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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.

A nickel on the grass...

So you're saying nothing has changed....

Most of the Viper ARTs I know are just using it as a holding position until they get hired by the airlines.

So if they put out a request for volunteers for a non-contingency deployment, no one volunteers, and they mobilize someone, does that mobilization become USERRA exempt? For example, if a unit picks a dude who has burned 4 years and 7 months of his USERRA time and they mobilize him after he didn't volunteer, can he get fired from his other job?

There's a promotion board for O-1? What's the promotion rate?

Unless we change the way we interpret the law. If you have an AF wide promotion board that is broken down into various AFSC panels, then AF wide you are promoting at the by law required rate. But you could manage each AFSC panel to have promotion rates at a specific level the AF desires to promote. We need more fighter guys, promote 95%. We need less service guys, promote 10%. Then overall you could average out to make the required cut. I haven't read the law you mentioned, but I bet there could be some wiggle room to be creative and still adhere to both the letter and intent.

Anyone else find it telling that the FY14 force management thread that was started just over a year ago has 2.5 times more posts than this ACP thread that started in 2005?

The wet berka contest on Friday night is going to be legit. Uncovered ankles will be plentiful.

If you eliminate the 401K in your math, you're missing a huge benefit of the airlines. The matching 401K plus Delta's 2% (I'd bet the other majors will start that soon) will more than even out the missing $45K a year of retirement pay. matmacwc - the part your missing is all the extra 365's that'll cause. Furlough vs 365.... I'd really have to think about that one. On second thought, I can always be a greeter at walmart, so I'd take the furlough.

Real question is how many will go AWOL and flee to Canada?

I'm sure you realize this now, but so others can learn from your mistake... For next time, and any other younger guys reading this, you generally tell the AF the exact date you are going to PCS. Big blue just gives you a general time frame with a few exceptions. You are given reporting instructions for your next base/assignment/TDY enroute and it is up to you to make sure you meet them. If you have a PCS with a TDY enroute, you need to time your departure to arrive at your TDY at the time the reporting instructions give you. For reporting in to your gaining base, a RLTND is just that. But for a TDY, you generally are given an exact day to arrive on and need to plan your travels accordingly. I don't mean to talk down to you, but I have no idea what your background is and some OTS and one year ROTC guys just don't have exposure to stuff like this. Overall, probably won't be too costly. Live and learn.

The orders that sent you TDY should have had reporting instructions attached. It will usually dictate an arrival date, not a RNLTD. If you showed up early, you might be out of luck. You can try for an amendment; if that works, your golden. Otherwise, find a finance guy (ahem... Finance Guy..) who knows what he's doing, tell him what happened, and he might be able to work some magic for you.

Nothing to see here. The mass exodus is a complete rumor and will never happen. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Its a good thing we don't have any troops in harms way right now so we can focus on stuff like this.

What would you expect when the AF often uses blues as a punishment? You don't send a kid to time out in their room and then wonder why they don't enjoy being in their room alone.

This is pretty much why I asked. I don't want to throw my cards down if there is no chance at winning the hand. My SQ/CC is a good dude who would likely not change any plans for me, but above him I have no idea. My concern is not really knowing the leadership above my squadron well enough. I don't want to let everyone know I'm planning on getting out only to get a 365 as a result.

Has anyone seen an 11F get approved PC recently? I haven't, just want to make sure that it is not a realistic option before I rule it out.