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Any retired military pilots here?
« on: October 21, 2017, 12:45:03 AM »
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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2017, 12:46:04 AM »
AF has had critical shortages for some time. Rather than fix the toxic leadership issues, lack of flight hours, and piss poor conditions that lead to the shortage, they're gonna use the IRR.


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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2017, 01:11:31 AM »
So they'll recall a thousand pilots, who will then stand and sit around wondering why they were called up when there aren't enough functional planes to fly.

Brilliant.
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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2017, 11:06:25 AM »
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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2017, 12:52:11 PM »


"'A [pilot] training seat is a training seat. I don't think this will do us some good unless you can bring people on for staff jobs [too],' the official said."

So they'll recall a thousand pilots, who will then stand and sit around wondering why they were called up when there aren't enough functional planes to fly.

Brilliant.

Yeah, I was wondering about that.  What about the guys who turn the bolts which allow the engines to turn?

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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2017, 01:09:52 PM »

"'A [pilot] training seat is a training seat. I don't think this will do us some good unless you can bring people on for staff jobs [too],' the official said."

Yeah, I was wondering about that.  What about the guys who turn the bolts which allow the engines to turn?

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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2017, 01:24:21 PM »
All those mechanics leave in frustration because the military is a toxic pit of despair

And then the tentacles grab them and drag them back into the Sarlacc Pit of the military. In it's belly will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a…thousand years.

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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2017, 01:44:47 PM »
I'll do it if I can fly an A-10.
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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2017, 09:09:43 PM »
Oh, you don't care about the vehicle.  You just wanna shoot that great bangy thing in the nose.

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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2017, 12:15:24 AM »
I'll do it if I can fly an A-10.

Well, they've unretired the A-10, too.
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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2017, 01:14:29 AM »
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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2017, 07:06:49 AM »
Oh, you don't care about the vehicle.  You just wanna shoot that great bangy thing in the nose.

Am I that obvious?  I'd also like to drop a few boomy things.
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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2017, 07:39:06 PM »
Am I that obvious?  I'd also like to drop a few boomy things.

Who wouldn't?  I call it the Great Humpbacked Bird That Farts Twice.

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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2017, 11:04:57 PM »
I be confused. It is actually very easy to do that to me these days.

Why are they calling back retired pilots, what happened to their pool of weekend warriors? Have they been using them so much that they are basically filling in for active duty pilots already? I just thought the first step would be pulling the active reservists back to the real active duty Air Force, then when that failed dismally they could go after all the grey hairs. ;)

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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2017, 12:09:55 AM »
One of the single best days ever was leaving the reserves,  and telling the prior service recruiter "no, thanks"  with a straight face.

That's some supreme optimism,  hitting a guy up that's finally free of all that fuckery to voluntarily jump back in.  Extra points for the sheer chutzpah though  >:D
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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #15 on: October 23, 2017, 12:24:23 AM »
I thought I had read that the returned retirees were going to be doing a staff job flying a desk, thus freeing up the staff officers to return to flight status.
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Re: Any retired military pilots here?
« Reply #16 on: October 23, 2017, 12:37:15 AM »
I thought I had read that the returned retirees were going to be doing a staff job flying a desk, thus freeing up the staff officers to return to flight status.

Oh that will make for a bunch of happy campers, it sure will. Well, it's about time the Air Force learned how much suck can be crammed into a day. :)  ;)

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