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My LTE reception was pretty solid after taking the Pfizer. Would recommend again. It's the J&J one that I saw giving people pentecostal leg syndrome...🤣

I knew that ^^^^^retort was coming form the Lost Decaders. *runs to kitchen* Hold on y'all gotta get the popcorn!......

holy jesús carpintero on a mule cart, now the Ukrainian flag is a proxy for covid lockdown sycophant ? the anti-vaxxxers have officially jumped the shark.

well 6 of yours, half a dozen of mine. I find for-profit incorporations (HMO/PPO/Medicare part C) exercising that same supposed level of life censorship, a rank distinction without difference. That, "leftist bullshit" does not make.

It's not just POGs/Nonners, plenty of pilots in that grift train. Problem is you're gonna step on toes here because a subset will resemble the remark, don't kid yourself. It's a "we don't talk about fight club" topic. People can spare me the plausible deniability. We all know them, class-I holders running proverbial marathons with tournament player level VA documentation wordsmithing in order to grab the rating golden ring and get puh puh puh paid son. In TX it's even worse, since it nets you [effectively, spare me the sales tax pedantry] zero-state tax burden if you play your cards right. People will continue to profit while hiding behind the govt's inclination to protect the status quo in order to not run afoul of extending benefits to the legitimate cases. Human shield dynamics. If you raise the issue, you'll get told off/met with (literally in my experience debating this topic in person) a "mind your business/ hate the game not the playa". Fair enough, but it is our collective business as taxpayers. This is as far I'll spend time engaging on this topic on a forum like this one, given the demographic. If the FAA is finally "hating on the game", even if accidentally/second order effect?...GOOD. Those who resemble the remark are a f--- disgrace, you can @ me all you want, I'll still call it out for what it is.

womp womp, that's pretty weakass trolling effort, and I say that as a non-airline lifer mind you.

yup yup, means testing is a cancer.

bold my emphasis. Glad you BLUF'd it, saves me on key punches on my keyboard 😄

*yawn* yes, it's called 60% of every swinging ARC unit that flies airplanes aka 'Basic pilot'. Kit comes complete with complimentary white Tacoma/4Runner/BMW, post-Wall future exwife with pull-string that shrieks "Be home more! - Make more money!", and new balance shoes. Some units have pre-made packets for newhires at the MUTA (kidding....but only sorta).

yup yup, life is cheap on this planet. Regional mileage on that value will vary, as you point out.

we just got our shipment of morale shirts in coyote brown (AFRC associate). Had to go thru the expense of transposing the art into the compliant color, but I guess that's the " resiliency option" in this instance. The airline pencil tabs were outlawed a while ago, but those are being rocked pretty defiantly here recently. Honestly the attrition and turnover in the regaf side is so high rn they're frankly not paying attention to misc reservist virtue signaling.

Hell, nobody was habitually on time during the PGUA campaign. The DO was late too; well, that's because we Amish-relocated his rental car to the top of one them grass covered cement pillboxes that lined the parking lot walls on the flintstone house buildings at ol' Andersen. Shit officially got real when they couldn't find enough navs to fill the flagpole mission cuz half the squadron was down in Tumon getting their scuba cert...on a Thursday. Fair trade for a "deployment's" worth of losing your mortgage payment to $3.50/day per diem fvckery, but I digress. And lest I be accused of stolen valor, I disclose I fought that war via TDY, which netted me the full $121/day and Outrigger non-A letter. Hate the game, not da playa type of thing. Or as my ANG brethren would say, #GuardHarder 😄 You mean post-flight debrief? That was primary, standard....it's right there in the expeditionary IFG... Honorable mention to Rick's Cabaret off Calmont Ave in Fort Worth,TX. Debrief standard for the milk-run night Ranger sorties, for those familiar with Barkatraz Ops. Parking the steely in the back parking lot and unscrewing the license plate, ah the good ol days. One of those CONUS family man / PACAF degenerate fvcks is now an AFRC one star. Still remember 2-man corpse-carrying his alcohol poisoned #ss to the Qs in the most LO way possible (which is to say, poorly). Folding his legs and chucking (my kid's gen calls it 'yeeting' now) the room key behind us as the door slammed shut. That was about what HHQ sortie debriefs looked like at ol Club USA. Talk about "you too could be the best of what's left". Usual suspect prob doesn't remember it... but we all do. And that's all that matters to me, "General". There were 3 kinds of PACAF men during the CENTCOM potato peddling days that were the Lost Decade: 1) those who made it through Normandy without getting mowed by the machine gun nest, 2) those who didn't make it... and 3) the liars who swear they weren't there. 😄 . Make no mistake, you won't find it on the IEU list, but we all had it. #PACAF4Life #IknowWhatYouDid

