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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...

No, you are definitely eligible for the 20 days PTDY with a regular separation. Remember the fine print as mentioned above, and the same goes for terminal leave, that it's CC discretion. You CAN take your PTDY back-to-back with your terminal leave (if approved). As long as your CC is going to give you the full 20 days, just back up your final out date to DOS - terminal leave (you also accrue leave while you are on leave, so factor that in, too) - PTDY = Final Out.

OSHA requirement...so put it on their Form 55 that fire retardant clothing is required to perform duties on aircraft, problem solved. It's PPE.

well not sure about your regs, but ours say MEPs performing in flight duties are required to wear flight suits/FR. So the flying crew chief who flew with us today to run the 8500 while we did a MR track and balance and rebaselined the engines was required to wear a flight suit, which he checked out from supply since he didn't have his own issued. If we had cops on board doing something (not just being ferried somewhere as pax), they would be required to wear FR gear as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/verbatim-what-is-a-photocopier.html?_r=4 you MUST watch the imbedded video.

so that you can't warn someone else about the urinalysis is my guess

sooo, they're going to finalize RIF matrices next week, before they're done processing VSP and TERA applications? I see learning has NOT occured in the last 4-5 months.

everyone at DM just had to go to some website to do the certification thing a few months ago.

10 years ago, when I was in charge of the ops desk, we had a recall, and folks were having to step outside to call others with long distance numbers...so I called the telephone folks who gave me a form to fill out requesting an unrestricted line, and voila, a day later it was done. No log to be maintained, no code/PIN to input. I considered it a minor victory.

congrats dude!

if you didn't have VA license plates, you should have told him to fuck off.