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Had a similar occurrence a few weeks ago regarding parking reimbursement. My company will pay for close-in hourly parking when a reserve is called in with less than 3 hours to push. I had it happen twice in December so I used my credit card to the tune of about $110 - no big deal. Fast forward a couple of weeks and I had some time to hang out in the lounge so I submitted my parking receipts to our base coordinator with nothing but my name and employee number written on them. Within 10 minutes I had an e-mail pop up on my EFB saying the request for reimbursement was submitted. The money was in my account 5 days later. It made me chuckle to think of how this process would have worked in the military. Meanwhile, on the Guard side, I still haven't received payment for a 2-day off-station trainer I did in November because of some fuck-up in DTS that was beyond my control. Citi-Bank has already mailed me two notices of non-payment and somehow I haven't lost a bit of sleep over it.

I bet 90% of those parked in the desert would start right back up. You’d just need to have someone there to bounce on the wing a couple of times during engine start.

We need to remember the true victims of this shutdown... (From JQP - first comment FTW)

”Artful”

Based on the color of those trails, it looks like they were spraying the mass sterilization compound that day. Fine choice.

Our ANG unit has started rectifying incentive pay in a very haphazard manner. As an over-12 traditional, I'm slowly being made whole for the $1000/mo. figure from back in October and November, but they are still paying me the $650/mo. for AFTPs/UTAs worked last week. It's very random how they are paying out the differences too. I'll get $11.66 per period (or two) worked one day but nothing for the next day. All I can say is track that shit!

Every time this thread revives, I come back hoping they're going to allow us to wear black t-shirts and boots again.

So are these taskings going to full-timers? Part-timers? Either?

I’ve been getting that too. I thought it was just because I haven’t had a pay period in a while, but that didn’t seem right. Glad it wasn’t just me. It must be tough to maintain a website that hasn’t been refreshed once in the 13 years I’ve been in.

On another note... SWA app window opened this morning. Numbers from the training center have been 750 to upwards of 1000 for 2018. I think the lower is the most recent estimate. As always, subject to change.

Where’s Chang? I’d love to hear his opinion on this...

Good luck with that. While I agree hiring info gets stale over time, there is some merit in what was presented over those several dozen pages. I guess we can all now tune in to the noise over at APC while the BODN thread regenerates.

Am I completely losing my mind, or is the “Leaving the Air Force for the Airlines” thread gone? Is big blue trying to squash the exodus by quietly censoring BO.net? We wouldn’t want to allow those still on active duty the resources necessary to make an educated decision about their career paths (that happens during mid-term OPR feedback). What am I missing?

The next logical step is “Test group to skip flying airplanes all together”. Anyone who’s played “Top Gun” on the NES should go direct to left seat in the C-17 for some night AR. This has become the definition of grasping for straws.

Good info. Thanks, dude. That’s more than I could get from the mouth-breathers who cut my paychecks.

Month and a half after implementation and still getting the old rate at my Guard base. Anyone else’s finance still unable to unfuck this situation? And they wonder why no one wants to stick around.

On another note... As a SWA guy, I personally (among others from various work groups with whom I've spoken) would like to see the company pull the plug on its sponsorship of the NFL. Unfortunately, I don't think Kelly and crew are ready to test that whole risk/reward scenario.

You're telling me some guy in India named "Jim" gives a shit about players not standing during the Anthem? This makes me hate DirectTV a little less. Maybe I'll skip threatening to cancel service when I get the bill next month. No promises for November though.

This guy was affectionately refered to as “Darth Owens” by some of the folks in the 15th AS when he ran that place. Another fine example of quality AF leadership.

You seem shocked. Boom.

But guys... we get to roll our sleeves up now too!!

Ahhhh... the LTS standard.

Congrats, dude. Enjoy the new beginning!

I like to think of SOS as where I expertly honed my drinking problem.