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It helps that you’re doing awesome shit. Tons of people in the civ marketplace working 60+ hr weeks sitting at a desk. But yes, those days are happily behind me and I’m not working that shit unless it’s at war.

Let it be known, if you were “young” 30 years ago, you’re a geezer. Fuck it, when do I get my AARP discounts!

Averages in the AD fighter world: - Gone from home 50% of the time (TDY, deployments) - 60 hrs/week at work (at work time, not counting the hours you’ll sporadically spend at home finishing prep for upgrade rides…first as the student, then in the future as an IP). - Daily work times all over the place depending on training plan, airspace times, etc. If you have young kids be prep’d for time periods you won’t see them for days at a time since you’ll be gone to work before they wake up and home when they’re back to bed (or at least close to it). But then there’s a night week where you get several hours with them in the morning…just have a good coffee plan since you went to bed at 0230 and they woke you up at 7. The above are general for CAF fighter squadrons. If you take an assignment at some point to AETC, test (kind of…can actually be worse time-with-family wise sometimes), UPT, etc. you’ll likely get a reprieve from the hustle and have a lot more time with family. Great leadership vs. meh leadership can swing this either direction. The ANG is better QOL. How I handled the above with wife and kids: maxed the weekends with them, if I had the ability to get home early enough to have dinner and some post-dinner time with them I’d do that, then finish up whatever prep-for-next-day I had after kids went to bed. I took leave when I could and didn’t feel bad about it. There are less ops tempo times as well…sometimes you have a phase where you can get away earlier. Use those “gifts” to do things with family instead of having that 6th beer in the bar (but definitely have a couple!)

I’m not commenting either direction, but we’re basically at Vietnam-like in the late 50s/early 60s “before” the war. I’m sure many people had similar thoughts during that time period too. Past performance is not a guarantee of future performance and all that, but the comparison to that specific time period of SEA is not invalid

Always be ground crew, flying it is HIGHLY overrated. The best part is when the flyers get there just in time for half time, sweating their asses off, and you’re 6-9 beers in already.

A retired hornet bro referencing Delta training, “flaring is so stupid.” From what my navy friends have said, it’s SOP to set a decent rate (700 FPM?) and ride it in, every time. It does make sense to not have two different landing procedures based on carrier vs. no carrier - guys would probably fuck up and accidentally flare at the boat and miss the wire…and then their entire career is over and they might as well kill themselves because you know, admin is more important than combat capability! #gONaVy!

Slumlord it is! Better late than never.

Either you don’t know the definition of high income earner or you’ve got some serious write offs / offshore banking going on. If it’s the latter, please share how you’re both making $200K+ each year and only paying 17% fed. We’d all like to know!

It’s an approved procedure, but also not required on “standard length” runways. Seen plenty of B model conventional takeoffs during normal ops.

We have the option of getting it ourselves or someone from Fort Worth delivering.

Maybe, maybe completely invalid. All depends on if one made a good spouse choice. @wikz If you meet someone who shares your values/morals, has good female/maternal qualities (even if you don’t want kids right away, those are still good qualities to look for), and is supportive of your goals, then do not pass her up. My wife has been instrumental in my life, and that includes 3 days after the honey moon when she moved alone to Vance and I went direct to party my face off at Maxwell for 6 weeks before starting UPT. The right one is out there, don’t be in a rush, but don’t go so fast you miss the signs of a quality mate. It may happen at the most unexpected time.

@Biff_T, your new truck is awesome!

I need that airplane Springer. Looks awesome!

After the 10+ time of telling CO I have not been a resident for 10 years and to take me off their registered voter list (and they promised me they would), my in-laws received yet another mail-in ballot for me. The election machine is well oiled in this country, nothing to see here!

Life in prison - no excuse for that level of fuck up.

Depends on the company. Covid proved the legacies are too big to fail. Just like banks in 2008. Not saying there won’t be turbulence, but legacy guys are a lot safer than (U)LCC guys. Just don’t think we’re going to see a AAL/DAL merger or something along those lines.

Sent to herkbier…if anyone else needs it, send NIPR email via PM (or to abmwaldo I suppose).

@herkbier PM me NIPR email and I’ll send it (pretty sure I have it in my email, but I’ll check in the morning). Or your bonus coordinator should have it, but I assume you’ve already gone down that road and they’re useless.

It also so far has been in shithole countries (compared to our standards) and any death cases that actually have details beyond just a stat admit multiple underlying conditions. This is more than likely just a repeat of the same fear mongering bullshit we saw with COVID. They want to keep/increase control, and they’ll do anything to accomplish that goal.

That is a good point. My state is very liberal (in a good way) on guns. But for example, you are in violation of the law if carrying <1000 ft from a school, but if you have a license you can carry right up to the property line. You could conceivably have a traffic stop on a road 900’ from a school and be charged if found to have a gun and not a license. Not too likely, but there are more scenarios like this that can and do exist in constitutional carry states. Bottom line, be informed!

Have to have goals!

I completely understand the distaste for trump, but holy shit, if one votes a second time for this disaster admin, they’re brain dead.

Meh, the 401k is going to be taxed at a 96.9% rate by the time I retire. Might as well spend more money now on shit that is way more useful and life enriching - not stressing over not quite making a max. Dying with millions in the bank isn’t my jam…but leaving 5 airplanes and an undisclosed amount of guns and knives to my kids is!

Third option - carry a multitude of gun options in an IWB holster behind your hip…t shirt, jacket, who gives a shit. As long as it’s not a crop top and your not trying to pack a full size frame, you’ll be fine.

You will fly a lot less compared to an AF squadron and will be low priority (as stated above). When you do fly, it’ll predominantly be 4 ships at best. Bro who occasionally flies with Beaufort will literally fly single ship with other single ships in the same airspace…because, risk, or something? Your AF bros will be flying way more challenging stuff on a regular basis that the Marines only sniff in an AF exercise or weapons school. They’re great dudes who are smart and capable. And I’m sure there are cool memories to be made, but don’t go in with any high expectations regarding flying. Also, one B-model EP sim was enough for me to never want to fly that thing over an A or C.