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I've heard of military guys getting invites 9 months prior to their avail date. Pair that with 69+ days of terminal and you're potentially getting the interview a year out from your ADSC. A smart guy starts actively prepping (apps, recs, interview prep) a year from possible interview, so 3 years is a bit ambitious, but not crazy. Really the only money you waste putting your apps in early is the annual fee for the app websites. Many interview prep places are one payment for life, so might as well start a while out.

Sounds like on opportunity to instruct young airmen on their mission in the AF, and if they didn't respond appropriately, then have a talk with the life support officer. If we can't fix broken shit in the ops building ourselves, how can we expect big blue to fix broken shit outside the ops building?

Only if you've actually in processed already. Under contract but not PCS complete means nothing for being grandfathered.

They have a Technical Skills Assessment (TSA, poor choice of abbreviation for an airline). During the TSA, you basically brief and chair fly a taxi, takeoff, departure, arrival, landing, and taxi to a current captain as if you are the captain. During the cruise portion will get some minor problem where you have to go through the checklist. SIDs and STARs are also covered. During that portion, anything related to the SID/STAR/Approach is fair game. I got a couple GK questions in addition to the SID/STAR/Approach questions. By crazy luck, I just happened to have studied those exact questions, so got them right and he moved on to the CRM portion. You don't have to be a current aerospace engineer like at Delta, but I'd be ready for some quick GK/rules questions as I got some.

I wouldn't hit publish on the app until you're ready for the hiring department to go through your app and judge if you're getting an invite. You don't know what algorithms they use for the computers to ping a person look at your app. You wouldn't want someone to throw you back to the bottom of the pile because you hit submit before it was really ready. That being said, I took two solid months filling the app out and sending out the recs. For the next two months, I pinged guys who didn't send the rec back and had every airline guy who had time to go through my app and find errors. You'd be shocked at what you'll miss. Regardless of the airline, start brushing up on your non-mil aviation GK. Delta's test is a ball crusher. United is way better, but you may still get asked that one random question that every regional guy knows that you never cared to learn because it didn't apply to you flying for Uncle Sam.

The pilots need to stop saying that it's not about the money because money is part of it. Quality of life is everything and money is a significant part of QOL. So are flying more, shorter deployments, less queep, etc. No one is leaving the AF at 12 years with the plan to fly for the regionals for the rest of their career, so money is absolutely a significant part. Hard to get mad at HAF for believing what pilots are telling them.

Yes. Was doing a shelf check at the BX a few weeks ago and overheard two airmen that had dr appointments to get their waiver the next week. "Easy bro, just dry shave for 3 days before your appointment and you're golden."

As has been pointed out, it is not 'socialism' but it is a significant step towards socialism. And yes, free universal education K-12 is also a significant step towards socialism and is a good indicator as to how 'free' college would change our graduate education system in America. I have only a couple friends who went to private school as a kid, but I know lots of people who went to a private college. Many of the private colleges will close when people have the option of going to school for free vs paying everything themselves. Rather than looking to take what has worked really well in America (capitalism) and applying it towards parts of our country that need significant improvement (health care, education, etc), a large group of people seem to want to take the worst parts of our country (a grossly oversized government at most levels) and apply that to what needs fixing. The inevitable result will be a complete shit show that will spiral to the parts of our country that work well like the relatively free market economy. It is easy to see how people label things as 'socialist' that are not actually socialist in and of itself, but will take a significant step towards socialism when taken to their logical conclusion. You are correct that the ACA is not completely socialist, but it is trending our health care system away from free market economics towards the socialism end that many seem to desire. The ironic part of military members speaking in support of things that point towards socialism is that the military is about as socialist as you can get in America. How many times do you speak well of the MPF, finance, or similar things in the military? Virtually everything that is broken in the military is a great example of what our country as a whole would look like under people like that lady. Having lived in countries with socialized medicine and governments that lean far further socialist than ours, I can tell you that absolutely nothing of that style of government will help us. Government and bureaucracy is both naturally inefficient and naturally self interested in getting bigger and more control. The bigger and more control it gets, the more time, energy, and wealth is wasted simply maintaining it.

Either he has horrible friends or doesn't have the common sense to run that by someone else before posting it. There are just some things you can't take back...

Don't get too excited just yet. The PLANS for printable guns are 1A, I would still think that if you actually printed said gun, you may have just committed multiple crimes. But it is a strong argument against gun control. Much like the pope's ban on crossbows back in the Crusader era, technology advances will almost certainly make bans on specific technology look absurd given enough time.

