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Knowing the Air Force they will approve it once you are already past the six months. Best of luck man. This is not how you keep your best people and fix the AF pilot shortage.

Man I hate to say this but I really agree. So much of making rank in the Air Force is really all about just organizing activities and programs successfully, pushing for those jobs that you know are going to be painful and are going to make you hate your life!

My guess is they are slammed with apps right now. Everyone trying to get out. At least morale is pretty darn good!

Congrats! It is a tough road ahead and UPT is just the beginning. My advice is to get plugged in wherever you all live, doesn't have to be at the base with base wives, just somewhere you feel comfortable and people you trust. The real work starts now, deployments, TDYs, missing birthdays, holidays and anniversaries. Be understanding and realize that this too will end one day. His Air Force career will be over and it's really up to both of you to decide if you are gonna stick it out together or just be another AF statistic of a broken marriage. Tell him I said to always make sure he puts his family above the Air Force (there is a line for the stuff you have to do versus chasing the carrot). Trust him that he has your best interests at heart and be there for him and support him on those tough days. Bottom line, be honest with each other and keep the communication open.

Exactly why we have heard 14 year commitments coming to a UPT base near you! That way 10 years sounds like a great deal!

Thank God they haven't figured out snapchat yet.

Ha ha. Exactly. Not sure, coffee and back rubs maybe?

He's the Assistant TO the Vice Chief of Staff.

You are obviously being sarcastic, but to answer your question anyways. No. It only got difficult when the AF decided to put new engine pods on them. GE (?) told them to put the gearbox on the side of the pod like you see on modern day 737s (would cost around $10K more per jet IIRC) but the Air Force would rather just scrape pods and then hang the crews. Cuz that's leadership.

Best of luck! You would think the AF would approve almost anything inside 3 years so that at least they retain that person in the ARC/ANG for the maximum amount of time. If someone is trying to PC they will probably just separate outright at the end of their commitment if they don't get approved PC.

To put it nicely, McDew majors in the minors. But damn will we all look so impressive and shit in our blues.

Robinson just got selected for Northern Command. Guess she's out. Can I just resign my commission if McDew is picked?

Sat the longest at AFPC.

Mine sat for about 3 weeks last time. About 2 weeks the time before that.

I gladly filled it out!

And for every time Gazmo and I had a cool trip like those, we had about 600-900 hours sucking it up in the desert. So in my opinion, Big Blue definitely gets the better end of the deal out of its aircrew, even when taking into account some of the sweeter deals out there.

Or nowadays being in the X-band and absorbing all those BS deployments that pop up.

Moto, that's what I figured. They seemed adamant about it with my PIT class. Even had a guy who was just a year out from his UPT ADSC expiration and he got the 3 year too.

Interesting. I don't understand why they have to make the jargon in regs so hard to read. I need to look up who I need to call to get this taken off my ADSC list. Thanks Craftsman.

I was a T-6 guy in UPT and I still picked up a 3 year ADSC at PIT when I went to be a T-6 IP.

Thanks Guardian. I hated the Tanker by the way. Was thrown into it out of T-38s back in '08 so I am just thankful I got a plane back in the day where we were overmanned in fighters (lol). But yeah, the plane's terrible. The guard was fun, lots of Pacific AEs flying nurses from Travis to Hickam and partying on the beach. That was the hardest part of flying the tanker, picking one nurse to go back to the hotel with... I jest, I jest... Or do I?

Guardian. Glad it takes so much skill to fly whatever it is you don't want to tell us you fly. Unless it is the U-2, it isn't harder to land than the 135. The KC-135 mission is by far one of the, if not the easiest flying missions in the Air Force. I can say that as a prior KC-135 guy. I spent 3 years flying as an associate with a KC-135 ANG unit which had airline guys who came to us from the Viper, Eagle, Hawg, Harrier and Hornet. Their previous missions were undoubtedly more complex than anything we did, however every single one of them took a considerable amount of time to figure out how to land the bitch. It takes new co-pilots on average a year to land consistently. Believe it or not, your Evaluator experience and hard fought CFI doesn't directly translate to every plane in the Air Force inventory. Unless you have flown the tanker you have no credibility to talk bro. Just like I have no credibility to tell you how easy it is to airdrop or do a 2v2 or fly the president or whatever you claim to do.

Last year was Sept, this year July. If they are done by January 17, I'm wondering if the 17 boards are going to be even earlier than July...

Yay! Changs back!

Not saying it would help the retention problem, but didn't we push back the Majors board as a result of high retention just 4 years ago?