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Something's better than nothing I guess. Why not just make it "Family members traveling with a servicemember". Someone had to put in the extra effort to make the policy less good, this kind of nonsense I will never understand.

So you and your kid can go thru the fast line, but your spouse cannot. Brilliant.

Because if POTUS gets up on TV and says "This dude is guilty", dude has a pretty solid case for a mistrial since the most powerful man in the world just engaged in jury tampering (or whatever the technical term is).

Totally legal to do this with BAH. It is not legal to do this if you are someone recieving OHA. That may be the cause of the confusion.

Yes, but there is no guarantee of him getting a pilot slot via AFROTC. If you want to serve in one specific job or not at all, OTS is the way to go as that's exactly what you get. He could do 2 or 3 years of ROTC then find out he's going to be a food services officer. Then all his hard work will have been wasted, at least until he gets his cold cuts qual.

This is apparently the fourth largest religion in the UK. If I worked at the office that processed that application, I would have "accidentally" typoed that one as "Jar-Jar Binks".

Yes, but Richard Gere probably isn't headed to PIT as he flew for the Navy.

Sweet, he used his noodly appendage to blur out the SSN. Saves your immortal soul and protects you from identity theft.

HeloDude, you don't have to convince me, I love the film. Patricia Arquette at her hottest. Samuel L. Jackson, Gandolfini, and Christopher Walken as bad guys all in the same movie and Val Kilmer is the ghost of Elvis inciting a dude to murder. I love how at the end, they just bail on Michael Rappaport's character after the final gun battle and it's like he never existed. That's what he gets for being a supporting actor I guess.

Turbine, listen to the guy above, his gouge is fresher than mine. Good luck, get your degree done and hope you make it.

I thought I was the only person who had seen that movie, besides Christian Slater's mom.

I know a guy who I went thru OTS who had a morals waiver and a pilot slot, so it can happen. How it works with a "guaranteed" pilot slot is like so: You get to list up to 3 jobs when you apply for OTS. You can list only one if you want. If you put down only pilot, you will either get picked up for a pilot slot or not at all. I had the chance to talk to a SMSgt who worked in the office that processed OTS applications. His take: Letter of Recommendation from an O-7 or higher will get you in*. This was 2007, so it could have changed since then, but I doubt it. *When you're at OTS and you see that one assclown who has no business being there, and you and all those around you ask yourselves "How the ###### did this idiot get in?", this is your answer.

"Standby for Remediation"

Unfortunately, the kind of people who drink the Kool-Aid and would actually give a shit about what kind of dog you have because of the Regs are alot more likely to live on-base.

My guess is it never occurred to him have multiple signatures, and he preferred the safety of anonymity, which is entirely sensible.

Gotta disagree with you two on him not signing. Discretion is definitely the better part of valor here. Now if 1/2 the class had signed, that might have had the desired effect.

If he was a bad guy he missed an awesome opportunity for a story. I imagine it going something like this: So there I was, landing roll at Bagram when I saw a glint in the darkness. Imagine my surprise to see a Taliban wandering the runway holding an AK-47. Since I was already in the flare, using the gun wasn't an option. I put in just a touch of rudder to displace from centerline and caught the bastard right in the eye with the pitot tube. Not wanting to slow ops on a busy runway, I taxied to the chocks with this clown dangling from the pitot tube, well and truly skull######ed. Erratic airspeed indications were a small price to say for this glorious moment. After the walk around, I had the crew chief stencil a smiley face with only one eye on the side of the jet. Then we high fived in slow motion, just like at the end of Tango and Cash.

I'll believe it when I see the promotion stats for in residence/in correspondence guys being exactly the same.

If you fail ASBC you aren't fit to lead a wino into a liquor store. Honestly, of those 8 passed over, 5 are clean kills. The 3 washouts depend on the circumstances I guess. It sucks if they are all dudes who just couldn't get past the airsickness, but if they are those clowns who show up knowing they are going to SIE after their dollar ride then they deserve what they got.

Seriously? I know it ended badly, but she sang THE BEST NATIONAL ANTHEM OF ALL TIME*. This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHmdu_I_0zI. There is no amount of crack rock induced drowning that can make that go away. * The only thing that even comes close is the tape they used to play in Army Theaters before the movie back in the 80s where the video had the tank crashing through the mud. If you're an Army Brat of my generation you know what I'm talking about. America, ###### Yeah.

How many dots?

2. If you aren't actually needed downrange, all you're doing is costing the taxpayers $500,000 per year, which is about 10 airmen give or take. I don't begrudge anyone not deploying if they aren't needed there. Edited: Decided I was over the line.

I remember my first staff meeting. I sat there for 2.5 hours listening to in detail stuff about queep and I remember thinking "Well, they're going to start talking about flying now." Then the Squadron Commander walked out of the room and we were done. Blew my mind.

But then the douchenozzle who came up with policy which literally steals from the people under his command doesn't get his scrotum nailed to the wall.

I'd find a copy of that policy in writing and drop it off with the local IG.