“The 2023 hold disrupted the military promotion cycle for some officers, which affected nominated officers’ eligibility for promotions and pay.”
Welcome to the party.... now do a report on what the covid prison lockdowns did to careers, promotions and pay.
To be fair, delays in promotion boards do screw up the process and adversely affect colonels who are in the primary zone for general officer and those up to three years behind them. Are there still plenty of colonels? Yup. But some who are very deserving of promotion will get screwed.
Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)
What a pile of garbage. We don’t need more Generals or Admirals right now; we have 938 Generals and Admirals at the Pentagon. Who creates more asst, so add another 938 more 1-star and above leaders, and you wonder why????? All these lazy leaders do is waste money. USAF leaders, in particular, as I am a retired USAF NCO, I know firsthand the mess the USAF is in. The last general in charge of the USAF created the forced wearing of glow-in-the-dark belts for flight-line workers for what reason??? In my 12 years of AD service, I had to buy and wear eight different styles of uniforms. That’s work uniforms! That’s what Generals and admirals do: create a mess for others to fix!
Want more? They spend billions of dollars on fighter aircraft that are knocked down by guerrillas with RPGs, ala Vietnam.
The very last war we won was ww2. And we did that with fewer than 10-15 Generals and Admirals. So precisely why do we need 938 Flag Officers???? This is the same group that wants to junk the A10, after spending millions on upgrading it, then we have the C5 mess because some idiot general said we need special equipment to load or unload the B747 FreighterTransports, that’s why we need the C5M junk truck, as we called them. The C-141 was 200 % faster, and on a run from McGuire to Frankfurt, it could get there with a load of stuff. That was the A model, so the generals spent billions more to modify the fleet of A models to B models. They destroyed them by forcing them to fly low level, while the 747s modified to carry military cargo were flying 75% of the missions that the C5 could not fly. By the way, the C5 uses the same ground support equipment that could be used to load and unload a 747, freighters, which every Friday we unloaded 5 of them and switched cargoes on them, and all five flew out in 6 hours. At PanAm, I worked for 2 years in the cargo department.
I dare any C5 to do that; you can’t get five C5s to fly back-to-back missions. The B747 Freighter always does it for UPS, FEDEX, and most major airlines.
Which is presently up to its 8th model???? Explain that to me. Why does the C5 even exist while the 988 leaders buy 28-million-dollar fighters that terrorists in Ukraine shoot down? Doesn’t anyone at the 5-sided house realize history?????? I spent 6 years in SAC, two tours, USAFE fighters, and fighter interceptors. In every fighter unit, we all had hanger queens that were the spare parts aircraft to keep the rest flyable.
In WW2, we had 110 Army generals (USAF and USA combined ) and four four-star admirals.
Not let’s talk about why the Democrats are trying so hard to hamstring Pete from changing the Military back to a fighting force????
My sources are co-pilot and personal experience. I spent 12 years in the USAF AD Loading bombs, conventional, nuclear, missiles, etc., and 8 years flying Med Evac in the USAF Reserve. I also worked 19 years at Pan Am Airlines as an electrician, fixing 747s Dc8s cargo, and 5 years as an emergency worker and department head at NENA Health Center Emergency Department.