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Who can blame them when they fill up NOTAMs with pages of: temporary 3 foot towers, wet runways, and stupid abbreviations that save little print space but are unpossible to figure out.

Palace Chase approved! '04 11M with 19 months of UPT ADSC. Sq/CC and Wg/cc rec'd approval, functional rec'd disapproval. FWIW, I spoke with a person at AFPC, who works in the Palace Chase office, and they said that 04'11M's are overmanned. Also, the Sec AF is supposedly delegating the authority to approve/disapprove PC apps directly to the Palace Chase office within the next few weeks. Get those apps in ladies and gentlemen!

All this time I had no clue that I could be potentially driving women to suicide from all the orgasms I give them. From now on I think I'll focus more on myself, just to be safe.

So you're not a viper driver?

What's a NOTAM?

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Class 3 toys are like heroin You've been warned!

Did they change your RDTM? Even I can understand that, but that doesn't matter because it's not about "the hardware" at all. I don't give two shits how many hours you have, only the airmanship you've gained. I don't give two shits about how many training sorties you've flown, only the competence you gained. I don't give two shits about your 25 Air Medals either...only the deployed experience you gained. You could even be the commander of combat, and it wouldn't mean shit to me. Although, clearly this individual did a bang up job while commander of combat. Using the number of AFAMs, AFCMs, MSM, etc. one has to judge their ability as an officer and a leader is the exact same thing as using an AAD and PME. It is an example of what's wrong with the Air Force. As RSD put it, "But what is more telling is where they were flying." There are things that mean something, and there are those that don't. As an organization, we have a pretty decent deficiency in telling one from the other. Bendy

The news article said the pilot was 87 years old. I'm just sayin...

I don't know. Those sitting on the fence, trying to decide if they want to stick it out and continue doing all they can to fix their piece of the sinking ship, now will apply a ~$90-125K hit to the "continue to serve" option. What once was not entirely about money now is, and the airline copilot pay gap is comparatively smaller. I bet AFPC feels like they just used the nuke option. What they don't see is that they used it on themselves.

In all fairness it's not just you guys in Blue. The Doner stand in Bad Windsheim has a whole wall of awards from every Brigade and Battalion commander going back 15 years..... But it is a really fuckin good Doner.

Not exactly answering your question here...but why not just an AK-74, which is the original rifle for the 5.45? Classic Arms has quality Waffen Werks AK-74's for as cheap at $600, and for a little more you can get it with nicer furniture. Also, I've seen Bulgarian polymer mags as cheap as $13-15 for the 74 (they're not Circle 10 quality, but they'll definitely do the job most need them to do). I have a WW 74 and it's a great shooter. Whatever you get, don't forget to rinse out and then clean your rifle right away after shooting the corrosive ammo that you linked.

Well according to this email notification I got yesterday, the FAA is busy doing other things..

LOL, Air Force pilots are calling themselves operators now? You must be in AFSOC...

Also this from this morning's WSJ. A big STS on the whole article. Going through the back door can pay off for high-income retirement savers. We're talking about the backdoor route into popular Roth individual retirement accounts, which offer tax-free income in later life. The front door into Roths is shut for many investors. Married couples earning $191,000 or more and singles earning $129,000 or more in 2014 are barred from contributing directly to Roth IRAs. But there's a simple detour that works for many of them. They can put money into a traditional IRA—and then roll that into a Roth IRA, getting all the benefits. More than 40% of the Silicon Valley executives working with adviser Bijan Golkar of FPC Investment Advisory Inc. in Petaluma, Calif., do this year after year, he says. Roth IRAs are "a great tool" for these clients, who are likely to be in high tax brackets even in retirement because of hefty 401(k) accounts, he says. With a Roth IRA, contributions are made with after-tax dollars, but earnings compound without tax and can be withdrawn tax-free in retirement. With a traditional IRA, in contrast, qualifying savers get an upfront tax deduction but owe tax when money is withdrawn. Most high earners who can't contribute directly to a Roth also can't make a deductible IRA contribution. For instance, there's no deduction if you are covered by a retirement plan at work and have 2014 income of at least $116,000 on a joint return or $70,000 as a single filer. So for those investors, a traditional IRA is ho-hum. But high earners are still allowed to contribute to a traditional IRA, and that's the first step in the indirect route to a Roth IRA. The next step, which might occur as soon as a few days later: Convert that traditional IRA to a Roth, which is a move available to all. There's one big caveat: This strategy works best for people who don't already have money in traditional IRAs. That's because in conversions, earnings and previously untaxed contributions in traditional IRAs are taxed—and that tax is figured based on allyour traditional IRAs, even ones you aren't converting. For an investor who doesn't already hold traditional IRAs, creating one and then quickly converting it into a Roth IRA will cost little or nothing in tax, because after a short holding period there's likely to be little or no appreciation in the account. But if you already have money in traditional IRAs, particularly ones for which you took a deduction, you could face a far higher tax bill on the conversion. "That is definitely a trap that people fall into," says Jeffrey Levine, a CPA with Ed Slott & Co. in Rockville Centre, N.Y. One possible workaround, he says, is to roll older traditional IRAs into your 401(k) plan, if the plan allows. Then converting a new IRA into a Roth will cost you taxes on only the earnings, if any, of the new account.

We always hear about take rates (I.e Air Force meeting their goal) but we never hear about numbers of eligibles who separate. I'm willing to bet the numbers who separate won't change much even without the bonus. Like RP said, most of the people who take the bonus were going to stay anyway. The only thing not having a bonus will change is in the way AFPC has to manage the rated force...they don't have the leverage anymore and they may actually have to plan ahead. My prediction: They will fail miserably.

OK, history fun fact of the day: WW2 U.S. Soldier Drag Show (1942) | The Public Domain Review Panch, someone seriously thought runnersworld was distasteful? Holy $H**. I can understand where you're coming from better now.

How can the Air Force allow such promotion of excessive sexuality to take place on base and at the same time crack down on workplace display of personal items that might be interpreted as sexually offensive. The attendees should be labeled as bystanders and cowards for not reporting this violation to leadership and SAPR. Regardless of your sexual preference this is just total hypocrisy. Would it be okay if someone held a heterosexual female pole dancing contest at the O-club? No, it would be an outrage in this day and age. The organizers and attendees would be punished severely and kicked out of the AF. On the other hand, the GLBT fundraiser organizers will probably get rewarded with quarterly awards and firewall 5s for this little event. Last thing, GLBT activists should be outraged at them for perpetuating the stereotype (unless it's true) that gays and lesbians are nothing but freak shows & cross dressers instead of the regular hardworkin' warfightin' airmen that they should be.

I missed the pole dancing in there. Drag isn't sexual (at least that show wasn't). It's no worse than the hilarious powderpuff games I've watched at high school games with the guys in cheerleaders outfits and chicks in football jerseys. What about all the youtube vids of soldiers/marines/airmen/sailors in only short shorts singing madonna or Brittany spears? Mountains out of molehills.

https://www.stripes.com/news/air-force/first-air-force-same-sex-couple-granted-joint-spouse-assignment-happy-to-be-moving-forward-together-1.241381 I bet they'll fit right in with all the judgmental Mormons in Salt Lake City.

Sum Ting Wong? https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing/index.html