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  2. Find your niche, which sounds like you may have. If you do become an AGR, you will likely be told what you will be doing as most AGR positions have a job defined by the manning document. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app
  3. can you elaborate on project? I really like my civilian job as a paramedic, so anything useful I can do with the medical section (training with them, getting approved to run my squadron's medical training) would be a dream.
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  5. Nah, just negative on the government (in both parties) and my fellow citizens who no longer believe in wholesome values and personal responsibility.
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  7. Ideally fly as much as possible. Everything else will be some variation of make corn, clean bar, take out trash, ask about flying, get a queepy job (helping out a shop), work on a project if that's your speed, etc. Approximately 60-90 minutes of every day (low end) will also be BS-ing and hanging out. Whether that is good or bad all depends on your objectives.
  8. No more lectures. Iā€™m retired from that shitty hobby. Iā€™m an MQ-9 pilot, never been an ROTC instructor, so I consider myself well qualified to say Iā€™m ā€œconducting foreign policy.ā€ Many AFSCs can say the same whether you believe it or not. Again, Iā€™ll say this and leave it to this. Many of yā€™all are sadly negative on the United States, a country I and I assume most of you have dedicated my life to serving in uniform. I tell the same thing to my zoomer daughter whoā€™s a bit of a doomer leftist: temper your criticism with a dose of reality. America has its flaws but overall I still find us to be the good guys the vast majority of the time. If you believe otherwise, honestly itā€™s better if you are retired or choose to move on from uniformed service ASAP. TYFYS in both meanings of the phrase.
  9. Waaait a minute. You can't fool me with that song and dance again.šŸ˜You have to get up by the crack of noon to get ahead of me.
  10. Obvious: you could stay DSG for another yr, blow off the AT, then retire. I havenā€™t done the math on whether or not this would be worth it in the end to delay retired pay by a year.
  11. Going to an airlift unit that has ample opportunity to go full time. I'd like to hear what a day or week in the life looks for an LT, specifically what happens when not flying.
  12. I heard there are Iraqi WMDs somewhere in Ukraine.
  13. Biff_T

    Music

    Not a fake band. Good album.
  14. I'd like to introduce you to the hardest-workin' band in the world. On bass, Derek "Meatman" Scully. On piano, Steven "Soul Surgeon" Clifford. Dean "Mr Nipple" Fay on sax. Joey "The Lips" Fagan on trumpet. Our gorgeous chanteuses are Bernie, Imelda, and Natalie. Deco "Deep Throat" Cuffe on vocals. On lead guitar, Outspan "Fender bender" Foster. Finally, on drums, Mickah "Don't Fuck With Me" Wallace. Ladies and gentlemen, The Commitments!! This is fictitious band, where the actors actually sing and perform, and some eventually form the real life band, The Commitments. Great soundtrack, in my top 10 movies of all time. Man, to show up with your dad to his audition and belt out a tune and get the lead singer role at 17... legend. Happy St Patty's Day.
