[Flight Training] Resignation of all officers
Fhaemita The Apostate
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Good Day Flight Training recruits and eUSA citizens,
I've been a member of Flight Training for a year now, I was looking for something new after being a member of Ultramarines for more then a year and Synesi who was just given command of Flight Training was willing to give me a chance to do just that. For only a short while I was Wing CO before I was promoted to Executive Officer of Flight Training a position I held for 6 months. After Synesi retirement January 1, 2013 I was made Commanding Officer of Flight Training. I have loved every moment of my time in Flight Training as hopefully did everybody who was trained by us and the fellow officers who I served with.
As was announced in an article by vice president Dr Luis Sentieiro that the Department of Defense is making some changes to MU's that are part of the US Armed Forces. No details where made public but one of the changes that will be made is the merger of Flight Training and The Airforce. We where not given prior notice nor where we given any input on this decision. The decision was made over our heads and both my officers and I do not agree with the decision nor do we believe the way this decision was made was done properly. The reasons that where given in this doc although in our opinion these are quite ridiculous.
If we where doing such a bad job why where we never told this before? If we where doing such a bad job then why in a recent article of the Department of Interior the results of a survey from Flight Training Graduates where made public. Over half of the active members of both Airforce and Flight Training responded and gave us a 4.22 out of a 5, or 84% approval of their FT experience. Participants rated the helpfulness of Flight Training staff as an average of 4.33 out of 5, or FT staff was 86% helpful. From those numbers it looks like we people who've been through Flight Training seems very content with what we are doing. Yes there where some minor complaints and suggestions and we where working on fixing most of those problems.
Running Flight Training is hard work, you need active officers who are online every day and are who are also active on irc and you need officers who stay for the long haul because officers changes confuses recruits. Airforce Commanding Officer Dr Luis Sentieiro has admitted he had problems keeping his junior officers and even his senior and executive officers active. How will this affect Flight Training when Airforce and Flight Training merge? New recruits needs a lot of attention and active officers. If Airforce isn't able to keep their own officers active how do they expect to keep officers active after the merge? Flight Training always had a high retention rate in officers, out of the current 8 officers 4 have been with Flight training since the start a years ago.
One of the other reproaches thrown at us was a 25% activity rate and that those numbers weren't good enough. Based on those numbers according to the Secretary of Defense Lemon Vodka by officers weren't doing their jobs. Those numbers are incorrect and also insulting saying my officers are not doing their job based on faulty numbers. These numbers where based on total numbers of people in the MU at that moment. Flight Training is where new citizens are send too so it contains a lot of dead and inactive people because we haven't had a good cleanup for a while. Although judging other MU's that way works for other MU it does not for Flight Training. Flight Training is like a revolving door, we have people joining and leaving every day. Active people can graduate in 4 days while the more inactive stay around longer. With the most active people leaving fairly quickly and people coming and going all the time the egov numbers used by the secretary of defense is not a good measure of activity and not a good way to appraise how Flight Training have been doing. In a year Flight Training had more then 1200 recruits coming and going and a graduating rate of about 50%. Those are the numbers they should be looking at and the MU stats, those are (besides incorrect) only a screenshot of FT at that moment and does not say much abotu FT in general.
One of the other arguments is cost reduction, with the loss of regions and bonuses the state has less income and budget for the US Armed forces will be cut again. Merging the two MU's will not reduce cost at all! 95%+ of the cost of any MU is raw's (mainly WRM). As far as I know *all* mu's have a shortage in WRM, merging the two MU's will not change the shortage of WRM. There will still be the same number of WRM needed and the same shortage of WRM that need to be bought. Cost reduction is a bogus argument, this will not reduce the cost in any way.
More then a year ago Boot Camp the predecessor of Flight Training was part of the Airforce, I don't know what exactly happened but Boot Camp failed and when Flight Training was founded it was made separate from the Airforce for a reason. Flight Training is doing pretty well on it's own so I don't see any reason why we should go back to how it was when it didn't work. There is a simple rule, If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
With the problems that the Airforce is having with their officers, the satisfaction under Flight Training Graduates and the contradiction in the plans We, the officers of Flight Training do not believe that this plan as it was presented is beneficial for Flight Training and not for new citizens who need training. With this being already decided without our notice or our input we see no other way then resigning. I have resigned my commission was Commanding Officers of Flight Training and ALL officers of Flight Training have decides to follow me and resign from their positions. This was not done our of pride or ego but because of the lack of disrespect that was shown towards Flight Training and it's officers. This is not the first time the executive have shown disrespect to a USAF MU and it's officers and it will probably not be the last time.
I wish the person who succeeds me the best of luck with he has his work cut out having to start from scratch.
Sincerely Yours,
Fhaemita Malodorous, Flight Training Commanding Officer
Rushaun, Flight Training Executive Officer
Synesi, Flight Training Division Officer/Former Commanding Officer
BeeBee Commanding Officer Wing 1
SMBritt Executive Officer Wing 1
Ehaboof Commanding Officer Wing 2
Conc3pt Commanding Officer Wing 3
Lord Nimrod Executive Officer Wing 3
Comments
First Denied!
No denied...PLEASE 🙁
'This was not done our of pride or ego but because of the lack of disrespect that was shown towards Flight Training and it's officers.'
First, I can 'disrespect' you all day and twice on Sunday, if that is all it takes....
However I agree with what has been said here. Second the failure to realize the citizen he promoted was a spy (Free Area), third DLS is a leftover of a group who has controlled America for over a year and has failed time after time; all while cheating their assess off - and if you think DLS hasn't take part in that cheating you're a fool....
