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2024... at least. USecAF_VCSAF_HAT_Rescission_Memo_19-Oct-17.pdf

Just brought this home today. I’d never heard of B&T until recently, did some online digging and found good reviews. I was in the market for something my daughter can easily shoulder and shoot so I grabbed this. Very nice engineering, I’m impressed.

Great collection here: https://www.usafupt.com/id131.htm

Anyone AD or their spouse that applies for any chase cards after 20 Sept now gets the annual fees waived. It is not SCRA and it is not retroactive. I have some CSR referrals left if anyone wants to go that route now that the annual fee is waived. (Automatically, I might add).

Yeah, you're correct, it does have that "benefit" but it's not definitely not as useful as Marriott Gold. Have yet to find the CSR hotels useful because it allows you to book high end hotels around the world like The Carlyle in NY at the great price of only $831 a night in October, or the Shangri-La in Hong Kong for a mere $450 or so a night. But again, I signed up for the CSR only because of the $1500 in airline tickets and $200 in airline credits. So for the $450 annual fee, I got 4 round trip tickets to take the kids to see their grandparents without hassling with non-reving, and also got $200 worth of credits which Chase defines VERY broadly. Even with the 50,000 miles currently offered, that's $750 dollars worth of airline tickets plus the $200 travel credit and $100 Global Entry fee. Definitely a win if you only use it for the first year. I also use it to buy any food at restaurants at home and on the road as it pays 3x points for restaurants. Which are then useable at 1.5x for airline tickets.

Sounds like an ideal USAF Officer/Pilot to me. Exactly what they are looking for. 0% chance she bails for the airlines.

I could write an entire paper on how the mobility Air Forces delegitimize flying skill. But the bottom line is this: for the most part, you don't have to be good to accomplish our mission. Because you can be quite bad at the actual skill of flying and still get the mobility mission done, guys are able to focus their early careers on superfluous shit, while maintaining only a baseline competency in the jet. Since this strategy optimizes your chances for promotion, especially within Mobility, these people end up in positions of power. And since they weren't competent in the jet, they perpetuate the idea that skill in the jet is not as important as the skill of paperwork, and being an exec, and other non flying related tasks. Since the reality is that you can be bad in the jet and get the mobility mission done, this mindset is able survive. What commander who got where they are by being terrible in the aircraft is going to promote a squadron culture of being skilled in the aircraft? Because people are generally proponents of the way they got to their position in life, these weak pilots deemphasize skill, sometimes actively.

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