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Maybe don't use a picture from *2015* as evidence? https://www.startribune.com/black-lives-matter-group-to-rally-disrupt-operations-at-minnesota-state-fair/322479171/

I was a married but geographically separated from my spouse Lt/Capt. I got a three-bedroom duplex to myself. Most of my married with kids Lt/Capt friends had 3 bedroom duplexes and some had the four-bedroom houses. Nothing special, that's for sure. convenience was the only reason I lived on based instead of the market. As of this year, housing includes rent and utilities. The utilities were an allotment from the rent. If you used less, you got a rebate. If you used more, you paid more. I pocketed about $200-$300 in utilities by the time I left. They were struggling to fill NCO housing so people got a break to go into those homes and pay less than BAH. Good luck.

He fought through congressional inquiries and got some legal advice but ultimately wasn't able to win. I don't know if he tried to enlist or if even offered but I think there were about 10 guys that year who just got slammed by the Air Force if they DOR'd at UPT. For whatever reason, some senior officer had a large stick up his ass and decided to make an example of some people for god knows why. Watching that fiasco go down was my final eye-opening moment with the AF and that everyone is just a number.

Academy recoupment is for education costs. The $400K number is a clever pat-on-the-back number for high school students to quote that is pretty much based on the cost to run the USAFA base (including the 10th ABW) divided by the number of cadets. The actual number is closer to $120-140K for education recoupment. Several 2009 USAFA grads ended up self-eliminating in UPT. The "workaround" to make them pay was to force them to separate. They couldn't recoup the UPT training cost, but they could get the pro-rated USAFA commitment back. One of my best friends got slapped with a $120K bill from the gov't. It got even more shady. The gov't sold the debt for an unknown amount to a private debt collector. The debt got classified as both education debt AND gov't debt which means that A) he couldn't get rid of it in bankruptcy and B) they can garnish wages without a judge's order. As of today, he has a decent job and he is happy. But his wife has to keep her finances separate from him as much as possible since his credit is trash now from the gov't debt. Trying to get anything that needs decent credit is not possible for him alone without exorbitant fees.

FIFY.

An 11B T-38 IP at Laughlin got VSP. Don't know year group.

Bring an extra paintbrush and I'll help.

OK, history fun fact of the day: WW2 U.S. Soldier Drag Show (1942) | The Public Domain Review Panch, someone seriously thought runnersworld was distasteful? Holy $H**. I can understand where you're coming from better now.

I missed the pole dancing in there. Drag isn't sexual (at least that show wasn't). It's no worse than the hilarious powderpuff games I've watched at high school games with the guys in cheerleaders outfits and chicks in football jerseys. What about all the youtube vids of soldiers/marines/airmen/sailors in only short shorts singing madonna or Brittany spears? Mountains out of molehills.

In absolute numbers, enlisted retirees absolutely outnumber officer. In terms of percentages, they are not representative of the force at large. I think that's what nsplayr is referring to when he says dispropotionately. In 2011: Retired- 27% officer, 73% enlisted DoD - 17% officer, 83% enlisted https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dwp/reports.do?category=reports&subCat=milActDutReg The AF does better because our officer ratio is higher (R: 25/75, DoD: 19/81) but the gap is very large in the Army and USMC.

@ClearedHot. Yup, I didn't miss anything. :)

This. I mean, there are some things I really did miss. Having to pay tuition. Room and board. Another job to pay the bills. Being a TA maybe. I could have had the gourmet dining at CC rather than Mitch's mountains.... I guess jumping out of planes, flying other planes, and skiing all winter just won't cut it.

Loved my time there and wouldn't have traded it or the opportunities I had for a civilian institution. Went to a civilian grad program after and didn't feel like I missed anything.

~10% of graduates attend graduate/medical/nursing/dental school. Of that, typically: 3 to Harvard Kennedy School ~10 to MIT (Draper/Lincoln labs usually) ~ 1-2 to Rice (Draper) 3 to UofMaryland Public Policy 3 to Pardee RAND Graduate School (PhD) 1 Holiday Scholarship to Oxford ~1 or more Rhodes, Marshall, Hertz, Truman scholarships The rest usually spread between AFIT-CI programs and AFIT proper at Wright-Patt. Med school ranges all over but not uncommon to see grads head to Harvard and John Hopkins. The top places like MIT, Harvard, RAND, etc. keep asking USAFA to send them. Academics are good.

I am a white male and was applying for ROTC scholarships having been accepted to Purdue, Rose-Hulman IT, and Georgia Tech engineering programs. I was a DG at USAFA and went on to a grad school program afterwards. Had all the standard application squares checked (tests, ECs, grades, etc.). Ya, I was left scratching my nugget but took USAFA as my first choice anyway. Who knows.