30 June 2009
organizational challenge
The commitment for USAF pilot training is 10 years. But pilot training takes about 1.5 to 2.5 years. And of course (I mean, _OF COURSE_) every pilot has to be an officer, which generally takes 4 years of undergrad work at a commissioning source to accomplish. This means that today, the USAF is making decisions about pilot manning ~16 years in the future. That's an awfully long decision cycle. Our OODA loop is very big...no wonder we are so terrible at managing our manning.
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Yes, and then we train the pilots and then send them through a continual upgrade pipeline and just as soon as they finish that--to school or to staff, never to fly in significant amounts again.
Brilliant, I say.
That aside, how the heck are ya?
No no, no sarcasm. It's the opposite of brilliant. Wasteful of our people and taxpayer's dollars and dumb to boot. We need a complete reorganization. Warrant officers. More bodies. No more tolerating 70% manning in combat units for years at a time.
That aside...meh. I'm in the middle of a short notice non-vol pcs and I'm pretty unhappy about it, truth be told. But there's nothing to be done about it, so I am trying to get positive again. Where are you guys these days?
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