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Wondered what was going on with those things. I met the project manager when I was at the CAOC at the end of 2013. She was saying those would open July 14. Not so much I guess.

New hire at my 135 company just left Envoy. The pay was ridiculous and bordered on pay to play when he factored in the cost of a crash pad. Put it this way, I can make more as a substitute teacher working 20 days a month than he was flying 75 hrs at Envoy. There are a LOT of good Part 135 opportunities that pay better than even the 1-3 year at the legacies if you're looking for a decent way to build some time without starving.

Giving Skywarrior down at Pensacola a try this month for the ME ATP with SE add on. They do an ATP prep course starting at $1655 in Seminoles. They're also one of the few places left that are still VA/ GI Bill approved for the ATP course. They were down for awhile because their DE has heart problems but recently got a new guy. Seeing as their program caters to the military, I'd bet the new DE is a safe one. https://www.skywarriorinc.com/

Anyone know if Accessible Aviation's program is still running? I've been emailing/calling since Aug and haven't gotten a response.

You can count me as another satisfied customer of NBOKC and Dave Devine. We closed on our re-fi on 30 Apr with zero out of pocket cost. Loan was 3.875% with $1700 incentive and only $1000 cost rolled into the loan. My payment went from $1745 on a $239K 30 yr fixed rate to $1411. Everything was done over the phone or email and the bank arranged for a local appraiser and lawyer to come to our home to take care of the paperwork. If I knew things were this simple then I would've done this sooner. I contacted USAA for a comparison and would've gotten a 4.25% with roughly $3000 out of pocket. Seems like about the only thing they're good for these days is good insurance rates.

The frontal lobotomy runs strong in this Spings wearer! That article reads as if it was a forced piece and it's supported with incredibly weak facts as to what is actually good about the job. Seriously, a fvcking hamburger and tater tots or Stars Wars decorations bought out of some young enlisted person's own paycheck for morale? My seventh grader could've composed a better structured article and a more convincing argument. I've got several friends in the missile fields and have met many more. They all have the same thing in common- every one of them hates their job. It says a lot when Space and Missile guys are volunteering for any 365 they can find to get a break.

Anyone else hearing anything about another MC-12 crashing in the past few hours? Someone here said ABC news is reporting 3 American ISAF members killed. Did a search on some of the news sites and haven't found anything. Really bad week for military aviation.

Thanks, dickhead. The vast majority of us don't go to the CAOC by choice and we all question the validity of this place when our CENTCOM counterparts do their jobs from stateside locations and garden spots like Larissa, Tampistan, and Vokel. That's an old argument that no one in leadership will entertain. In other news, Detroit, Oakland, and all U.S.-Mexican border duty locations will be added to the stateside IDP list and Clovis, NM now qualifies for HDP-L.

PSDM 13-130 wasn't supposed to be for public consumption yet. Some CC's mistakenly sent it out to their people.

First off, tell me a couple of those people in the video can even pass the PT test waist measurement. It pisses me off every day to see the airlift they're eating up because they get priority over some of the shit that really needs to move. Always pleases me to see when we crowd their jets with whatever else we can shove on there. That's right, sit down, shut up, and get up close and personal with some pallets or rolling stock for the next few hours you sequin-studded wannabes. Even worse, there's a group of TIB "alumni" traveling around the AOR doing performances as well. Who the hell thought that was a good idea? How about bringing out the actual USAF or Marine Bands from the States?

THIS! The President has stated many times about us all doing our "fair share", but I don't see any of our elected officials, welfare recipients, illegals getting tax benefits, etc being asked to give up ANYTHING. As many keep trying to convey, our retirement is an earned pension, not a discretionary benefit.

Tambo Tower, Speed Bird 69...umm, we seem to have parked our wingtip squarely in this flat over here. https://news.yahoo.com/plane-wing-clips-building-johannesburg-airport-084501891.html

Tony Carr's latest blog on the subject...https://www.jqpublic-blog.com/?p=600

Got to watch the recovery effort on a live feed tonight. Not a great way to start my shift.

SEC. FANNING: [...] [We] institute[d] every voluntary measure that we could, that we had authority to use. […] we'll try to use them in a proactive way to shape, but the tools don't always allow that capability. NOT true. Early retirement has been authorized by the DoD as a force shaping tool for the past two years. Only the Navy has utilized it thus far. We've chose to shaft people and force them out between 14-18 years of service instead or RIF them after denying VSP.

I'm having a big WTF moment...where the hell is the Squadron Bar Daily Picture Thread!?

So, since tonight was Paleo night there should've been a picture of this guy?

Tony Carr just dedicated his latest blog entry to the Vance experiment. https://www.jqpublic-blog.com/?p=558

Based on the brief that a soon to be deploying sqd has received, all of the above is currently how it is. PT gear on base as well. At least they were getting partial periderm on our previous rotation.

YGTBFSM...I hope that bit of logic is gone from your memory if and when you become a Sqd CC. That's how the current climate and beliefs keep getting perpetuated and we end up with the state of leadership we're experiencing. Find some folks you know who've recently attended IDE in residence and ask how the other services view our stance on PME, bullsh1t online degrees that do nearly nothing to develop you as a leader, masters to get Maj, etc. The people they send to our PME are there to get a masters. By and large, none of them had a masters when they showed up, some were even O-5 selects, and even stated that having a masters obtained through TUI, US Military University, etc was more likely to mean non-promotion or non-selection to an IDE level school. Not saying that they do things better, but they sure as hell do some things that make more sense.

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/switzerland-to-vote-on--2-800-monthly-‘basic-income’-minimum-for-adults-181937885.html Screw Obamacare and all the other welfare programs. Let's just do this Swiss style and vote to give every adult a minimum of $2800/mo income straight from the govt on top of their free healthcare!

Ditto, stay the fvck away from CHS. Great location, but its got some problems that aren't for a public forum.

That sounds like garbage as the agreement you sign for benefits transfer specifically states that it can be modified or revoked at any time. The initial read I got from AFPC was that if a family member hasn't used any benefits, then an ADSC would be invalid if you hadn't taken an action that would put it into effect. Their example was that it was as if you had signed to accept an ADSC to attend formal training, then decided against attending. The ADSC would be removed, but you would still have to request and write a memorandum to the affect that you didn't attend/even show up as the two paper trails don't follow each other. Whatever the correct answer is, and it sounds like you and I spoke with two different people, it's BS to hold someone to an ADSC for which they've done nothing to deserve.

I saw a forty something year old woman walking her chihuahua through the bra last month and wondered WTF was going on. With all the new dorms and facility construction going on, that place is looking way too permanent. I took a few pics of the BX and food court and friends who had never been to the Deid thought they were taken at some stateside base. The last time I saw that level of permanency happening at one of our Middle East locations was at PSAB about a year before we left it.

Prayers for those families and all the others who've been lost over the past couple of months. Been a really rough tour emotionally over here. Him Him!!