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This isn't the military, you don't have to finish shit. If a player gets a career ending/hindering injury during a bowl game, is the college going to insure them for their potential career earnings losses? How much does the college make off of a bowl game, how much of that goes to the individual players? I'm not surprised the FSU players said fuck it, it was a jacked up decision and since they're not playing for a title, why risk it on a dumb bowl that doesn't mean shit? Then again, I was one of those who had zero problems with Manziel making money off his autographs and appearances. How much money did A&M make of him playing for them? Why shouldn't he be able to get in on the action? Too bad he was a d-bag and fucked it all away.

Wow, 4 or 5 familiar names on the list of original signatories, most of which who are all still serving. Strong message!

WTF is with all the command directed Q3s? I've gathered that the heavies seem to use them as punishment, but I know we didn't have a single one in my career at my squadron. A keg/equivalent booze and stand up in front of the squadron to brief the fuck up. Why put so many black marks on your people, when there are better ways to get your point across? I feel for these dudes who have to explain a Q3 in an interview when they can't say that their boss was the lead rower in the douche canoe.

That process is one of the most painful processes ever, especially when it happens during a pandemic! In the case I dealt with, it was a complete waste of everyone's time. But it "had to be done," because reasons (regs with not even an ounce of leeway). His packet was sent up with every CC on base recommending he be retired in his current rank...and over 2 years later we got the response agreeing with the recommendation. I would love to know how many man-hours were blown on something we all knew would happen. So fucking stupid.

Damn, seems like one heck of a drop! For the EA-18 folks, is there are standard follow on for them, or is it just a wild card where they'll end up?

Much like myself, it's the miles, not the years.

I really like to boil it down to who is the bigger douche canoe. In this scenario, Russia is the biggest douche canoe of them all. They’re the lead rower in said douche canoe. I don't like douche canoes, much less the lead rower. This is a pretty good platform in which to build a rock solid foreign policy plan and national defense strategy.

Ima just interject here for a moment and reiterate my belief that the coasties are the smartest among us. Went through the USVI on my way to a BVI for vacation and noticed 4 or 5 CG helos there. I just saw a post of FB for coastie promotion while they were "deployed" to the Bahamas. They get to do their mission a lot more than everyone else. The few coasties I've known have saved quite a few people in their day and none of them had to spend a day in CENTCOM (though I know some do). A squadronmates brother retired from the CG as an O-5...dudes assignments sounded like one vacation hotspot after another. Also, there is a CG station in my city and they have the best booze selection of any exchange I've ever seen lol. Anywho, back to your regularly scheduled programing, hoping the C-27 tail doesn't fall off.

Best of luck to Van's, they've done more to advance GA than most. I have a buddy building a 12 right now who works for Van's remotely, will be interesting to see how it's going for him. Thankfully, I think he has the entire kit already.

This! I was all about helping someone move on, I'd make phone calls, write recs and happily help you on your way. However, you're still gonna have to keep pulling your weight until you 1288 yourself off my books.

Ya, that never made sense to me. When I was there way back when, we worked in the SOF compound and I was surprised to hear they had this rule. On the flip side, the Navy O-5 exec (Hornet driver), would blanket approve our memo anytime we asked to pick up the entire squadrons beer allotment at one time. Do that enough times and you have a nice setup, especially when there were non-drinkers in the mix. To your last comment, we all know damn well that the bosses we're doing that. If you're not in the Col club to drink their booze, make friends with the Guard squadron on base...

I've flown both, well the 330, not the 320. Bus all day, every day. I'd even take the bus over the 757, which I've also flown (I've been through way too many initials). The only way I'd even consider going back to the 737, is if my seniority is just so much better that it would allow me to fly high time day turns all the time.

Nice thanks for the point out. I have the Libby app, but was unaware of the DOD ID thing. Just logged in with my retiree ID, glad we still have access!

Well, that ought to take of any morale that was left! If the public only knew how much Jack Daniels has helped forged their steely eyed killers...

Sounds great! I'd also recommend To Kingdom Come, another good book on the bomber air war over Europe. Amazing what those young men went through. The Wrong Stuff, is another good/funny read about that time. Those numbers are probably close. I think the 8th AF alone lost ~26,000 men. To put that into perspective, we lost ~24,500 Marines in WW2.

Meh, even the best job in the world becomes a job at some point. I'm glad I'm no longer installing/removing septic systems, laying water main and digging graves like I did after high school, but that doesn't mean I want to go to work all the time with a nice gig. I have a friend who is a trust fund baby, he's got it pretty damn good. I guess I was really meant to be a trust fund baby...is that too much to ask? Come on powerball! 🤣 Break break After a nice 19 day break, it's time to head back to work tomorrow. First real snow events of the year...lame! Stay safe out there ladies/gents.

I get it dude, as a chronic reserve bidder, the worst thing the company can do to me is force me to actually go to work. Even worse when it's not for overtime pay. My GF rolls her eyes at my buddies and I when we opine (usually over coffee at my house while we're on call) about having to go to work "for free," when we get called out on reserve. 🤣

McDonald Douglas built my jet to be EMP/JAM proof on accident lol. I was bored on my flight the other day because I had more than 50 minutes at cruise (the worst!), so I checked out the airways based on VORs. Maybe it was because I was on the east coast, but I was surprised at how many VORs are still online. I know they're closing more but I think I could easily go back to flying airways with an RMI. We already fly approaches where we just get cleared a common navaid and told cleared for approach (whatever approach we want) in places like AVL. Might be fun for a bit, but that would get annoying. I like my airline flying like I like my women....easy!

Hey! This is the airline thread, take your bullshit Air Force promotion acronyms down the hall to the what is wrong with the AF thread. Soooo...anything good on the airline front? I was able to dump my entire schedule next month, so that's good. 🤣

And that demo was probably flown by a Boeing test pilot. F-15 Demo

Most of the ANG SQ/CCs already have a seniority number and are close enough to a 20 yr retirement, they're not that worried 🤣.

Right! Are we sure this doesn't belong in the WTF thread?

This victory parade is hilarious but tak'er easy bud, you're gonna tear a rotator cuff slapping your own back! 🤣

Is AFSOC handing out some kind of cool berets or something? *I know cool beret is an oxymoron.

True story. On a Nellis trip, a new OG (from off station) was standing in the lobby of the casino/hotel, when two girls walk past with lots of skin showing. He says to the D.O., "Oh look, the working girls are out already." D.O. says, uh sir, that's two of your 1CO's... 🤣.