You joke, but you legacy soybois got nothing on some of these counterinsurgency vets at NK. To wit, summer of '21 in my hometown, all hell and pandemonium broke loose. I have it on 2nd hand account by mutual acquaintances to the people in question, a NK crew did in fact barricade themselves in the downstairs rooms at SJU and told to change out to civilian, straight up Benghazi style. State police did have to go into the terminal with about a platoon's worth and shut things down. Similar anecdotes of the event from FAs and gate agents are available. So yeah, if I'm a linked-In warrior, you betcha I want to roll out with my hand on the shoulder of an NK guy on point who's done an exfil or two before. Getting to the Mouse in Orlando is no joke! 😅 /TC

As I've told before here ...Tumon Bay was my Vietnam. The irony of course is I've lost more coworkers and peers as an AETC warrior than my prior MWS equivalent did to combat. Statistically I've spent the lion's share of my indentured service in a more hazardous job than the one that was supposed to give me turkey shoot medals and permissive JDAM war stories. But they don't give out AMs for that... it's just called doing your f*ckin' job. At the end of the day, 'Needs of the Air Force' was their stipulation, not mine. Which is a euphemistic way of saying: FUPM. #7305 #FUPM #TumonBay #PACAF #Eticket #TPstalls

As a non-retiree, that's what I would do. It's a bit more uphill right now for the poster as an interservice transfer type, but not impossible. Plenty of current/qualified guys using the 340th as a airline-juniority nuclear moderator (but we don't talk about fight club, especially not around civilian-only 121 coworkers). The Marine/Navy Reserves are just a different animal altogether. They don't run their program in particularly attractive way, compared to ANG or even AFRC.

The replacement was looking promising (granted, a low bar from you know who), and just like that got sacked in zero time flat. We're currently training the second replacement. No PIREPs yet.

1/3 is the figure I've heard from the Bronipernet. Not as bas as XL hailmaggedon. In fairness, XL's boo boo was Toner centric, T-6s went completele unscathed... T-38s got out of dodge, I was one of those wethevacs. KELP was hopping that week. 😄 At any rate, I'm told they're returning jets to line on an inspection basis, no clue how those inspections are going at the moment. We know prop strike (ground) and control surface replacement for the more affected tails are the big ones. Some collisions between tails, and collisions against lighting infrastructure. Good times. Wasn't hail-centric, it was wind. Broke tie chains. Not at VN, but rumint is big pow wow rn regarding wx and mx arguing the one didn't tell the other. Blame game in full swing. That's all I got atm, now back to farming Ukrainian naval drone footage to edgelord the Russo-sycophants on the t-gram. Stay safe kids and don't make fun of a certain NAF on the insta, or ya get an article. yee yee!

