BFM this

Lol, they won’t forget where they came from. But every last one of their friends would be telling them “Fakouttahere; go get paid, brah!”

Active duty who works at the NSC or a part timer that works at the NSC as his day job? There's a difference. And yeah, in the case of the former, I’d expect him to show up in uniform if told to report front and center, regardless of his UoD at work.

Wouldn't be surprised if you end up pitching in for another two-circle. Many parallels from what you shared with my own trip through BPD-land...including a post decree arrest, multiple convictions, and the list went on (all her, btw). She must have had the shittiest lawyer I've ever heard of to ditch the mil-retirement asset. Score for you. True. Complete financial ruin, an entire generation of wealth destroyed, barely able to make ends meet, unable to provide for more than the essentials for my kids for a while; luckily I was able to stiff-arm BK, but only just. In the end, the sweetest phrase you'll ever hear: Sole physical & legal. Worth. It.

AFPAK Hands absolutely was cheap talk. It was another in an endless line of pulling on your "service before self" chain to get you to invest yourself in something that top level leadership wasn't willing to materially back. The "incentives", what little they were, turned out to be hollow, and they were clearly not substantial to begin with.

Ok, hear me out: We spend a lot of $$$ turning boneyard Vipers into targets. If Turkey is willing... Im just sayin

Just because they have the J.D., doesn’t necessarily mean they have a better crosscheck or eye for detail. For anyone approaching the point of departure: I did a lot of writing during my divorce. A LOT. Like, more than I had in college, more than PDE/IDE. And I fucking HATE to write. I learned to do legal research and included citations. About 40% of what I wrote ended up on the floor after editing, but quite a bit ended up directly cut and pasted into my motions, with the legal mechanics built around the story. And with my good lawyers ($$$) it saved me some coin. But more importantly, there was no way that my attorneys could have had the in-depth detail awareness, or made all of the logical connections toward a meaningful conclusion, if I were just feeding them cocktail napkin notes the whole time. ...fwiw.

I was gonna suggest this should go in the WTF thread, but it fits here I guess. So, in time honored tradition (BUFF, Warthog, Viper), now that Big Blue has proudly stamped their nerd moniker on this thing, what are we actually going to call it?

Cuz that could have gone an ironic, big blue, other direction completely.

Definitely will not be the Chinese. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/20/asia-pacific/top-gun-sequel-appears-remove-japanese-taiwanese-flags/#.XTN-Q5YpCEe

Wonder if there’s going to be a geopolitical antagonist this time, and who would play the role. Thinking of the Red Dawn reboot that CGI rewrote the NoDAKs implausibly in for the originally penned Chinese invaders (so as not to offend a substantial box office market).

The WTF thread is down the hall on the left.

“The source said that things reached a boiling point May 31, when Dunlop lost her temper in a meeting with senior Air Force civilians. An Air Force civilian immediately told Ellen Lord, the Pentagon's top acquisition official, about the situation in the office, the source said, and Lord walked over to the SAPCO office and removed Dunlop.” And that, boys and girls, should tell you everything you need to know about where you’re at in the food chain if your office includes GS employees.

Slow Clap... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-service-members-seen-with-maga-patches-on-jumpsuits-at-trump-speech/ Standing, hats off, slow clap... Well done, gents.

Guess I should have GTS (google that shit) the first time. https://www.sheppardair.com/milcomp.htm Yes, you should have also gotten your Comm ASEL. Should be an easy fix.

Correct me if I’m wrong (the mighty Tweet reigned in my time), but I believe you’ll get Commercial AMEL, ASEL, IA, counting the T6 time.

So this hit my in-container recently: On the one hand, its a faint signal among the static that maybe someone is out there who gets it. On the other, maybe I'm jaded, but I see this fizzling out in the crib. ...now, if big blue were to do some recapitalization of their Cirrus fleet at the zoo, doling out the existing tails to clubs AF-wide... Like I mentioned before, I think the reasons that clubs were successful in their heyday had a lot to do with resourcing with surplus tails. Unfortunately we don't have a glut of T-34s, T-41s, and T-42s laying around. Although CAP has had some success lobbying for consistent recapitalization of their own fleet in recent years, (way nicer rides than when I was a cadet) so maybe that could form the basis as well. Plenty of ideas about how this could work...few about how it could work given today's operating environmentals.

Typically closed/secret groups. They won’t be “searchable”; at least on the CAF side they weren’t. You join by having a bud nominate you.

Someone has not been paying attention.

The benefits are (were) the support structure, especially during times of plenty when surplus T-34s and T-41s could be the backbone of the club, on base facilities, including avgas availability (which is gone with the wind, obviously). But you're right, the golden goose was strangled by the typically Air Force answer to non-existent problems, such as the hamfisted application of an AFI11-2AeroClubV1,2,3 template that turns a sunny day in search of the $100 burger into, well...more queep than it's worth. That the Air Force doesn't make support (real, risk managed, managment-managed approach) to supporting Aero Clubs is a shame. It should be a core cultural priority; we're the fucking AIR Force, for chrissakes! AFB's should have an Aero Club, Navy bases should have a sailing club, Army bases should have an MWR shooting range and backcountry hiking/camping.

Maybe they’ve reformed since... My experience with First Command was them giving us their pitch as we started UPT. As I looked at their numbers, it was clear that they were only interested in soaking as many butter bars sitting with me in the room as possible. Compared to the vast selection of investment vehicles available in the world, the rates of commission and expense ratios that they were charging, amounted to a loan shark diversifying into the whole life insurance sector. Suddenly their uncanny ability to attract the talents of so many retired senior officers made a lot of sense.

Depending on the circumstances surrounding this case, could be very ironic indeed. ...or a non sequitur

Flying video...there's a twin otter there in the beginning.

Likelihood of any bureaucrat making the connection between such a "job action" and the RLA...nil. TSA jobs program gotta be protected.

Ironic pandering. Everything I’ve read indicates that the female student in question is straight pissed that leadership has taken it upon themselves to be offended on her behalf. ...can’t say that I would blame her.

My wife could earn another 30% without breaking a sweat, or more if she cared to, but that extra in her paycheck pales in comparison to what my time on the road nets the household. Make no mistake, my work schedule effectively becomes HER work schedule. In the most acute example, if I’m going to work an OT day, she is effectively working a day of OT, with all of the associated life disruptions as well. So my schedule planning (especially OT) begins with her input. Our ethos is that while we may be intentionally derating her career, doing so allows us to hunt the big game with my schedule. We bid around the 14th of the month.