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I know I've gotten a military service deferment (currently on it, actually) and I'm a UPT stud. There's a deferment form you have to find out (for federal student loans, or federal student loan consolidations) and you send in a copy of your most recent EAD or PCS orders, or have your commander sign the form. I sent it in, checked back 2 weeks later, and I was deferred for a year to begin with.

Um, didn't 09-09 replace 09-03 on the flightline? Kinda hard to brief a class that probably wasn't even at UPT at the time....

I answered my own question. On AD, meet AD standards, so I just have to do the PFT and the body circumference that goes with it. And I'm good on the practice PFT I took this week, let alone the weeks I have to get ready.

I'm getting ready to start UPT here very soon, and I know I'm close to the limit. Do they just go on the whole AF standard (i.e. passing the PFT with a score above 75), or do you have to weigh/tape in to accession standards? The AFI quotes the old weight standards AFI, so it's not a whole lot of help. If I'm over when I start Phase 1, will I be able to start, or do I run into trouble now?

I know in my case my wife (who is in engineering) got a career-track type job and is working there until I get to a more stable area. While we'll end up being apart about a year and a half it allows her to keep going and have a meaningful job than to be stuck in BFE (where I am on casual and where I'm going for UPT). Fwiw. Looking back, I may not have been so readily agreeable to it, but it does allow her to not be bored and unhappy somewhere else (we also have no children).

You should be able to get your rip changed still, if you contact your MPF. I know a guy whose wife was due right before he PCSd to Germany, and his wife had to stay behind. Also, if I remember correctly, infants under 3mos usually can't fly internationally. Oh, and he got convalescent leave right around the time his kid was born to fly home, be there for 2-3 weeks, and fly back to Germany and await their arrival. FWIW.

3. That was hilarious. The terminology fits, too. I'd hate to be the ace that kills 5 CBs though.

I had two questions about ALOs and AMLOs, and this thread was the best I came up with.. 1) Is an A(M)LO really that bad? It seems like not many people like it, but if I was told to either go teach at UPT or go operational as either an ALO, AMLO, or FAC, I'd go operational. It doesn't sound like it gets you kicked out of the cockpit permanently, you just have a nonflying job for awhile. 2) Are AMLOs for cargo guys? I'm looking at going -130s, and I was just curious to see if an AMLO tour would be a possibility. I just think it'd be great to get a chance to see things from the other side (especially having grown up in an Army family).

I started ground school for my PPL on Monday, 10 Sept 2001. It was a MW night class. Of course, I showed up wed night and the instructor let us know "I can teach you the basics, but all the rules and regs are going to change in the next few months..." Talk about timing.

I checked, and I'm showing 10 years. I thought I'd been told only 8. I'm planning on going for 20 anyways, so I wasn't all that concerned with it. Which means that, after my yearlong casual and all the follow-on schools, I'm looking at 12.5-13 years. By that point and time, I figure might as well stay for the ACP, if they're still offering the 5-year program, putting me to 17.5-18, and then 2 years for retirement. 50% of even O-5 pay puts alot of food on the table...

Are you talking about 10 years total, or 10 years from when you report to your first flying unit? I know I've got the 8 year commitment, but the clock doesn't start until I show up at my first operational flying unit, which means it'll really be about 10.5-11 year commitment.

Somewhat back on topic, she'll get a disenrollment investigation, and that's where she can make her case and get people in her det to say she's not horrible. Depending on her overall pic, she may get let back in and allowed to redo FT (as my roommate at FT was able to do), or just be disenrolled. The regs also say that she can try to re-enroll with a waiver from HQ for being disenrolled. FWIW.

Also consider the cost of going to school. If you have to pay your own way (be it straight up, or through loans), consider the cost per year. Also look at the cost of living in those areas (i.e. Miami and LA are cool, but it's very expensive to live there as compared to Oklahoma, Texas, or North Dakota). Just my .02

Having spent some time working in the Texas court system, and doing research over the times... there's a blank lease out there that is essentially a boilerplate lease, the TAA has a version for apartments, but it'll work for a house too. I'd make anyone not family (and even some of my family members) sign a lease. In Texas, without a lease, you're very limited when it comes to forcing them out (if it came to that), collecting for damages, etc. You wouldn't even be able to evict them, or force them to move out. Ask all the hotels that gave rooms to Katrina victims, then had to pay them to leave 'cause there was no lease, so the courts wouldn't help. But Base Legal should be able to get you a copy of a blank lease, and go from there. FWIW.

I'd go to the legal aid office, they can probably help give you more direction and advice, esp. being a guardsman on orders. I've found alot of people don't realize that guardsmen go on AD and are treated just like anyone else on AD (the whole Total Force concept). They can help you lay the smack down.

From my experience (and the grapevine from others), if you're married, and you PCS (or enter AD), they'll break her lease too. If you just got married and want to break her lease to move into one place, then you're out of luck. You could each have a lease, and if you're married and PCSing, both leases would be able to be broken with the standard 30-day notice. I've had to fight the point (and quote the law), but that should help. It's the SCRA (you can google for the particulars) and if you run into trouble still, talk to your local legal office. Stuff like that they can give you info for and help get into the fight in some cases (last part I can't find a quote for, but I've heard of it happening). Hope this helps.

I'd take it via airline, personally. I'm worried that the lovely crew they hired to take my crap will steal the toaster oven, let alone a weapon. 'sides, it's really not that hard to transport a weapon via airline. Hard cases aren't that much, and aren't that hard to come by.

https://www.ourlocalguide.com/motorcyclecarrier/ will work if you've got a tow hitch. Also, if you've got room in your moving truck/trailer, you can just put your bike in there and pack your stuff around it (I know more than one person who has had to do that).

I've flown into/out of DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) where the rotators come into, and I've seen all branches in their ABUs/DCUs flying through the airport.

The letter posted at the top is from a year ago... Look at the post date....

I grew up on military bases that have since closed down, and all my medical records prior to 14 were destroyed when the bases (and their hospitals) were closed. I just wrote on the form they sent me what happened, and they were cool with it.

The college will, but the AF won't. I got a D at one college for a class, and my university wouldn't take it or mark it on my transcripts. But, the AF includes it when they calculate my overall GPA.

Not true. If you've gone to multiple schools (Like I have) they count all college classes taken at all schools. If you've only been to one school, then they're the same. I know my university doesn't count the GPA of classes taken outside of my university.

Ahh k. I haven't been able to find it, really, east of the Mississippi River. Back when I worked in the real world and had to travel alot up and down the east coast, I could never find it. It was sad, really. But, maybe I'll have better luck closer to the MS River. Anyone know if it's available in GA by chance? Or even at Columbus?

You'd figure for cutting costs, they wouldn't skimp on the initial skills-type training, they'd skimp on qual rides and training rides. IMHO, getting the skills should take priority over other things. Granted, keeping skills honed especially in today's AF is important. But kinda like riding a bike, it's easier to do it again after you've learned it once than to try to learn it the first time.