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QFT cuz I can't like it twice.

Been a while since I've found videos on the maritime side of things, but found this one today. Let's see if another "localized storm and high seas" leads to another sinking...in the harbor lol. No details as to the tonnage and type yet. The guerrilla navy continues to deliver. 👍

The city of Lima is basically floated by AA line numbered blue passport holders..... 😄

From the lamentations I hear at work, don't do that at the folksy texas two step airline. The new hires eat the lines for training (consolidation), leaving the "senior" eating the reserve coverage, which is generally not commutable (no LC). Since NH bid off said junior base asap, the cycle repeats with new entrants, so you don't get the downline needed for all these QOL promises to materialize. Of course, the only reprieve is the fluctuations of the training footprint itself, which is system-wide dependent, so the training glut can shift away to a different domicile and restore much of your loss. For a guy who lives in said base this is perhaps a sunk cost; for a commuter that matters quite a bit more. Talking to the non-LUV junior guys (we have quite a few nowadays), that doesn't seem to be an issue for them, cuz I guess they get the trips bought off or whatever. Not sure why swa doesn't; must be more of that whitewashed texas exceptionalism mythology story they try to indoctrinate my 4th grader with. 😄

I just find it funny how women are taken at their word, and their reasons implied as gender-role-appropriate, for eschewing an airline career thus contributing to the demographic labor participation disparity... but when a man espouses the same reasons on here it's all of a sudden blasphemy? Misogynist and misandrist at the same time, didn't know that was possible. Seriously, where's mai eh-KWal-e-taaah! 😄 /sarc..ish P.S. I noted they did finally installed the koala-care baby changing station at the men's pisser at work....yet there's still that unsanitary gaping @ss hole on the wall from the urinal they ripped out when it went weapons active and started shooting high pressure piss water at bystanders. I mean, what gives? Does everything have to be zero-sum around here?! 😄

Dont do the crime if ya cant do the time. Its called retention for a reason ya golden corral buffet-raiding double dippers! Im being cheeky btw, before one hundred and twenty one white knights of the ATP table get umbraged and come for my head. Story from the way back machine, which for you non lost decade polyannas is merely 2014 lol. So Dude gets soviet sub commander CJO right as the gates are opening up again, then goes to curtail AGR as a bonus taker cuz you know, #yolo. Oops retention means things. Needs of the air force reserves. Denied. CCCP navy was so backed up back then he didnt get training dates so they never knew he sped. By the time bonus RSC expired his preferred caller gave him a cjo and our fine prince lived happily ever after...well, after he got in a kerfuffle with a gaining unit over double commuting pressures, got divorced and lost the house the kids and all his cash , and eventually quit the airforce over aforementioned kerfuffle, leaving 13.69 years of combined AD/AGR time and a sizeable reserve retirement on the table in the ultimate airline money flex...point being, alls well that ends well, i think? Anyhoo, if one resembles or feels like one could resemble the remark, do life easy, dont bother with the bonus. Its small fry money for you 121 balla's anyways.

I don't feel it's that as much as it's only more because we have more airplanes in the sky. I think people take off without clearance with some degree of frequency, and have done so before on a per capita basis. I did it too back the good ol day...granted it was UPT and as part of a formation takeoff lead as an added distraction, looking at the world through a soda straw at the time for sure. Granted, that was with a background of CFII with 400 civilian hours at the time. Point being, it happens, and it's not something reserved for complete neophytes. To the point about 121, yes, a two person crew should be able to ameliorate that. Then again my IP didn't do anything either at the time (oh how my username checks in this life, lucky to be alive). Meaning he too was behind the 8-ball. It happens. Sure, we can point to the subtext of regional flying being intimated as a de facto single pilot operation, given the degree of outsized/remediating OJT that occurs at that level. But then AA106 enters the chat and takes a big crap on that presumption. So you can't just blame it on "those FFD carriers boi....". Not saying any of it is ok, just saying, this stuff happens, and it's not just the regional perma-IOE ranks doing it either. Solution? Less airplanes in the sky I guess. Cuz we sure as sheet don't have the means to tighten staffing to attrit anybody left of the mean on the bell curve. That ship sailed a decade ago.

oooooooouh you gonna get that @ss red round hea'h for saying some like dat. 😄

dayum, regAF is extra petty. If that's the level of toxicity I stand corrected then, that's a good caveat.

