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https://cademartin.com/overwar/ Pretty impressive stories and backgrounds of the dudes with brass balls flying the F-105 in Vietnam. 🇺🇸

For me the deployment is the crux of the issue... I’ve missed so much of my kids lives... When I was gone 6 months without kids doing a meaningful mission it was OK. When I was gone 3 months doing a meaningful mission and missed my kids first steps it was sad, but that is service. When I was gone 2 months on a mission that was not required in a place where I could have brought my family and missed my kid talk... it was not worth it. The length is a factor, but not THE (only) factor. If the world explodes I’ll take my 4 year unaccompanied tour and go fight for America again. But if I even smell another wasted, mismanaged deployment, much less 6 monther or 365 cooking in the kitchen... I gone. Not worth it.

I would stay voluntarily bonus free past 20 as long as I have the freedom to turn down the 365 or bad deal. Accepting a ADSC past that mark just gives bonus free work and all leverage to the USAF. I will hit the VML with 2 yrs and 2 mos left on my ADSC so chances are I’ll put in my paperwork for separation rather than accept another adsc. This is where the AF will miss out...people willing to stay with their freedom in tact but forced to separate rather than be under the thumb of big blue.

Of course it's not stressful when you're at an "advanced age" and the test consists of shuffleboard and maneuvering through a few cones with your hoveround.

Manchester

I suppose you mean RegAF. For some of us there's a canyon of difference between a primary AFSC deployment, and an AFCENT rent-seeking, combat desk, operation deny family, green slide warrior, congressional pork barrel jobs program nonner 179. It may be a distinction without difference for those who entered the military with a high level of price inelasticity relative to what their income potential on the civil sector is. For those of us who have options on the outside however, it's anything but the same difference; it's a non-starter of a difference. I've left quite a bit of money on the table over that so-called non-difference over the last 12 years. And I have point blank asked my family that question: in my household's case, the consensus is that if they are to involuntarily be without my company for 200 days out of the year, they prefer the sentence to be served out on a 3-on-4-off basis, vice a 200-on-165-off. Gee I wonder what that looks like? I digress. To each their own.

Like many other things in life, it's about consistent performance at a very high level. Just peaking isn't going to win you any titles here or anywhere else. Amateurs, most of them. Looks like we have spotted another one streaking around...nothing to see here. In reference to the subject post though: What? You unhooked another load master, tossed the other out the back, and then hooked the entire crew to the same station? Q2 at best I'd say...shit. ~Bendy

You didn't build that.

Go with real time execution and color white for five...

If BODN anecdotes are any indication, that problem will fix itself as pilots maneuver to avoid requal ADSCs and therefore the FTU, and instead complete their centerline thrust restriction removal and MEIs.

I think the requal adsc is a sign that we have all seen coming-our FTUs are not adequately manned/resourced. It should be a big red flag that FTU capacity isn't where it needs to be, making the strategy to grow our way out of the pilot shortage near impossible.

Boots on the ramp v2

What’s happens with the C-21/C-37/C-40 units shutting down, will there be requal ADSC leniency? This three year requal ADSC is really making a bad situation worse. If we 7-day opt the 3 year requal ADSC, will big AF really keep us at our base with no planes until the DOS? Asking for a friend..

I've posted this a few times because I think it's funny... but when people make really good points, or suggest meaningful impactful changes like the above, I like to re-read it to get grounded back to reality: https://www.duffelblog.com/2015/04/jcs-dont-care-youre-resigning/

KEND 18-13 T-38: F-16x2 Kelly, Luke F-15C Kingsley Field F-15E Seymour Johnson U-28 Hurlburt HC-130J Moody E-3 Tinker T-6 FAIP F-15SG Singapore T-1: C-17 Charleston KC-135x4 MacDill, McConnell, Kadena, Mildenhall KC-10x2 Travis, McGuire E-3 Tinker T-1 FAIPx2 (one to Laughlin) HC-130J JBER ANG C-130H Bradley ANG

Silly rabbit. You can’t just break titanium. Didn’t you watch RoboCop? Now go grab me an Ensure, and go back to eating your FudgeSickle, junior.

I misread "hoveround" as "hoverboard," and my first thought was, "No way, he'll break his hip on one of those things!"

Claiming old Barry as a centrist is the most full of shit thing drewpey has said so far. Now we know he’s just trolling, so I’m guessing the rest of his BS was along the same line.

Said no one that read his history, ever. Centrist don’t hang out with weather underground or reshape the economy putting 20% under government control. I don’t think there is any worry history will remember him as a centrist, or a good president for that matter. Love or hate Trump, I think his election is a direct response to Obama. They couldn’t be more different if they tried.

What? Is he supposed to sit down with you over avocado toast and seek to understand your feelings?

I think you might be suffering from bulimia bro.

Wouldn’t be an aviation forum without people going full rage mode with notional or incomplete data.

A SAC warrior at heart, that's all. NBD.

Same ADSC. Once you opt to transfer it you can redistribute it as you see fit. If you have kids down the line and they are added to MilPDS, you can redistribute months to them with no additional ADSC.

(Edit because it didn’t come off in flight) Apparently fell off a truck just outside ATL today: