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Your link looks like it goes to the new guy. Look like he is likely almost out of MLOA...better find a replacement quick!

Wow, that's what it takes for "loss of confidence?" Guess you just hope to never get a boss that doesn't like you.

Second hand info. Accepting apps but it's on hold indefinitely with no estimate on when it'll be back up and running. Sounds like even the dudes on the fighter porch aren't receiving much data on when it will be going again. Also, turns out AFRC didn't like their pilots being taken.

Did not know him personally but we had quite a few good PM convo's. I noticed a few posts here and there about being out on medical but he never brought it up. Terrible! Nickel on the grass!

Prior NCO here as well. I've been amazed at the some of the things I've heard junior enlisted say. I mean like stuff I wouldn't have even said to a MSgt when I was SSgt. The only time I've ever done a spot correction was one day sitting OPS SUP and a particularly arrogant SSgt airfield kid (they augment our ARMS folks at the ops desk in the ANG) mouthed off to one of our SMSgt NCOICs. No need to even put him at attention and start yelling...just a stern, look at me and listen to what I'm telling you, "you better unfuck your attitude and what you say to your superiors" or we're going to go behind closed doors and have a talk with you and your SQ/CC and talk about whether you still deserve to be an NCO. Note: I didn't curse. Kid figured it out and I haven't had a problem since. If you have to lock someone at attention and start the yelling act, you've already lost that person. At least in my base, I've never really had problems with SNCOs...of course, a vast majority of our SNCOs are salt of the earth types that I have great respect for. My E-9 from my enlisted days in the early 2000s, is still an E-9 on my base and has over 38 years of service. I'd run through a brick wall for that guy. That said, he'd never ask that of me and was an amazing follower/mentor when I was a young Capt PROJO. He served as my NCOIC and let me run the show with gentle nudges here and there...talk about a truly humbling learning experience.

As I look at going on some orders prior to our deployment, it's quite amazing at the difference. As a 18 year O-5 and 6 year WB FO, it's ~37% cut, but that doesn't figure in the tax benefit of BAH/BAS. If I were on the big bonus it would be about a 24% cut. Must not be too overstaffed as our base just got hit with 25+ 6 month individual involuntary mobilizations (mostly MX, but a few LRS) to the desert. They're mostly SNCOs and a few MX officers, who will be going over to run shops at various bases in the AOR. Most are going to run shops that are currently being run by other Guard guys since the AD can't effectively manage their force. I've seen plenty of 6 month individual mobs in SFS and our Red horse guys, but in my short 18 years in the ANG I've never seen it with MX. I would agree though that some may be overpaid while other are severely underpaid. The real shitty part is they'll all be getting home as we are leaving on our deployment, so we're losing LOTS of our best MX NCOICs when we need them most in our squadron deployment. Based on the timing/dwell, we could very well lose them for our next deployment if they choose not to waive dwell. In the mean time, we'll likely have more 6 month individual mobs drops, and lose them as well, further perpetuating the downward spiral. It won't take much of that before we start losing our top talent who say fuck this, I have my 20 militarily and can go Title 5 or find similar paying gigs on the outside. The AD is doing its level best to kill what has made the ANG so great in retaining amazing talent.

When we built our new alert facility, among a few other ridiculous requirements, we were required to put in a bike rack and make everything NDA compliant. As in the kitchen counter is way too fucking low for person not in a wheel chair and we couldn't get a urinal (bathroom/shower is a coat hanger abortion). We're talking a facility that inside the red on a flight line (no bikes) that is almost never visited by guests and that is meant for aircrew and our mx guys that have to RUN to the jet when the horn goes off. They tried to fight many of these but as always, there is no room for common sense in the code of federal regulations. Wrt the nursing room. We laminated a piece of paper that said "Mother nursing," slapped a magnet on it and voila, any empty room can become a nursing room. I'm sure we'll be written up in some future evaluation. Then we'll have to set aside room in our 1950s built building that is already space constrained. Only 2.5 years left!

I can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels like we've seen this before... Goat fuckers are going to fuck goats...nothing we can do to change that.

This brings up a great point...living in base. If you plan on staying in SDF, then there is no question about it, do everything you can to get to UPS. If SDF closes, UPS is likely defunct. As I'm sure you already know, living in base is like a totally different job as compared to commuting to an airline gig. Not to mention all the opportunities you'd have outside of simply flying jets. Right, go to the first to call, then make decisions. I left one legacy for another and it's by far the best decision I could have every made...reference living in base comment above.

