ThreeHoler

Amazing that there was aviation service pay nine years before the first airplane.

There is a KC-135 WIC and their graduates sometime cross flow. Travis and McGuire AD both have (had?) WOs...and they were poorly used by my understanding of what they are supposed to do and what leadership had them do.

What does the SDP section of MyPay say?

Welcome to AMC.

97E. It already exists.

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There is no mercy. You have to do a new flight check.

You can exceed $417K on a VA, but you must be able to put down some extra cash. There is a formula for how much. 25% of the amount over $417K. For $800K with full eligibility, you would need to put down $95,750 (~12%) to obtain a VA mortgage. If you are in a high cost area, the $417K goes up to $625K, so you would only need to put down $43,750 (~5.5%). You will not want to do a conventional loan for that amount, most likely, since it is considered a jumbo loan. It will have a higher rate and likely require PMI even if you have 20% to put down. Side note: putting down at least 10% on a VA gets you the lowest possible funding fee. If you are a disabled vet, 0% rating or higher, then the funding fee is waived.

Only one year group could upgrade. Everyone else with a 5 year was not given the option. The world didn't come to an end.

They doubled (roughly) the bonus after people took a 5 year $25K bonus...where is their incentive to perform when someone is getting 2x as much of the devil's money?

That $60K/year ($45K/yr after the 25% tax hit) could be worth between $1.9M and $8.5M (6% and 12% annual return) at age 65. This is, of course, very quick and dirty napkin math...but TVM.

Unfathomable to you, maybe. Some of us have heard it directly from A3 that they know $60K/yr is the current magic number for the up to 20YAS option.

Cockpit noise is generally less than 85 dB. Interphone use in the cockpit is optional...so the one ear DCs are used as a replacement for the really nice Telex in-ear headsets. The DCs are heavy and stupid looking. Bring back the Telex (less than 1 oz)!

But the Oxford comma lost...

What is this I don't even

I heard the rate was lower. Source: office rumor.

Every board, since you only see your OPB before the board and you generally never see your OSB until after the board. However, I personally know of at least two people that had decorations showing in the "will meet" section but we're not part of their "as met" record, and the board(s) never saw the decorations.

Incorrect. The "will meet" have been available to the members but the "as met" only just became available.

"As met" records are out on PRDA.

That was the game at my last base.

Stationed 150 miles apart and were previously stationed together while married...you can apply for FSA. Don't know how these new proposed rules would tie in.

That matches the RUMINT from A3. "Want it at $35K/yr now, would like it at $60K/yr, and want to make the decision to stay or leave to be 'difficult.'" They don't want to retain everyone, but around 65%. I would not listen to Chang at all, but that is just me.

The Chicken is good about that for the most part. The Pred/Reaper...not so much.

Requires congressional approval. AF is lobbying for it.

Penguins?