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What role would taxes play on interest rate? If taxes are more over in GB would that not make money more "scarce" and therefore drive up interest rates?

It doesn't hurt it in the conventional sense it cheapens it, it equates two completely different career fields. The very fact that the training is called undergraduate this or that is a farce as well. Why don't we just start the campaign to rewrite the Air Force song while we're at it since it is too aircrew centric

So it looks like you guys over there will have to let us know when you REMFed by a cadet. https://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123103880

The 9th BS (Bats) names their casuals Guano 1, 2, 3 etc. sort of like an FNG system for casuals.

I wish they would do question and answers and commander's calls via anonymous method like a drop box. That way you aren't the only jackass standing and immediately being passed up for promotion when you ask why morale patches aren't allowed. I'd respect it a whole lot more if the commander said "because I'm the commander and I think they look unprofessional, or even a because I said so" than if they just left it up to the uniform nazis.

Reminds me of when one our ADOs was walking back to the dorm in December in his PTs, it was cold as all get out and he committed the sin of putting his hands in his pockets. A shoe summarily told him to take his hands out of his pockets. His response was why? It is cold as all get out. The response was that he might trip. He told him that was the stupidest reason he'd ever heard. The shoe turned out to be some first sergeant, and he had to get a talking to about it. Drive by REMFing was also humorous. How safe is it to yell at someone "REFLECTIVE BELT," while being behind the wheel of a vehicle? Man I wish he would have hit another vehicle. By the time my time was up over me and another guy were so fed up we actually devised a plan to get as many people as there were cadillacs to fake that they were TCN escorts and simultaneously get everyone out with their standard (5 mins to closing bwahh) and going to the next cadillac only to find it was closed. If it were only shoe clerks that I was victimized we probably would have done it. The REMFING was so rampant I thought anyday we would have to start having these on hand:

This is just another reason why you should stay at home and get drunk. F-ing retarded. Damned if you do an damned if you don't. I'd like to get this crap all over Hannity and see the outrage from the public.

Couldn't make it to the scarf and barf? Excuse me I mean the flight kitchen. The smell of that place led me to lose around 20 lbs, thank goodness I gained them all back.

I don't know, I haven't had many problems with finance, compared to other people. But I do know this, when I hand some cash and checks over to the teller at my local bank, I have full faith and confidence that my deposit will go through as fragged. And if it doesn't or there is some problem, they usually can tell me right then and there, you forgot to sign here or there will be a hold etc. I don't sit there and wonder if they screwed it up, and if they deposited too little or too much. But when it comes time to PCS or go TDY I have an idea of how much I should be getting via published DLA rates, estimates on a partial DITY calculator, knowledge of per diem rates etc. I file my paperwork and go back in and ask for an explanation of everything I was paid for as soon as I am paid for it. I have caught $500 mistakes a couple of times. Basically, I have heard too many horror stories and seen too much empirical evidence in my own affairs to trust that I will be paid properly. Now I don't know if this is because that people don't care, or if the system is too complicated, the A1C is filing the paperwork but the SSgt is the one that is really proficient at said task. But I know this, if it were any other institution I would take my business elsewhere. Hell, at this point I'd rather pay 25-50 a month for a pseudo CPA to work on my behalf to make sure I get paid properly. The problem is in the military you are stuck with what you have. I can't fire finance, I can only go in there and hope for the best and spend hours out of my work-week making sure they have done their job properly. Good bad or indifferent, it is what it is and I will continue to be leary of finance at best. If aircrew screw up it's people's lives and potentially millions of dollars. Maybe if finance screws up then they all get docked pay, you paid me too much through no fault of my own, so all of the staff gets to pitch in and pay because of your mistake. I don't know how you create an incentive to do it better.

Okay, i just inprocessed at Hurlburt and things have just taken a turn for the worse, nothing has gone wrong yet but I see massive potential for it do so. Now instead of filing a PCS voucher themselves, finance has to ship them out (maybe scanning them) to the new fangled central processing center at Ellsworth. Now you can't even hate your local finance office anymore, you have to hate the center at ellsworth, and when you call them up to tell them that your probably really hating on some indian guy working at a call center. Just another reason of why you need to keep every copy of everything you ever turn in. And check your credit reports regularly. You never know when some laptop is going to go missing at the Bank of Air Force containing your SSN.

