Scooter14

This has been my experience as well. I’ve had billeting give me a hard time as well but I’ve always gotten reimbursed. I use it for rentals for the insurance, airline tickets and lodging. I’ll take a few bucks out before I go TDY or use it in a sketchy overseas ATM. Why anyone would use it for meals is beyond me.

Anyone else get the DoD Dine Smart email today? “It only takes 2 minutes to enroll”...yeah, I’ll pass.

This thread started when my oldest kid was 4 1/2 and I was a T-1 student. He commissions in May. Your math checks.

Yeah this has got to be a thread revival record!

I’m willing to bet every CONUS ANG unit that has a mobility mission is working this weekend to deliver Army National Guard and Air National Guard forces to DC with at least one aircraft. My state sent 25 Army, 25 Air so far and has three jets against it. Those 50 are above and beyond the ones we have mobilized to vaccinate, augment security within the state and man call centers for unemployment support and vaccine information. I’ve honestly never seen anything quite like this in 18 years of being in the Guard.

Vaccine microchips are the new chemtrails. I love it.

I’m sorry you got non-volled to a pot luck. Next time just have someone else scan your ID and sign the 1522.

I’ll tell you what, I feel like we are really at a good spot to start to worry about this. I mean, there is really nothing else going on right now, we should drop everything and really dig into this one.

Yeah...I’m usually sick with some sort of crud 2-3 times a year. Haven’t been sick since all this started. I hope this exercise also changes how people across the board treat calling in sick.

The F-102 pilots from the ‘50s called. They want their flight suit back.

I 100% agree with you. The inconsistencies you stated drive me insane. I still can’t wrap my head around people I saw this summer wearing masks while hiking and looking at me like I had three heads for not wearing a mask. Outside, in a 15-20 kt breeze, in the sunlight, further than 6 feet. YGBFSM. As a longtime youth and high school coach, I HATE what we are doing to the kids up here in the northeast. Let them play. I’m thankful both my kids were able to go to school in person part time and skate/play fall ball. A lot of kids lost that opportunity. But, the only way I can see to get out from under this utter stupidity is to make the numbers of people in the ICU and the numbers of people dying go down. If we vaccinate the high risk, then (hopefully) if they get Covid they just get sick and get better since their body now knows how to fight it. If we get the healthcare providers, they will hopefully only get mild cases and be less contagious over time. We get the vaccine to the rest of the folks and maybe people have to confidence fo fly, go to school, teach, etc. The media has stoked this panic for months and has worked people up into a lather and incompetence in the government at a lot of levels have gotten us to where we are. Now people just watch the metrics. Where I live we are at like a 10% positivity. Over the summer it was like 0.8 and it took forever to open up. It’s going the wrong direction, and like you said, I do not want to see another lockdown.

Well, this is what happens when you get media reports every day of only the bad things that happen. “Doctor has major reaction to Covid Vaccine” then you read the article and the dude is allergic to everything under the sun and then uses his own epi-pen to snap himself out of anaphylactic shock. Or the nurse that passed out when she got the vaccine. Oh my God! Apparently she has passed out after every vaccine she’s ever had. My wife (an RN) got it last week. No issues. Someday I’ll get mine and it’ll take it’s place next to like 20 anthrax boosters, so much yellow fever, flu, whatever that one they inject into your ass cheek that feels like a lump of peanut butter, and the rest. As the article states, the politicizing of this whole thing makes me laugh. Some of the same folks I know that are virtue signaling mask-shamers that want me to stop the spread and stay at home and not kill grandma are the same ones that won’t take the vaccine...that will stop the spread...so we don’t have to stay home...and we don’t kill grandma... But whatever. People make choices. Some people like Burger King more than McDonalds. It’ll be funny when you can’t board a plane or enter another country without one though...

You’re not trying to use common sense here are you?

Nope I like having small businesses in my downtown. I do what I can to support them.

Yeah my wife works at a hospital and sometimes they get an extra dose out of a vial. Sometimes they get five doses, sometimes they get six. At the end of the day there may be no shows and/or a few extra doses and obviously it’s better to give it out than let it expire. Those who administer the vaccine to the front liners also get it.

We had a guy retire a few years ago who was enlisted in the unit then got picked up to go to UPT and commissioned without a degree. The deal was that he was supposed to finish it at some point. He ran into some sort of roadblock at UPT and didn’t finish, so he came back and filled some non-rated officer billets back at the wing. He made it all the way to Major before they said “hey, wait a minute...you don’t have your degree!” and he returned to the rank of SSgt, which is what he was before he commissioned. At his retirement, he took off his service dress jacket that had Master Sergeant rank to reveal his Major oak leaves on his shirt as he was retiring as an O-4 We also had a guy who was an A-6 pilot in the late 80s/early 90s. He got out of the navy and went to Delta. After 9/11 he tried to get back in as an O, ran into issues so he joined us as a crew chief. He wore naval aviator wings above his MX badge on his ABUs. I also know a guy who was a Warrant Officer -60 pilot in the Army, got out and went to the ARC as a C-130/C-5 Flight Engineer. He wore his Army pilot wings above his enlisted aircrew wings. So yeah, like they said, YMMV and it doesn’t hurt to say “hey, what’s your story” because that story may be interesting.

According to the Coronet guys I work with, for a good time call (703) 904-4426 or DSN 725-3331.

20? I’d say more like 10.

The first time I saw the proposed new GS-13 pilot pay tables was in 2016 when my OG at the time got a draft from a friend at AFRC and they had been kicking around for a while. I think they went into effect with the ANG in Dec 2018, two weeks after I resigned the technician position I had held since 2007 to go to the airlines. So basically it takes over three years to change one table. We lost a lot of pilots to the airlines in that timeframe. It would take that long or longer to change it back. It won’t turn on a dime. Remember guys, we are talking about the federal government here.

We recently moved to MA (I know) and we had to take a class to apply for our Licence to Carry. They let us use a Sig P365 for the course. My wife had never shot before and she really liked how it felt and she shot very well for someone who had never done it before. Of course she had nothing to compare it to, so take that for what it’s worth. If you buy from their pro shop in NH, mil gets 25% off two firearms a year. I don’t know if that applies to online sales or not, but I ordered mine the other day and it was a verification website that gives you a code and it doesn’t take long at all.

Copy, but I’m not sure I buy it.

Zero fixed wing time? Sounds like a good way to make sure someone can’t ever leave the helicopter community...

The thought of making a two seat aircraft in order to have an unmanned loyal wingman makes me chuckle.

We parked next to one at Bagram on an AE. We were waiting for our patients so one of the other pilots and I strolled over to the IL-76. The loadmaster was smoking and coughing in the back, smiled and waved us aboard and we got a quick tour. It did not smell good, and we had just been in a KC-135 for 7 hours.

Well, with more legacy Herk units going to Js that will free up some right?