Fuzz

Sometimes you can't fix stupid.

https://breakingdefense.com/2013/11/congress-must-scrap-generous-dod-benefits-for-future-forces-rep-hunter/ "Career soldiers can retire at 42, get a great deal on Tricare health insurance, take home a pension, and get paid a good private-sector salary on top of that. That can’t continue to be the norm for the military and Congress must create a two-tier pay system, says Rep. Duncan Hunter, Marine Corps reservist and member of the House Armed Services Committee."

Yeah dude, I spend my days thinking of shit that could happen to impress you and the rest of the guys on this board. In fact I'm so distraught that you think I make this up, I have to go sign up for a resiliency class before I kill myself or actually just GFY.

Our costs as have been said before are with primarily healthcare, we'll also fix that situation partially when we pull out of Afghanistan. To date between OEF and OIF we have sustained almost 50,000 WIA. Those have and are going to come with extremely high costs, for the extended future.

Clarification I was recently overpaid (not my first time either but that's not relevant), not my fault or my direct finance shop, now I'm stuck in the pendulum of watching finance "fix" the overpayment as they take too much then, overpay and then take some back, eventually it settles out. In the mean time it's like playing the lottery to see how much they are going to take back.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/31/pentagon-training-manual-white-males-have-unfair-advantages/ Looks like its already being used. And it is degrading to tell me I have an unfair advantage because I'm an WHCM; news flash this isn't the 1950s or you may have a point.

I'm gone more than I'm home, between my undermanned office and my days TDY I don't have time to be "creative or aggressive" and I shouldn't fucking have too. I should be able to tell someone to their face that they aren't doing their job (they do work in the MISSION SUPPORT group after all) and not get crap from their supervisor, I expect the supervisor to help fix the situation. I'm also not one to shit on everyone that's not ops, I have had some phenomenal experiences with airman at various support functions, and do my best to highlight them up their chain. Unfortunately, going the opposite way doesn't work so well.

No tried that once got a call from their CC, spent an hour explaining to the FLT/CC how their airman was knowingly giving me bad info because they didn't want to go look it up, it took me 30 plus minutes to convince them that their airman was actually wrong, and that I did have the ability to tell them they weren't doing their job. I was surprised at that phone call; it was the fast thing finance had ever done for me, plus good luck finding said leadership between their hours and then that's if they are even there when they are open. You can't "mentor" or hell just tell them they aren't doing their job if they aren't in your chain of command. Everyone's a 5 and single-handedly winning the war, or it's all about kingdoms, you can't tell someone that their people aren't doing their job.

I take it you've never dealt with finance, I would love to have a paycheck where I wasn't overpaid or grossly underpaid (and by I, I mean many other people in my squadron too). I would love to tell my wife what I can expect my paycheck to be not feel like I'm playing the lottery everytime I look at my LES. Then when you say I'm leaving for two weeks on a mission, I need to figure out how I'm going to get the $1000 you owe me, they look at you weird and say you'll just have to wait. I ask if they can call and get this fixed (because I've had it done in the past), "no sorry we aren't going to do that". So now I get to call my wife and tell her my paycheck will be short this month, as I step to the jet. Here's another one, need gas mask for deployment. Get told I HAVE to make an appointment and not be late, because LRS doesn't like it. Well the gas maks fitting runs late, take the info to LRS, show up a couple minutes late get told by the airman I'm late, as he and his buddy are sitting there on their computer on Facebook. This list could go on and on, sock checks by the SSgt at the chow hall ect.

401K is all well and good for those that are relatively new to the AF (<4 years), what are you going to do with the O-4/5 with two to three years left till the check for life club and now you want to make it a 401K? Compounding interest doesn't work overnight (or over 2-3 years).

Never really considered that aspect of it, thanks gravedigger.

Swanee, I know you want to be this all contained unit, but can you name me the last time a MAGTAF operated completely by itself and do you honestly believe that Marines would ever go ashore without the support of a carrier strike group or other support entities (I.e. A place that requires a 5th generation fighter not Greneda or similar)? I'm not talking what the vision is or what you want, I'm talking realistically.

Well that too, my comment was meant more for the continuously short sighted spending decisions we make (I.e new command center ect.).

So we cut the F-22 production because it was too expensive, in favor of the "cheaper" F-35; which is now more expensive. This is why we are broke.

I love getting knife handed while watching this video, by the same guy that banned knife hands.

I'm sure he wrote that after a long day of shooting his next movie, while staying in a 5 star hotel, enjoying a nice glass of wine and having just finished a meal at a world class restaurant. All of which these activities for just one night cost more than the average soldiers monthly's paycheck.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=50vE47DGEy4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D50vE47DGEy4

I don't know I see a person exploiting loopholes or giving to charity to lower their tax bracket to keep more of the money they earned different than a person who purposely works less to bring home less money to take more of others. One person is still a very productive member of society, the is a leach on the system, and I can't stand them, considering they are lowering themselves into a situation where they work less and get money when the system was designed (not arguing political beliefs of subsides or handouts) for people who are working to their upmost and still can't earn enough to make it.

Oh yeah chiropractor may require a couple visits or some recuperation time after. You may walk out of there or wake up the next morning feeling 10x worse, but it's sometimes one of those things will get worse before it gets better.

There's a difference between reducing your income to pay as little in taxes and reducing your income to get more money out of the government while paying less into it.

seen a chiropractor since high school. Having a active multisport life in high school and college, then all the pulling Gs in UPT put a strain on my neck and back. Seeing a chiropractor every month or two helped immensely with muscle tightness ect. Look at the reviews for the chiropractors, and when you are there if you ever feel uncomfortable stop them, they usually understand people are hesistang about people adjusting spines and necks. If its not in your medical records they'll never know. There is a certain Flt Doc at a base that I was at that wouldn't send me to see a chiropractor, so I went under the table on my own dime.

2 on this, never heard of a C-17 stall over Guam.

They only recently removed armed police from the checkpoints: "McClain said he did not want to speculate why the officers were removed from the checkpoints. He added, however, that the association has been concerned about staffing levels at LAX. Although roving patrols were started at the beginning of the year, McClain said officers tried to have a response time of two minutes to reach areas of the terminals they were assigned to." https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lax-shooting-multiple-tsa-agents-shot-by-gunman-with-rifle-20131101,0,4682951.story#axzz2jRG9Dsjj

I apologize mixed you up with General Chang, and good I'm honestly glad you are working on this.