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You've got until you're about 28.5 until you start having age related setbacks. So push hard over the next 3.5 years, get some good experience, and hopefully get selected before then. It is still possible after 28.5 but about 50 times harder to get a unit to talk to you. You need to get those AFOQT and PCSM scores way up...hopefully into the 90's.

This. Senators don't care about the true manning state, nor is any self serving GO/O-6 going to tell them the sky is falling. Fiddling... while Rome is burning.

He's got some great lines throughout the episode. You just have to look past the 18 minutes about the skynet projector hmcs...although it's probably not much worse in an ejection situation than what we've actually got in JHMCS.

I just made a spreadsheet of staying until 28 years (my current bonus expiring at 20 Yas) as an O-5 or getting out at 20 and working for my "desired" airline which has much lower pay but based where I wish to live. The USAF would have to extend my current $25K just to compete. Add in 12 days a month off and no threats of 6 mos away/365....no brainer My magic number is I'd consider staying for $60k without deployment exemptions/homesteading. $45k with some stability measures. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

If it ain't bringing billions of dollars worth of business to the states these Senators represent, they don't care about it. Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk

Watched Arrival most recently and enjoyed it. It does a decent job in creating a sense of realism as to how different cultures around the world would handle an alien presence as well as how to go about establishing communication with an entity so drastically different in every way. I thought the concept was interesting, but I could see how others may think some parts were a little far-fetched. My $.02

Ouch. The proposal was supposed to only need a 25% modification to the A model, I imagine it was whole new pressurized section and the rocket motors in lieu of the jets. That seems a little too good to be true but whatevs, it was an awesome idea from a different time...

Batman movie was fun if you liked the Lego movie. Logan was good. Strange having a PG13 franchise go for the hard R (little/no sex) and seeing just how brutal metal clawed combat would be. Would recommend both.

Phuk you.

The F-16 exceeded my expectations in that story. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

One night North of JBAD we were supporting a routine nightly DA from the bottom of an air stack 20 miles high. Upon infil the objective village came to life and a large group with small arms, RPGs, and recoilless rifles headed for the high ground surrounding the objective. We kept track of their movement with 25% of the capacity of one of our two sensors while supporting other tasks with the rest. When the F-16 flight finally finished yo-yo ops and got both birds back onstation from JOKERing out prior to infil due to a 15min slip in the timeline, we talked them on. The group stopped and set up a fighting position in the terrain above the objective leading the GFC to decide to engage prior to entering the objective village. Friendlies were still several clicks away and the targets were in the middle of nowhere. As a result, and because it wasn't a critical or time sensitive engagement, the JTAC decided to throw a bone to the F-16s. A way to get them in the game as thanks for showing up night after night and watching in the background while we took care of the meaningful engagements. In the process of 9-line coordination, the F-16s lost sight of the targets (which hadn't moved) and were unable to reacquire. We moved out, found them, and talked the F-16s back on. We then attempted to confirm basic fighter/gunship integration procedures to allow us to remain overhead at the time of strike, but it caused confusion on their part and the JTAC opted to push us off rather than spend the time to unfuck it. The initial drop incapacitated 2 or 3 of about 15 and the re-attack turned into a shitshow that never left home plate after the F-16s lost tally again. After giving the targets a 5min headstart to run in a bomburst pattern off the original impact site the JTAC got fed up, aborted the re-attack, and called us back overhead. Despite having been in BFE for the initial strike, the first round left the aircraft ~3 seconds after arriving overhead without aid of the assets that were supposed to have custody of the target. The remaining 12 or 13 spread all over the mountainside were cleaned up in 1/5 the time that it took for 9-line coordination on the initial strike, while the F-16s faded back into the background. I knew right then how different our worlds were.

While I think you are right on all accounts, it doesn't matter you will either be promoted or you won't be (at which point you will be continued) they arent going to pay to pay you to leave at this point. So take the 20 year retirement as a captain as a blessing in disguise and go enjoy yourself and your family if you have one. Or get out and do something better. But you aren't getting sep pay IMO

"My intent of the stock split talk was more of future affordability...kind of like Apple post 7-1 split." I am not trying to pick on you, but this is twice now in this thread you have something bizarre or wrong about splits. Affordability? What are you talking about? Unless you are only buying one share of something you can barely afford, it doesn't matter. You got the same amount of apple for $100 (or any denomination) the day before and the day after the split. I can think of one time ever that "affordability" of a given stock has mattered: Berkshire (which has never split) is expensive per share. Which is exactly why they created B shares. My advice as a dumb pilot that does have degree in finance and an MBA from a top 15 program, unless you can discuss: leading and trailing pe, yield and beta on a coherent level at a minimum you have no business buying individual equities. Buy an index fund and sleep tight.