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To do so would be blasphemous heresy. I 100% used an M8 bolt leftover from a ceiling fan to remove a truck brake rotor last week.

I'd even strike "once boarding is complete." Lots of problems happen during boarding and we have people for that, too. Some CAs feel the need to make a PA directly to the passengers in pursuit of some nebulous passenger satisfaction metric. Nah. Best case you get some attaboys on X. Worst case you say "Ladies and Gentlemen" and you lose your job for a while.

Being in NCR I really wouldn't worry about it. As you said, I think you'll be able to find something if you have to. With 4 years to play with (2 to pin on + 2 overgrade waiver), I'd go for it. Once you have completed your requisite mouth shut period, I'd start lobbying for them to change a billet or three to O-5.

Overgrade waivers are generally (always?) only good for 2 years, so I wouldn't count on that as your long term answer. In my experience, we always wrote positions for O-5s to avoid that exact problem. I thought writing for O-5 was standard... What do you know about the UMD vacancies of the unit you're looking to join? Is it all O-4 billets? Are all the O-5 billets already doubled?

I've seen multiple manufacturers, including Ranger Point and Magpul, list their buttstocks as 1894/1895/336.

Boyds does. No, it's the Trapper. SBL is 3" longer. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1006029530?pid=999284

Buddy's 45-70 Ruger-Lin Trapper. Wears a can and IER scope now.

To help with VID:

So an average of $121k/year. You seem pleased with how it turned out for you so I'm thrilled for you and your family. I'm hope you enjoyed the adventure. Good work, Col. You're proof that you can live a perfectly comfortable life without going to the private sector. However, the other side of the coin is that your numbers don't come close to private sector compensation. DoD got your skills and time for an incredible bargain. Enjoy retirement - you've earned it!

Helo dudes, NTSB dude said the helo crew would have used their baro altimeter as their primary reference instead of radalt. Is that true? Radio was always my primary on Herk low levels. But I guess the charted ceiling of 200' was baro, not radio, so maybe baro was primary?

Kirby publicly voiced that concern. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-airline-pilots-fight-their-unions-increase-retirement-age-2023-08-22/

There's no indication they loaded the RNAV 33 to have SA on IDTEK so its constraint is immaterial. They were switched from the Mt Vernon 1 to visual 33 from the Wilson Bridge. Wilson Bridge is 3.4NM from 33. I expect - and hope - they didn't go heads down to load a new approach in the box that late.

Any helo bubbas have insight into the max altitudes on Rt 4? Looks like the chart calls for 200' coordination?

But they achieved their goal, with most headlines leaving out the last part.

The aileron inputs look like a normal CDS run in as #2-4. 😁

I'm constantly floored how we ran UPT the same way for decades with the only real change being adding the T-1 and "S"UPT. Now I can't keep up with the constantly changing ideas, syllabi, acronyms, and other nonsense. I thought UPT was going to be VR goggles in Austin??!? Probably could have gotten airline guys to staff that one long term.

Heads up for anyone going the Fidelity CMA route. I do still highly recommend it, but make sure you push any transfers from the bank currently holding your funds. Don't pull the funds out of your current account from the Fidelity side. They're putting some stupid long (~3 week) holds on any money pulled in from outside. There's no extended hold on money pushed to them.

Dude said "Liberty." Do they make Cabela's branded safes? edit: Yep. https://www.libertysafe.com/pages/cabelas

I'll give another piece of advice you didn't ask for. Keep working on whatever demons you've wrestled or are wrestling that led you down the HIMS and neuropsychiatrist path. Counselors, ministers, therapy, whatever. Flight training, especially mil flight training, and military life can bring out the best and worst in people. If you're starting from less-than-100%, it may not end well for you and the collateral damage may affect those around you, too. It's very unlikely that your problems are unique or insurmountable. Others likely have blazed the path ahead of you. It sounds like you need to be especially aware of the challenges ahead for you in mil aviation and the mil lifestyle. Good luck man.

NavyFed doesn't do insurance, do they? They refer to Liberty Mutual.

That concern sounds more like a compromised login concern, which is more than valid. I don't think that correlates to a compromised debit card concern.

I'm with LR - I don't share that concern. I've got 6 retirement accounts, 4 cash accounts (2 with active debit cards), 3 youth accounts (1 with an active debit card), 2 credit cards, an HSA, a DAF, and a partridge in a pear tree. I'm as positive as I can be without knowing Fidelity's inner workings that fraudulent access to one card won't compromise the other accounts. One of my cash accounts and one of my credit cards are explicitly for overseas/travel use just for that fraud firewall.

☝️ And use SPAXX for your cash reserves. Auto liquidation without any attention on your part and it pays 4.2% right now.

The first 15 seconds alone of that are, as the kids say, cringe. Know your fucking people, eh?

I had a <4 yr PC commitment and I didn't sign anything like a 4 year accession commitment when I went AD -> ANG.