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And this is them still working today!

I think I’ve sang the same song a few months into deployment when I’m stuck on the middle of the night lines where absolutely nothing happens.

That's clearly him on take 14 as he's finishing the second bottle.

I can tell ya the little birdie rumint stuff from 19th. This hair brained idea comes from you know who, the most famous instagram meme person on the AETC side himself. Shocker. At any rate, the RUMINT is this was done to walk the 11B recipients (who largely still view themselves as the losers of the lottery, good bad or indifferent) off the ledge of making career-chucking decisions. This as opposed to the end-game toxicity that usually befalls those who have been busting their hump for 3 years in UPT to end up getting sideswiped by rules #1 and #2 of military life. The gaining commands are basically complaining they can't get them copacetic in time, they need three years. Six months to two weeks from being gained is not cutting it goes the rumor grievance.

I've seen a lot of follow-on promises in 13 years...take guesses as to how many actually came true, I'll wait.

If you stay in long enough, you’ll see what happened years ago (then ended), come back again.

I've considered finding orders to close out my remaining 3 years of AD to get the full retirement...and then I log-in (more correctly: I ATTEMPT to log-in) to a AF computer...and my decision to bypass the AD retirement solidifies again. As to probation, Huggy shacked it. Don't risk excessively extending probation. That next 20 year multi-million dollar career in the airlines simply isn't worth the 12 months of orders and absoluteluy zero protection that the USAF will give you in the event your new airline fires or furloughs you because of COVID-23 or whatever insanity is next. A few days here and there for drill weekend is manageable. Dropping 3 years at 6 months in is hanging it out on the line in what has proven to be a feast-or-famine industry.

Or maybe we had such an absurd goal or lack of practical mission that it sounded like the broken record that was going on…

The AF "needs" you. I'm of the belief that the AF can be told to wait. While on Active Duty, each of us... and our families... were often managed in a crisis manner of "we need you to deploy NOW!" Many things seemed to be an emergency because of lack of planning. As an AD pilot, we didn't have a choice. Now that a pilot has left active duty and has an airline job along with their Guard/Reserve job, it's time to tell the AF they will have to wait. And 6 months is not unreasonable. The AF will not crumble because you cannot meet their timeline. Giving up union protection by remaining on probation is probably not going to be a factor. But... what if it is? Will the AF rescue you because you went on mil leave 6 months before your probationary period was up to help the AF out? How's your family going to feel about your gamble if you lose? Most of you have SGLI, right? Why? It's because it is very cheap insurance. Waiting a few months and getting off probation before diving back into the squadron is ALSO cheap insurance.

And the democrats blaming the failure on Trump saying he made the deal and we had to stick to it. Out of all the Trump stuff Biden reversed that was the one and only thing he couldn't.

I paid $950 for the installation & $750 for the equipment, although prices for the same charger are $200 higher today it looks like on Amazon at least. So that does factor in to your year 1 fuel costs for sure, but I look at it more like a necessary hardware investment that pays off relatively quickly rather than a outright cost. I also went with a pricier installation of hard-wiring the charger to a new, dedicated 80amp circuit run from my outside panel rather than a more typical dryer plug installation that would have been about $250. I wanted to future-proof that setup for something like the F-150 Lightning that I have on order. The battery on that thing is *massive* (131 kWh i.e. like 10x Tesla powerwalls or 2.7x what my ID4 has) and I wanted to be able to fully charge that vehicle overnight if required. My charger as installed puts ~37 miles of range on my ID4 per hour, whereas if I had done the cheaper dryer plug-type install that would have been more like 20 miles of range per hour, and I felt the need...the need for speed! Even factoring in those costs, it's 40% paid off already just in 4 months based on my savings over the gas car we replaced.

His name is "Shaved Dog's Ass". But you knew that.

Another story. First assignment was Osan 1977, what a place for the Air Force to send a 19 year old. I wind up in this particular girls room and she puts this song on the turntable. Then proceeds to strip. Best $5 I ever spent.