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If your on casual status: Enjoy your free time now, you will never have so much again. Also, learn how to operate a popcorn popper. That's an essential Lt level task in an operational squadron.

I thought the rules for Lts were: 1. Never miss an opportunity to shut the fuck up. 2. Life is not fair. 3. The jalapeno popcorn doesn't make itself.

I blame their leadership. Who lets an Lt talk to the media unsupervised? Isn't PA's primary job to prevent this sort of public buffoonery?

Facepaw. That is awesome.

Dude, finish your PHD. You can control that. What if you quit with "a few months left" and fail the medical screening after you finish OTS? You'll feel fucking stupid the rest of your life. If you're a good candidate for UPT and Big Blue passes on you because of a couple of months, that's their loss.

March also has KC135s and MQ1s. Enlisted aircrew jobs are boom operator and sensor operator, respectively.

I know the reasoning in my case was "You are on this VML, so fuck you.". Likewise for most of the AD guys in my MQ9 class.

They must have found a "dildork", which is kind of like a spork but not exactly ... Also, witch hunts suck. This McCarthyism aimed at the red blooded American male isn't going away. I'm so glad I'm getting out, only 3 years to go.

Honestly, doesn't the past affair make him more credible? The wife he cheated on has his back, shouldn't that tell us something? I can't imagine most woman would forgive a dude for a second instance of cheating, especially if it happened in their house while she was there and was also rape.

I stayed at Monarch Village just north of base. It fit within the on base lodging rate and you could get a short term lease. This was in 2009, so things may have changed.

Alternative technique is to just fake it like Jame Gumb dancing around in Silence of the Lambs. It puts the lotion on it's skin, or it gets the CBTs again.

That's stupid. Doxy prevents chlamydia, malaria, and normal dreams.

He shouldn't even worry about this since he will fail the eye test anyway. You have to be able to read between the lines.

That is awesome. So many briefers are code 3 without powerpoint.

Meh. This falls under the civic religion exception, plus the Chaplain needs OPR bullets too. Invocations are as much ritual as religion, and as long as it's reasonably nondenominational it shouldn't be a big deal. The level of religiosity present in invocations, blessing and such is enough to satisfy most of the religious folks, without being too much to be intolerable to most of the atheists and agnostics. Unfortunately, loudmouthed douchebags like Weinstein can't leave well enough alone. That said, I couldn't resist sharing this:

Damn those unintended consequences. If the USAF let people SIE without incurring a ridiculous bill (payback USAFA or ROTC), they wouldn't be incentivized to waste a bunch of time and JP8 on rides they know they're going to hook. Oh well, at least we get to look tough on quitters.

That's on the people posting, who should know better. This is awful enough for the families, finding out via Facebook is even shittier since they could be anywhere looking at their phone.

We lost a dude in T-1s. Couldn't land the thing, which isn't that hard to land. He was the only one I knew about in my 2 years at Vance. We've got a couple of UPT washouts in my current squadron (MQ-9s) and they're doing well. To bring this back on topic, nether of them were SIEs.

If that isn't Casus Belli, I don't know what is.

International dudes can wash out? We started with one in UPT and it was like this guy knew the Contra code for 99 lives only for 89 rides instead. This guy hooked tests, showed up to events visibly hungover, had the worst attitude I've ever seen, went home to the desert for 2 MONTHS in the middle of UPT for his arranged marriage, and supposedly rolled a T-38 in the traffic pattern. Apparently being an Arab prince has its perks.

Slightly off topic: Does anyone here have experience flying with the Border Patrol? Is it a good deal or a shit sandwich? Any first hand info (benefits, culture, locations, how much flying versus how much queep) would be greatly appreciated. I'm currently an MQ-9 guy leaning very strongly towards getting out in a few years and am considering Border Patrol as an option.

Is this even possible? How can you graduate with a bachelor's degree and not pass UPT academics? It's all 8th grade level stuff; everyone called it Slackademics for a reason ...

Isn't this one more reason to not go to USAFA? I know so many people who went there and all but one of them either regret it or find it was only worth putting up with for the pilot slot.

Kayl, for your sake, please understand that taking prescription drugs prescribed to someone who isn't you is a crime. The USAF will ruin your shit if you are caught doing this. Knock this shit off, go to college (refrain from "experimenting" while you're there) and find gainful employment somewhere less stressful after graduation.

The problem in bold is primarily a function of two things: rising health care costs are eating any potential raises and a virtually unlimited supply of unskilled labor from the rest of the world has held down the wages of people with no/few skills. Supply and demand is still in effect.