  15. What are you talking about? As of less than a month ago, Ukraine has only had 31K troops killedā€¦donā€™t you believe Zelenskyy? https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-troops-killed-zelenskyy-675f53437aaf56a4d990736e85af57c4
  16. Be careful out there guys. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is warning there is about to be a flood of disinformation threatening our democracy. And Anthony Blinken knows disinformation when he sees it. https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/biden-campaign-blinken-orchestrated-intel-letter-discredit-hunter-biden-laptop
  17. Who here said America isn't great? It's a feeble attempt at a strawman argument. We're criticizing those who are leading the country. Why can't you make that distinction? We were forced out of one of two strategic anti-terrorist bases on the African continent while our former host cozies up to Russia. It was errors from senior leadership that lead to an this undesirable outcome. They actually are to blame. Because non of us spent our careers trying to reach a high level position in the DoS, we're not allowed to criticize them? Weren't you an ROTC instructor or something? How were you personally conducting foreign policy? I don't personally hold office, but my mother is state level house representative and my next door neighbor and former employer is a state senator. I am involved in both of their campaigns continuously. Things go fairly smooth in our state, but I do occasionally interact with my US representatives at certain events. I've pleaded with them on certain issues and if I get an honest answer, it's always the same. If you don't compromise your principals and cut deals, you're sidelined. If you think you can show up to DC, be good person, and make the country a better place, you're the most naive person on the face of the planet. Look what happened to @congressman. By all accounts, a fairly decent dude when he was elected, had an emotional breakdown, remained broken, compromised, was used, and was tossed aside. Given that you have a tendency to adopt the official narrative as your personal heartfelt opinion, and gleefully cheerlead things like mask mandates and forced vaccinations, you would likely do very well in DC. Probably better than @congressman. So why haven't you? Because our leadership is doing so well they don't need your help? I expect lectures to us in the threads about migration, inflation, etc, and that we shouldn't complain because everything is awesome and someone somewhere else has it worse.
  18. Y'all are the sorriest bunch of pessimists Iā€™ve ever seen, seriously. ā€œDamn, the federal government and our foreign policy are so bad I just spent 20+ years working in the DoD and personally conducting American foreign policy.ā€ šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø Freaking sack up. Donā€™t be doomer Gen Z kids who think everything is inexorably fucked and they are to blame (bonus, everyone gets to fill in the they with whomever they want!). Be a good person and family member, be a good officer / pilot/ Commander / etc., be a good citizen and vote, run for office, etc. If something is broken try to fix it. You wonā€™t always succeed but you should still try. Itā€™s not all hopeless, everyone in charge isnā€™t just a moron in dire need of your brilliant counsel, but if you really think you can do it better then do it better. Talk is cheap, action isnā€™t, but itā€™s well worth the cost. I was taught all this shit as a child, were you guys not? America is already great, weā€™re not going anywhere fast, and yes we have our flaws but modern western liberal democratic capitalism is the worst systemā€¦except all the other ones. šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø
  19. https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/world/ar-BB1jZy7Q the start of a new western media propaganda message. it's moved on from ammo and money now...to something more dangerous for the west...men "Few men of fighting age are left in this village in southwest Ukraine, and those who remain fear they will be drafted at any moment." "Ukraine desperately needs more troops, with its forces depleted by deaths, injuries and exhaustion" (MORE MONEY DOESN'T FIX THIS) "Despite Russiaā€™s own enormous casualties, the invaders still far outnumber Ukraineā€™s defenders, an advantage that is helping Moscow advance on the battlefield." (NO SHIT) ā€œAlmost all our men have been scraped out,ā€ said Serhii, 47, an infantry soldier from Makiv who was drafted in March 2022 and serves in Ukraineā€™s 115th brigade." "Scenarios like these have left Polina, 16, anxious about how much longer she has with her father ā€” one of the few draft-eligible men left in the village." this gig is up. ukraine never had a chance in a war of attrition. the west will soon be at a dangerous crossroads... it'll be interesting to see if this talking point gets more play in the press. the only move forward for the neocons is to push fresh men into the fire...and they won't be ukranian.
  20. Looks like Putin just won a rigged election. What a ridiculous charade. Everyone knows real democracies cancel their elections so their leadership can remain in power.
  21. Another waste of precious resources money and most importantly lives.
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  23. Wow. After reading the article, I will not be able to retire in my current rank with a reserve retirement, either. I will retire almost exactly three years after my DOR (3 years and 5 days). I will not have 2 years of DSG service (2 years, 5 days AD, 365 days DSG). The way it looks, there is no way I can retire in my current grade. Maybe that's ammunition for the TIG waiver, but probably not. I'll let you know how it turns out. Thanks for the research.