Honor to the heroes they who above all deserve it. Honor to the families for they above all have earned it. Honor to our brothers and sisters for they will carry on... All poetic notions aside, Godspeed to the dearly departed. Thanks to baseops family for keeping us informed, not for morbid curiousity but because we take care of our own and I have no doubt that we will.

Abilene sucks as far as vegetation. Don't spend more than you are willing to flush down the drain.

I wonder if he said "tweet complete" over the radio? I know studs used to get in trouble for that at CBM.

Following the logic, shouldn't it be AFSEC and not SECAF?

How is this situation any different than running with a kite on a day when there is no wind vs running with a kite on a treadmill with no wind present?

Thread revival, just got TAMIed and put down U-28s as my first choice, have most guys been getting the U-28 that have put them down as their first choice?

My wife DVRed it, did she graduate from Columbus by any chance?

I heard somethhing funny on the bus today. A group of newbies were talking about how glad they were to be here, it was a vacation from base X. I told them I leave for that very base in a couple of days and can't wait to get home I then asked what they did. One of them spoke up and responded "I'm a video troop," I half laughed and asked what that was, well they run cameras and crap and basically work for comm. WTF... video troop??? We have taken this every airman a warrior mantra wayyyy to far.

Yes and Yes The latest practical joke Flt Medicine is playing is not telling anyone that they are now closed from 0000-0600, sucks for our bros going to go fly in Afghanistan who had no idea and didn't get their gos.

Well it's not so much a direct upgrade persay, in order to qualify you have to have 300 hours post FTU and 50 RAP/Contingencie sorties or 750 total hours plus 50 post FTU hours. That only is half the ticket though really as you would have to fly with someone also qualified as a mission lead. In order to upgrade to that status its the same hour requirements as AC except you have to be combat ready for 6 months. So a FAIP will move along the timeline faster than other copilots but it's not an all encompassing direct upgrade.

According to everyone not in an OPS squadron yes. I keep trying to argue that the BONE is actually undermanned for what our OPS tempo is and really it is underfunded as far as MX goes. The whole TAMI thing could have been avoided had they not started axing the maintaners. That being saidTAMI is still alive is well and she's taking no mercy. The three options for those TAMIed are U-28s to AFSOC (with no return) or MQ-9/1s (with a slim chance to return). With all that said, the BONE is a great AC with a great mission, I knew after I washed out of IFF that the BONE was overmanned and even though I'll probably get TAMIed I would put it down number one on my list again.

Not quite a washout story but an SIE story, dude graduates academy gets pilot slot and like a lot of people before him "decides to try it out." Guy doesn't like being a pilot, and SIEs, no big deal right, wrong, AF force shapes him and pursues action to make him repay the worth of his academy education. Not sure what ended up happening.

I haven't weighed in yet but the following is pretty dumb. So I brought three personal checks with me to the AOR, I'm not rolling with the Eagle Cash Card, screw that. I check the ECPTS website for information regarding check cashing, 200 dollar limit no problem. I then proceed to write a check out to cash and go merrily along my way to finance. I arrive to find out I filled out my check wrong, you can't write it out to cash. So I am instructed to fill my check out exactly like the example on the wall. I chalk it up as my fault and go back to my room and get another check. This time I roll into finance and carefully study the example on the wall, which to my dismay on the line used to write out the amount of your check says the following "The Sum of:" So I proceed to fill my check out exactly like that, I figure that is pretty gay but it's also pretty gay to not allow checks made out to cash either. I proudly present my check and am told by the person behind the window that it has to say exactly the amount, not including the line "The Sum of:" So two checks down and one to go I roll back into my room, get another check fill it out exactly like I did previously and hand it over. The friendly airman stamps my check in two places and then tells me to initial next to the stamp, I swear if I wouldn't have asked that question I would have been out three checks. Anyways, maybe it was just the lack of sleep, or maybe I'm just dumb, but be forewarned, if you plan on cashing checks at the Deid, make sure you fill it out exactly like the one on the wall..except for amount line. Oh yeah, if that wasn't dumb, then I do think it was dumb that someone in our squadron was REMFed for having his hands in his pockets in PTs and when asked why it wasn't allowed was told that it was a safety issue because he might fall.

Just wondering how many out there are still allowed to sing songs at Roll Call. I finding it difficult to find a song that won't offend the masses.

Wasn't there noise about AFSOC acquiring T-6 Texan II B's? While we're at it why don't we take a bunch of tweets, re-engine them with something designed for those very light jets and put a GPS in it?