That wasn't the point in contention, I stipulate 38s aren't needed to drive that antiquated pos. Furthermore, Buffs have dropped from T-1 track in the past. It was more about the second tier effects within the 11B cohort, specifically carving out the B1/2 guys. A bit tribal knee-jerk for someone complaining about tribalism, from where I sit. Lighten up, it's just a meme. Not everything is a conspiracy theory against herbies. Furthermore, the reason for the buff being in 38s historically had nothing to do with your perceived grievance. I got 1000 hours snoring in that contraption (when not sitting red ball for a whole duty day with engines running), cool factor is not a word I'd ever use to describe anything related to that thing. See the irony behind your indignation, is that you presume buffs would drop top of the stack in the MAF track. That shows you really have been removed from the UPT enterprise for a long time. These kids are smart, and they ask questions, it's not an unknown to them. As to the second piece, again the irony is a gunship driver has less tactical degrees of separation from actual weapons employment and combat SA picture than a Buff guy. That may not be as well known to the Toner types, but all they have to do is ask someone without an inferiority complex about that. And since we can't have fun we might as well go for the punchline: none of it is gonna make a lick of a dent in the pilot production deficit. The 11B sideshow is just that, an immaterial round-off error in the context of total yearly production, especially given the carve out of the majority of the 11B in the first place.

latest rumint from the SophistryNEXT! idea factory: Buffs to get axed off FBF and into MAF-Next sim-only land with the rest of the (former)T-1 track.....but not B-1 and B-2s. OOoof, talk about weirdness at the 11B dinner table over on the holidays. That community is the unironic embodiment of the Rime of the Ancient mariner. Meanwhile the (legacy) IFF mafia: 😄

It's good to have aspirational goals.... 😄

Hold up, point of order: The upper and upper-middle classes self-isolate from military service all on their own, no compelling needed. So don't go putting that on us W2 serfs/transactional military members, and certainly not our progeny. As I've said before, the temerity of acussing veterans of sabotaging recruitment. Ingrates. The DoD can take their shameless victim blaming, roll it into a fag, and fox2 it up their own six. To wit, New England isn't pulling their fair share of the blood spilling from where I sit, go lecture them about it. And I digress.

It's mostly friendly ribbing among the ARC crowd, but anecdotally the Guard has a slight more degrees of separation from RegAF compared to AFRC, which some people put a premium on. They also have more 11F units than AFRC, and expand more geographically naturally. That's about it. On the money front, it's no contest, AFRC is a more secure and reliable source of funding. Title 32 is chocolate mess compared to title 10. ANG units are more likely to be cool with letting you wither on the vine until new FY, whereas AFRC units have more ample sources of MPA, mainly due to the regAF adjacency. Guard guys have to leave their zip codes more often to look for troughing opportunities. Training allocation expediency has also been significantly quicker in AFRC compared to my peers in ANG in the period where that training was a central part of my life as a young guy. Not insignificant delays either for the Guard guys. Most of that has been ameliorated by having AFRC adopt the ANG kids under our Group while they undergo their undergraduate training (which itself was a subset of the larger consolidation of officer training at OTS). I'm not saying any of these things are outright show stoppers, nor would be things one would necessarily use to dismiss one over the other. I ended up dancing with AFRC because it's the one who gave me a shot (the Guard didn't after years of interviews), so I'm partial to it. But I'm a title 10 crack addict, and within 3 years from an active Retirement, so I'm blue juice all the way now. My career has been regAF-lite, no question about it. We stopped being Reservists circa 2008 for me, thanks to TFI arriving at our door. The Guard is the only place left where some units are distant enough to not feel that yet, but that too is coming to an end. Good luck, I was young once; it was only yesterday I was on here asking these very questions. Don't blink, you'll miss it. Cheers.

Going to SERE before UPT is uncommon. AFRC didn't always used to put people on continuous orders, for the record. This was a newly adopted technique once the AOR of pilot trainee management was subrogated to the 340th (a fairly recent evolution). Traditionally it had been the home unit that was responsible for procuring the training dates for their trainees, from OTS all the way to B-course and MQT (now TI). The centralization of student management to the 340th is generally a good thing for Guard guys, since their prior oversight while in the UPT pipeline has not always been smooth or funding continuous, if I may be euphemistic. AFRC has always had a more solid fund site and expediency of training scheduling than the ANG. The ANG has a ton of perks over AFRC, getting paid and getting expedient training is not two of them. BL, I wouldn't worry about getting sent to SERE before UPT. Not with those dates as listed.

my wife's nursing schoolmate stayed behind for job reasons, they just geo-bached it. This was UK.