Probably not as uncomfortable as getting shot multiple times. I could just see it now. Leadership: You broke the rules! Armed Recruiter: Many people (myself included) are alive today because I broke the rules... Leadership: Ya, but you broke the rules... Armed Recruiter: Ya...but I'm alive! Leadership: We're still going to have to punish you! Armed Recruiter: Just so we're clear, you're punishing me for doing something that saved lives and is the reason I'm alive today? Leadership: But in doing so, you broke the rules! Armed Recruiter: But I'm alive... Leadership: ....... Armer Recruiter: Flips table!!!!! In all seriousness, if that dude didn't get a medal or award, our world is fucked!

Heck ya, if they've hired you and as long as there is a safety valve of getting out should something fall through with the pilot thing, go for it! Enlist now and get that career clock ticking. Be sure to get your 50 points (you get 15 for just being a member) so that year will count toward your 20 years of service. Seems small, but we have a few guys who missed a year or so due to not getting 50 points while waiting for UPT...as they near the end of their career, they all wish they had that extra year.

Awesome, great to hear. ANG here as well, just haven't had leadership willing to sign off on carry on base (just locked in car).

NAS Corpus Christi was on lockdown this morning and now one suspect is in custody, no shots fired. AZANG or Luke/DM/etc...? We're allowed to carry onto base but have to keep them locked in our cars, which should be really helpful...

All of this! What's the average reaction time of SF to something like this? I can assure you it's long enough for me, and many of my friends to get filled with bullets. At least give me a fighting chance. I'll take my chances that SF would confuse me with the attacker. What's going to happen is people are just going to start carrying anyway and taking the chance that they'll get in trouble.

How we leave....as soon as possible!

A very accurate description of many of these guys. Agreed.

Congrats on your retirement. Your comments are echoed by all the recently retired guys I fly with. I know I'll miss the camaraderie, but not all the extra shit. A fitting description to what it's all become. My recent attempt to get a new CAC is a great metaphor for what it's all become. It's too long to type out here and if it weren't so sad, it would be comical.

That's a quote straight out of OFP of Facebook. Dudes lots their shit when someone mentioned we don't really do formation takeoffs/landings anymore.

Incompetence at best...at worse, indifference. We've already been brushed off with respect to the flight pay fiasco. We've been told it will be fixed when the new pay system rolls out in Jan 2021. So with that, I expect the answer to be that we'll get it back with our taxes. Honestly, unknown. The OG is taking this one on, so I haven't sent any flaming arrows towards finance. It has already been sent up the chain and guys are still being taxed at an extremely high rate and no TSP is being taken out, or that we'll have to do a CMS case. Some of the guys have just given up on them until this whole process gets unfucked. I mean, I appreciate the extra pay but it shouldn't be this difficult. These are for additional pay cards we didn't have before. As with most things in the military, the rollout has been a rusty coat hanger abortion. It pisses me off because it continues with the trend of making life harder on the part-timer. It's almost as if they're intentionally trying to make it harder for guys to be part time. But hey, they've made it such a PITA that I pretty much have to blow a pay card or two just to get paid. Lol...getting paid to get paid. Life is still pretty damn good in the ANG, but I'm seriously looking forward to the day I have 3 years time-in-grade.

Another thing we've found is that, on the additional AFTPs, we're all being taxed between 38% and 49%. You can't make this shit up. I'm expecting their response to be "you'll just get it back with your taxes..."

FIFY.

To get the $35k bonus in the ANG, you need to sign a 2 year commitment. You're also at the whim of state leadership to sign an orders curtailment, but I have yet to see a curtailment denied. My understanding is in AFRC you can get the $35k bonus down to a 1 year commitment.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/25/charges-against-tech-sgt-keith-a-snyder-dismissed/ Remember this coat hanger abortion of a trial ...errr, witch hunt? I have zero faith I would ever get a fair trail should I find myself in a military court...especially if accused of any one of the hot button flavors of the week.

Negative. Fighter community.

It's usually done via letters to the HR department, "internal" (as in that person doesn't see) recs, or talking directly with people. I'd have to really dislike someone to "black-ball" them. I've had some people I've generally not cared for, but none that I can think of one drive me to this. That said, I know of one guy who was bad enough that there was a concerted effort to get him blackballed at every airline. From my understanding it's been successful so far, but I have heard a rumor he may have finally gotten hired somewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same guy Duck saw on the list.