BFM this

“Self deployed”? As in island hopped/Alaska tour?

Not true. It was updated. We went from "if you like your password, you can keep your password" to "Password will expire every 30 days"

Huh. Ok. So, a guaranteed trip for all my friends, or just forewarned is forearmed type thing?

Science project. In the research/data gathering phase with emphasis on accepting limitations and/or debunking hypotheses, but also not loyal to traditional dogma. Exploring all off the shelf technology readily available, including VR and limited "AI" (quotes to caveat a limited subset of AI, not necessarily learning, but programable feedback mechanisms). If the original poster wants, he can put his full writeup here.

Anyone else read the writeup in CAF Fighter FB page. Seems like a reasonable attempt to answer a lot of these questions. Proof will be in the pudding.

This is interesting. This seems to be a perennial discussion like dual mil BAH families. It also seems to suffer from the same biases and stunted thinking as that issue. Maybe I'm wrong, too lazy to look up citations, but there is a reason for the two BAH rates. First rate is to cover housing costs, second is not to cover an ever expanding litter of rugrats. It's to cover the career opportunity costs of being a military spouse. Those costs are not only significant, but very relevant in today's retention climate.

That’s actually a quicker pace than average. My year group was something like 113 per month till the last two months of the year, when the last 900 or so numbers were pickled off in mass chunks.

Que?

Every O2 system has procedures for contamination. Even LOX has steps to disconnect and pull the green ring. Asking for more from any contaminated system will likely give more...contaminants.

Training attrition is nowhere near the top of our current list of woes or even a remotely causal factor. ...but given the current ideas being floated it may become just that.

FBI is investigating, but they won’t find anything, so someone will get charged with lying in hopes that they can flush a quail or two.

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You are right. There is a choice involved. A) you're a mil dude, so maybe you have to do a t&g at a regional, then off to a major. 3-6 months, if you took their bonus, they want it back. Hourly rate at year-1 for you. B) You think the regionals have awesome bonuses, and you're hell bent on keeping the money. You have to stay typically between 13 months and 3 years, because fuck seniority at a major. The BL is that yes, the regionals are flashing better money than historical averages, but just like the AF's bonuses, they are retention bonuses. Don't want to be retained? Then you don't get to keep the $. It's good for the .civ guys just reaching their R-ATP mins who are going to be there for 3-5yrs, but .mil guys should be prepared for some honest accounting if that's the route they end up on temporarily. It's not free money with no strings attached.

There it is: winner of the the dumbest fuckin rule of November, 2017. So there I was, finishing up my go-to workout set of warm-up, weights, pool, sauna. Like I've done a hundred times at this and other bases. Gettin my sweat on, a 1ea kakis and polo pops her nugget in the sauna, looks over at me, "Excuse me, could you please put a shirt on?" ...in the sauna? Time for this but no time to have towels available? Time to join the Y I guess.

The IRS doesn't play games with shitty customer service.

Then all of that stuff you posted earlier is n/a. Hourly rate...yum.

Average mil dude isn’t going to be at a regional long enough to keep their bonuses.

Meh. Probably cost $50k+ ($120k+ in gub'mint dollars) a copy to give a useable display, which would probably end up less useful than the garmin slapped into the light bracket. Unless it's going to include a poor man's datalink via the ADS-B interaction with the rest of the Red side, then why bother? It fulfills the fed's requirement and keeps the trains running on time. Not to mention, any talk of an upgrade could increase the threat of a "PMP upgrade". Yeah, nah.

Regardless of the outcome, this has been the most spirited discussion on the CAF Fighter FB page. Enough so that I'm wondering if big blue isn't going to shut it down.

So an 11F will PCS straight to a white jet base and go into IQT/MQT? Meh...probably more doable than skipping Phase III

There’s a curfew in Korea again?

Throwing your people and their families under the bus as a symbolic genuflection/trying to save face with the Japanese doesn’t solve the square root of fuck-all. Do some math. We’ve got 100k people and their families over there. Statistically, we are outperforming our national demographic in terms of crime and accidental death. Whe that’s not the public reply that should be given to our hosts, this is NOT leadership, it’s reactive CYA chickenshit.

Should be front page Navy times with an update on pilot manning crisis below the fold.

Easy: spring for the cellular data. No connection to NIPR. The co$t of $ecurity.

Hadn’t checked in a while. Is the latest version bold/italics from cover to cover?