Originally Posted by
GunshipGuy
Maybe now wings are finally getting the message that if you don't have to fly out the flying hour program than guess what???? Don't fly out the flying hour program! Who here among us hasn't felt the pressure to get the hours flown just to zero out the hours?!! Even when I confronted my group CC in my final year of service about the need to fly out the hours (I had a memo in hand from the Air Staff stating you're done flying when you say your training is done, circa '08) he replied, "You told me before the FY started you needed XXXX hours to accomplish your training. Therefore, your training is not complete until you fly those hours."
We handed back quite a few hours last year. We still got the same amount this year.
Originally Posted by
Deuce130
I just started on orders at a MAJCOM/HQ a couple of weeks ago. I'm astounded at the amount of taskers and flowcharts, briefings, telecons, presentations, meetings, VTCs and on and on and on day in and day out. It seems there's a lot of eyes inward, looking at the processes and programs put in place, and not a lot of eyes looking outward. Lots of "make work" that never goes anywhere. At the same time, there's some pretty drastic sequestration COAs being presented. Maybe we should save some airplanes and say goodbye 75% of the MAJCOM staff.
Got to love the self licking ice cream cones.
Originally Posted by
HoursHore
I hope they start with the fitness monitors. There's some low hanging fruit. The AFRC could also shed every 0-5 over 22 not in a leadership position and barely blink.
Fitness monitors are very important. See, we like to preach Integrity First, but we don't really believe in it...
With the budget cuts we are facing, why don't we just shed the whole AFRC? Move the iron/people, fold the jobs into the ANG or AD and cut the redundant positions. Do we really need to have a HQ staff for both? It seems like we could cut quite a few people, with a relatively low strain on the deployment cycle, and save a significant amount of money.