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That's a lot of cervesa to beber.

If you were living in on-base housing at UPT, you should start receiving BAH the day you vacated gov't quarters. That is the BAH rate you get until "signing-in" at your new duty station. Because you're allowed some days for house hunting (permissive TDY), you should be able to sign-in early for the PCS. At any rate, you won't receive your new BAH until you have signed-in, but you should still be earning BAH otherwise. Also, don't forget TLA (temporary lodging allowance or some shit like that), which should be up to 10 days of housing and per diem to help cover PCS lodging expenses. You'll need to file a voucher for that shit. Talk to a finance NCO who knows their shit, or just use teh googles.

No thanks. With that number on the back, the watch will always be at least minute behind the hack and will decide to stop functioning when the weather is bad. You can have it, bud.

Since your assessment of me and my career track is wrong on multiple counts (like when you said I'm "intelligent" . . . HA!), I question if you really do know me. Maybe you're just being super serious over the interwebs. In any event, I doubt anyone with a name like "Jaded" and a post history like yours can give an unbiased opinion of the second half of a 20+ year military career. ...but PM me if you want to talk offline. I'm game.

Dibs on #69, #14, and #36.

I certainly understand the takers for the Aerospace because of the digital windows and all... ...however, I am not buying this watch to fly with it. I have a $200 auto-time-hacking G-shock that suits me fine and does everything I need in the cockpit. No way in hell would I risk destroying a Breitling during a DBFM set as I swing my left wrist around (sts) trying to grab the opposite side towel rack. That's why I wear a watch in the jet that I can break without breaking the bank to replace. Now, that Chronospace is a work of art. That's the kind of watch you put back on after taking the g-suit off and before pouring a couple fingers of 21 year old Scotch. Just my opinion, fellas.

Well, re-read my comments a page or two ago about dudes whose ADSC expires EARLY in FY15. Before this year, guys with those circumstances who wanted to take the bonus and were eligible for 9 years of cash money got screwed out of ~$12K because AFPC would wait until halfway through the FY to offer the bonus. My ENJJPT ADSC expires in December of this year, so I'll get my bonus well before I would have if I had to wait until summer of next year. With a training ADSC that takes me to January of 2020, I'll gladly take the $225k for something I was planning on doing anyway. I don't feel like a sucka, bro. But if you think I am, well...that's just your opinion, man...

Rumor has it that the select/candidate ratio last year was a sequestration-induced "panic," in which HAF worried that school budgets would fall-off and make the USAF unable to get all selects to school in 3 looks. Perhaps the pendulum will swing the other way just a bit. Good news.

Feel free to make douchey and witty comments about asshattery to your bros in the bar on a Friday night over a scotch. When out in the real world, be the professional officer you're expected to be. Losing your cool and/or acting like an asshat is never the best solution. I don't know why this isn't a universal concept, but it's good to see most of us agree.

I'm no general, but if I were, and I found out that my DS and/or aide called someone in on a weekend for a chickenshit thing like a GAL update, I would curbstomp them both and demand they apologize for bad judgment.

Slow clap, Thork. Well said.

THIS. HOLY SHIT, THIS SO FUCKING MUCH, DUDE.

Interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKHeXC7L85s

If you're doing the 9 years @ $25k, you can't max-out past 20 YAS. So, if you take the bonus for 9 years and only have 8.36 years before you hit 20 YAS, your last year of $25k is prorated to whatever time you have left. So, let's hypothetically say the FY15 bonus wasn't offered early. Like FY12 and FY13, if it were announced on 1 Jul 15, any 11F wanting the 20 year option who had their original ADSC end before the bonus announcement date would lose a month for each day after 1 Oct 14 the FY15 bonus was announced. For example, if you graduated UPT on 1 Oct 04 (first day eligible for the FY15 bonus) and singed for the bonus in Jul 15, you'd be signing a deal for the next 8.17 years. AFPC calculates that last year of the bonus as 0.17 x $25k (since you can't get a bonus past 20 YAS), and you get $4.17k instead of the full $25k.

Exactly. I finished UPT early in the FY (Dec 04), and I was just counting on losing almost $12-25k over AFPC publishing the PSDM in July/August of next year. This is a good deal for me, and I get the bonus "on time." Of course, I was going to stay in anyway (school ADSC takes me to 16+ years TIS), so don't tell AFPC. Shhhh....

Hey, I know I'm just a stupid single seat guy and all, and I bet you could accuse me of doing that weird "hand flying" thing more than what's "normal" in a big airplane... BUT At what fucking point do you just tell the AP to fuck off and hand fly your airplane? I'm serious.

The memo is FOUO, so no copy/paste. BL: It's the same as last year, except you can apply now if your ADSC expires in FY2015.

The link is working now in AMS. I'm confused, though: When I click the "TYPE" drop-down to select which plan I'd like (I'm an 11F who wants to take the 25k x 9 years), all it displays for choices are "B" and "C." WTF, AFPC? My only guess is that the letters correspond to the paragraphs in Part IV, paragraph 3 ("agreement values") as my options. I can't find anything that declares that outright, however, so how am I to know?

Your aviation service date is tied to when your flight pay started, I think. That should be coincident w/your UPT start date.

I taught at SPS for 3 years in the 38. You could ALWAYS tell which stud had a secret white board at home to keep track of the scores, and there was always at least one of 'em in every class. Strange...things never worked out the way they thought it would.

Shit yes, dude - this. So much this. Now, by NO MEANS do I think that marching an entire squadron due to one man's DUI is the best way to handle something like this, so don't get me wrong. However, what I'm about to say might piss some of you off: People on the internet discussing if marching to the gate due to a SQ DUI is an IG or "talk to the press" kind of matter make us sound like a bunch of dumb-fuck, no-good, booger-eating SNAPs. ("HOLY SHIT - HE MADE ME MARCH. IN MY ACTUAL UNIFORM!") The IG and the press will only answer with something like this: When you (and most of us here) perceive something as a bad leadership decision, do anything BUT start up with the stupid comments and whining. Instead, how about we discuss some ways to reduce ARIs that actually make sense? You never know...someone in charge might read it.

You could beam an IR pointer at that ball. Turn the freaky donkey party into a rave and they wouldn't even know it.

You can watch the Vice clip about sex w/donkeys. Or, you can find out more than you'd ever want to know while flying over Afghanistan with a targeting pod.