Skyryder

Can anyone give me an accurate answer on when my “final out” would be with an actual date of separation of 3 Jan 2021? Pretty certain it won’t be 1 January 2021 as I was just told by my local separations “specialist”... No planned terminal leave.

Thanks for the reply. In my situation since 12 October is only 12 days after the new FY begins I would only accrue of 2.5 days of new leave. I’m trying to avoid taking 21 days baby leave + 25 days of use/lose PRIOR to the end of the Fiscal Year 2020, THEN having to come back to work for 12 days before taking 60 days of official terminal leave. Essentially I want to string all 106 days together (60 days terminal, 25 days use/lose, 21 days baby leave) ultimately leading up to my 09 December separation date. Because these 106 days span over the fiscal year change I’m not sure how that would work, and shockingly no one at MPF or Finance seems to know either. This is very significant because it could change my availability date for my civilian job by nearly 2 months. This scenario seems reasonable, and my original post appears to be the ONLY logical order of stringing these dates together, but I don’t know how to verify if it is valid or not.

Like many others, I’m trying to maximize my terminal leave, and my wife is due with our child in August. Can someone check my math on this and correct me if I’m wrong? Official separation date - 12 Dec 60 days of terminal - 12 Oct 21 days daddy leave - 21 September 25 days use/lose - approximately 27 August What am I missing?

I'm considering "rolling the dice" and asking for 12 months off my UPT ADSC. I've heard some examples of folks asking for 12 months off their UPT ADSC and the response they receive is "No, but we'll give you 6 months off..." I know that many have tried this and been denied, but I'm just curious if there is anything I'm not considering that could be harmful by attempting this. Bottom line, what do I actually have to lose?

Now that the Senate has confirmed Major promotions, any idea if those individuals that were expecting to pin on September 1st are entitled to back pay?

Curious - what happens to those that were passed over for Captain in FY12...Yes, that's right, passed over as a pilot for CAPTAIN. No problems with the law, DUIs, or negative paper work. I would normally be pinning on in September 2013, but since I was passed over I was waiting on this years board. There was a group of us who had blank PRFs submitted to the board last year (while deployed). Are we still pretty much SOL? Or will I receive an apology and a promotion, and pin on in Sept '13? Haha, yeah.....sure....

Truly heartbreaking... I flew with three of these guys about a week ago before I left Kandahar. This hurts and sucks. Praying for their families. :beer: :beer:

I'm deployed to Afghanistan. I decided halfway through my deployment to extend my stay here. The extension made me eligible for R&R. I'm planning to take trip to New Zealand/Australia. Before I left the states, I did not plan to take R&R so I did not bring my personal passport with me and I don't have anyway of getting it here. However, I do have an Official Passport that was issued to me from my squadron. Does anyone know if I'm allowed to use my Official Passport for R&R. I've been in Afghanistan for more than 300 days and I'll be returning here for a few months after R&R I think I could justify the trip to be "official travel" since I'm being "ordered" to "rest and relax". What do you think?

Any idea when the next promotion board meets for passed over dudes? Like will it be a year from your last board or does your name get thrown into the hat for the next sequential board? I saw that there were something like 3 or 4 boards a year so I was just curious how many lives I have left...

I'm a flyer, and I was passed over for Capt. and notified about it 1 month into a 6 month deployment that I volunteered for (motivating). I wanted to promote just as badly as anyone else, I was even told that my submitted package was "killer" and "super competitive" (as if that was necessary, was what I was thinking...haha) it was interesting to look at the names of those promoted on the portal - to include those who washed back and who did very poorly in pilot training in comparison. Like many others, I haven't had any negative paper work, my Squadron commander was very apologetic and was essentially in more shock than I was. Assuming that the Air Force does this again to me this time next year, which I don't have any reason to believe they won't. Does that mean I'm able to seperate almost 8 years prior to my ADSC expiring? How is this a bad thing? Just curious... I've always heard that your LT years are some of the best years of your career (little to no responsibility) maybe the optimistic way to look at this is to assume Big Blue just wants me to enjoy the best years of my career for ATLEAST one more year.

Montgomery Airport in Alabama I was behind a student about to take off, he was holding short of the Active runway when he recieved these instructions from the tower: ATC "Cessna 1234, Taxi to position and hold" Student "Roger, Taxi to position and Roll" ATC "NO! Stop! I said Hold, that means don't go!." Student "Oh right...Hold...Uh taxi to position and hold" Later after the same pilot made it off the ground, controllers radioed again. ATC "Cessna 1234 Say altitude..." Student "Uhh.....Altitude..." ATC "(Laughter), no no, Say what altitude you're at" Student "What altitude am I at?" ATC " I don't know you tell me..." Student "OH! 1200" ATC " Thanks..." True story. Gotta love it.