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I got the lovely joy of a go-around at Tarin Kot one bright evening in AFG. Turns out that firing range off the departure end was no joke. Got to watch multiple items riciochet flying off the (whatever the i'msureitwasn'taBMP) target on either side of us...and 2 items THROUGH our aircraft. Yeah...they never talk about what happens AFTER all that led lands on target. Big sky theory... MX wasn't happy about it...but we brought all 8 of those tails home with combat patches and hail damage waivers. Thank you Mr Lockheed for the 2.5 safety factor. Writeup: Missed approach followed by 'merica penetrating our aircraft. NSTR fun fact: This happened 2 days after my profile picture was taken.

Oh, we're posting selfies now?

Truth. 5Y Alumni who is now a 5Xer. Seems like half of this past year's classes at Brown have been Atlas grads. All but one of my Atlas indoc class has now moved on.

Months, not years.

Welcome to my latest installment of DON'T TAKE THE BONUS

This one belongs in the monkeypox thread...because that's a way to get monkeypox

edit: I went over to the money thread...time I'll never get back...and realized what Random Guy really is, so I'll stop feeding the troll.

Hold up, you're saying MEM-ANC is the worst leg in your system? Must be a hell of a system!

@Random Guy Has anyone ever described you as 'punchable'? After reading your posts, I'm guessing you're quite punchable after the first five minutes of conversation.

Preach. Well, shortly at brown we'll vote in a 2 year extension that'll bump up the baseline pay for the group. We're team players like that. Thank the new Teamsters leadership.

All of them

Any Purple People want to chime in? Sounds like you guys aren't too happy about contracts over there either.

I feel this more than I should...

...so...like Castle Anthrax type loopholes? ...you're not wrong...

That's clearly him on take 14 as he's finishing the second bottle.

I've considered finding orders to close out my remaining 3 years of AD to get the full retirement...and then I log-in (more correctly: I ATTEMPT to log-in) to a AF computer...and my decision to bypass the AD retirement solidifies again. As to probation, Huggy shacked it. Don't risk excessively extending probation. That next 20 year multi-million dollar career in the airlines simply isn't worth the 12 months of orders and absoluteluy zero protection that the USAF will give you in the event your new airline fires or furloughs you because of COVID-23 or whatever insanity is next. A few days here and there for drill weekend is manageable. Dropping 3 years at 6 months in is hanging it out on the line in what has proven to be a feast-or-famine industry.

well...thanks for that nerdgasm from Random Guy. I'm sure you're entirely correct. AAAANYWAY, HeyEng, thanks for posting that video. It brings up a lot of compelling perspectives and information that I'll be mulling over for a while.

Mr. Lincoln in the C-130E sim on the graveyard shift at Little Rock. That dude was there for the patriotism, not the paycheck. If you know, you know...and that man was on bride 1.0...amazing.

Sadly, there are more than few old-as-dirt-5-times-divorced captains I met over at 5Y who "had to keep working until 65" who would probably jump at the chance to stay until 68. Retirement money counts. Have they sorted out the LOA's to that contract yet? I'm hoping you guys get a good retirement deal out of it.

…two years ago. Right? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Way to take a very nuanced topic and expose your (non?)-binary colors. Both you and Sim are welcome to take your inflammatory hyperbolic crap over to some other forum. What you're saying is BS and you know it. Stop.

This is kinda the crux of the matter though. The supreme court does not (ok...should not...) strip rights, or grant rights. They interpret law. In the case of Roe, they CREATED a law completely outside the purview of the legislative process, where elected officials debate, deliberate, then vote on laws. That's the key. Each state has the right to listen to it's constituents and create laws in accordance with the will of those people. Roe completely bypassed that process. Reading the first 9 pages of the thorough 98 page decision makes that obvious. Unless legislation around those other rights you mentioned was put into place in an equally sloppy manner, there should be no problem. The only precedent I see being set is that the Court is willing to be thorough and examine it's own former mistakes. Roe stripped states of the right to legislate this topic in accordance with the will of the people, and gave voice to only one side of the debate. It's honestly more about correcting civics than it is about abortion.

Yes you can have a similar schedule living in base...by bidding domestic equipment (A300, 757/767) and living in base. The domestic hub-turn critters typically have week-on/week-off types of schedules, but I've also heard of dudes rolling with 5 on/2-3 off as well. One guy I know consistantly does sort runs Mon-Thur/Fri, home on the weekends. We've got all kinds of schedules. The MD-11s live somewhere in between international and domestic (sounds like they're going more domestic these days though). We find a niche and get happy.

Live in base out of Philadelphia on the AB. That's the real reason you can have the awesome life you have. Living in base for ANY airline, regardless of what's in the back, trumps all if you want a good home life. That's coming from a box-hauler currently sitting in my Domicile that is WAY far away from my home.

Except at 5Y. Sounds like contract thoughts at Atlas are interesting...now that they have a 'new' contract that required immediate LOAs... Now that I've been able to observe the rest of the industry, I'm very glad I was able to depart that outfit quickly.