And? What I mean is, by that metric, Walmart has a CJO for me 2 years from separation date too, and I don't even have to apply for that one. It's not the draw you think it is. Now, let me sit day one of indoc on personal leave, grab that line number and come back in 2 years, now you got my attention.

He's not asking about retirement orders, he's asking about what pay tables are used to calculate his high-36 for the active retirement. It's stipulated his active retirement order will say O-5, but that doesn't answer what the high-36 months for the active retirement are. To wit, I know plenty of O-5 bums/troughers who sloooowly piecemealed their way into 7305 AD points, separating out of Active duty many years before as O-4s. By your logic, their active retirements in AFRC would be calculated using 36 months of O-4 tables because that's the grade their active retirement order will have published. That is not correct. ETA: #oof. I stand corrected. According to section 1407, the provisions of retired pay high 36 month calculations of a Regular retirement and a non-Regular retirement are different. 10USC1407(c) and (d) respectively. You can count months in active duty status towards a non-regular retire high 36 calc, but you can't count months in non-active duty status for the regular retire high 36 calc. Looks like it doesn't really pay to stay past 20 active in the ARC as a TR just to seek a higher grade month, if all it gets me is 500 bucks more....at age 60. womp womp. Learned something new today!

Again, if you pinned on in 2019 you already have TIG for O-5 for grey zone accrual considerations. active duty service in that grade is not required.

I think we're conflating things. For the vanity shadow box yes. For the jelly of the month club? That is not how retired pay is calculated under the High-36 Plan for an active retirement. According to the DoD retirement page: Defined Benefit that equals 2.5% times the number of years of service times the average of the member’s highest 36 months of basic pay. It makes no such stipulation that the member's qualifying "months of basic pay" occurred in active status. It's just that regAF folks consider that a given. But that isn't a given for Reservists who do attain Active Retirements. To get the the piece of paper saying you're active retired in the grade of O-5, yes you'd have to get 3 years of AD as an O-5, otherwise the paper says O-4.

That doesn't seem right. Being on MPA shouldn't matter. Once he pinned on in 2019 that's valid TIG, regardless of status. He's got more than 3 years.

6 is standardish for afrc fighter or upt. Which is to say, 8 would be an outlier footprint for a heavy unit, even in afrc (and by extension, almost always tfi).

That's tame compared to Bent Spear '07 for that base. That place is...radioactive. I'm here all week good night!!! *badum tsk* 😄

I had 6% with HSBC as recently as 2005, didn't last long. I'll take whatever I can get, but I don't expect these high yield saving accounts to persist for a decade or two, like I'd need to in order to amass the kind of retirement-expediting increases I'd need. But yes, been eyeballing Amex savings since I already use them as a primary grocery getter. Chase is doing nothing for my war chest right now.

Military "BOP" lol. ...and my exwife told me she loved me too. 😄

It is different. 11Fs have the highest participation/readiness yearly commitments out there, by far. It's a lot of tasks to stay proficient on (11F DSG participation requirements) and still handle the squadron qweep (full timer 11F). Other AFSC don't have the same burden. As such, no one size fits all. Also forget AGRs, they're not statistically representative of [officer pilot] full timer life, ARTs are. I've worked with heavy AFSC ARTs, those guys are homesteading more than your DSGs, though there is no reason an 11F ART would be principally encumbered by operation deny Xmas TSPs. A cursory understanding of 10 USC 10216 (1)(c) and (3) makes that patently clear. They're not AGRs; they're not meant to [generally] deploy. A lot of people don't understand title V. ART is not all concessions like it's always portrayed, and I say that as an AGR mind you. The problem for ARTs in the 11F variant isn't statutory, it's always been medical. An ART can make it to 57-[MPA90 x n] no sweat as an 11M; as an 11F in continuous 1A status? Not really. That's where the mileages diverge, even after acknowledging what @SocialD has already brought up as the primary objections by the peanut gallery: people getting tired of the groundhog day aspect of full time support. And now back to "debating" the merits of taking a regAF AvB 🤭