Drew blood, I remember your former named used to be Ichabod or something (If I'm wrong, I take the opportunity to apologize for my own mistake). But if you are indeed Ichabod, quick question: How many times were you banned for multiing? I recall at least one.
How many times I was banned for multiing? None.
I don't cheat the game, never did. If you think I would do that, you are a fool. If others cheat, they do it on their own risk.
BTW, Easy Company is recruiting and we have the best supply program in America...
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Second 😉
third?
You did a great work!
sorry to see you go best of luck in the future O>
i fully respect your decision bro.
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Thank you, and your team, for the time and effort put into running FT.
Respect.
You are always welcome to come to SHIELD. 🙂
Thanks for the offer
This is what happens when government runs the military. You all jumped on that bandwagon so you have to deal with it, sadly.
"This is not the first time the executive have shown disrespect to a USAF MU and it's officers and it will probably not be the last time."
Remember the eUS Military? Nowwwwwwwwww you get it 🙂
There are probably more examples but yes eUS military is a big one. Seems they never learn and keep making the same mistakes
Situation is a bit different.
The situation is a bit different, but I still remember back when eUS Mil had its funding issue and the government wanted to cut spending even after the JCS had a plan to cut down spending on a monthly basis (by what? 90% if I remember correctly if the start up costs were agreed upon)
Like the JCS didn't / doesn't do this crap all the time. Sorry, the "eUS Military" is 1000 times more dysfunctional.
dysfunctional at running the military? LOL No. And that is coming from someone who thinks the mil in its current form under its current leadership is shit. The gov and it's political harpies have no business trying to run a meritocracy. That is why the mil is now shit, because a politician was given lead.
The USAF was created as a replacement where people didn't have to live up to expectations like in the mil. Dysfunction from the start.
And honestly, this is a bandwagon we chose to get on and then chose to get off. Up until this cabinet, we have had an excellent relationship with the gov. I would not trade any of that time for anything. We did an incredible job every single day of our existence and have no regrets.
Respect o7
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Come and have some fun with us, RAWR!
Thanks for the offer
It's been honor , brothers o7
Also I want to point out that all the peoples links are the same person, BeeBee. 🙂
Oops forgot to fix that 😛
Yup, I got two senior officers with serious health issues and another with personal problems with his ex-wife. The Junior officer body is being renewed as it happens when people drop the ball. I didn't give more details in my article because I was waiting for further discussions on this, still regardless thank you for your service and dedication managing FT, as well as your team.
We all have a real life to deal with. Flight Training officers have always covered each other's absences, recruit attention has always been consistent regardless. That's due to our communication skills, and tools that we operate with daily. If you were awaiting further discussions on revising Flight Training, then your article was released prematurely, and that decision to do so was made in bad judgment. Furthermore, contacting and partnering the CO of Flight Training would have been the appropriate thing to do -
The FT CO was in the discussion thread, furthermore on my article I don't make any mention to what were the structural changes that were being taken in place nor I announce I'm taking any personal command of another branch. If people had doubts about what exactly it meant they could have messaged me asking or query on IRC. I'm not that hard to find.
I'm sure people love it when you publish their RL problems this way! Applause!
I'm sure people love it when you go on stalking someone for the whole time for several articles.
You can hardly call it stalking, maybe trolling, but just maybe!
Sounds like failure from the top down. "people drop the ball" good call on that one avoiding taking any blame yourself , blame other people. IF your officers have issues, get new officers, that's what other MU's do. Looking at your own MU and seeing it sucks and deciding to absorb another Mu is not the answer to fixing the problems you have.
From the eUS Code and constitution here - http://eusaforums.com/forum/index.php/topic,3745.0.html
"The President shall have the authority to constitute and manage official branches of the United States Armed Forces, which will be subject to the direct control of the executive via the Department of the Defense and the Secretary of Defense. Such branches are distinguished from the above “armed forces entities” by their official nature and the direct control of the executive."
I don't say it. The law says it, pretty clear. If people bothered to read the document, they would know.
Secondly, although I did agree with this merge, I didn't take the initiative to push for it nor I was the one who had this idea originally. So quit saying it was my decision to absorb another MU just because my officers aren't doing their job correctly.
Thirdly and last, AF is getting new officers, we switch them every time they don't work but I'm not gonna kick someone just because they were having issues with their RL and they had the honesty to inform me. Don't think I don't do my job. I'm pretty tired of people saying bs around without even bothering to ask or inform themselves about what happened or try to dialogue.
Mr. Luis Sentieiro, YOU are the administration, the decision comes from YOU. quoting the constitution and washing your hands of the situation by saying "The POTUS did it" does not absolve you. YOU are an advisor to the POTUS, YOU agreed with this decision, therefore, YOU are at fault, just like EVERYONE in the administration is at fault for this failure of a decision.
This doesn't sound at all like things that TC dealt with or deals with >.>
Anyway, I can use you in TC if you're bored and want to keep training people. Not a joke, that's an actual job offer.
Do not listen to dmjohnston. He fatten up troop with cookies, then sacrifice fifty at a time for klondike bar. If one recruit worth 1/50th of klondike bar, how much would officer be worth?
6 Klondike Bars, but that's irrelevant.
Thanks for the offer but I respectfully decline
iludmj
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Good luck. I hope you get into AIM
Seems like an overreaction, and an unwillingness to discuss, talk, or even attempt to fix something. Or even communicate in general.
And I'm just going to point out, that a mass resignation isn't what's best for FT either.
There's actually been a ingame PM thread about this and I tried to explain like I did in this article why this wasn't a good plan and how the FT officers felt about this. Our opinion nor our feelings are appreciated. The plan was made by the executive and we just had to swallow it.