Herk Driver

First, you give them what you can get your hands on. If the physicals from HS no longer exist then there are no medical records. Think about the kids who never played sports in HS, but never got sick either. They wouldn't necessarily have any medical records for that period of time either. Don't over-analyze the situation. However, if you had major surgery during that time, I wouldn't try to cover up anything either. Second, right in line with the first answer, yes. If you got treated by a dermatologist then you need to try to get the records or at least provide a name and address/phone number they can call to request them. Bottom line, if you have put down some injury of illness that you have/had, DODMERB is going to want to know as much about the diagnosis and treatment as they can.

It's been in most, if not all Class VI's I've ever frequented. Many of those East of the MS.

If they directly ask you about it you are under no obligation to answer them. Who you are dating (in this situation) is a personal matter. Unless they are reading you your rights, due to the fact that they have a suspicion of you violating some AFI (based on prior conversations you've had), then avoid the topic and tell them you'd rather not talk about your personal life. If they get to the point they read you your rights, then you should asking for a lawyer anyway.

For starters, a medical diagnosis...

When I was a cop, we had an E-7, in our unit, that was married to an O-4, in another unit. Those rules have changed somewhat over the years, but I'd like to see the AFI that states that a cadet (USAFA, ROTC, whatever) cannot date a Lt.

Back when I was at Ramstein, we had taken four Herks on an off-station trainer to Budapest, Hungary. Well, to set the story up, the Hungarian national airline is Malev and they have quite a few Fokker aircraft. Well, we had started engines and dutifully noticed that taxi time was upon us. Lead keys the mike, right on time, and request taxi. The controller, in a very heavy accent, says Herky 70 you are cleared to taxi, follow the Malev Fokker. I look over at my AC and ask, did he just say follow the motherfvcker? We both laugh but then look outside and waaaay to the right. We see the Malev airline Fokker jet taxing from right to left. Well, lead is too our left and back just a little so he can't quite see the same aircraft that we do. It was really all a matter of a about 5 seconds before lead's copilot comes back with "Ground, say again". The controller repeats, "Herky 70, you are cleared to taxi, follow the Malev Fokker". The co-pilot didn't miss a beat. He said, "Roger, Herky 70, cleared to taxi. We'll follow the mother fvcker". The ground controller didn't say a word. Funniest thing I had ever heard on the radio, up to that point.

It all goes back to what someone said earlier. Have them show it to you in writing. Otherwise, it isn't policy.

Classic.

An Air Force Academy cadet who plunged about 50 feet from a cruise ship balcony into the ocean with a female passenger. The he in the story was a USAFA cadet. The she was a student at CU, it appears. Or he could've not said that he was re-enacting the Titanic scene...

What? You can't do that anymore? But, my engineer said...

All of the above is good advice and spot on. 1st child was born at NAS Pensacola. Had great pre-natal care at Whiting. The birthing part left a little to be desired but we made it alright. All covered 100% by Tricare. 2nd child was born in North Little Rock, AR. LRAFB doesn't have the facility to provide for baby deliveries and therefore we got a referral to a provider downtown. We chose which Dr we wanted and, once again, Tricare covered 100% of the costs. 3rd child...well there won't be one of those...thanks to another off-base provider in the NLR area...100% covered by Tricare as well You can go the route of Tricare Standard, if you want...deductibles, co-pays and more paperwork possibly, but check out what is offered by the on-base facility first. You may be able to choose your Dr anyway based on no facilities on-base to give birth, etc. Whatever you do make an informed decision based off of what is offered/available at your MTF and your desires.

I think lots of the rumormill is being fed by the recent talk that the USAF may retire all the C-5As instead of doing the RERP on them. The CSAF just made those comments before Congress, IIRC. I don't think the USAF knows what it wants to do right now or at least isn't doing it well (ref KC-X, CSAR-X contracting debacles). We are in a reactionary mode based on fiscal constraints.

For the beginning of OIF, entire squadrons/groups/wings of mobility aircraft were deployed. Since the summer of 2003, (end of major USAF combat ops??), it depends on where you are stationed. Little Rock had 30-40% of each squadron deployed at any given time. Pope, IIRC, was deploying one squadron at a time (Pope dudes feel free to jump in and correct). Not sure about Dyess. In today's world of desert rote after desert rote, PMCR is a little different. But, back in the steady state world of pre-9/11 PMCR was very important on a crew by crew basis. You could easily burn people out with some max crew duty day TDYs back to back. That all depends on where you were stationed though (and how many times they, umm... "broke" on that TDY).

Just to clarify... Yes, Rainman, you were correct in your post about Heavies getting to fly to all the cool places, make more money and get extra time off. (or at least that's how it used to be). PMCR is afforded all heavies when they return from a TDY. Many of the younger guys on here have apparently only ever gone to the desert or have been caught up in the waive the PMCR mentality since 9/11. Maybe not, but most of the focus has been on the post-deployment comp time or PMCR or whatever you want to call it. Anyway, by AFI (I speak only for the -130 here as I'm no expert on other MDS AFI's), we would get 1 hour for every three hours spent on the road or a day (24 hours) for every 3 days gone (max of 4 days). This time essentially was for the same purpose as the 7 or 14 days you get when returning from the desert. They had to give you time to get your sh!t washed so you could pack for the next trip. Does that mean that guys aren't in the office doing work during PMCR? No. Plenty of times I find myself in doing work that has to get completed, etc. There used to be times where you would return from one trip only to be thrown on another trip followed by yet another trip and without a mandated break in between I have literally not had clean clothes to pack for the next one. Of course, now my frau usually takes good care of me and makes sure that I am ready to go off on the next trip. That's the point of PMCR. When you go TDY and they can be spaced out by a day or two it makes it possible to take care of all the things that you could have been doing if you were just working in the local area.

