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Great. So are the changing the CAP program in the pipelines as well? I think it’s only fair that the dudes who have skipped everything having to do with airmanship in a supersonic trainer/fighter get branded with a scarlet letter or something on their nametags. Auto self-identify once they walk into a briefing room.

Maybe I’ve missed it because we are talking about the same problems in about 4 different threads, but is IFF sticking around with the plan to send dudes through an elongated (sts) T-6 syllabus then on to the Viper?

Get high, get fast, do some good work. Go downtown, drop some bombs, kill all the assholes. Land, drink some whiskeys, tell stories at the bar and go home drunk to a wife who hates your lifestyle and thinks you are too old to still act like a degenerate child. Pass out, wake up and do it all again. Caveat: not for everyone.

You can email them your orders.

You can check the status of your mil orders on a SCRA website, which is what they reference. Pretty much as soon as my orders ended, they sent me the letter stating I’d be charged the yearly fee, and within a billing cycle I was billed. However, AMEX is amazing at paying you back annual fees when you go on orders. Banking on that when I get an upcoming set for 4 months this next year.

I’ve had them waived with as little as 3 months of ADOS.

I wasn't able to get anywhere but my bro called and the dude he talked to didn't care one bit if he was AD or not. Once he explained that he is still in the military full time, the rep continued his SCRA benefits for another year. My thoughts is that it will depend on who you talk to if/when you call in to the rep. I just paid the yearly fee but we have a 3-4 monther coming up under Title X that I will be requesting SCRA for, which should mean I get reimbursed for the yearly fee charges on the card.

Everything you mentioned helps. If this is something you're interested in pursuing further, the best thing you can do is visit the unit early and often. Let them know your story and what you are wanting to do. If you are a good dude, then you may have a shot. If they don't think you're a good fit, I'd hope someone would pull you to the side and let you know so you don't continue wasting your time.

Did you do any Strike training during your pilot training pipeline? If not, it will make things more difficult but not insurmountable if you find a unit to hire you and sponser your package (sts). First, you would probably have to do some sort of T-38 top off program so you are familiar with the jet you'd be flying at IFF (Intro to Fighter Fundamentals). Then IFF for 3 months. If that was completed, get ready for the centrifuge and the 9G profile, followed by a full up 9 months of the B-course before you make it back to your unit to start MQT. Again this isn't impossible but most units looking to hire a dude with prior flight time, don't want to have to send him through an entire fighter pipeline to get a qualified dude (in my limited experience). If it was switching from another fighter/strike platform, that'd be a lot simpler.

Correctable to 20/20. I had PRK at 21, but my eyes had slipped to 20/40 and 20/60 by the time I had my FCI at 27. I'd go and get some glasses that make you correctable to 20/20 to have with you when you go and take the eye exam.

Shack. Not to mention the 10 RAP counters that every TFI guy needs when the rest of the squadron makes due with 6-8 sorties a month.

Love me some vertical 9G HABFM and trying to get the FLO with a HMCS cued 9X. Nothing says you are max performing quite like a stinger at 70 degrees nose low.

What? Only 'Merica flies fighter planes, right?

Luck of the draw depending on when your dates match up. I went to Columbus. We have dudes in our unit that went to Vance and Del Rio as well.

Give a 4 ship more than a 1,000' altitude block. If you can't, then don't ask us why we died and didn't threat react.

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Yes. Over 1 year for me.

It's the run of the mill timeframe Big Blue mentions in the course syllabus. By no means a hard timeline to follow. I'm just about done, and it's taken me since March, but we've had some TDY's and deployments mixed in during that time.

I can't tell if this is ignorance or arrogance. I'll err on the former and say that waiting for someone to pick you up means you have less than a .069% chance of that actually happening. Be proactive about calling units and talking to actual pilots in the squadrons. Find out if/when their next hiring board is going to be and do everything you can to either visit or on a drill or sometime during the week. At least on the Guard side of the house, we are hiring a bro for the next 10-20 years, therefore we want to know if you are a good dude or someone who will cause issues in the squadron. As a side note to that last statement, you are also interviewing the units you are rushing. If you don't mesh well with a group of dudes, why would you want to go work with them for the next 10-20 years? You said in your previous post that you've done some research but the Guard website is outdated. Noted. Find another avenue to get the info you desire (i.e. being proactive and calling up the units {sts}) Our Sq/CC gets a call, email, or application in the mail at least once a week. He will always answer questions about upcoming boards. I imagine most of the other Sq/CC's or DO's would be apt to provide that info free of charge as well.

Watched The Revenant last night. Great acting from DiCaprio and Hardy. The cinematography was outstanding but I wasn't really impressed by the movie as a whole. Just due to the Oscar buzz, I felt like I needed to see it, but I'll probably never watch it again. I'd recommend a matinee showing to avoid full price. 3 out of 5 in my book.

I was Guard, went to CBM. My wife stayed in Dallas. I submitted forms to have BAH from Dallas as my primary BAH (1500 vs 900 at CBM). It was approved and then I submitted family separation pay and had that approved. For us, the year sucked without seeing each other all the time, but the money was a nice consolation.

Title 10, United States Code, Section 12305(a) https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title10/pdf/USCODE-2011-title10-subtitleE-partII-chap1209-sec12305.pdf

My assumptions only, but I think it's because Big Blue won't pay for you to go TDY to get your FCI if you're still a civilian. You have to be on some sort of military orders for them to pay for it.

Copy. Here is the Harvard Law Review website where the story was pulled from. It's near the bottom of the article. https://harvardlawreview.org/2015/02/trading-the-megaphone-for-the-gavel-in-title-ix-enforcement-2/