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A little more sanctimonious next time please (not you Bergman, the guy who wrote that). Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I wouldn't say definitively either way but me visiting my unit before I submitted my application almost certainly helped to get an interview. I may have been given an interview if I didn't visit because of my resume but I can't say for sure and I don't regret going for a visit beforehand. Yes, it absolutely sucked financially to schedule two round trip flights while working on my PPL. Was it worth it? Well, I'm waiting for UPT so that's up to you. My advice is to search one-way on google flights (incognito so cookies don't raise your search dates) and find the cheapest flights not on the same carrier both ways. I was able to piecemeal like that, hell I took one airline to a connection and then another to my destination but that's a dangerous game to play...

If your home squadron leadership is worth a damn they'll help guide you through the process. Find a place you'd like to rush and talk with your home SQ/CC, they should help facilitate via CC to CC phone calls. If not, just start reaching out through the bro network. Join the pilot network on FB, LOTS of ARC guys on that website and you'd be surprised by the amount of people willing to help out.

Last Doolittle Raider Dick Cole passed away at 103 years old, IAW af.mil and other sources. Ref: https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1809760/lt-col-dick-cole-last-surviving-doolittle-raider-passes-away-at-age-103/ Thank you for your service sir. Not just the Raid, which was HUGE and I'm sure many thought was a suicide mission, but all your contributions to the war effort and beyond. 🥃

Thanks for reading! I am a 10 year active duty Marine Special Operations Officer with Marine Special Operations Command. I recently hit the lottery and got hired by an Air National Guard unit to change career paths and go to flight school and fly jets for them. The day before my flight physical Wright Patterson called to let me know I can't do the physical because I have a back surgery on my record. In 2011 I was wounded twice in Afghanistan and had some minor surgeries to recover in the coming years, and one was a micro-discectomy L5-S1 and was back to full duty two months later. I have done over two years of operations since the minor back surgery and multiple training and combat deployments. I have a current Spec Ops physical and no waivers or hardware. If anyone reading this works at AETC or knows someone who does or is involved in an exception to policy, I would appreciate any help you could provide. I have read the air force order and know that back surgery is disqualifying/non-waiverable but also know where there is a will there is a way. My hiring unit is putting in an exception to policy for the back surgery, and I want to try and do everything I can to make it succeed. This blog is a long shot, but if anyone out there thinks they can help I'd love to talk to you. I have given 10 years of ground/spec ops service and hope to continue to serve as a pilot if I can get past this minor back surgery. Thank you for your time.

Completely packaged based for AD boards, no interviews

I know multiple people that this has happened to. I know it probably doesn't seem like it now, but this is a good thing. The people I know who didnt get Fighter qual'd wouldn't have been successful in fighters but are successful and enjoying flying other USAF airframes. My best advice to you, pick the unit closest to where you want to live. I don't think you'll have any problem finding a Squadron to fly with.

Turns out there is a user for a 26 century long PED cycle.

The relevant change in the tax law was that miscellaneous unreimbursed employee expenses can no longer be itemized. In previous tax years, employees could use a Schedule A (where you itemize your mortgage, charitable contributions, etc) to also itemize unreimbursed expenses. This applied to most all employees with unreimbursed expenses like a traveling salesman for unreimbursed lodging. The expenses for Air Force folks were usually related to uniforms, and this is why Lt Snuffy would save all of his dry cleaning receipts. For 2018 going forward, employees can no longer itemize unreimbursed expenses on Schedule A. But Reservists who travel more than 100 miles from home to perform military duty can/should file Form 2106 for their unreimbursed expenses related to traveling. This Form existed before 2018, and there don't appear to be any major changes to the Form. Form 2106 is an "above the line" deduction that helps lower your AGI and can be used even if you do not itemize other expenses on a Schedule A.

Looks like a typical recovery into Bagram to me.

Stop talking to this guy, he has no idea what he's talking about.

No, K Falls is good for now because it’s an RTU, but don’t think that Oregon having 2 fighter units hasn’t gotten anybody’s attention. Other than that, if your not getting info straight from the NGB, you’re guessing. Fake news!!!

I was so pissed by the time that movie ended I wanted to dig Johnson and Mcnamara back up and kick their ass just for good measure. As many of them pointed out, that was a complete shit-show from the beginning. Respect for the men who fought with their hands tied behind their backs! I became an AF pilot because of those men who fought in Viet Nam. In 1973 as a 10 year old I got to sit in an F-4 (18th TFW deployed) at CCK Air Base in Taiwan and speak with one of the pilots and it was game on from there.