Snooter

That's what the spreadsheet is for...

I like the "yes, if..." technique. I say yes if the DO agrees that filling local x is more important than me meeting deadline y. If the pet project is more important I don't fly, then I go back to my desk and update my spreadsheet...

Well this isn't reassuring...

Nail, head, boom...

Had someone check CMS, the last signature was approve (functional and another recommended disapproval); how do I formally find out if this is actually happening? I'm guessing email, something tells me I'm not going to walk into work tomorrow with the sun behind my back and a chorus... edit: it was AFPC/pc that was the last indent but they recommended approval...

First off; this was exactly what I was thinking. "Semi-official function?" Is that like, "hey everyone, we're getting together over at my place for opening day..."? Also I wonder how the Vance commander's club card pitch is working out now a days...

I heard a SrA at AFPC had the pilot shortage problem solved but the MFR keeps getting kicked back because it isn't formatted correctly according to the tongue & quill...

I accept a year to year lease on my house, why can't the Air Force offer a year to year bonus?

Can't the AF do a year to year bonus? That way you know immediately if you get a 365 and turn it down and if they try to drop a 365 on you mid term; you can 7-day opt... you always have the option to separate at the end of your year. And I don't buy that the military can't match civilian sector pay. I get congress won't allow it but if we can afford 30 billion a year for 50 years for the f-35, I think we can pay for some experienced pilots to fly it... hell the helmet costs 350,000 I'm sure we can find some money somewhere to help soften the bed for the takers...

I'm pretty sure there's an AFMAN for that...

I'd be careful, all it takes is a market correction for the Air Force to be okay with manning and you needing a job... I'm hoping we don't see that until I get my line number and some seniority but you never know...

I asked 18 months off and my cc recommended approve... heavy driver

Where is that 9-year ACIP paperwork when you need it?!

I've seen a bunch of co-pilots "prepping the field" on tinder immediately following the crew brief. If you go 17's the world is about to become your oyster, just saying there are plenty of fish out there, tax frees and per diem to be made...

Hey where is my replacement in the c-17 coming from? 2x17's across three bases? Hell maybe I should go to altus; hellllooooo CT sorties...

Pretty darn good...

You forgot to mention that 2500 hours of international multi eng heavy jet is pretty much just two ops tours. Cross check that with hiring mins and the threat of a staff tour to backfill Joe Fighter Jock's staff billet and you've got a recipe for a pilot shortage. Everyone you talk to seems to be looking for the nearest exit...

I wonder if they will plan the Gp Christmas party?

Holy smokes, good news from everyone!

So I sat through the Palace chase brief the other night, there is no timeline min-max. They say for Officers when you're given the option of your separation date they want at least 180 days because the paperwork has so many wickets to go through (approx. 4 months) that by the time it is approved with TAPS, out-processing, and terminal leave you may not have time to make your separation date. Bottom line, give yourself more time than you think you'll need. Other than that, to squash any rumint, no one can flat out deny you other than the separation authority so the whole "anything more than 6-9 months is automatically denied" is trash. Duly noted that in principle doesn't always equal in practice.

You bet your bottom I would start harassing my congressmen...

I think I know now how the poor people on the Titanic felt... All I'm asking for is a life jacket...

So interesting thought, I would suggest to big blue that they offer a bonus for continuation to 15 years with early retirement on the end of that, why haven't they considered that? I mean aren't they always worried about the near term threat? That buys them three years to get the next group of leaders to figure it out. What does the group think?

I don't think the executive branch has the control everyone thinks they do. Congress is in charge of funding and equipping the military. Yes the President is the CiC, but short of authorizing military actions for certain National Security issues under Article II of the constitution and having veto power (which can be overridden by a 2.3's majority) all he can really do is lobby for funding by drafting his budget. If you think that one of these candidates will in some way be a watershed event reference the past 8 years. I still stand by my assertion that the beauty of our democracy is that it is slow, of course the Achilles heel of our democracy is that it is slow...

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