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They want my knowledge and experience? Then make the compensation enough that I will be enticed FUPM.

Yeah, but you would think holding people to the same standard, I don’t know, meant that we were “uniform” or something. Oh well—I’m the old guy who is retired now.

I’m old enough to remember when the standard was a “standard”.

Or the base had a phone number that when dialed gave you a dial tone to make a local call. Overseas DSN to home for free.

When base operators were a thing 1110 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What standard is that, AFR 35-10? You could probably get a copy of that on your way to the cash cage in CBPO! 🤣 It's been said by every generation ever.

I get it. Also the old guy. I find myself with the same thoughts but then I think, all generations say the same thing. Shits crazy now in my eyes but I'm positive all generations have said the same thing.

Was that the AUTOVON number? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

40% 737 FO here. I flew two legs this week and made 28:15 (all at straight time, no premium). These are good times in a good job and I'm trying to enjoy/appreciate every minute of it. The only thing I can add to the above discussion is the importance of knowing your contract. It's insane how many guys I fly with that honestly have no idea how we get paid. Gotta understand the rules of the game in order to make them work for you.

The A-37 arrives today. I'll arrive late Friday and leave Sunday afternoon. Mark is doing the display flying and is really good at it. We asked Hill to have the plane parked in the public area, and not sequestered off in the Hot Pits. Our goal is for people to see this rare plane up close. I'll be near the jet most of the day. Come by and say hi.

Nice retro hour!! You might actually remember when the phone number to CBPO at most bases was x2276.

This! I was recently asked to be a LCA. You need 1,000 hours as a DAL Captain...after just over 2 years, I'm just about to break 500 block hours as Captain, so I have a couple years to go. I only like to do day turns so they'd have to be ok with me teaching that. I'm also a habitual show at 35 min prior to push guy, so that doesn't work well with teaching. But the biggest reason is that we only pay LCA pay on the block flown while teaching. Pay it on my entire months guarantee/credit, whether I'm teaching or not, and I'll think about it. Until then, I'll just continue to teach them how to exploit the contract to their gain, that's much more fun to talk about anyway.

Hopefully he has good home insurance.

The senior in the seat thing is great. I flew an AKL trip with a new CA (also Check Airman getting his 100 hours) and he said senior FOs should bid narrow body CA to share knowledge, experience, etc. My response was hell no. No point in suffering needlessly when you can get the vacation and flying schedule you want and only work 9 days a month.

The unique thing with U-28 compared to the AC & MC within AFSOC is that that platform will begin draw down and replacement by OA-1K (Armed Overwatch platform) will start. Timeline isn't 100% but it's happening in the next few years. So if you go U-28, that'll be in your near future. PCS for initial cadre IP/ICSO's is starting soon for the FTU while OT/DT is getting going, as well.

Here's a hot take of mine...the "toxic leadership" people talk about all the time is way blown out of proportion. Sure, there are some truly toxic leaders, but because a leader wants you to follow a standard and doesn't kiss your ass in all things doesn't mean they're toxic. When I was a punk kid, I watched some Discovery channel documentary about a bunch of students going through BUD/S (I think it was called "Class 234" or something along the lines). There is a scene during their phase 3 where one of the Officer students told trainees to do something and they didn't do it. Their cadre dude smoked everyone and then told them how this is how you create bad, micromanaging Officers. I was mad at my dad at the same time and that really struck me because it was a very similar thing that I hadn't done and now had to deal with consequences. I put the emo music on pause, cut my hair, put on Rocky 4 and started my journey to become a barrel chested freedom fighter (written from my office as I hide from my responsibilities in the office).

I am actually surprised it has not been a bigger problem in our community. 20 straight years of combat deployments for LDHD units takes a toll. Killing people is not a pick up game and watching your work on ever increasing resolution cameras makes it personal. I did 9 deployments through the years, was fortunate to have breaks along the way for school/staff....other were in a grind for year son end...90 on 90 off, 60 on 60 off...for MANY years. Same issue for the UAS folks who in many regards have it worse. Folks flying airplanes typically have the transit time home from a deployment to start the decompression process. UAS dudes can sit at the kitchen table eating breakfast with their kids, go to work, suddenly they get the call to kill a dude they have been watching for a month. They turn the dude into hamburger and spend the next four hours watching the body to see who comes to collect him...often with his family watching and grieving. They leave the GSU, drive home and are eating dinner 20 minutes later when their kid asks "how was your day Mom/Dad?

Being blacked out drunk with mental issues in the military can lead to an interesting night. I don't know the dude at all but a lot of guys/girls that fought in the fight the last 23 years, or flew dangerous missions, have ptsd. Undiagnosed ptsd. Get help if you need it, don't wake up in jail. That's a hard place to figure out your mental issues.