Don't be a playa hata. Those air medal commendations aren't gonna write themselves. A kill's a kill homey. 😄

Excellent summation of the historical problems of the ARC, especially the AD-Lite subset (AFRC) within it. I will say, regAF has always struggled with the concept of strategic reserve, and they certainly made a mockery of it during our foreign excursions to Iraq and AFG in the prior 20 years. It is also absolutely the case that for upper management, this all has always boiled down to a contemptuous affair singularly devoted to shorting people a retirement and benefits. No different than a private corporation attempting to minimize legacy labor costs. It's just that it's viewed with greater skepticism to suggest government managers to be engaging in such attempts at govt sanctioned wage theft, since it's not a for profit organization. Given the sacrifices and opportunity costs @FourFans130 already spoke about (and personally resonates with me, especially the impacts my service had on my ability to even make a family in the first place, and I'll save the details in the interest of my 5th), it becomes insult to injury since, while on status, we're not free to just quit like civilians can. As to regAF, it has always been a rank cake and eat it too, hypocritical organization. Bitch bitch bitch about folks leaving over an "up or out" management focus on promotions whilst the rank and file favor "tactical technician" track careers, which are anathema to regAF (and the reason I never did bother with regaf). But then they turn around and systemically kvetch about the ARC's existence writ large, which @Chida post expanded on in detail. I've always told the Alzheimer's ward that is the AvBonus thread: regAF doesn't care about money, they care about control. If they short you money that's a twofer. That's why they won't barter with their chattel even if it saves them money. The money is secondary to them: They want to control and throttle your time, in a way that suits them. That's why they hate Reservists, they've always found our legal ability to say no and leave money on the table for the sake of our lives (the very premise over reserve service as promised on the brochures mind you), too uppity for their liking.

That's AGR/regAF retirement, not TR/DSG. For a TR/DSG retirement, the grey area (time during retired reserve, aka the grey years, which usually top most people out at 30) payscale longevity accrual is based on retired grade, which would be O-4 for an O-5 without 3 year TIG. See chida's response. As such, that's why this mickey mouse business about TIG potato has always been centric to TRs, not AGRs or regAF (a mere vanity on paperwork for the latter two). break break According to Army sources, TR O-4s should still be golden on 6 months TIG. Typical of the DoD: WTFK Link source ETA: Just saw Dec 2021, not 22. Perhaps the latest change made the inclusion of non-regular retirement retired grades.

I never said he did, you inferred that. I said I did. Not where I was going with it, but you are probably correct, statistically speaking. 2,586 instructional sorties as of last week... with an ASD of 1.14 #oof. 3,100 IP/SEFE combined AETC hours, 2,100 or which are in the fatality-laden MDS in question. 4,200 total AF time, if you add the grey jet time. And still 4.5 years of flying duty to go to active retirement. So yeah, that's a lot of fingertip at 2-4* bills (*you'll have to wait til my retirement to hear the declass number lol). Fair amount of close calls, To say nothing of all the funerals of direct co-workers(2), and students (2) in the last 6 years than I care to share on this message board. I just wanted to clarify I was not being facetious about your combat story. I meant it unironically when I said it is a BAMF anecdote. I'm just a REMF living vicariously by comparison. The only thing I was mocking was my own career (I've earned that right after all). Apologies for any confusion, inflection in humor doesn't always land in written format. Cheers. 🍺

BAMF story. Good thing I dealt with my combat cred inadequacies years ago. To wit, and take a page from a certain POTUS: Tumon Bay was my Vietnam.

the real question is, is it ADSB-out compliant? Otherwise someone call the FSDO, they're prob not busy seeing as they don't accept walk-ins for IACRA CFI renewals.... 😄