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    Credit Cards / Cash Back & Rewards Options

    in Useful Product Reviews & Military Discounts

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    Some of the best advice I ever heard Dave Ramsey give: "I've never talked to any millionaires that got rich by racking up reward points using a credit card."

    If your get rich plan is to rack up CC rewards then you have issues, but it's a good way to get free money.

    I've had a Chase Rewards card for almost 5 years now. They pay 2.5% on gas and food and 1% on everything else (or something like that, I don't remember). I've gotten over $400 cash from them and never paid a cent of interest. If you pay it off every month, it's free money.

    Down Goes #4

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Yeah, maybe if they quit being pussies and schedule some hard teams to play instead of barely DV-I schools.

    I could care less about Boise St, but this statement is stupid.

    They played Virginia Tech and Oregon St out of conference this year, and Oregon last year. Before you say "VT and Oregon St aren't that good this year", I'll tell you to keep in mind that OOC scheduling is usually done at least 5 years in advance. Who the F knows how good a team is going to be in 5 years?

    Now if you're calling the WAC a crappy conference, well no shit. But it's not Boise's fault that most of their conference sucks. But props to Boise for actually leaving the WAC for the Mountain West next year. They could have stayed in the WAC for the next 69 years and gone to a BCS game every year, but they wanted to step up their competition.

    So in short, you're retarded and should no longer post anything related to college football.

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    Vision waiver info

    in Aviation Medicine

    Posted

    What's the process for renewing an expiring waiver for excessive refractive error? I received the waiver back in 2007 so I guess it expires every 3 years? I am an active duty pilot and recently saw the eye doc for the contact lens program and she happened to mention that my waiver will expire soon. So is this a routine renewal or is it a kick in the nuts like the original waiver?

    Information on PIT (Pilot Instructor Training)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Can anyone confirm that the AF will pay $39 per day for lodging if I decline on-base lodging at Randolph? It looks like that's the cost for VOQ.

    EDIT: For clarity

    They will pay UP TO $39 per day. If you stay somewhere for $.69/day, that's what you're going to get. You also get $41 for meals and incidentals, so you can make some serious coin there.

    ?s on logging flight time

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I keep a digital logbook (an Excel spreadsheet) that tracks both military and civilian flight time. The military time is logged exactly the same (more or less) as it appears in AFORMS, and the civil time is logged as FAA regs proscribe.

    The digital book allows me to split off the time into mil-only, civil-only, or both, depending on what I want to use it for.

    I saw your spreadsheet over on AFOTS and I'm going to do basically the same format. You wouldn't happen to have a blank spreadsheet file you could attach here do you?

    ?s on logging flight time

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Bringing this thread back from the dead...

    I'm about to start filling out my logbook from IFS, UPT, and PIT. I have a civilian logbook with a bunch of C-172 time mixed in with some helo time, but I bought a new logbook to start logging all my AF time. I know this is a matter of opinion, but should I log my IFS time in my civilian logbook or put it in the new one? I figured since it's single-engine piston like the rest of my civilian hours, I'd just put it in my old logbook. Those of you with IFS/IFT hours logged, how did you do it?

    Promotion and PRF Information

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by BADFNZ

    That's the problem. Pay and EAD dates for spring graduates are accurate but DORs can be no earlier than the USAFA DOR. Because of this, I got my 2, 4, & 6 year raises on time, based on pay date, but didn't get my 1LT and CAPT promotions until 25 and 49 months respectively. Basically between the month I was working before they graduated and their two months off I had three months on the job before a single zoomie showed up at work.

    When I get a line number for Major it'll be behind all the USAFA folks who are ahead of me in the alphabet (almost half). This will probably delay my promotion 4-6 months.

    Sorry for bumping a year old post, but can someone explain this?

    I'm an OTS grad with a commissioning date of 30 April, meaning I commissioned about 1 month before Academy grads did. My DOR, according to vMPF, is still 30 April and I recently pinned on 1Lt. So unless I'm reading something wrong, my DOR isn't affected by Academy grads.

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