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Let me put it this way: Nobody, including you, knows what's going on and why you're tired. I would continue to search for a solution if I were you but I would not do anything that jeopardized my chance at going to UPT. What if this passes in a month and never comes back again? What if it doesn't but you find a way to manage it? You have a once in a lifetime opportunity, I wouldn't let that go. I wouldn't worry about failing out of UPT and having to do something else for the Reserves. If you eliminate yourself early, you're going to live with regret, for the rest of your life. You don't owe anybody anything, this is your chance, don't mess it up. If you get to UPT and feel you're too tired to fly, just tell them and sit that one out. If you do fly, there will be an IP in the back seat. They say that, when you're on your death bed, you regret the things you didn't do more than the things you did. Start trying to get on a good sleep schedule, make sure you aren't over training in the gym or have too many irons in the fire, get plenty of calories, ease up on the booze if you're doing that often, and press. This coming from a guy who spent $5k on a temper-pedic mattress in UPT because I ran into a slump where I wasn't sleeping well and tired all the time. Things worked out just fine. Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

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This is what you sound like to me.

Can you not tough it out? I've followed your posts and was excited for you when you got your age waiver and got selected for UPT. Then you seemingly dodged another bullet by not having the 5 year AD commitment that the reserves are throwing around apply to you. You're all set to be self employed as a civilian with the worlds most bomb ass job on the side as a pilot in the reserves. You're on the verge of having it made. After all that are you telling me that the show stopper is going to be "sleep apnea"? Cmon dude, get a temper-pedic mattress and go to Walmart and buy some melatonin. Then go to UPT. I'd kill to be in your place. Not sure what else to say.

Both. Not my problem anymore, started my contractor job last week!

It's obvious that the Stein recount was a money grab by the Green Party. As far as how she managed to raise more money in a week than she did during her WHOLE CAMPAIGN, I guess we can just speculate. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Schofield's Quote...

The C-130 is an A model and all are gone as far as I know. The KC-135 is an A model and all are gone as far as I know. An argument can be for the B-57 as NASA still has three flying, but all the WB-57s are F models and the one pictures is an E model. If you care B-57E Tail #54244 is on display at Strategic Air and Space Museum, Offutt AFB, Bellevue, Nebraska. An argument could also be made for the BUFF, but that looks like a big tail and they are all gone. Fairly certain all the Tweets are gone, unless some dictator is South America or Africa has one in his garage. That leaves the F-86, several privately owned owns are out there and a company was using them to pull darts for you pointy nose drivers. Now you made me miss the early bird special so GET OFF MY LAWN.

Yea, like all those tanker dudes...

Agreed. Get your wings ASAP and start working off your 10 year ADSC. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

2 Not sure if it was on this forum or solving the world's problems over two beers at the Bra but the rationale to that I have heard is that once they have found the right guy they have to make sure he will be the right guy for the next promotion, select opportunity, recognition, etc... the attitude expressed to me, not one I accept mind you, is that the AF considers the sunk cost once it puts a person on the path to power and it is very reluctant to cut loose that investment even when evidence to the contrary that said person was a good pick comes up... F'd up reasoning in my humble opinion, good coaches and investors cut their losses if they see problem that is perennial, not fixable, getting worse and or all them. They don't wait to see if the problem will just go away on its own, they cut it out... not saying at the first problem a leader at any level should get his/her walking papers but as an institution if it is apparent that they have gone as far as they can go or should, then for the good of the team take necessary but likely unpleasant action. In reference to the second boldface point, they don't (big shocker) - from the attitude of you are replaceable from the CSAF himself, the detachment from the mission / day to day environment is incredible. To some degree I think this is unfortunately probably an unavoidable trait of air forces in general not just the USAF. We have lots of people, the vast majority are not in operations and of those in operations, only a small percentage participate in direct combat, combat support or other operations in a tactical environment where there is an appreciable amount of risk which has a tendency to keep the mind focused on that which is truly important. The other members, God bless them, just may not realize this on an intuitive and conscious level and hence you get shoe clerks who believe some meaningless CBT, whose training has no real world value, is the most important weapon we wield. It would really be a cultural shock but greatly limiting the rank available to certain sections of the AF might be a feasible solution, not easy as the entrenched shoe clerks would fight like hell to keep the status quo, but keeping their ranks high enough to manage their people but low enough to not cause trouble with make work projects could be done.

It's almost as if they plan the hypocrisy. Couple this with the death threats the electoral college has received, the party of tolerance may as well be the ministry of peace. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Compunction-another one of those 5 dollar words. Fortunately, there are lots of lobbyists and congressmen (not to mention well paid Boeing employees) that will work within the law to keep that gravy train rolling. My take on this whole election- unless you're celebrating Mattis as secdef, a republican lock on SCOTUS for a generation, an AG who will crack down on hippies who stop traffic or liberal anxiety in general, the rest will be more of the same. I won't be able to buy a machine gun, Mexicans and Muslims will be just fine, Boeing will build a new AF1 and the protection of title 10 orders will remain. Everybody calm the fvck down. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Honestly, that might be enough to keep a grin on my face for the next 8 years. As for the rest of you nerds, I'm not impressed by your sesquipedalian prose.