pawnman

That's not what he said at all. He said there are far fewer 365s and far fewer people at risk for them as a result. Not that everyone should do a 365.

Given the fact that I'm at the FTU, there are a long list of people who have not deployed for 45 days as recently as I have. As for the 179s...I'm totally willing to jump on one of those. Six months isn't a bad deal compared to a 365, especially if I can go to the Deid instead of Asscrackistan.

I just need 45 days deployed to stave one off for five years. Plus, with two under my belt already, there are plenty of other folks that will be more hot for them.

Well, that makes me feel a little more secure with two short tours and a return date in 2012.

WE HAVE A FEW THAT WAY, BUT WE ALSO HAVE A FEW WHO WERE JUST LEGITIMATELY SCREWED OVER, LIKE THE GUY PASSED OVER ON HIS O-5 BOARD WITH A DP.

We've got a few that way, but we also have a few who were just legitimately screwed over, like the guy passed over on his O-5 board with a DP.

Counter-argument to all this...suppose there were an AFI change that made the life of a flying crew easier. Maybe a reg that said MX would start the jets and aircrew would only take jets that MX had already pre-flighted. What are the odds that, if such a regulation were written into existence (purely hypothetical example here, I get it), that an OG or a flying squadron commander would dictate that their people continue to do something that caused them more work, in contradiction with the AFI?

It does if the government makes the service members pay the transaction fee.

O-4 with dependents up $117 at Dyess. First change in five years. It's been $1776 since I got here in 2013.

He says he's looking for a job, not a hobby.

If more pilots leave, that's better for me. At least, in the short term.

Copy-paste from the first page of this thread: I'm in the B-1. OPSTEMPO wasn't too oppressive when I was in an ops squadron...6 months deployed, a year at home. I'm still waiting to see what it will be like under Global Strike. There's a lot of options on the table regarding 3 month deployments, deploying one squadron to two geographically separated areas, rainbowing squadrons in various theaters, etc...so honestly, no one actually knows what the OPSTEMPO will look like for the next year or so [update...it looked pretty similar, with some smaller 1-month "deployments" to England]. At home, the work load is significant, but not crushing. I've been at the schoolhouse for a while, and honestly the biggest adjustment is the constant thrash that the schedule becomes when you're dealing with student lines instead of normal continuation training lines. But still, it's rare to stay much past 1800 if you're not on the night shift, and working weekends is very rare for most of us. The family life is relatively stable. There are only two bases with B-1s, so there isn't much PCSing in the early part of your career (unless you draw the ALO or UPT card). Because the community is so small, you'll quickly find people that you knew at your last assignment when you go to your next one. Almost half the people I'm at the schoolhouse with are people I deployed with from Ellsworth. The B-1 is currently undergoing the largest upgrade since the fleet was introduced. We're replacing all the green-screen CRTs with full-color LCD displays, we're opening a lot of the software to the pilots (who used to have to just trust the WSOs that things were set correctly), we're finally on Link-16, and we got some really nice upgrades to the targeting capabilities. I see the B-1 as being in service for at least the next 20 years or so, depending on how long it will take to get the B-21 online and what capabilities it eventually brings to the table. [Anyone coming to the B-1 in the future will be flying the fully-upgraded jets starting in the FTU. The first class to fly them should hit the flightline early next year] Community morale is actually pretty high in the B-1 from what I've seen, although like every other platform we are hemorraging our fair share of pilots [and WSOs]. Finally, if you go to the B-1, you want to go to Ellsworth. You'll end up back at Dyess eventually, but Ellsworth is a hidden gem tucked away in the Black Hills. There's something new to see or do almost every weekend, and the winters aren't as brutal as people like to pretend.

That's my career plan in a nutshell.

I'm all for more transparency. They advertised that Talent Marketplace thing (which, to be honest, does seem like a real step up from the old ADP)...but then a bunch of folks, myself included, were removed from the VML and not even able to submit preferences because the functional already knew AFPC couldn't afford to move us.

He was just doing some military research.

Maybe Harley got put back in timeout.

Holy hell... You don't know what happens at the MLR, but someone asked you to write a PRF? I'm feeling slightly better about my own chances, but the guy you were writing for is fucked.

We had an OG/CC who had about 100 hours of combat time. For contrast, I had over 400 after my first six-month deployment.

People shouldn't go to WIC because they want the chance to lead a squadron of professional, tactical aviators in combat?

I've had patch and non-patch commanders in the B-1, but never someone who didn't do IDE and staff.

But if I had an ADSC that took me to, say, 22 years, and I selected 24 years for continuation...is the original ADSC still in effect, or can I retire at 20? The point being made is that if you only take continuation to 20, you can retire at 20 and the USAF regardless of any other ADSCs you have. What is unclear is if you can retire without a waiver at 20 with an ADSC that takes you beyond 20.

I'm seeing 89% with either WIC or IDE. That's 10-15% (with overlap between those two groups) for everyone else.

Your WG/CC needs 3 IPZ officers to get 1 DP. the rate is actually 55%, but the AFI specifies a cutoff to get the first one. BPZ officers don't count towards the number of DPs the commander has. He has to take them from the IPZ pool to give to a BPZ officer.

I think the process is absurd. If you weren't picked up in residence for school, you are already out of the running for SQ/CC... Yet the board will penalize you if you don't have an SQ/CC push line, even though it's a long shot, at best, and in all likelihood a lost cause. But the Air Force answer is that they are promoting leaders. You can easily fly the line to 20 years as a major. If you are making it clear to have no desire to take on additional leadership duties, why would the Air Force give you a higher leadership position?