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Update! (finally)
10 years ago
Sorry the group has been rather dead over the past few months. Being an NCOIC of an entire section (and being currently deployed) ate into my time and this group sorta fell by the wayside. Apologies for that.
That being said: Welcome all the new followers and such. Glad to see the group continuing to grow even with my overall lack of content updating. Hopefully I can change that moving forward but it all depends on how busy I stay in the AOR.
I want to thank everyone here for their service (prior and current) as well as thank those who have not served but still support what we do.
Moving forward with some legit content: There seems to be a huge dropping off in standards of the younger crowd these days. I've noticed it when it comes to dress and appearance (thank you wash~n~wear and no-shine boots), attitudes toward authority, and even PT. Before I left for my deployment, my unit had 8 PT failures. While that is only about 3%, all of them were under the age of 23. When these kids should be in the prime of their health, they can't even pass a simple Air Force PT test. I even had one new troop recently remark, and this is a direct quote when she was written up for failure to adapt: "I didn't expect the Air Force to have this many rules." Uh... you joined the military. Not the United States Flying Club. I'm not saying I agree with every single rule and regulation out there, but they exist. If the installation CC says you have to wear your sniper belt, you wear your damn sniper belt. I don't care how stupid it looks. Same goes for PT. I don't care if you hate running or thing the standards are stupid. I hate running. But I still bust out at least 3 miles a day and even at 29, I maintain well above a 90 on all of my evals.
Is it a lack of being able to properly train and discipline these kids in basic? Are the TIs so paranoid of being NARC'd out these days while being too constrained by the rules to effectively instill good order and discipline. Maybe I'm just an old crust bitter Sgt but I'm curious to see what others think. I can't be the only one that has noticed and feels angst at these developments. Or are there some out there that don't see a problem and thing its just the natural progression of things?
Thoughts and comments are highly encouraged. Open dialogue and all.
More content will be forthcoming!
That is all......
~The NCOIC
That being said: Welcome all the new followers and such. Glad to see the group continuing to grow even with my overall lack of content updating. Hopefully I can change that moving forward but it all depends on how busy I stay in the AOR.
I want to thank everyone here for their service (prior and current) as well as thank those who have not served but still support what we do.
Moving forward with some legit content: There seems to be a huge dropping off in standards of the younger crowd these days. I've noticed it when it comes to dress and appearance (thank you wash~n~wear and no-shine boots), attitudes toward authority, and even PT. Before I left for my deployment, my unit had 8 PT failures. While that is only about 3%, all of them were under the age of 23. When these kids should be in the prime of their health, they can't even pass a simple Air Force PT test. I even had one new troop recently remark, and this is a direct quote when she was written up for failure to adapt: "I didn't expect the Air Force to have this many rules." Uh... you joined the military. Not the United States Flying Club. I'm not saying I agree with every single rule and regulation out there, but they exist. If the installation CC says you have to wear your sniper belt, you wear your damn sniper belt. I don't care how stupid it looks. Same goes for PT. I don't care if you hate running or thing the standards are stupid. I hate running. But I still bust out at least 3 miles a day and even at 29, I maintain well above a 90 on all of my evals.
Is it a lack of being able to properly train and discipline these kids in basic? Are the TIs so paranoid of being NARC'd out these days while being too constrained by the rules to effectively instill good order and discipline. Maybe I'm just an old crust bitter Sgt but I'm curious to see what others think. I can't be the only one that has noticed and feels angst at these developments. Or are there some out there that don't see a problem and thing its just the natural progression of things?
Thoughts and comments are highly encouraged. Open dialogue and all.
More content will be forthcoming!
That is all......
~The NCOIC
The resulting personnel being turned out in these recent years are going to be in very poor condition for it due to the scrutiny and scandals, and this is affecting all branches [Just had friend come out of Marine Boot, 2 DS relieved of duty from complaints]
And with bipolar cuts kicking in for the next round who can tell what the results will be, +4k manning but -10k, and my field in particular is feeling the squeeze being low-manned to start. Still unsure how long I'll stick around when my options come up, but take it with a grain of salt, FT here.
Heck I've gone around the world already
I'm still not quite sure where the entitled attitude so many people have nowadays has come from. They want everything their way, handed to them. If they don't have the job they wanted (Very common in personnel) they either scrape by or just don't care at all instead of doing their best so when they're up for retraining someone actually wants them because they're known to be a hard worker. It's very frustrating...
stupid nonners
We even got someone back who was a MTI for a hand full of years who was tired of it in the final years, got most of his LOCs and LORs for stupid things like having mens health magazines visible on his desk while pushing a female flight, trainees reporting him for making them cry, cursing, etc.
The worst one was when there was a female trainee who was struggling with her run, he tries to inspire her by talking about how he trained for a marathon, shows her a picture of him crossing the finish line, but someone in the photo had their shirt off and she reported him.
The only gripe I have with PT is I've always gotten 90s, but now I have to go twice a week until everyone passes and half the flight is in the 90s.
It's not the PT I have a problem with, it's getting up at 0430 in the morning.
That sucks to hear, though I personally would like to see 5 days of PT a week to keep consistency right out of basic, it would be impossible to fail a PT test holding to that regime unless actively trying and it might reinforce the concept of being a military organization.
Though, I also think it rests on the supervisors, as well. They're basically the younger airmen's mentors, and if they let shit like that slide and not correct them right away, then the airmen will think they can get away with it. I'm not saying ALL supervisors are like this, but you know the military: one person fucks up, we all get hogtied.
Regardless, I totally agree that something has to be done. Airmen need to understand the military is not kindergarten with nap time and juice boxes, and NCOs+ need to hold the junior tier accountable for there actions when necessary.