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    I’m going to do some math and look at my income. I might take 1/3 out ~$3k in taxes. I’m trying to stay objective but it’s tough to pay that bill. It might be easier to pay the money vs watch a 10% correction wipe out gains. I’m not sure my long term strategy. Never thought of this stuff when I started 18 years ago. That’s why I’m asking you f—-ers Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Today I was going to move my SP500 index fund holdings ~100k into a money market fund with the intent to move it back at next market correction. First time I have exchanged things like this but I stopped and investigated when I got to the “taxable event warning” I’ve dollar cost averaged into this fund for 10+ years at significant gain so Am i correct that I’ll pay capital gains of ~15%. The realized gain is about $60k...am I going to get taxed for $9k if I make this exchange. F-cking govt. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Promotion is a direct message from an organization that they desire a person to CONTINUE. Non-promotion is saying there is no further opportunity to progress. There are some but how many pilots are the type who are good with just working in the military as a standard job at a time where a standard airline job will pay them more and treat them better. Promotion is definitely a retention tool. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Pays to be support I guess. UFB. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Thanks dudes for the input, I called a personnel person and got resolve. Apparently while non-std, I can PCS, take my already approved 10 days permissive TDY then go right into leave as much as I want up to my RNLT date. Once I sign in, they’ll subtract the PTDY from my leave and adjust accordingly. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Hell no, that’s why I’m on here....to get informal planning advice from all you dudes before I put myself in a position where I can lose leave/PTDY. My losing CC already approved 10 days and I told my incoming CC when I’d be signing in. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    If the US walks away from NATO, it collapses leaving Europe on its own and the Europeans couldn’t unite to fight off a band of migrants let alone Russia. You think I’m joking but it’s a sad sad state of utter disorganization and incompetence throughout our European allies armed forces. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    If the US walks away from NATO, it collapses leaving Europe on its own and the Europeans couldn’t unite to fight off a band of migrants let alone Russia. You think I’m joking but it’s a sad sad state of utter disorganization and incompetence throughout our European allies armed forces. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    So am I legal to go straight from PTDY to leave without signing in? From how I read, finance will just add those days that I didn’t sign in as leave. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Anything wrong with moving OS to CONUS where I show up at my base living in TLF, take my 10 days PTDY (already approved by my losing cc) then BEFORE signing in, I take 2 weeks leave, sign in after which is still well before my RNLT? I’m just looking to stay legal so there are no issues when I finally show up. Sanity check appreciated. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Wasn’t sure which thread to ask this in, Credit scores, so there I was, buying a house when in the mail comes the credit scores for my wife and I that the bank ran. WTF? So my wife who without me managing 100% of finances would be net worth -$169k in credit card debt and probably filed for bankruptcy 2x....has a credit score 800+ I have decent credit scores in the ~790 range with a long credit history, zero lateness in my life, nothing outstanding. What gives on how this stuff is computed? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Probably can’t fight it. Not a career ender. I’ve known multiple Q3 recipients go on to be great IP’s and Commanders. Get your story tight for the airline interviews. Don’t dwell on it. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Rambo: Last Blood trailer looks a bit sketchy. I liked Rambo with PTSD in foreign jungles killing commies. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    If dependents move from Overseas to new base to start school and member stays overseas for a month, can BAH/OHA be received at the same time or is it one / another? I’d assume double dipping not allowed which makes sense. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    I was floored how much fun an RV-8 was to fly. I’ve had a good family cruiser since I was 25, love it. The wife and I used to load it with camping gear for long trips. Stop when we got tired or wx was an issue and set up camp. We did Atlanta to Alaska and it was awesome. I don’t enjoy heavy IFR, I also had a mechanical close call once so I’m Much more cautious now of terrain and weather. The freedom of private flying is where it’s at for me. I love jets but the USAF doesn’t make flying really much fun overall. I’ll fly long after military work is done. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    I think she got promoted AFTER this stuff. No surprise. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    4-star background? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    The beauty of having a CAS flexible aircraft is that you have options. Not just with sensors and vis lookout but with different weapons. I know I can put down a mark with a rocket, 20mm or 30mm if I have questions. And that’s after the myriad of other ways I can check friendly positions. A B-1 costs as much per hour as 4 x F-16s or A-10’s so this decision wasn’t a “it’s good force economy” For me this was a lot of contributing factor with the root cause being wrong asset, wrong time in the wrong role. Plotting/tracking the friendlies is a basic CAS skill set. If you think this is the first time that dudes called in air strikes on their posit you are wrong. Happens more often than you know however good CAS pilots stepped in and broke the chain before pickling. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    It is UFBelievable to me as well. I knew this type of stuff on my first night TGP sortie as did everyone else but then again in a jet with a basic CAS friendly design (being able to look outside) you could match your IR pointer on the pod to the flashing IR markers on the ground and even if you’d never been told, it’d be 100% obvious in 1 second. Again, root cause was sending a airframe not suited for the scenario because we got complacent in having anything bomb capable slinging a PHM and declaring it an awesome CAS asset (Thanks Welsh) I remember my first time running a TGP in the back of a Learjet, daytime trying to find targets coordinating with the pilot and another guy in back while getting SA from the small window outside. Complete sh-tshow and my hats off to the bone guys that can do it but drove home that even at 100%, it’s a limited concept. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Dude, the honest answer to that is that was probably one of the very few times a B-1 has ever had to deconflict “close” fires in a complex situation and it went bad. 100% of the tine I saw employment was either BOC or a BOT well away from any friendlies with no time constraints. I’m not knocking you guys. You do a helluva a job with what you can. You are just SEVERELY limited by your airframe in any slightly complex CAS scenario. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Damn, it’s almost as if CAS is the detailed integration of Ground and Air forces to avoid fratricide when forces get “close” and are fighting requiring a specialized skill set and weaponry. Shocking that a low level supersonic nuclear bombing platform asked to do the job had issues. Now some will say these are dickhead comments but I’ve tried CAS in a crewed B-1 type environment and it was tough. Need a hillside leveled in the Stan or some BOC, B-1 is great. Have a complex deconfliction problem requiring CAS and CAS weapons, you probably want a CAS aircraft with good vis, those weapons etc. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Dude, do you have wings? Are you you T-1 or T-38 trained? The reason I ask s your options will vary during this pilot shortage on whether you washed out of RPA’s and got nowhere else to go (apologies RPA guys) or washed from a F-16 FTU and trying to get into a crew airframe. If you have wings still, I’d think you have some options including guard/reserve. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Any chance for some unclass insight into this? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Did you see these capabilities or were they “advertised” as having them? Be VERY skeptical when anyone outside the US offers a warfighting capability. A lot is put on paper for show but you’d be shocked at what some call their ability to do CAS or CSAR vs the US standard. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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    Reported to be Hydraulic failure. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
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