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I agree that attitude is utter bullshit from IPs, but it's not exclusive to SPS or -38s, unfortunately. Hell, just sit in on any assignment night at any UPT base & wait for a guy to drop a bomber or JSTARS, the room gets quiet & everyone looks at the dude like he just got diagnosed with stage 4 ass cancer. It's fucked up & a really great way to send dudes who just did something that 99.9% of the population could never do off on the rest of their careers. God knows i'd rather have to retrain a ton of salty copilots that are bitter about the pill fed to them by UPT than a batch of folks excited about the mission. /s

If you haven't heard, Serial's second season is on Bowe Bergdahl... Listened to the first episode, it's very good. Highly recommend you check it out. https://serialpodcast.org

I couldn't max both until I was sr capt. Other guys with dual incomes were putting away their entire paychecks as Lts. The mindset/lifestyle choices are more important than the numbers. The Roth IRA has some benefit as an emergency fund in dire straits. The Roth TSP has the benefit of lower expense ratios. Which is better depends on your situation.

"You need to be maxing BOTH the TSP and an IRA when you're able."

Dude it's a total wag at this point. I just hope they need to fill cockpits as much as they need RPA drivers... Cautiously optimistic. I didn't opt for RPAs on this go.

I initially wrote more but thought better of it. I'll say that 3 people on the t-6 side could go to the IG or congress.

On the subject of ENJJPT/Sheppard from a dude that graduated from there and is now there doing the whole flying thing, the comments above are pretty spot on. The place has just turned into a giant political circle J that likes to point out that it's an "international" program and "NATO" based and cares more about how it looks and acts politically among its partners than it actually cares about the training. Hell, the place sweeps up problems underneath the rug all the time to save face! A German Squad CC just got fired on the T-6 side of things after being at the helm for at most four months. The brass said he left because of personal reasons but the middle management has whispered behind the scenes saying the dude got canned for some seriously heinous stuff. On the T-6 side the fighter guys and heavy guys get along pretty well and develop a good atmosphere for the studs and paints a pretty good picture that there is more to the Air Force then being a Fighter/FAIP/Bomber guy. The 38 side is a lot different. Obviously a lot more focused on the Fighter side but I would argue to the point where they definitely put down and make fun of the "herbivores" as being lesser pilots and doing less of the mission. Hell, they even make fun of flying bombers and spec ops! Dudes that are doing the mission as we speak! Now take that attitude as a student and roll that into drop night when you made it to the point of receiving an aircraft assignment from one of the hardest pilot training programs in the world and do not happen to get a fighter or FAIP because as well all know here, luck and timing are everything. That dude now feels a little bit less of themselves because the IPs they talked to and flew with in the past took a dump all over the aircraft that stud dropped. And as for the top brass here.....golly. I'll just let the combat hours and TV talk show host speak for themselves....

It could happen.

This. Oh well, my kids will have a much easier time getting a good job with respect to competing against these self entitled weaklings.