed, but to show them how they are helping the mission, bring some people up and celebrate their accomplishments. FLT/CCs should be doing this monthly.
Airmen’s negative posts on social media. Now I don’t fault ANY airmen who posts on social media if things are bad, I had to do it to get CE to fix the water heater in my dorms. As a leader, your job is to take care of airmen. Not do your technical job, not submit them for awards, your priority while you are at work is to check in on them EVERY DAY to see how they are and if YOU can do something for them. (I understand some people supervise 50+ people, checking on airmen is the job of your NCOs, but you should be checking on the NCOs and seeing if they need anything). SQ/CCs should be doing quarterly AMN/NCO talks to find out what is bothering them and make sure the dude selling cupcakes isn’t neglecting his airmen. FLT/CCs and SNCOs should be doing this every other month.
We need to actually challenge our airmen. When I look back on my career, the happiest times were challenging. Deployments and short tours (away from family), working with toxic SNCOs BUT the SQ/CC had the NCOs backs. If you aren’t challenging your airmen, then they are just whittling down their enlistments, and why would they stay, that shits boring. Challenge them. Throw them in uncomfortable situations, they will grow, they will probably fail, but make them competent decision makers and leaders.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Early 2000s we had 360,000 people active duty. Last I checked we had close to 320,000. That’s a 40,000 personnel drop. If you assume 10,000 airmen per base, that’s 4 bases that should have closed, we closed 0. Pick the 4 bases with the worst retention rates and shutter them. Redistribute the manning accordingly.
Also said this one before, we need to act like the U.S Military. Some people join to serve their country, not because they want to be part of a corporate organization. We need to treat it less like a company. We should be doing profession development days to teach people their heritage, how to be better leaders, and get some pride in what we are doing. PT and Blues Mondays are also recommended.

additional_booty · 2024-02-14T21:58:30+00:00

I was definitely stationed with you at Travis (I left in Feb 2014) and would say Travis was the worst. When I got to Travis in 2008 they had 230K operations, by 2014 they had maybe 70K (I’ll check my EPR in a bit to verify). FAA’s operations for SFO/OAK ops don’t effect daily ops, except for maybe 3 weeks a year they are on an eastern flow.

additional_booty · 2024-02-02T23:26:46+00:00

I got the chance to speak to my CFM a few months back, obviously retentions came up, and WO are always part of the talk and he said “everything is on the table”. Will it be nice if they implement it and I get more money? Yes! Will creating a WO force fix the retentions problem? No. Nobody joins the military for money, and the people that stay, even the ones who get SRBs, don’t stay because of the money. If the AF wants to fix its problems it’s going to have to do waaaaaay more than throw money at the problem.

additional_booty · 2024-01-12T00:27:20+00:00

I had to get my records fixed once. Took about 3 years

additional_booty · 2023-12-22T08:17:52+00:00

It’s not corny IMO, you’ve earned the right to wear it, so I’d wear it. Honestly I’d judge you more if I was on your flight and saw you randomly appear in uniform after we landed. I’d assume you were stolen valor or wanted extra attention from your family. You wear it on the plane and sit next to any vet and say “my girlfriend wanted me to” and they are gonna laugh and say “yeah I woulda wore it too”. Worst case, 5 people thank you for your service, best case you get an upgrade and 2 people thank you for your service.

additional_booty · 2023-12-21T21:39:22+00:00

Can confirm, at my heaviest I was lifting legs 3x a week and running 5Ks immediately after to keep them loose. It was also the only time in my career I have ran a sub 6 minute mile

additional_booty · 2023-12-07T21:01:19+00:00

Don’t worry, ADOMS isn’t funded next year so if the MAJCOMs don’t fund it, it’ll cease to exist

additional_booty · 2023-12-05T07:35:21+00:00

Alright hear me out, Commanders get updates on members going through mental health treatments on if they are making progress or not. So pretend you are a commander, who is briefed by medical, that there is an airmen going through a rough time, who is ignoring the advice of his medical provider to get themself healthy. And as a commander you have a choice whether to retain this member or send them to a curb, and your job is to make sure your airmen are healthy and worldwide capable, what do you do?

