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Pretty sure you're going to need to file an amended return for the year those companies went bankrupt, but you can carry the losses forward to offset capital gains this year.

Because they want to be "cool" and "tactical" and not have to teach the new kids how to fly the jet. They're basically part of the 9th Bomb Squadron (the active combat unit at Dyess). Share a building, fly rainbowed with the 9th, share tails, share maintenance. The really ironic part is when it was pitched to us at Dyess, they were supposedly going to fly with the FTU. They actually took billets from the FTU to create billets in the reserve unit, something the current FTU commander is looking to fix (either getting them to fly with the FTU, or taking the billets from the combat unit since that's who the reserves are augmenting).

Well, the reserve at Dyess isn't associated with the FTU and we can't even get their guys to fly as guests once in a while to help out.

IIRC, it wasn't the pilots that was the issue. It's the reserve maintainers, intel, to a lesser extent, WSOs. Sure, pilots are probably willing to commute to Minneapolis or Denver, but maintainers, probably not.

Yeah...I'd guess they'd stand up their own group, just like Dyess did, and fall under the 307th Wing, like the 489th.

Agreed. 10/10, would live in Rapid City again. Awesome downtown, plenty to do, but also rural enough to be away from your neighbors if that's what you want. So many trails and so much public land that you can hike, bike, or hunt in a different area every weekend and still not hit everything by the end of an assignment. Winters were cold, but usually only for a few days at a time. Especially if you live in Rapid City proper, where you're sheltered from the worst of it by the Black Hills...the base was miserable for the occasional 0300 show times in winter.

Funny how those saying the 2016 elections were fair and honest are now absolutely certain they were tampered with...even though Trump's own people have said they don't see evidence of fraud that would have changed the outcome. It's time to call it a day, prep for the midterms in 2022, and for the love of God, find a better candidate than the tweeter-in-chief for 2024.

How much do you suppose the Air Force spends on office furniture and new TVs every year?

Nah, just people who actually care more about the country than we do about Trump's ego. I wasn't rooting for Biden...but the man won the election. Everything that's happened since is just serving to erode faith in the election system. All to serve the whim of someone who has always played fast and loose with the rules. I've benefited from the Trump presidency and I'd have been happy to see four more years...but it's time to let this one go, my man.

One guy proposed just that. Of course, FB was then flooded with "I'm not putting government tracking software on my phone" and "the Air Force can't make me buy a smart watch". So I guess we have a ways to go before I can just give the Air Force access to my Strava and call it a day.

B-1 WWII warbirds - B-17, B-25, P-51, F-4U

Thank God, now racism is solved!

I'm 6' and 175. I could probably stand to lose another ten pounds, but I'm certainly not the poster child for the old dude with a beer belly.

I'm jealous of people who can do this. I suck at running and spend about three months following a Garmin 5K plan to get ready for the run every year.

It was going great right up until it exploded.

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The standard is the standard. We've all bitched about commanders trying to add extra items for considering people for WIC, in-res IDE, etc.

I think it's not either-or. Plenty of good tactically minded instructors wouldn't mind a two-three year break from constant deployments and TDYs to fly at the FTU. In the B-1 at least, the problem is twofold - location sucks compared to the other base (Ellsworth > Dyess), and when people get sent to the FTU, they never leave unless it's basically demanded of them - school, for example. I enjoyed my time at the FTU, but I spent seven years at Dyess. When the FTU has the reputation that it's the last thing you'll ever do in your career, people avoid it. I think if you made it a controlled tour (like they have with other instructor jobs, like USAFA or ROTC), you'd likely get more people willing to go. But as long as you trap people there, it'll be at the bottom of everyone's list.

Sketch, Those are pretty great. I bought a few to spruce up the ROTC detachment. Let me know if you do a B-1...I'll buy a couple of those as well.

Ironic, given the push by the last CSAF and SECAF to give additional consideration to people with "instructor" duty in their careers. Honestly, in my community...the less time you spent in the jet, the better off you were for promotion and leadership opportunities. It was never the guy who stayed in the jet, did 3-4 deployments, and have 4000 hours that was SQ/CC...it was the shiny penny who did one deployment back in '08, then bounced from school to staff to aide to staff before coming back as a squadron commander with 100 combat hours and half the flight hours of the youngest instructor in the squadron.

Sadly, our society doesn't put decent human beings into history books the way we do with assholes who have a major accomplishment.

There are probably more people with big waistlines who are unhealthy. But that doesn't make it a good measure alone. One could also ask...if the PT test is about measuring health, why is it accounted for in my OPR? And...if it's about being healthy, why are people who don't run fast or have a big waist penalized, but not people who smoke or use dip? Why are we the only service that doesn't use BMI and at least account for height?

Unfortunately, I don't think there's ever a point when the die hard right wingers will realize that. Makes it tough for conservatives who actually want to move the ball forward.

It worked in Necessary Roughness.

I feel like I could argue the other way. Barr was hand-picked by the president and has been a loyal supporter...but now that he says there was no fraud, that goodwill has vaporized among Trump supporters. To me, the fact that the left hated him so much lends MORE credibility to the argument. It clearly isn't just a partisan statement.