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I was able to get through the entire thing, took me about 20 minutes from start to finish. "Glad" I have photo proof of my crew with the burn pit at Balad spewing black smoke in the background...

https://www.armytimes.com/article/20140620/BENEFITS06/306200073/Service-members-can-now-register-burn-pit-list direct link: https://veteran.mobilehealth.va.gov/AHBurnPitRegistry/index.html#page/home though it's still "Loading" for me after 10 minutes... ETA: I hit refresh and it loaded immediately

preferably the day of some FY15 Force Shaping event closeout.

a. this was already posted (see post 22 in this exact thread!) b. how about you delete his email address next time.

Recommend you read the JFTR. An AFI cannot trump or contradict the JFTR, and is therefore a poor reference. As long as you know what the JFTR says (in this case it says you only have to check ONCE), then it doesn't matter what some AFI says.

holy triple quote batman.

is there a reason why you posted this in both threads?

We still use MC. Folks come out if the schoolhouse as FP/MC and have to get 400 hrs before upgrading to MP. So on contact/EP sorties those guys log FP time and on tac sorties they log MC time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

any mention of funding the CRH? (replacement CSAR helo)

you can't be forced to. If you want to, then have a nut, if you don't, then make sure they put the DAV code against you and don't sign a DAV waiver.

if you already have separation orders in hand, then your UDM needs to DAV code you since you're within 6 months of separation.

EMS is always looking for pilots, especially those with lots of NVG time. Pay is pretty crappy $65k ish, tho if you're also raking in retirement pay/VA disability pay that may make up the difference. 7 on 7 off. GOM pays about $85k, plus extras for per diem, being Instrument rated, etc. If you don't want to live in places like Houma, LA, you have to fork over out of pocket to get to work from wherever you live. Personally I wasn't interested in this lifestyle, as I would be away from home for 2 weeks every 2 weeks, wash rinse repeat.

I chose the wrong word to describe FCF. FCFing is very detailed, and it IS about the little things, but the difference is those little things matter. It's not senseless bureaucratic nonsense.

works for me (Mac OS X 10.9.2 Firefox 29.0.1).

well FCF is very tedious work, and HH-60s have had contract FCF for over 10 years now, at the larger units. I just lucked into it because right after I went on terminal one of the dudes at my base decided to move on, and I was asked if I was interested. And our contract DOES include the provision to deploy, though no one's done it recently. The other pilot in the office deployed twice under the contract with the unit. ETC: words

you're still getting the AD paycheck which includes BAH, BAS, and Flight Pay, until your DOS. So you can double dip

RASH, I don't think that's the case. I've known several folk begin working for a contractor while on terminal leave.

tyndall, shaw, beale, and peterson all have one

spent 10 years as an HH-60G pilot. 3 ops assignments in a row, though I didn't get out for that reason, it was the 7 deployments that went with those 3 ops assignments. Would have had at least one more but for a medical issue shortly before we were supposed to go out the door. I was fine with that ops tempo until the last month of the 7th deployment, and suddenly, in that last 30 days, it was like I hit a wall. I was tired of being there, getting shot at, living in a mod/b-hut with 6 of my closest friends. I just got burned out in a community with an extremely high ops tempo. Then at the end I had a couple years of not deploying and I realized just how much the USAF sucked away from me. I was tired of the queep, the bullshit that went along with it, deploying, getting shot at, losing friends, and ready to have some control over my life. So when my ADSC expired, I decided to punch. 12 years, 5 months, and 28 days. Clean break, no IRR or anything. 7 weeks ago I walked back into the squadron as a contract FCF pilot and Qual IP, and it's been an awesome feeling. I get to come into work every day and my primary job is to FLY (though it is a little feast or famine), and I don't have to worry about all the AD crap. A part of me is still proud that I'm indirectly contributing to the mission. It's like a great weight was lifted from my shoulders, and I highly recommend it.

good for you, sucks for whoever gets tagged to deploy in your stead!

White Sands last year for ANGEL THUNDER.

I would pay to see some B-1s try to daisy chain us to and from the objective.

well this is a though-provoking read. The author starts out asking why, if the S-92 just go awarded to be the next presidential helo, can't the same platform act as the bones for the CRH. He then goes on to argue for a mixed fleet (which is a discussion we've already had, when AFSOC proposed it last year)... https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/s-92-is-the-next-marine-one-what-about-combat-search-1542333610/1574474700/+ballaban

nsplayr, yes, that was my situ. Finished my ADSC and punched a few months after. I got PTDY, but I took some of it before my final out. who knows if it was right or not, but when scheduling my final out date finance even asked if I was taking any PTDY in conjunction with terminal. BTW, can't find any references in the A&FRC reg (36-3009) about how separatees are coded. But the AFI was more recently revised, so the leave guidance could be outdated...