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Not true. The F-22 5th gen capes were used a few weeks back to penetrate hostile Afghanistan airspace and drop GPS guided bombs on poppy processing facilities. Rumor has it the targets were highly defended by pitchforks and shovels.

Since the families are a huge part of retention calculus, I don't think your crusade against service members with families is likely to go anywhere.

And tell us what you got dickwad.

Not Hacker, but scope is THE most important section of a contract (it's section #1 for a reason). It's the section that lays out what flying MUST be done by company pilots and what can be farmed out to regional/joint venture carriers. Without it, or with crappy scope, the company can farm out the flying to whomever they wish. On one end of the scope spectrum you have SWA, who has pretty solid scope. From my understanding, EVERY passenger who buys a southwest ticket is flown by Southwest pilots. However, a person who buys a Delta ticket to say Copenhagen (I just ran a orbitz search) could end up flying on one of our regional carriers to ORD then Air France to CPH. A ticket sold by Delta and not once are they being flown by a Delta pilot. All the carriers (except SWA), have some form of give on scope, some more than others. For the big-3, selling top end scope means fewer WB pilots, thus fewer of the highest paying jobs, and fewer pilots in general. If/when you get to an airline and the union starts talking about selling scope for pay rates...be VERY weary. Doing so can mean stagnation in your current seat or even maybe never seeing the left seat of that WB.

Are you sure?

I’m not sure how a question as to what FIGHTER airplane to choose turned into an orgy of robot fluffing nerdery. Having been in both, the three years I spent caring for my droid via satellite link I wish I could ram dump from memory. I tried rationalizing the gross mismanagement of manpower that befell me into that community with consoling one liners like “I get to kill a lot of bad guys”. In the end I could not rationalize away the disdain I had for being put in that community. Your dream sheet should look exactly like this: Vipers Hogs F35 Raptor Any manned aircraft Faip Droids Janitor at chipotle Strike Eagle

Because in the admin logs I can see that Gearpig was merged with another account and then both were deleted. Either the individual that is Gearpig had decided to create a fake account and then merge both and delete all previous content, or somebody was able to gain access to his BO account and then performed the merge and delete operation. The reason I'm trying to get a hold of Gearpig is to warn him that if somebody was able to get into his BO account, there's a high likelihood that it's because they already had access to his e-mail account. Or to see if he had some kind of reason for doing such a strange thing and then leaving BO.

Please remove your tin foil hat. An individual's account was compromised. His content was then deleted.

Mark1, of all the the jacked up problems with our service, an antiquated system paying married members an extra few dollars is the thing you crusade about? BTW, as a married member I have, on four occasions, extended or departed early for deployments based on personal emergencies for other members— some married and some single. Your assertion that single members create less mission impacting family drama is without data. Have you forgotten they still have families?

Apparently all started by Gearpig, whose account was potentially compromised and the individual that stole it deleted all his stuff. Or he did.

Folks - I've gotten to the bottom of the missing threads. As the big announcement on the front page reads, if you know who GEARPIG is, please PM me so I can get his/her contact info. Thanks!

The impacts of these decisions will be paid in blood across all of the services. Our accident rate is already trending up and I predict a big spike over the next 2-3 years as we flood the combat forces with inexperience that should have been filtered at the RTU/Selection process.

I'll throw my 2 cents in. I've been to Rucker and seen how their civilians implement and by and large it seems pretty well managed/run given that the civilians only teach contact (transition I think they call it) and instruments then the green suiters teach all the other stuff. I could see something similar working in T-6's. The big thing I worry about is if the AF made it all civilian. At that point you turn it into the same shit show that sim land is, the majority of the sim IP's are way out of touch, spend most of the time talking about the Tweet or having 'nam flashbacks in the middle of a sim, and care more about how accurate your instrument cockpit check was than actually teaching a kid how to fly instruments. At many points during my tour as an IP did I have to re-explain basic instrument things to a student because the sim IP was focused on crap that hasn't mattered since the 60's. I mean hell I told a sim IP I used the GPS to go direct for 300+ miles in the -38 and you would have thought the world was ending because I used the GPS and not ground based NAVAIDs.

My view is that they want everything from us but have very little to give in return other than the, "Thanks for all of your hard work and for what you do!" every other UTA. I get it. I know that's really all they can do, but this $hit is just not that fun anymore and noone seems to want to throw their package on the table and say, "stop using us like and expecting us to be Active Duty-light!". Everyone is so scared of pushing back. They can't do this without us. The ARC has the upper hand. I don't know why ARC leadership can understand that.

From what I know, this has been approved and will be showing up at a UPT base near you... Highlights from someone in the know: -The pay as of now is not competitive. ~$100K/yr and from what I saw was a fairly flat pay scale, little incentive to stick around. -Ideally looking for fresh separated guys/gals, but I personally don’t see how they are going to entice them away from going the Airline route. Maybe thinking people will sign up just so they can fly and not deal with AD/ARC BS? Tough sell with low pay in my opinion. -AETC/CC has completely championed this idea from what I was told and wants it implemented at all UPT bases eventually. -God help us.

If that happens, failures will be counted in terms of Class A's.

Good Luck! Run with opportunity you have and don't forget to mentor to the one's coming after you.

That’s where I’m at as well Gazmo. Why break your neck. I’ve got a feeling guard reserve squadron leadership is going to plummet the next 5 years

san francisco cocksuckers

Charleston: Down $200 on average while housing rates continue to go up. Thanks a lot cocksuckers.

solid. good luck!

Thanks for the input guys, it truly is helpful, I turned it in yesterday and I'm feeling pretty good about the order. I appreciate that there's dudes out there willing to offer some wisdom to us ignorant young folk. At this point I'm very excited to see what comes next and I'll be sure to throw it in the assignment thread when 26 Jan rolls around!

I’ll need a better hint than that.

Can you imagine how hard it would be to keep Docs if their only options for assignments were Cannon, Holloman or Osan?

I think that’s the scale available on dfas.mil

The assumption that impact of military life on a married servicemember is more significant than that for a single one is stunted thinking, indeed. There are plenty of things a single guy could be into that are severely impacted by military service. The service shouldn't concern itself with any of them. They're personal choices and should be dealt with personally by the member. I was on single BAH for more than half my career, but it was about even between single/dependent BAH over the period of my CMR time, so I don't think bias has anything to do with it. Quite the opposite in fact. I'm able to look at a situation and come to a logical conclusion even if it's bad for me personally (doesn't impact me at all anymore, except as a taxpayer, but I would have said the same when I was collecting dependent BAH). Got dat pair of panties. Of course not. Once you hand out an entitlement, you can never take it back. The uproar would be tremendous. This forum certainly seems to know that...just selectively when it impacts others and not themselves.