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How about contract quarters? Those covered under "govt quarters"? I've had billeting set me up with a hotel THEY paid for...guess that makes 'em govt quarters, no?

Technique only: call your new unit, ask for a flight commander, and make sure you at least get a verbal before you spend the dough.

Just pick one and stick with it...first gay and fat and DNIF pilot probably gets court martialled publically as a malingerer...so just pick one and stick with it: my buddy's plan is "OPERATION Bon Bon".

The rest of the story: folks twice deferred for promotion (2 times non-select) SOMETIMES get offered "selective continuation." instead of involuntary separation. Depends on your AFSC and the current manning situation. Normally, you gotta make O4 to stay in to 20. There's a 36 series AFI that discusses these things, if you're interested...

Highly recommend Wolf Creek just east of Pagosa Springs CO for weekend skiing. 4+ hour drive from ABQ, but worth every minute. Spent 4 weekends there during AMIC.

SEI is "special experience identifier" and on your SURF or DVB it's just a code attached to you. AIS SEI is "OEV". Once in a great while, the big blue TDY machine generates a UTC for a deployment that requires an SEI: a JTF in Uruguay may require a Portugese -speaking female field grade fighter pilot with acquisitions and previous staff experience and who is an AIS grad. So AFPC can generate a list of all the folks who fit that bill and task someone. Just another way of keeping track of "who's done what" in the service...

I did JAOP course in 2006. Good course. Since AETC/AU pays, the CC usually doesn't mind sending folks. AU has several courses (funded) like that. Check out their website for more info on them. Normally, every good deal has a sharp edge: AIS gets you a SEI, for example, making you eligible for SEI deployments... Two schools of thought: don't go TDY anymore than you have to, since you're away from family too much already... Or.. Every course you take makes you smarter/more valuable to the service, and therefore is better for your career choices. I fall somewhere in the middle: volunteer ONLY for TDYs and take courses interesting to you or that lead to better jobs...YMMV...

8th Air Force bomber crews between 1942-1945. But your point is taken.

Beggars can't be choosers.....

Fail your PT test right before your OPR is due. Get referral OPR. Fail PT test again 90 days later. CC recommends separation. Out the door you go!

The reason a "DG" is important is very common: 90% of officers (pilots) are equal in piloting ability. It's the OTHER stuff you do that gets you stratified amongst your peers. Everytime you are in a group, you are competing for stratification--be it at ASBC or in the squadron. You belong to the group of "copilots", or "wingmen", or "tactics cell", or "training shop", or "SELO" or "SDO", or even SNACKO. Makes no difference. Your SQ/DO and CC are looking for ways to tell you people APART. Why is chucklehead X better or worse than chucklehead Y? They both got Q1's on their checkrides and didn't screw up on their first deployment and are progressing normally through upgrade. How do I tell them apart? The answer comes in all the OTHER stuff you do to enhance my unit's effectiveness: administrative excellence/morale booster/unique program management/inspection preparation, etc...that's what the CC needs help with--UPT and IQT do a good job of making you a good technician with an OK skill set, and our training shop has a program to get you up to speed on the mission...so since you're all equal in those regards, I need to know what ELSE you bring to the table to differentiate you from all the others... ANYTIME you get a chance to distinguish yourself from your peers (by getting a DG, Top 1/3, #1/3 Asst execs, etc) this helps BOTH the CC decide who to go to bat for (early upgrades/choice PCS/another flying gig) and who to send on less desireable assignments, or even to approve the bonus $$ for. Works in reverse too--the copilot who gets two DUIs in a week probably wont get to go to SOS in-residence...Know the rules of the game you're playing. Blow off ASBC and you lose a chance, perhaps five/ten years from now, to attend WIC, or go in-res to ACSC- because the dude you're competing against THEN got the DG from ASBC, and that became the CC's deciding factor on who to send. It happens. Since you don't KNOW for a FACT you're separating at the end of your commitment, or you're on track for CoS, might as well learn early the rules of the game your playing, and do everything possible to set yourself up to be a contender for WHATEVER job/career goal/aspiration you have. Get off course, even a little, and your decision maybe gets made for you and you lose options. Whether you want to be a SQ/CC or a terminal iron Major with 25,000 flying hours, or separate ASAP, you should probably try to garner the same distinctions every chance you get. You'll either make your goal and be a CC, or make your goal and turn down Lt Col, or make your unit CC cry when you separate. But the key is, it was YOUR CHOICE every time. Fail to follow the rules, and you don't get to choose. Its your life and career--work it any way you want. /off soapbox...again...

If you can only have one rifle, you may think about Thompson or SIG arms SHR 970: interchangeable barrels/bolts/mags means you can have your .300 win mag for elk or bear, or .270 for whitetail or pronghorn. Other calibers also available. SIG stopped importing the 970 in 2005, but you can still find some in various cals on gunbroker or other sites. Good luck...

That's quite a claim. If a guy shot 1 million rounds of anything, 1 per second, that'd take nearly 12 days. If I had an ammo budget like that, I'd throw my paychecks away...

