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I don’t trust “the Bobs” at all (or the Gary’s and Tammys at SWA), but SWAPA and the majority of other guys at the company are in it as a team. It’s been pretty cool to see. The private talk on our SWA forums is a pretty all-for-one mentality.

No not sarcastic at all. I feel blessed that we seem best equipped to weather this storm. Still praying for all my other airline buddies. Several have told me that they feel like furloughs are coming for them. I have seen enough positive comments from our group at SWA that the culture isn’t dead. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

SWA just announced Voluntary Leave with partial pay. Details haven’t been disclosed yet, expecting words later in the week. I am so thankful to be a junior guy with them during a time like this. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I do know of guys who have cancelled a separation request or had it adjusted to the right. So it’s definitely possible! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I am so glad I decided to keep a Guard job and not just cut ties completely. Being able to bring in extra money for just a little bit of work is a good shock absorber in times like these. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Pretty sure he never made it past Major. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I’m in a 135 unit that doesn’t even advertise our boards because it just gets stupid. Maybe not as nice as Tampa but within a 2 hour drive to a hub for every major airline. I can easily see 200 apps flooding in to Tampa. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Yeah... In Tampa Bay... with Orlando being a crew base just 2 hours away... Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

For a guy who goes by Pick your Battles, he certainly does a crappy job of picking his battles... (don’t say his name two more times) Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I’m just glad he was able to get internet installed in his moms basement/bunker. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

We had a similar situation years ago at my ANG unit. A guy who was essentially in your same situation. From what I recall, it will all depend on how your attrition was classified. This guy essentially washed out of the ground school and there was no way to bring him in the unit. On the other side, I have been trying to help one of my old UPT students get picked up by the NOAA to fly after he was washed out of B-1 ground school and then told he couldn’t cross flow into a mobility asset (ridiculous). The latter guy had everyone from his flight commanders to the wing commander vouching for his ability when Gen Rand decided to overturn the recommendations and just FEB him completely. Maybe things have changed but my guess is that you have a really big uphill battle to fight here. Hopefully someone who has more recent intel can chime in, but bottom line I think it’s going to fall with how you were classified at the termination of training. Force shaping=ok; performance based=probably SOL... Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Yeah, I don’t understand how there can be so much disparity among units doing the same job just with different MWS. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I appreciate the Chris Farley gifs. Best of luck man! You seem to be doing all the right things. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Yeah! Early retirement eligible and also TAMP-180 (I think that’s the right term). We are currently fighting TACC and A3 about Manning. Technically, we get 2 full crews on Title-10 alert. Which if played out, would be working 15 days a month... good luck getting anyone to volunteer for that. A3 supplements us with enough “man-days” to create another crew although that is not the “intention” of the days they give us. When scheduled out, the 3 crew ratio lets us schedule people to work 10 days a month, which gets a lot of airline guys and even guest help beating down the doors to participate for 33 days here and there. We have 2 pilot managers and 2 boom managers who stay on Alert Orders most of the year and deal with all the management and scheduling headaches. I was blessed to be able to slide into this job post divorce and life has been pretty incredible since. Coming off orders soon though to knock out my off-probation checkride, but when I figured out my “break even” point, Alert vs. SWA, I will have to be a 5 year FO before I start losing money on Alert... that puts me so close to an AD military retirement that it would be stupid to walk away from the O-5 pension. I just need Alert to hang on for a little while longer. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

That is so strange how different this is. We are always Title 10... whether we launch or not. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Yeah same here. Hmmm. Sounds like a screw job for sure. On another note I have been told that while y’all are DAV coded from deployments when sitting Alert, we are not. How many days a month are you actually “sitting”? We are 1 on, 2 off, but we can stack up to 5 days straight to give us more block time off. I sit Alert and also do the Managing for the Wing. I absolutely love this job. Since the ex didn’t try to take my military retirement, I plan on maxing that thing out just to spite her! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Is this Alpha Alert? Launch within 30mins? I know some units that have a Bravo line and it doesn’t seem to be as good of a deal as we have here. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Yeah ours are Title 10 and specifically says USERRA exempt. We’ve had airline guys do a whole career on ONE alert here and get an AD retirement. It’s a pretty good deal. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Maybe we just deploy, Kill the resistance, then come home and not try to perpetually nation build. Then when they fvck up again, we deploy, kill the resistance, then come home again. Just my opinion, but I’m sick of that whole freaking area. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Well, it’s about time to update our service dress too. We’ve had the current ones for too long and it’s about to become heritage (I actually hate our service dress). Our leadership can’t fix any real problems so these low hanging fruit makes them feel good about themselves. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I’ve actually known a couple helo guys who did touch and gos at the regionals and then picked up for a Major. Believe it or not your helo time still carries weight! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

So I got the full story today. A couple months ago, DFAS apparently shut down all AFTP processing for about a week or so thinking they were going to get some new system, but that blew up and is now delayed at least a year. My AFTPs had just been sitting with someone at my base finance in CMS for over a month and a half because she didn’t know how to process them... But bottom line, AFTPs #17-24 are still done in AROWS and then have to be routed to DFAS through CMS. Expect a slow payout on those ones. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Thanks SocialD. That’s what was explained to me several months ago. I plan to reattack this week to see what story I get told next. Lol Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

With the new reg that was published sometime last year, we are now allowed to do 24 AFTPs per quarter and a max of 72 per year. Unfortunately the finance system apparently couldn’t handle that minor change and all additional AFTPs past 16 had to be done by hand through CMS. So I have 8 AFTPs that still haven’t paid out since Aug/September 2019... and another 8 that haven’t been paid since October/November... I run to my finance office yesterday to ask what is going on and I am told that the have stopped processing additional AFTPs until the finance system gets fixed. Does this check with what you guys are hearing at other ANG bases? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I used Caliber for a loan before in Florida and had no issues with them (builder incentive to cover closing costs etc). Next time I’m using Trident though. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app