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I’d like some opinions and input. I’ve never really cared about awards my entire career, when it comes to rack & stack boards they should maybe be 1% of your overall rating. I don’t know how we became this award-focused Air Force, but I’d gladly take the actual best people and wrench turners (surprise I’m Mx) that make shit happen any day over some NCO of the quarter winner. As far as I’m concerned, they are grossly overvalued participation trophies. Maybe it’s the award process or amount of them, but I usually just roll my eyes when others start asking me about awards. I can confidently say the BEST workers I’ve ever had didn’t care about them either.

Question for those with more exp, is there any existing official AFI or guidance that says we should be going for awards? EVERY SNCO I’ve ever asked this question to (it’s been dozens at this point)…..hasn’t been able to give me a proper answer that isn’t some BS.

Delayed results got me feeling prickly

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I'll keep it short. Was on my way back to the shop from lunch, kid on a sport bike passed in between me and a car who was maybe 15 feet in front of me in the right lane (I was in left). Traffic flow was going about 60mph.

Kid shoots the gap doing about 75 I'm guessing. Proceeds to speed way up weaving in and out of traffic before hitting a clearing and popping a wheelie for a good 8 seconds doing a good amount over the speed limit.

Catch up to him at the base gate, he gets through and gets through the first light, I get caught by the light. I was going to talk to him and tell him to knock it off, especially since we just had an airman die about a month ago for outriding his skillset on a sport bike (on the same road no less).

Not sure where he went on base as he was gone by the time I got through the gate. I have his plate and dash cam footage. I used to ride as well, so I get it, but I respected the machine I was on and had riding buddies that died. I don't wanna see another rider die for trying to outride their skillset.

What would you do? Reporting him for off base reckless riding will likely get him barred from riding on base, but not off base.

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Not gonna lie… the anxiety is starting to creep in.

I’ve been trying to stay busy and keep my mind off it, but the closer we get, the more it feels like this is a legit make or break moment in my life. Years of work and sacrifice, all kind of funnel into this one outcome.

Part of me feels confident. Like I’ve done what I can and I’m ready. The other part is running through every possible scenario and wondering if it will be enough.

Curious how everyone else is handling it right now. Are you locked in and calm, or is the pressure starting to hit?

Good morning from the Middle East,

BLUF: If you still have desktop anywhere from the COVID days that was my work around.

I was having trouble doing the Joint Services PME.

Course would not track. Videos would not load.

The 24/7 help desk was no help. Except for one man.

They told me it was my internet connection not true.

They said it was my browser and my cache not true.

Us the desk top anywhere "VM" to tunnel into the AF network. Use Edge and the course worked fine.

I'm just a dumb Crew Chief with a degree in IT.

TRYING to figure out how to get VA benefits and move up past E7 or cross over.

Just changed my last name in DEERS today and realized MPF didn’t give me any kind of checklist for what I need to update next 😅 I would ask my supervisor but they on pat leave and my whole leadership just changed.

I’m active duty Air Force and work in medical (4N0), so I know there are probably a ton of systems I’m not even thinking about.

So far I’ve done:

- DEERS/CAC updated

But I’m trying to make sure I don’t miss anything important, especially on the military/medical side.

Does anyone have a solid checklist of everything I should update after a name change? Things like:

- Personnel systems (vMPF, MilPDS?)

- Medical systems (AHLTA, MHS GENESIS, CHCS?)

- Training records (TFTR, TBA, MyLearning?)

- Email/Global address list

- Security clearance stuff (DISS?)

- Finance (myPay, LES, TSP)

- Any AF-specific portals I’m forgetting

Also—anything specific for medical folks (charting systems, badges, credentials, etc.) would be super helpful.

I just don’t want something random to pop up later under my old name and cause issues 😭

Appreciate any help!

Just found out today I got a letter of appreciation back in August 2025 for an event I volunteered for, asked supervisor if it was too late to add to my EPB for this testing cycle and was told EFDP had already happened and was probably too late already, but would ask.

I haven’t seen my final EPB yet.

I’m just dumb SrA, so I don’t know shit about fuck. Is it too late?

I also don’t know what the fuck an EFDP is

Does anyone know when the “all others” bracket for staff promotion will be released? I know they release line numbers on a monthly basis. Is it usually July or August?

Hello all,

I’m planning to shadow some different AFSCs but only really know the common jobs like medical and SF. I’m retraining out of SF and would like to see if anyone had any recommendations? Not a thrill seeker here either I have a family and would like a standard job that transfers well to the civilian side.

For context, I am currently in school and on track to commission in the next 6 months. My spouse will likely pick up orders this summer overseas. We currently live on privatized base housing. I was wondering if it is at all possible to stay behind on base in our house when she PCS’s so I don’t have to go through the entire headache of securing another place because I can’t go with her. Is there any way I could stay on housing after she leaves for less than 6 months?

A lot of us in my flight are going through it hard right now due to a really shitty SNCO. Please share your experiences with shit leaders and how you handled it to get yourself and your people through it.

Time to ask the question that’s been answered a million times but tailored to my specific situation 🤓

I have an unaccompanied tour to Turkey later this year. My wife is from Europe and I plan to move her at my own expense and keep our HHG in a local storage unit near my PDS. The plan is for her to stay in an Airbnb for like 120 days and then fly out to visit for the 90 days like a normal tourist does and then fly back for another 105 days to do the Airbnb thing again, then the next Turkey visit would be to go together to our OCONUS follow on (mainly to help transport our pets that’ll be with me during my tour). I’m assuming the answer is a yes but during that time would we still get the BAH from my previous base? It’s not like she’ll have an official lease or utilities or anything overseas since the Airbnb is temporary. Right now we are planning everything as if we’ll keep the BAH we get right now to use towards that Airbnb and pocket it while she’s visiting. Thanks!