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Most guys in my squadron don't typically shave in the CAS wheel, so it's a little hard for them to avoid showing stubble after a 14 hour mission. I guess that's intentional though. Finding the right airport and putting the gear down isn't that complicated most of the time either, but it gets unintentionally jacked up occasionally too.

It's a contracting/kickback thing like guineapig said. Similar to the FBO contract fuel issues a few years ago; to attract crew going on out and backs, they'd do "free meal/swag/etc with purchase of XX gallons". They were still charging the govt contract rate for fuel, but the govt ethics people pointed out that the pilots were technically contracting officers now (since they were deciding where to land) and therefore couldn't accept free stuff from the businesses. That's why many places charge $1 for the awesome meal now instead of free.

Now that wives are there, what are they going to do with the article 15s of everyone who got busted for going into their spouses room to talk with the door open?

No, it's a useful tactic against E-5s who feel they outrank an O-4 and can therefore yell at them from across the chow hall.

It'd probably make some people stay in - if it resulted in more of a focus on combat capability overseas and less on reflective belts or appeasing the Afghani government

A lot of guys hate it because of the way manning was implemented, not the plane itself.

On the plus side, you might be able to do https://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123313284 foreign exchange tours once you're qualed up. Could be a shitty base though.

Doesn't have to be a nationwide (various European countries) economic breakdown either. Having army surplus MOPP gear probably won't help you, but having a month of food stored up gives you that much of a cushion for sudden job loss, for example. Knowing how to fix your own house/prepare/preserve your own food were skills that got many of our grandparents through the Great Depression, whether by saving money or providing another income source. Preparedness isn't a bad thing, although it can be overdone with video camera cars. Even though only 8 crashes/ejections happened over tens of thousands of sorties in the history of my MDS, we don't give guys crap for preflighting their life support gear, briefing EPs during mission brief, and taking SERE refreshers.

They shouldn't be asking for hotel reimbursement info since they pay you a flat $99/travel day per diem for PCS vs actual lodging up to per diem max for TDY.

Depends. Is his wife at 100k AGL as well?

DP's are assigned at the wing. Guess who looks better on paper, the Capt wing WO/WIC DG or the personnel Capt with SOS DG and 6900 hours feeding the homeless.

Wow. What about the people who get told to get on the plane the day before to fill someone else's slot (sts)?

Something along the lines of the way ALS is taught at each base? Would make sense to teach it locally and avoid in-residence completely to save $$ but the AF will never do that.

NSTFS, we were briefed by one person that it's intended to be an AF measure of your time management skills (if you become a CC you'll have lots of additional sh*t to take up your time so taking up your time with a masters is supposedly a good forecast of that).

But that wouldn't be fair if we don't give out master's degrees with the 9-week Biloxi training to become a personnel officer...

'2' Also have patches as stateside execs (or soon to be deployed wing execs).

1, More of a technical issue but getting rid of the Java program (gradkell?) that takes 6-9 minutes to load when you start up and, along with the 6-9 redirects and popups, is the most frequent reason for DTS not working on government computers. 2. +1 on the logical flow/explanation. For fund cites, include a way to look them up or otherwise reference what they actually apply to (unit funded vs contingency vs TDY-to-school, etc). to reduce the last minute phone calls to RAs. 3. Ability to pull data from the GTC system - Quicken, etc can pull transaction/investment data from any brokerage or bank. Then DTS can immediately verify you paid $690.00 for airfare on this date vs waiting for receipts to be scanned, interpreted, etc. Won't always work for transactions not processed yet, cases where the GTC wasn't used, etc but would cut out a lot of the virtual paper. Those that still need to be sent in can use the phone scan feature.

There are usually depot type engineers with most maintenance units to sign off ETARs (can we do this structural repair this way, extend XX inspection YY hours, etc.)

BQZip's mom?

I don't think many people on here disagree with that. The problem is that none of us are or to within 98.69% chance will be in a position to change that.

Know someone who had one...was recommended to (and did) leave it in storage since the humidity/salt air would cause bad corrosion.

If you want to head a little north IR499 is a decent trip through the mountains - exits near Jackson Hole as well.

The problem is the avg 2 year UPT timeline + 10 year commitment results in basically every aviator meeting the majors board. Maybe not true for the 6 year 18X guys though. The promotion board problem will trickle down, though. Having a FNG Lt who gets to their ops squadron with a PRF due in 3 weeks and has to worry about chasing bullets for their captains board since 2 years of training reports aren't competitive enough at the wing level doesn't help matters.

2. In the course of researching various base options to help people in the unit with issues, the chaplain was the only confidential option (for all the vaunted AF talk about how seeking mental health assistance will not affect your career). Most bases should have a Military Family Life Consultant that is not bound by the chaplain's ironclad restriction, but will meet with you a certain number of times and help with counseling/etc without asking for data/building a file on you. Anything beyond that they need to refer to other providers and starts to create a trail.

Same thing here but to follow 0013...says it is just a "voluntary pledge" but supervision is expected to strive for 100% signing