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Because a troop's $$ reduced due to finance's buffoonery is 100% a Sq/CC's issue. I'd fire any SQ/CC that DIDN'T intervene.

What a strange place we're in. The POC for processing bonuses is forced to take a work/pay cut. Odd.

I don't normally do this, but I'm gonna agree with Joe. Except instead of reducing married/family bennies like w/dep BAH, I'd RAISE the "single" rates to match w/dep rates. In my scheme, every 04 gets the same base pay, bah, bas, etc...no more paying "family guys/gals" more. I'd even go for mil-mil marriages earning double, since each member earns the Bennie on his/her own status. Everyone gets exactly the same treatment/options...that's Joes point, I think. Of course, if I misread joes post, then disregard all after Bonjour!

The new approach lights installed at San Francisco International Airport after the Asiana Crash...

Absolutely. The only "extras" that should be paid should incentivize job performance, not encouraging dependency. We're swerving from the thread. My point: whatever bennies any Ssgt or Capt gets, all Ssgts and Capts get. What you choose to do with yours is up to you. Stay single, or spend it on/with family. Further derail: next idea that goes along with this one is: no ADSCs. Ever. For anything. Stay or go? Your call, anytime. But no retirement until 20, and min rank to go to 20 is Msgt and Lt Col. HYT at 18 for both Tsgts and Majs. No partials, no vsp, no bonus... all or nothing from day 1. Back to the thread: if gays get 10 days PTDY for "marriage", then everyone gets 10 days PTDY for "marriage".

Radio, why did you assume our comments were specific to CAS events? If you think an airstrike is "non text book" when it happens outside of CAS then there are text books you haven't read. Your notion that you surely would have heard of these things with FEBs and court martials and school house lessons is patently ridiculous. Bottom line, RPAs are a great tool for some missions & their capabilities will and are slowly improving. But they won't be taking over every job for manned aircraft anytime soon because they aren't reliable enough; anyone pushing contrariwise has no real world experience.

The last year or so has been pretty brutal. Everyone hopes the non-vol train will derail soon but trying to guess what things will be like in three years is a moo point. If you want to increase your chances of sticking around go airdrop (but don't do it just for that or you'll be miserable).

Question for anyone who's been in the 17 for a while and has some SA. I'm headed to CHS in a couple months and was wondering what follow on assignments are looking like these days. I've heard unverified rumors that more second assignment 17s are on the horizon, anyone else heard this?

This is a retention issue, not a fairness one. The military encourages you to get married. Guys get married. Now that they have the added responsibilites that come with a wife and kids they are less likely to leave the service for the unknown of the civilian world. Now the military gets to pick who it wants to keep rather than being to stuck with those who stay. Crafty.

Let me guess, they sent an email to your old email address after you PCSed. I've had that one happen. The talent level in most Finance shops is too low to handle the level of power they have. No money should ever be deducted from a servicemember's paycheck without the member's consent or Squadron Commander's approval. Your Squadron CC, not the Finance CC. Zero dollar fix that could be implemented tomorrow.

Good price on some ammo right now at sgammo.com for Golden Tiger 7.62 x 39 and 5.45, all non-corrosive. I have shot the GT 7.62 and it's good Russian ammo.