I still don't see how a flying only track is a good idea. Imagine 'that guy' in the squadron that is always the pigeon and would rather work on his BS masters than study in the vault. He always has excuses as to why he didn't make RAP or why he was unavailable for mission planning yesterday. You really want him to be your commander in a few years? I totally get that guys just want to fly and I'm in that boat as well, but the guy who just wants to fly is also probably the guy that has the personality to take care of their bros and wants to be leading the formation when the shit hits the fan. That is the guy that should be set up to be the squadron commander. Rather than set up a fly-only track, which will remove guys like this from being commanders, we need to fix the glitch. Remove the BS AAD, SOS, ACSC, and things like that from consideration. Go back to the way the military has promoted since the Revolutionary War. Promote the guys who seem the be the most capable and chances are, they will be the most capable in their new job as well. Don't promote based on who has a shot at being the next chief of staff, promote based on who is the most likely to do the job best on the next level. Then, when that is finished, fix the staff gigs to turn them from a terrible deal into a good deal. Make them 18-24 month assignments in Hawaii where you work 9-3. People will say this is impossible, but I bet that so much of the staff has become a self-licking ice cream cone that if you removed some of the same BS where guys spend half their time filling out electronic staff summary sheets, you might find some time to let guys go hang out at the beach with their family when their kids get out of school every afternoon. Suddenly a year or two away from the jet might be a nice break instead of a prison term.

Anyone here shoot 6.5 Creedmoor? Building an AR-10 and debating 6.5C vs 308.

di1630, you're probably confusing a remote with a normal overseas tour. Coming back from a remote, you're invincible for 6 months. At least, that's how it was when I did mine anyway, squadron tried to send me on an individual 179 after only two months in the squadron and I said they couldn't send me unless I was a volunteer and no way was I going to volunteer. sixpack - apply for a separation ASAP. Mine was approved very quickly. Also, find the assignment reg and find what starts your 3 day hack. I'm not sure that a phone call from a commander cuts it these days with everything being virtual.

That's assuming the wing king didn't just send them at random. Also, wouldn't that be a second PCS and require a waiver that HAF level? Wonder if any of the 12 then 7-day'd that new wonderful location and only made the problem that much worse.

"Buffs - What can't they do?" Let's see: Push on time Not die in every Red Flag vul Turn around in less than 5 miles Have SA on air threats Have SA.

Hopefully it will get zero use ever. But if I found my self in the chute over any of our current AOs, I'd be very happy to have the little extra firepower. In any modern conflict, good guys will be enroute fast, but so will every bad guy who sees or hears about it. I'd gladly trade most of that BS long term survival stuff in for bullets. Unless Korea kicks off, an isolated pilot is probably either dead, captured (and will be dead in a very painful manner), or already rescued before he could even think about being thirsty let alone hungry or sleepy. This is long overdue and should have been SERE's absolute #1 priority 15 years ago.

Except for the fact that it clearly says "therapy dogs". If some cadet thought he could sneak in a mascot as a 'therapy dog', he shouldn't have a mascot. Not because it is dishonest, but because he's a pu$$y and doesn't deserve a mascot other than the butterfly he caught on the flowers he planted in his window to look at while he meditates and does yoga.

Absolutely not saying this is the reason, but I've seen a lot of guys get too comfortable with too high of energy states during SFO's. Not the end of the world when you have two departure end cables, but suddenly you need to divert to a civilian airfield and you could have problems. Again, not saying that is what happened here, the SIB will tell us, but an emergency divert to an airfield like this is something to keep in mind next time you practice an SFO.

Not bad. The vast majority of Americans are grossly ignorant of our own history. The bottom line is that American exists today because the government attempted to enact gun control. It was 243 years ago today that the British arrived in Lexington enroute Concord to confiscate guns. The American militia in Lexington were grossly outgunned, but fought to defend their freedoms anyway. Our forefathers fought and died to fight gun control and now Americans are eager to give up the very freedoms our forefathers died defending because those guns look scary. Along the line of the linked article; the British were hands down the most powerful military the world had ever seen to that point. They were beat and besieged in Boston by a 'well regulated militia'. As we have seen ourselves in Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, don't underestimate a motivated group with some guns even when faced with the worlds most powerful military.

Did someone mention filing a lawsuit? That was the first thing I thought of when I heard they were going to put that policy in place. Hope he takes them to the cleaners and scares other companies from entering politics. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-lawsuits/oregon-man-20-sues-walmart-dicks-over-raising-gun-buying-age-idUSKCN1GI2CG

Not so sure, maybe the protection is too old; it looks like the whole region from WI to NY to OH is getting creamed.

Do not go to the B-course yet. You want to be through and done with this stuff before that starts. Most B-courses are hard enough for guys who are happily married, let alone someone going through something like this. Talk to your flight commander. He'll talk to the SQ/CC and he should be able to roll your class back. Last thing you want to do is to try to tackle two of the more difficult things you will likely ever do in life at the same time if you can avoid it.

Regardless of where you end up going, few people seem to realize that (at least a few years ago when I shipped one) the travel to/from the port to drop off and pick up your car is a duty day. Not leave, not permissive, just straight up tell your CC where you're going and you go during the work week like you were going to work. You file a travel voucher and you get ROUND TRIP mileage to the closest port. When I've done it, the round trip mileage more than covered whatever cheap one way ticket I could find for the other half. I don't think you get per diem, but it's also been a while so check out the travel reg.

Makes sense for elk hunting. Otherwise, not so much...

Counts as normal pay, so no. You only get tax free up to the maximum enlisted rate, which is fairly close to that of a major making flight pay before the bonus. Since combat zone exemption is pretty much already max'd out as a major, the bonus goes above that amount and is taxed. Obviously your tax bracket may be lower for the bonus, so you do save tax money in the long run, but not tax free.