No one knows the future: therefore set yourself up for success--you don't get that many choices while in uniform, might as well think about this: even if you plan to get out ASAP, your future employers will want to know how you performed in the AF--did you upgrade on time? division chief tour? Flight commander tour? Get your masters? Get your PME done? Even airlines will ask about that. So, what I tell my young Lts and Capts is this: the flightpath to decision height is the same whether your choose to land, or go around. If you get off course, or way above or below glidepath--your decision is made for you, you lose options. So play the game righteously, and you give yourself options. Fail to play, or play poorly, and your decisions get made for you. I recommend everyone go to the AFPC/VMPF sites and the AMS site and read everything there. On your AMS profile, actually look at the briefings that detail the "typical" pilot career path. Educate yourself as to what jobs are out there: search AMS authorizations and requriements (+/- 1 grade)--you may surprise yourself with all the stuff out there you know nothing about. Flying staff jobs (like mine), flying HHQ jobs, special flying programs, green door stuff, etc. Not to mention cool jobs that have nothing to do with flying. They're out there. It may be up to you to find them. I've been in since 1990, and have been flying continuously since 1994 (five separate airframes). I'll never be a squadron commander, nor a general officer, but I've never regretted staying in. /off soapbox

I have three pairs of those and love em too. Replaced laces with regular boot laces just fine. BX and Mil clothing used to have those laces--good luck with the search. May also want to try shoetreemarketplace.com.

Married, 31 yo, 3 kids, stable marriage, and I had to do two separate interviews with the Flt doc before he okayed mine. Just depends on the doc. Just remember, he says, there's no turning back on this. What if your whole family dies in a car wreck? You get divorced, and then meet the real love of your life, he asks. With my spouse with me, in the room. Makes me wait a week to think on it then return again with the wife, to go over it all again. The way my AF docs did this thing, it's NOT reversible. YMMV, that's how my decision-making experience went. PS: had op on thurs afternoon, DNIF on quarters til Monday sick call & RTF. Flew Tuesday am. No complications, loved the frozen bag'o'peas on Friday afternoon. No pain after Friday. Ops checked good on following Friday.

Rainman, me, and a handful of others--but you would get to be snacko again, and deputy asst awards and decs guy. I haven't been able to make up my mind because I haven't the faintest clue what the truth is. I've read her initial account, the stuff here and elsewhere on the interwebs....but don't think there's a massive conspiracy/coverup going on. You can stifle the OSI, but who's got the horsepower to shut down an FBI investigation? Yes--I'm theorizing that a more simple explanation is likely than what's been touted on the Internet. And the kicker was the FBI concluding it's investigation w/o the AF prosecuting. To me, that means the investigators could not poke holes in her story (whatever story she told them--not the story reported initially). But I completely agree: this is 60 minutes worthy, or at least AF times....where is the investigative journalism? Where are the reporters? How come she wasn't given a frigging AF CROSS for her heroics? So, something in the public news about all this stinks, no doubt! I'm just not convinvced it's a massive governmental coverup--more likely something simpler...

Ok--but there'd have to be a convening official willing to put a "traumatized officer" thru a CM, because she made a bad choice? Because she was "mistaken about her facts?". No other discipline issues? otherwise stellar record? No proof the pregnancy wasn't from her husband? Who'd prosecute that mess?

Devils advocacy, just for fun....Ok, I can see some GO trying to accomplish some kind of coverup within the AF. But, the FBI investigated--and obviously decided nothing criminal took place--I say obviously, because the AF isn't prosecuting her. So, if we assume that Jill's story held up under Kyrgyz, FBI, OSBI, and AF SF investigations, why can't we also assume the major portions are true? Wouldn't it take some huge Jason Bourne- type conspiracy to make all this go away for her (like it seems to have)?? Wouldn't a simpler explanation also make sense? She leaves the mall, has the procedure, something goes wrong, makes her way back to frendlies, initially lies about it, tells investigators she was scared and confused and misspoke, then tells a better story which checks out, claims PTSD , gets the dx, spends a couple years "healing" and now wants to go on with her life? Any takers on that theory?

Am supervising three young awaiting-pilot-training LTs a few years ago. Orderly room emails me the RIP, in MS WORD format, that sends one to UPT. We edit the doc changing the guys assignment from UPT to ABM tng, prebrief his spouse, and leave it in his v-file. Tough to keep a straight face when he comes to me a few days later...but we manage to simulate a call to AFPC to get him assigned to UPT... Kid may still think I'm a god for that one...vastly improved the other two's motivation to exceed expectations--nothing better than a fired up LT to get some queep done just prior to a UCI...

I got one quick & easy thru Andrew Jackson univ: aju.edu Good luck

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Fellas, I may have an opportunity to buy a Sig Arms SHR 970, with both the .300 win mag and .30-06 barrels, bolts, and magazines. N.I.B. Guy asking $1000. Gunbroker auctions starting at @650 with scope and only one barrel. Would love to hear your thoughts...

How friggen awesome to be a LT with 1500 hours and a 10 yr commitment and NOT get promoted!! & I wonder how many RPA LTs won't get promoted, regardless of potential to serve in higher grade?