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Put the dates you can bank on. ADSC for now, PC date when you get it. You don’t wanna carpet dance about why you’re not available on your stated date.

For all the gonnabe's out there looking over the fence at the greener grass, those first two words are mucho important. The grass is still greener even if you wanna move back home to your farm in central KS, but most of the epic tales are from guys living in base.

Awesome advice. Thanks fellas.

Any gouge on mtns near SLC? Kids 5/9, so a couple good blues is enough. Will probably rent a car so Ogden/Provo ok if they're the best options, least crowded, most affordable, etc.

Somebody give the man 7 more likes and upvotes so he can rest in peace. https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/profile/1722-matmacwc/ 🍻

They’d find the military is not even close to 70%. More like 40%. 10 year AF pilot, left seat C-17 vs 10 year major airline guy, left seat MD-11.

Not if it’s a long term capital gain. Different tax rates for W-2 income and LTCG. The technique is called tax gain harvesting. Wise move. i tried to do it the year I left AD. Then I ended up with an unexpected temp tech job (I.e. with few of the AD tax shelters) and got hammered the following April. Pajaro’s income forecast is probably more accurate than mine was.

Herc isn't an acronym. Your question is too vague to answer accurately. Definitely need a takeoff, approach, and landing monthly. Then you'll need some night stuff quarterly. Then you'll need a bunch of airdrop, formation, arrival, etc stuff semi-annually. And a bunch more stuff annually. Exactly how many iterations of each event depends on your seat and experience level. Suffice to say, for an AMC aircraft, it's a helluva lot to maintain currency. Deployments - again, too vague to answer. You go sleep somewhere else for 1-12 months. Maybe in a hotel. Maybe in a tent. Fly every day, maybe every other day, maybe once a week, maybe once a month. You might go hang out on the beach or you might go hang out in a shelter waiting for the rockets to stop falling. I don't mean to be flippant, but I got my early career gouge from pre-9/11 crews and my wars ended up being very, very different from their wars. Your wars will be very different from my wars, too, so anything I could tell you wouldn't be worth much tomorrow.

You mean the little thing in the wallets of a couple million people that routinely expires and therefore the renewal process should be mind-numbingly polished and painless? Makes perfect sense, then. BTW, I would pay a like to read the cliff notes version.

So don’t be that guy. Those thoughts shine through in the interview no matter how much you try to hide your asshole-ness.

MyPers and that network you've been building for the last 12 years. Sorry, no secret database. Talk to any of your buddies at the big staffs. Almost always an IMA opening floating around at Scott, Robins, Langley, etc. Here's the directions, though, for Det 5 (AFRC). It's not the "Volunteer" button. Other Dets will have their own processes.

What aircraft?

Thanks. I'm on my civ employer discount right now, which is a higher % than military, so neither online nor the phone rep can give me a solid answer.

On the Verizon thing... so this is what I found. I'm hoping somebody actually has 3 lines to tell me what your bill is. I need 3 lines, so I'm looking at $45/mo/line for Start Unlimited, minus $25/mo/line, so $20/mo/line + taxes/fees? Right now my taxes/fees are ~$17. So 3 lines for $77/mo? That'd be awesome, but I feel like I'm missing something. Nevermind, I was reading that as account = line. Not so much. So 3 lines would be about $127, I think?

Just wait until it's the first all-female, all-enlisted, all one-eyed, one-horned, flying, purple people eater aircrew operating an RQ-4!

Not 1k/mo for me. $140 a month premiums. It’s the deductible and MOOP that get you. Up to $13k worst case compared to a few hundred with Tricare, IIRC. A couple bad years would be a serious drain on the savings plan.

Usually true for family housing; usually not true for dorms.

Just store it with an off-base classmate. You don’t want to deal with SF.

Similar thing happened in 2015/16 when they changed a policy “in our favor” but didn’t fix the underlying systems. I was the guy trying to un-f it for the unit. Took months.

Nope.

Depends on the company and the length of your mil leave. Talk to your jump seat committee.

My Uncle Joe said they're great golfers, too.

You could theoretically get 20-30 additional points pretty easy. BUT... Because it's a Reserve job, it's a massive - maybe even unworkable - pain as a DSG. UTAPS doesn't talk to the Guard MPF systems and apparently even manually handing in 40As didn't seem to work. I've known two people that tried PIRR programs as DSG and neither got any points for their efforts. One DSG gave it up and one is still doing it for zero credit. If you crack the code, let everyone here know because it's a known issue unless you're already a Reservist.

Any decent employer will have good healthcare. Plenty of families have special needs kids outside of the .mil and they do just fine. Something to be said, too, for continuity of care > 3 years. If Tricare is critical, get an IMA/Cat B job or more and keep TRS in the ARC then stay in the ARC for 28. You’ll have a good grasp or grown kids by then.