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AF EPR/OPR/1206 bullet editor

pdf-bullets

pdf analysis of air force forms

One of the most pointless and time-consuming things that Air Force officer and enlisted personnel do every year is bullet-writing.

Air Force personnel typically are required to write bullets for performance reports and award packages.

AF bullets follow a few formatting rules:

• Each bullet must be exactly one line, with the width of the line depending on the form (performance report, award package, etc).
• Acronyms and abbreviations are organization/commander-specific. Organizations are highly inconsistent with their abbreviation/acronym policies.

Those formatting rules lead to the following

• Information compression is prioritized over legibility
• Time is wasted on acronym/abbreviation revision
• Bullet "appearance" becomes highly valued; some examples of arbitrary bullet appearance rules:
  • any sort of repetition = bad
  • bullets near flush with page boundaries = good

The purpose of this repository is to develop a set of tools to automate the pointless aspects of bullet-writing so that an officer/enlisted member can focus more on writing actual content rather than worry about irrelevant formatting.