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