I think my last post got off-topic and I wanted to make sure I answered the topic at hand. I am not a huge advocate of asking the question that was posed in the original post. In today's world of lots of deployments and ususally more leave than you know what to do with, I just can't see a need to ask the question. Only wanted to point out that taking leave on the way home from a rote is possible and has been done in the past. The sliding PMCR to the end of leave after you've returned from a TDY though is a non-starter. I'm not sure you can convince your best friend that is a good idea; much less convince the DO, who is interested in filling the line. Either take the PMCR and then take leave or forget about it.

Now, I have to admit that I have seen this done. If you take leave enroute, like let's say stop in Europe, technically the TDY doesn't end until you return to homestation, so PMCR would start after your return. And no, everybody wouldn't do it, because the CC wouldn't allow it. It took Sq/CC approval the time I saw it happen. The CC obviously isn't going to let everyone do it. I've seen 2 dudes allowed to do this with a return of the entire squadron from the desert. But, it was only two dudes. However, "2" on the you can't just return from a TDY and take leave and then slide your PMCR to the end of your leave. In this case, the two would run concurrently. However, you could take the PMCR and then take leave somewhere after PMCR ran out.

If you want to mail stuff to yourself, you can send it through the good ole USPS. It can be sent priority mail and insured. You will get reimbursed up to what the gov't would have paid for the same weight through your Unaccompanied baggage (which is normally all of it). They will not reimburse the insurance though. All of this weight counts against your overall weight allowance as well (unless it's pro-gear). Same topic...different twist When PCS'ing back to the states from Europe (I presume, all overseas), you can get the TMO folks to pay to ship any wine/liquor that you've accumulated over here. You have to jump through a couple of hoops. I don't remember all the details, but basically, find a shipper. Pay the money to ship the alcohol and take the receipt to the TMO who will type up a letter authorizing you the reimbursement. Take the letter and x copies of orders to finance at the losing base and you get reimbursed just like filing a travel voucher. If you're leaving overseas anytime soon, just ask at TMO. They have all the details. Also, one of the best kept secrets about leaving overseas and heading home is what is known as "circuitous travel". This is the ability to take leave in conjunction with your PCS back to the states and jump on a plane where ever it is that you end up. For example, you can leave Ramstein, go to Paris for a couple of days, then go to Amsterdam for several days and then head over to London for a couple more days before boarding a flight back to the states from London. Normally, you are authorized to depart from Frankfurt to head back to the states from Ramstein and would have to leave from Frankfurt so after taking leave you would have to ultimately end up back in Frankfurt to catch your flight. With circuitous travel authorized, they will figure out which ticket is cheaper (Frankfurt to the states or London, from the example) and you will be reimbursed up to the cost of the flight from Frankfurt. You get to take a great trip and leave from the airport of your choosing and more than likely not have to pay anything. FYI, when I left Ramstein back in 2002, you had to ask specifically for circuitous travel. The travel people did not bring it up in the outprocessing briefing. When I asked they would not discuss it in the group, but instead they had me stay afterward to get the entitlement put on my orders. One more time that you have to know more than the man.

Didn't think about privatized housing...with that in mind, that makes more sense. FWIW, just saw where if privatized base housing doesn't stay at a set usage rate that the contractor can offer the housing to civilians from the local community. Am I missing something here?

AFBA (and MOAA, I think) offer very comparable rates to SGLI. Check into it. I think the AFBA policy specifically states that they have no war/aviation clause, etc. Make sure you read all the guidance. SGLI is still a very good deal.

Isol DC is right since that's what you normally use. I think the INS Batt is right as well. Remember that the H3 didn't have a standby attitude indicator when it first hit the flight line. The Lockheed engineers claimed that you didn't need one. There was no way that both ADIs would fail...that was their story and they stuck to it, until the first dual ADI failure happened. Then came months of Day VFR only flying until they installed the Standby ADIs. I'm sure, that if that's a digital Standby ADI (in the AMP picture), that someone claims that the digital standby can never go tits up/more reliable, etc, etc.

Whit, Try here: AFI 36-2110 Look in para 2.26

How much leave do you have? How much leave do you want to use? Bottom line is that from sign out to sign in, you will burn leave minus any travel days.

Retirement compensation calculator May have been posted already but this link does a pretty good job of showing most people what will work out best for them. The first article is flawed since it claims you get a $15K option at 15 years. It has already been correctly pointed out that it's a $30K option. Barbara also fails to point out the "catch-up" adjustment done at age 62. If you stay for 30 years, you make out huge by taking the $30K. [ 05. February 2007, 11:42: Message edited by: Herk Driver ]

2. It was an interesting night. Exactly. The Farsi speaker was a fellow Mobility pilot. [ 17. January 2007, 14:40: Message edited by: Herk Driver ]

True enough, but you never know when you might be flying into Iran to carry relief supplies for a major earthquake disaster and having a Farsi speaker on your airplane could be the best thing since sliced bread. Wierder things have happened. Herks deliver relief supplies to Iran