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I try to only post after drinking heavily. Historically this was extremely infrequent, but it is becoming a much more common event. Everyone bear with me here, it's going to get ugly. You must be high! You work in the land of endless cash and limitless dreams apparently. The fact is, this country is drowning in debt! Trying to justify that a predator is worth $5 million bucks over a $1 million dollar manned asset that performs at 5 times the level is ludicrous. You sir are misinformed and stuck in the land of make-believe. I get that idiots want to keep pushing this technology as the only future while there is only a limited future in it. The future may not be manned fighters (or aircraft for that matter), but it isn't these things either. The entire future is wasted if all of the eggs are in this RCA bullshit basket. Generals, politicians, and contractors love 'em. Since you ended up talking about CAS, ask any JTAC in the world if he would rather an A-10, or a goddamn UAV. YGBFSM. No fear of being non-vol'd to those things here; you wouldn't want to send me there. I speak too many truths and rock too many boats. Integrity first right? Just speaking some truths from experience here to help educate folks that either don't have any real-world experience or are stuck in REMF land (perhaps like yourself). There are SERIOUS limitations that make the Pred and Reaper serious limfacs and pure examples of F/W/A. Aside from staying airborne for a day at a time and providing limited data, they are not that valuable. They really aren't. You'll see why they are so loved from senior brass below, where I reference how our USAF tenet has gone horribly wrong. OK, I have first hand knowledge of this occurring and apparently so do a few others that replied to your post. Whoever you are, you are ill-informed. There are a few wars going on (that's not a typo) and some of us have spent the better part of the last decade fighting them. Sorry if you got left out. Why wouldn't it surprise you that someone forgot to call in on their final clearance? Why would someone releasing a weapon inadvertently IN A STACK be on the JTAC? Seriously? From any weapon employing platform that would be absolutely unacceptable! Firing a missile through a stack without getting VERBAL clearance from the control authority and without deconfliction is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE! I hope that is what they teach in RCA land. That is how this event happened- more than once. For your last question, keep reading for the drunken finale... I'm a fighter pilot because I earned it, not because I still fly it. Maybe in the Guard the privilege will return. Maybe not. The other stories you are reading do not come from fighter pilots but from other folks with first hand knowledge flying other relevant aircraft. I wouldn't be surprised if other pointy nose fellas jump in and share an experience or two as well; I know they have some. Keep hoping for those court martials. They aren't happening nor should they, at least for the JTAC or Wardens. I'm not putting all of the blame on Pred operators either (not all of it). You sir, are living in the land of theory and textbook application of how USAF warfare is SUPPOSED to be applied. Welcome to the present, where centralized control and CENTRALIZED execution reign supreme. You have dipshits like GC directing virtual 9 lines that make no sense whatsoever and are being sent from half of a world away. They love Pred porn and being able to micro manage aircraft in a stack where the action is. They do have authority and make the choices that lead to events you don't hear about. That's how your damn Hellfire ends up blitzing through a stack. Don't blame the warden, and don't blame the JTAC (if there was even one even there). Mix in non-military actors and the fun escalates exponentially! Nine-lines make sense during CAS, but in todays screwed up land of Generals running tactical missions without ground troops, those same CAS procedures somehow end up being used for air-interdiction strike missions that have nothing to do with TICs or JTACs. It's about as effective as the current administration running economic policy or Diane Feinstein debating FOR the second amendment. Good on you for reading the books about how it should be, now go get some experience related to how it actually is. ///play clowncar music/// I reread this post three times, and it illustrates truths but does not violate OPSEC. It covers things we don't want to talk about (but should); it doesn't hurt anyone but ourselves if we don't recognize these problems and fix them. Fix 'em GC, you're an aviator right?

Those are actually not a bad idea. I wonder if they could get those at Dover. And then install some that say " NOT MCDILL" at that Peter O. Knight place.

So just offer 10 days of 'marriage leave' or 'honeymoon leave' to anybody that gets married, regardless of orientation. I'm sure there are lots of hetero couples that would like to travel home for their weddings to be married in the presence of friends and family. After all, if we're striving for equality, shouldn't the rules apply to everyone?

When I went to PIT for my move to T-1s it was initially written as an out-and-back TDY, and therefore built in DTS, to include incremental accrual vouchers. My PCS orders were subsequently amended to make PIT a TDY enroute to my gaining location. When I got to Columbus I was advised by the local finance circus that I should zero out the DTS voucher and do EVERYTHING for the TDY and PCS on one voucher via PIPS, so I did. Well, despite me clearly listing my DTS-paid accruals under "previous payments and advances" those idiots STILL paid me the full voucher amount to the tune of just short of $10,000 over what I should have been paid. This was back in February. I repeatedly went to them and told them about the error, but since the DTS voucher had been deleted they swore up and down that I was paid the correct amount. I would have thought it would be much easier to give away $10,000! Well, fast forward SIX FRIGGIN MONTHS and they finally "fixed the glitch". Without notifying me or giving me any options, they turned off my pay. I'm talking $0.00 paycheck from now until Sept to cover the debt. Now, I am not an idiot, I still have the money but it astonishes me just how incompetent these people can be at their job, and suddenly it becomes MY problem when they fuck it up royally. If I did my job like they do their job I would have been dead a long time ago.

My favorite quote (this is a paraphrase) from "American Patriot" is after a reporter asked about why he wouldn't particpate in the program to return to Vietnam to meet former captors, see the prisons, etc like John McCain was doing. She asked something along the lines of "so you would never go back to Vietnam?" His response was "actually yes I would go back to Vietnam...leading a 4 ship of F-100s full of napalm."

Not an ultrasound... you know, since he wasn't a living human being before birth.

Obviously Trevon's baby picture. Maybe the ultrasound of him in the womb if it was still available.

Last year the application were due Oct 1 with interview results released Nov sometime. Rather be Flying but I'm using Tapatalk

I don't have any problems with any of the new provisions. Hell, I don't have any problems with extending all the same benefits, just repeal DOMA and have that be the end of it...but nope, the Dems would rather talk gun control that wil do nothing to fix gun violence. Be cool if the GOP House would pass a bill repealing DOMA but then that would send a 'negative' message to the Bible Belt folks (like the majority of them would vote Dem anyway)...one can always hope the country becomes more Libertarian, but I just don't see it happening.