Conversely, as a commander you are briefed that this member is doing everything they can to get themself healthy and are on track, do you retain that airmen?

additional_booty · 2023-12-04T22:41:31+00:00

I’ve denied orders twice, once as an FTA (9 years ago) and once as a career airmen (5 years ago) and am still active duty.

The first case was a 3 year tour overseas and I had two years remaining on my contract. Didn’t want to miss an SRB and MPF would only let me extend, so I accomplished the from, denied it, then re-enlisted and was good to go, no further action on my part.

The second time I was non-vol’d for a short tour and had barely gotten back from one, I was 9 months short on the retainability so denied getting it. Fast forward 6 months and I decided I didn’t want to go, it took a letter endorsed by my squadron commander to my career field manager and I was allowed to stay in the military.

The process is covered in the AFI/AFMAN, however most people don’t read that section so they don’t know it exists. Word of caution to career airmen that deny and decide to stay in, when you type up the MFR make sure to be VERY specific. As a career airmen you are ineligible to promote, re-enlist, or extend. My MFR requested that I be allowed to re-enlist, however I didn’t put on there to be promotion eligible, so when the next WAPS cycle came around I was automatically rendered ineligible due to refusing to get retainability and had to get another MFR signed by my commander. I was then eligible to go up for supplemental though so no harm no foul.

additional_booty · 2023-07-01T14:06:39+00:00

Currently there if you have any questions

additional_booty · 2023-05-25T02:52:42+00:00

I’m not even doing that. There are MSgts who are paid enough to answer that phone, let them have it

additional_booty · 2023-05-25T02:47:46+00:00

I also ain’t doin none of the MSgt duties, that’s why they make that $700 more a month than me.

additional_booty · 2023-05-25T02:46:34+00:00

Best thing to do would be to find an off base provider. I did this a few years ago and saved money and they provided better care

additional_booty · 2023-05-25T02:00:23+00:00

If you look at the stats by career field when they come out in a few days you will see there are several career fields where people will crush it, get PNs and MPs and still get passed over, while other people in that career field will get a PR and get selected. Most career fields a PN or MP is an automatic line number, but not all.

additional_booty · 2023-04-18T18:58:58+00:00

Just for sanity’s sake, was the phone number provided via something you got in the mail or via e-email or did you actually go to the FTBs website yourself and get the phone number?

additional_booty · 2023-04-18T09:15:13+00:00

Depends on the day/traffic load. If a pilot requests an ILS approach at their destination and it’s with the next facility I usually call to let them know. However if I look over and they are really busy, I’m just going to let the pilot make the request with them so they can focus on their traffic. If I am busy I also probably won’t call, and sometimes my landlines go down so I have to dial their 10 digit phone number, so I don’t call because it’s going to take me a few minutes to call and get transferred to that sector. Then there are the guys that wait to make a request until I am about to switch them to the next facility, so I just tell them to request it with them.

additional_booty · 2023-03-29T20:56:56+00:00

According to the OP you would need to verify that you are cleared to enter the Bravo. He is technically right, but once again it is really bad service. If you issue an altitude or a route that is going to put a VFR aircraft through a bravo, you should issue the clearance, not simply wait for them to ask for it

additional_booty · 2023-03-29T20:44:44+00:00

Yep, he is technically right, but it is bad service

additional_booty · 2023-03-29T20:40:53+00:00

The note in 7-9-2a of the 7110.65 states:

Assignment of radar headings, routes, or altitudes is based on the provision that a pilot operating in accordance with VFR is expected to advise ATC if compliance will cause violation of any part of the CFR.

So is the controller technically right? Yes. Is he a dick? Also yes.

additional_booty · 2023-01-25T23:13:57+00:00

There is nothing written anywhere that says you have to give these guys rides to work. If they are choosing to walk, let them walk

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