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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.

Wait a minute...pay in the ANG a clusterfuck? Color me shocked! 🙄 I think I'm going to need the blood of a virgin to get my current pay situation unfucked. Anyway, only one guy in my squadron was eligible and he hasn't receive his bonus yet (signed back in June). Speaking of bonus, any word of the ANG getting the big bonus for one year orders? It boggles the mind how we can't get a one year big bonus, yet the AFRC has no problem getting it.

The reg basically says you're required to use your GTC for all authorized travel expenses incurred during official travel. The next paragraph says that not using your GTC is not grounds for denial of reimbursement, but that you could be subject disciplinary action. So basically, it depends up on your local leaderships viewpoint on this.

It's likely that noone wants to foot that fuel bills for such an "unsexy" aircraft. Loved flying the 37, would love to fly an A-37. Too awesome Huggy!

Update. I was finally paid out for some of the additional AFTPs, but for some reason they did not take any TSP contributions as I have setup in mypay. It sounds others have experienced the same issue. Given that it's the end of the the year, I'm trying to max my TSP, and this was quite a few AFTPs, it's a big hit to my savings goals. Going to try yet another CMS case to try to get this straightened out. It shouldn't be this hard to just get the shit right! When is that new pay system scheduled to roll out again? Yay, for another year plus of dealing with fucked up pay. It honestly seems as if they're purposely trying to make life harder on the part-timer.

The inboard spoilers were up, you can see them stow as he starts his turn. Not sure if the outboards were supposed to deploy on the 145. Either way, hate that for the crew. Full video.

Coffee...whole bean if able. Coffee grinder is on my list of essential packing items. Just because we're in a war zone doesn't mean we have to be barbaric on coffee drinking. As far as games, all you need is a deck of cards and 3 other midwesterners who play Euchre.

Range Control Officer. A former squadron mate is doing that after hanging up his G-suit and he couldn't be happier.

CWAS is authorized in the 2903 so your AFE Chief can pound sand. We wear rank on the name tag as above. Winter time is the best because I always wear a beanie and nobody knows what rank I am. Yup, with a beanie cap we are always incognito. I believe the issue is we don't have rank on our name tags. He merely said that it was supposed to be for flight duties, after that it's up to us. In fairness to him, he's a good dude and runs a great shop. Dude always is getting us newer/nicer stuff without prompting and he keeps taking the heat from AD inspectors about them sewing rank on our flight suits. Apparently AFE isn't supposed to do that, which I'm sure is more about giving business to the alterations place on an AD base (which we don't have), than it is about the actual job. The only issue I have with the MASSIF jackets is that our HMCS and CRU-60 harnesses rip up the seems on the arms. This happened with our old flight jackets but the AFE shop was able to sew patches of leather on the sleeves which stopped it.

We don't have rank on ours. I recently heard that our AFE Chief has said we're only suppose to wear them during flight duties (due to no rank), but we wear them all the time and we've never heard a thing. Then again we're a stand alone ANG base, so not too many uniform NAZIs running around...

Between the additional AFTPs taking months to pay out (with no real clarity and jacked up taxes when they do pay), and them not figuring out how to change some 1s to 0s for our updated flight pay, I'm just happy that they're actually paying me (somewhat) correctly. I recently promoted to O5 via PV and was told I wouldn't get back pay, but my DOR is backdated. I'm all ears if someone knows more. Sadly, I'm at the point that another battle just isn't worth the relative pennies I'll get.

Pretty much the only time I ever see the flight doc on our Guard base is for my yearly PHA. The PHA will cover all the essentials (Dental, contact lens program, etc..) and pretty much all you'll need. Profiles will be worked through your local Flt Doc (when there are actually any on base). Everything else is off base with your civilian doc, unless you want to truck it to the nearest military treatment facility. I have a waiver that requires a minor out-patient procedure every 5 years, which is all done through a civilian specialist. If I wanted mil docs to take care of that (for free), I have to option to drive 3 hours to the nearest military treatment facility, but no thanks. I'm a DSG that uses Tricare.