Champ Kind

Same at Yokota.

At some exercise at our (non-deployed) base in recent months, all "players" were required to wear reflective belts. A dude in our squadron wrapped a piece of masking tape around his waist with the words "SIMULATED REFLECTIVE" written on it. Rates as one of the top-5 funniest things I've seen this year. ...perhaps he's on to something.

Tracy = Doc's illegitimate son?

Am I the only one that read this part? Just wow. And people wonder why the Marines and Army give the USAF shit.

Apparantly you missed the thread a while back where some clerk was expressing his bitterness that aircrew acts so spoiled and that we are a small part of the Air Force, and that we are there to support THEM. UFB. There are STILL....STILL people at deployed locations that think the -130s are there to bring in the food, mail, and bottled water. Absolutely clueless that we are bringing 60 instruments of death into country at a time. And yet, they want us to respect them when they bitch to us about our sunglasses, socks, patches, tshirts, ID card holders, or some other queep. Oh, and by the way, they mostly suck at their jobs. Now, if passing the buck -- either through saying it's someone else's job or referring you to some convoluted website -- were their jobs, they'd be employees of the month. But no, their job is to support the war effort. When it becomes clear that they cannot do that, I say send them all home and save the government a lot of money. Send home the finance clerk that can't pay you. Send home the services clerk that won't give you a bag of ice for your cooler before your 16 hour day in 45 degree C heat. Send home the "senior NCOs" on sock patrol. Send home the CE guys whose function in life is to break crew rest. Seriously, I'd just rather do most of that crap myself than deal with those people. Scooter, I'm with you on the extra pay.

Am I the only one that is hesitant to invest into TSP or an SDP because I feel like I can't even trust the AF to get my normal pay right, there alone larger sums of money?

On our "8-ship, Launch the Fleet" day, I had the wonderful opportunity to work the DZ. Since apparently there was nothing else to report on that day, AFN was out there too. As the formation came over the ridge line on the run-in, the reporter asked, "Where are the other planes? I only count five. Didn't you say this would be an 8-ship?" All I could say was, "Oh, yeah... The rest will be along shortly." (Riiiight) They still said 8-ship in the report.

This is getting to be borderline-UFB. Second what HeloDude said about having a sit-down, face-to-face with people in the know. Hopefully they will be straight-shooters. (Overly-)"Religious" people on AD have no problems until they try to start cramming their ideals down the throats of those around them, particularly squadron- or classmates. I don't know you, but to be honest, from what you've posted, it sounds like you may be one of those people. Best of luck. BTW: People in ROTC actually WANT to join the USAF to enter "Cyber Command" now? WTFO?

WTFO? Does it have winglets or something?

Ill D, Just don't be that guy who makes being the "money guy" in your class a miserable experience because it's like pulling teeth everytime dues are due. There were always those two or three "tightwads" (Thanks, Bender) who would come up with every excuse under the sun why they shouldn't pay, or want to audit you every 6-9 days to make sure that either you or the bank attendant hadn't taken their precious $20 and blown it at Tunica or something.

https://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123090557 Way to go, big blue.... More change, just for the sake of change. I wonder how much the total cost will be to ditch all of the existing "CENTAF" patches and produce the new "AFCENT" patch. At least all the shoe clerks will have another uniform discrepancy to gripe about as you come into the chow hall with the "old" patch.

I wasn't aware that there was any "guaranteed flight contract" in the Air Force. My understanding was that the closest you could get to that was A) Be fully medically qualified and graduate from USAFA, B) Get hired with a Guard/Reserve unit.

Any way that you can pass along to all of the other studs at Corpus that it's "YOKOTA", not "Yakota." I don't know why it bugs me so much when I see that, but I guess it would be the same way if people spelled other bases like "Ramstyn", "Little Rok", "Diess", or "Pohp". Ugh.

You can't talk about T-44 sims without at least mentioning Hank Hall. Man law.

You're right. The lobotomy comes at a later date. I wish I still had the base-wide email sent at my "deployed location" from a certain O-6. It addressed the wearing of PT gear and admonished the phenomenon that was starting to occur across the base known as the "fake front tuck" (his words). He went on to say that the PT gear situation was "out of control" and yadda yadda yadda... Nevermind we were flying XXXX sorties per day with XX% mission effectiveness. We need to squash this PT gear situation! "Out of control." UFB.

5 Year Thread Revival! This stems from a conversation we were having in my squadron regarding tax-free leave. I browsed the Portal and e-publications for a finance reg that governs this, but I couldn't find anything that specifically answered my question. When you use leave that was accrued during time served in the combat zone, is that whole month considered tax free, or just the number of days taken that you earned while in said combat zone. Hypothetical: You were deployed 120 days over the span of 5 calendar months, therefore accruing 12.5 days of leave while in the combat zone. You arrive back home in October, but you don't use any LEAVE until that next January. When you take leave in January, do you get all of January tax free, or just up to those 12.5 days that you earned while deployed? I could see merit in arguments for or against. I haven't gone into finance here on base yet only because I like to get my facts straight, with documentation highlighted, before I go talk to those clowns (provided I can even catch them during their 1000-1500 hours, but that's for another thread!). No one in the squadron seems to have a definite answer. Thanks!

Are you asking him if, among the 42" flat screen, bar, and wireless, he also installed a feminine hygiene product dispenser?

For a minute, I thought you were talking about the T-34.

Stick to giving advice about CAF/BAF/whatever assets, bro.

Now that's what I call CRM.

Not surprising at all.

Does your job have anything to do with flying? Based on the comments you've made in this thread, and past threads, I doubt it. As for the origins of the slang or jargon in the aviation community, I'm pretty sure it probably started a long time ago (think Wright Bros.), and its roots are a little more deep than some dude on an internet forum trying to make himself sound cool. Bottom line: give it a rest. You've hijacked this thread enough. It's about fuel burn, and the fact that Big Blue is now watching mobility assets in the consumption of said fuel, with a little bit of experience-talk peppered in about what the A-code should do when some planner tells him not to put on a full bag of gas. You trying to turn this into a debate about military vs. corporate America is not fruitful, and is actually taking away from the original conversation.

Dude, are you even in the Air Force? "2"