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While I agree with you in principle, the counterpoint is that there have been plenty of pilots, from all walks, who "learned" stuff in their respective pipelines, and then packed it in to much media fanfare. Including Mil pilots. Yeah, I think the new ATP rules could have a MUCH bigger cutout for Mil, but the opposing forces (puppy mil ERU, ND, Perdue, All-ATPs, etc) would have dragged us back to 300hr wonders in the right seat of an RJ. ...pick your poison. At the end of the day, an end of ADSC Mil guy still has a logbook that the civ guys can't complete with.

Nothing written up in the TDY gouge section; TDY to NFARS for a few weeks. Lodging? WiFi quality in said lodging? Gym? Local eats? Send it!

But it's okay, because you are required to stay on base, so at least you have that going for you.

Oh, then by all means, enlighten us, the unwashed. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/eu-to-launch-kettle-and-toaster-crackdown-after-brexit-vote2/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3649655/How-Brussels-spends-money-grows-trees-devastating-dispatch-reveal-Eurocrats-live-life-staggering-excess-10-000-earn-PM-s-150-000-taking-decisions-affect-lives-secret.html Seems me that Brits made a call. You might not agree with it, but drop the righteous indignation. Don't get me wrong, there are counterpoints: https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber/amp# But maybe Andy Borowitz and John Oliver aren't as smart as they are witty https://hbr.org/2013/06/the-european-union-a-failed-ex

They scoff as a function of their own dissonance; confirmation bias. Vetter's post contained all of the essential elements: -Choice of whether or not he would help--no obligation to be a "Yes Man" -He chooses to live in base, substantially improving his QoL -He may choose to bid another base when he becomes more senior -He then may choose to relocate, or commute if if that is more advantageous -He was immediately rewarded for helping out -He may at some point trade some QoL for an earlier upgrade; seat, iron, or both -OR, he may get kicked to the curb at the next market correction or merger. Who the fvck knows Based on his posting history, he (like a lot of us) might trade a sizable chunk of the above for more time in a USAF tail, but not at the expense of being marginalized and commoditized on some spreadsheet

Interesting? Exercises Promotion? Inspection--esp if you take the WG through the next capstone. Flying? ADO, hands down.

GMAMFB! The AF loves to tout how cheap RPAs are in one argument, and then how ridiculously expensive they are in the next. Typically, whichever angle the AF is arguing, is BS. (For the record, over the horizon, distributed Drone ops is fvckin retahdid expensive) How much did it cost to wire Ft Smith, AR, and a half dozen other ANG locations for droids? THERES your cost. It's not some obscene number that gets thrown around after the staff cooks the books all weekend to defend that bullsh!t rice bowl NW of Vegas.

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[usually around 2 in the afternoon during the last week of the month] "Oh, hey there MCC, I'd like to get scheduled in 5 different GCSs for 0.2 each."

Hmmm...so does that mean that assignments are given based on IFF performance? That's a first for an IFF performance being anything other than proceed/divert to heavies.

Seen a number of IPUGs rammed through in min time, only to watch the newly minted IP go up to wing and occasionally log some IP time on the 781 to maintain currency for the next year or so, and then it's off to school. But hey, got that K prefix...check.

I hadn't looked at it that way. In sarcasm font, what he said makes perfect sense.

Don't post drunk.

That would have been awesome. We had a similar guy in a sq I was in. The thing is: rated officer gate months are rated officer gate months; AF has nothing to say about it. So, as. 2Lt, he was getting full 650 flight pay, and before he pinned Capt, he had a star on his wings.

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Style points for emailing 1FW/ALL with your question. ...that's one technique, I guess

You can use you Post 911 GI Bill for any flight training you want as long as it is Part 141/142. I have yet to find a qualifying school for the Seaplane rating in the Northwest. Lost of schools you can get extra type ratings. GOTDAMMIT! That's three hours of my life spent Googleing GI-Bill Seaplane, then GI-Bill Helicopter, the GI-Bill Super-Constellation type rating course, then...

Just in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Here we are much more civilized...

Can't imagine that's going to be sustainable for much longer, unless O3 and below double up. The FY16+ production is eye watering.

Not really a stop loss, as far as I can tell; appears to be a standard force management paper drill from one FY to the next. Reading the memo, one could request transfer to IRR of 30 Sep and get an approved date of 1 Nov. Not very stop-loss-ey, imo.

Lot of comments along the lines of "this is SOP, happens every year." By the letter posted, someone approved for separation on 30 Sep could separate 1 Nov. That, by definition, is not Stop Loss.

When I knocked out my ATP and it came tax time, my exhaustive research pointed to a lot of others that had researched the question before me, and all arrived at the same "no" conclusion.

Because... SERVICE! I don't entirely disagree with you, but I don't think it's a moot argument either.

Not a new idea, really. Back in the middle of the last century, the Marine Corps recognized that, absent Mission Commander or any weapons release duties, Navigation was just another process oriented set of skills. A slice of the career field was carved out for line leadership (WOs), but otherwise Marine Navs, from WWII and through legacy KC-130s, was an enlisted MOS.

In all fairness, GA is often painted into the corner of delivering a crap product. GA: hey we have this new capability we're developing that USAF: GREAT, FIELD IT NOW! GA: well, like, yeah, but we weren't quite finished with the GUI and USAF: don't care, need it now Ops: wft? GA SUCKS! Safety: [alarming mishap rate ensues] wtf? GA SUCKS! OGV: what is this, like 8 -1 changes in the last month? GA SUCKS! But in all fairness, GA sucks. But in a bigger sense, if weapons were developed by the same special olympics team that fielded this tech, troops would be hoofing around M-14s with picatinny rails. [braces for the resident gun nutz to post picatinny equipped M-14 pics...]