[Timber Rattler]

So, nearly twenty percent of the USAF's ICBM launch officers have been kicked off the jib, but yet the brass insists that readiness is not affected?

Right.

And by ordering the remaining launch officers to to do two additional 24-hour shifts to fill the gap is simply courting more disaster through epic burnout.

[Timber Rattler]

Of interest PING!

[Tupelo]

“Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said the scandal hasn't affected the safety or reliability of the military’s nuclear mission”
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Obama administration language, when translated means:
“Global Strike Command is in deep doodoo in general and Malmstrom Air Force Base in particular is so bad, we will probably need to close it down and maybe give to the Canada. Or maybe Iran.

[Chainmail]

From some limited experience with the Air Force and its culture, it seemed as though everything was inflated. I had two USAF Captains working for me at one point and they were absolutely sure that they "had no chance of promotion" if their fitness reports were signed by a mere Marine Major. It had to be at least a Colonel, according to them, and reviewed by a General Officer or "they were toast". At end of tour time, they were also worried that their careers were done if they didn't get an "end of tour" medal "appropriate to their rank".

Seemed very odd to me but I was assured by other USAF officers that they were not exaggerating.

The Marine Corps has/had some severe fitness report inflation too but nothing on that scale. The Corps didn't give a fig for fitReps written by other services (unless they were adverse) and considered end of tour awards to be belly lint.

[depressed in 06]

This is false crisis, there are no nukes left to arm missiles. The One has turned them all into plow shares. If Hitlery were to announce the number of nuclear weapons today, the answer would be zerO.

[vetvetdoug]

I'd like to see the racial profiles of the officers that were cheating. I was in the USAF (1974-1983) and saw that one race was overinflated with respect to OER’s because the raters were afraid of repercussions and political correctness. Hence, we had a large number of middle grade officers that were dumb as dirt. There were several that earned the excellent ratings (General D. James for one) but overall it was a joke.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.