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Maybe I'm over-simplifying the question because it's not my life, but this really seems like a no brainier to me. Take a job on active duty that people are getting non-vol'd to do and getting out ASAP from, or take a job in the reserves that guys are competing for and often do for 30+ years.

He secured himself from conventional attack two years ago with encouraging the formation of ISIS. He intentionally helped build up the tide of ISIS because that made him the lesser of two evils to the west. The only way the west truly intervenes to kick out Assad is if the FSA once again becomes a credible threat. The Russian intervention will make sure that won't happen, so Assad will likely push back ISIS a little to regain some revenue sources and then let them stay in a perpetual stalemate. ISIS is extremely useful to Assad and he won't want to see them actually defeated.

There's also currently the early eligible and then initial eligible. Early basically means you sign the bonus before your ADSC is up and then you start getting paid once your ADSC expires. Best deal for you if you know 100% that you're in for 20. The initial eligible is the FY that your ADSC expires, which means you could be a free agent (thus not getting any extra money) between the day your ADSC expires until the bonus is released and they process your paperwork.

Apparently Minnesota is so dangerous that a family sent their kid to boarding school... in Somalia... only to be surprised that he was murdered. Don't even know where to start with that one. Story

I know this might be shocking, but most of the guys interviewing you were probably not fully compliant with the drinking age when they were in college either. I'd be surprised if this was a deal breaker.

Vipers generally have 2 (some units are getting an additional SATCOM). But to say we have two radios and therefore an extra one is not valid. You are generally assigned an Aux frequency that is your intraflight freq. Far more mid-airs with military jets have happened within a flight than with stranger traffic and I would never consider giving up my Aux freq to monitor a UNICOM, especially if I'm IFR. Vipers almost never fly single ship; I've only flown single ship once in the last year. Even single ship, being able to have the SOF know where he can reach me (on Aux as my Primary is constantly changing) is probably going to be safer than a fighter guy trying to monitor a UNICOM freq while under IFR anyway.

And this conversation may have actually taken a productive turn... A relatively open invitation to local FBOs to bring their students in once a month to over the shoulder RAPCON during a busy training day might help educate some guys a little better than the standard MACA brief the safety guy gives twice a year.

I'm constantly surprised how few people realize that fighters don't have TCAS. If it's outside my radar coverage and ATC hasn't put it on the link, the only thing I have are my Mark 1 eyeballs.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/07/27/cdc-data-says-montgomery-most-sexually-diseased-us-city-group/?intcmp=ob_homepage_health&intcmp=obnetwork Just going to point out that it is possible to have too much fun at shoeflag.

A normal remote PCS (like Korea) is different than the 365s. They can't by name shack you for a Korea if you 7-day. They legally have to run a non-vol list that ranks everyone vulnerable for and qualified for that assignment based on STRD. But if the wing gets tasked with a 179 to the Died, I'm sure a guy who just 7-day'd with 1.5 years left is going to be relatively high on the wing's list.

Might save you from the 365, but the guard is already pulling 180 day "deployments".

Sure, the lady interviewed just happened to be looking up and saw both the F-16 and the Cessna prior to impact and then witnessed the impact itself. She needs to be an air traffic controller or a JTAC with that visual ability. Amazing how news outlets just put whoever claims to know anything about an accident on TV.

Problem is that people ARE going to walk away and find another job. You can't quickly replace the experience they walk away with by hiring someone off the street, so you end up with a less capable force and more guys are going to die in wartime and training accidents. Sport bitching is one thing, highlighting issues that will hurt our ability to safely execute the mission is another. Guys are bailing on AD to the guard to get family stability and be home more. If the guard goes to a 1:3 with 180 day rotations for fighter units (180 days are already happening), that will no longer be true and more guys will straight up separate. I already know multiple fighter guys who's fini flight on AD was their no shit fini flight because they saw the guard as more of the same. A 1:2 AD dwell time sucks, but for many guys that really ends up being more like 1:3 or 1:4 after skipping deployments due to PCS's, school, etc. That doesn't happen nearly as much for part timers, so they may actually end up deploying as much or more than their AD buddies. There's also the civilian job issue. Airlines and other companies may not be able to fire guys for deploying for six months every 18, but if that military guy is a private practice doctor, lawyer, or small business owner, who is going to force their clients to come back when they return? The active duty pilot exodus has begun, but if the guard and reserve isn't careful, the same might happen on that side in a few years.

If it is even possible, it is not probable. With the mass exodus from active duty, guard units have their pick of guys leaving. Non-current guys face a bit of an uphill battle finding a unit that'll put them through a re-qual, let alone guys who have never been qualified. The last few hiring boards I've heard of have had around 10 applicants for a single job and many of those guys were current in the jet. If I were you and looking to make the jump to the guard, I'd look at every heavy or UPT type unit within a reasonable commute.

The theory also ignores the relatively high number of guys 7-daying their school assignment. I haven't seen any big AF data on it, but I know multiple guys who have 7-day'ed school over the last two years and know even more selects who are planning on it or have already applied for Palace Chase. School pretty much guarantees at least O-5 and a squadron command, so these guy's aren't worried about their career progression, yet they're still bailing.

His stint in the reserves was fairly short lived. Too busy talking to his agent to be bothered with little things like flight briefings...

If you're past your commitment and are eligible for the 20 year option, every day you wait costs you money. You get the money per year until 20 years; the end date remains the same regardless of if you sign up now or wait until Sep. The problem is that if you wait until Sep and are eligible to get paid this year, you're not getting the bonus between now and Sept, so you lose out on the prorated part of this year's $25K. Similarly, the early-eligible part is a good deal for some guys who are 100% in and have an ADSC expiration early in the fiscal year. If you graduated UPT in Oct and the PSDM gets released in April, the early signup will get you an extra $12K. If your 10 years is up in Aug, the early-eligible, or even signing the bonus now, doesn't really help you.

If you didn't accept an ADSC, I think you have a case even if they find it later. This is probably one of those times where you keep quite and hope it turns out well. Bringing it up now can really only hurt.

Someone always has it better, someone always has it worse. Having had my fair share of MREs and I would not be looking forward to eating MREs for two weeks. For all the talk about not being a pussy, I bet if you were in the same spot you'd whine to one of your friends at some point during those two weeks. Everyone gets out for their own reasons. Eating MREs for two weeks isn't going to push anyone out, but I'm pretty sure it won't help keep anyone in either.

In the last year there have been two, recently only one has been giving checkrides there. From guys I've talked to, the other examiner is similar. Also, don't take all the positive endorsements of Downtown Aviation to mean that they simply trade your cash for an ATP cert. You still do a legit checkride; it is just a program that is better tailored for experienced dudes who don't need extensive lessons in airmanship. The examiners grade to the FAA ATP requirements and not random additional approaches/maneuvers they simply think would be nice to do.

We need new loadouts to truly deal with these guys. I propose napalm, CBU, and a nice mixture of ground up pigs/pig manure. Load it up on everything we have and start carpet bombing. That and every ISIS we capture be executed by the nearest woman who kills them by shoving previously mentioned pig mixture down their throats until they suffocate.

I've been considering buying one of those, please let us know how it shoots!

Movers advantage works well for getting a realtor that gives you a kickback of the money you spend, but avoid USAA for mortgages.

Some group hijacked a social media account. Who cares? I bet there are multiple kids at any given high school that could do that. The part that should put this in the WTF thread is that this is even news.

From multiple guys I know who have done the ATP in the Phoenix area (not sure if it was AFT or another school nearby), I wouldn't go there. I can't speak to the program(s), but the area had at least one examiner de-certed recently so the remaining guys went full retard.