  24. What Scooter said above is the ticket. Even if you get a 2yr TIG waiver, the only effect will be what your ID card says (and your rank upon recall to the regular component, if that would actually happen). Your high-36 will be unchanged. The mechanism for the next higher rank is called converting your regular retirement to a reserve retirement at your reserve retired age. This will give you a bump in your high-36 calculation and gets you a promotion in the retired reserve. Gotchas: - Tricare Prime/Select at age 60: If, because you have a reduced retired pay age, you convert prior to age 60 you will lose Tricare until age 60. - To be eligible: You need a duration of 2 years' TR/DSG "service" (excludes all active duty such as AT, MPA, etc) after attaining 20 yrs TAFMS. I can only speculate how this would be calculated. For example, I'd guess that if you did 2 complete years of pure DSG service, that would include 30 days of AT, so you'd have to do 2 yrs and 30 days' duration. ARPC Convert Reg to Rsv retirement Text of the link: June 17, 2020 Converting active duty retirement to AFR, ANG retirement By Air Reserve Personnel Center Public Affairs Air Reserve Personnel Center Public Affairs BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colorado ā€“ Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard members who have completed 20 years of total active federal military service, or TAFMS, are eligible for immediate pay and benefits upon retirement. However, for AFR or ANG members who further their careers in a traditional status and possibly accept a higher grade, these service members have the option to convert their active duty retirement to an AF Reserve retirement (applies to both AFR and ANG) in accordance with Title 10 USC 12731. In order to convert to an AF Reserve retirement at the highest grade/rank, members will have to complete a minimum of two years of satisfactory Air Reserve Component service, excluding active duty, after completion of 20 years of TAFMS. The excluded active duty service includes annual training, RPA, MPA, schools, and deployments. Additionally, ANG members are eligible to convert their active duty retirements to an AF Reserve retirement by completing one year of service in the position of adjutant general or assistant adjutant general. Note that just one year makes you eligible if your appointment is terminated in accordance with Title 32, Section 324(b). This is not an automatic application; members with enough active duty in their highest-held grade will need to apply for this benefit. HQ ARPC recommends service members who are approaching age 60 to apply three months ahead of their birthdays to convert to an ARC retirement and obtain a higher grade. APPLICATION PROCESS Service members must apply in writing for the conversion of their active duty retirement to an Air Force Reserve retirement by submitting the following request to HQ ARPC/DPTTR via myPers approximately three months prior to their 60th birthday or Reduced Retired Pay Age, or RRPA: ā€œI___________________, do hereby apply to convert my Active Duty retired pay to Reserve retired pay under provision of Title 10, United States Code (U.S.C.), Section 12741, to be effective on____________, in the grade of _____________. I understand that my Active Duty retired pay will be terminated the day prior to the Reserve retired pay effective date.ā€ HQ ARPC/DPTTR will audit the service memberā€™s point credit summary to verify eligibility. If eligibility is confirmed, DPTTR will publish an AF Reserve (EL) retirement order. Finally, HQ ARPC/DPTTR will forward the appropriate pay package to DFAS New Accounts for pay adjustment. MEDICAL BENEFITS Medical coverage will begin on the anniversary of the service memberā€™s 60th birthday. Members are responsible for ensuring they have adequate medical coverage for themselves and their families after the conversion. A service member who is eligible for medical benefits under their active duty retirement will no longer be eligible for the same benefits upon conversion to an ARC retirement until age 60. Eligibility for the TRICARE Prime medical benefits is age 60 under an ARC retirement regardless of RRPA date. RESERVE COMPONENT SURVIVOR BENEFIT PLAN (RCSBP) Service members eligible for an active duty retirement must make a Survivor Benefit Program election upon retirement. The RCSBP election on file in the service memberā€™s personnel record will remain ā€œas isā€. Service members will not be afforded another opportunity to change that election upon conversion from an active duty retirement to an ARC retirement.
  25. we don't agree on much but i agree with you here. unfortunately i think our republic was betrayed beyond repair in the late 1800s, and further betrayed by president wilson. the penultimate action being the CIAs assassination of president kennedy...and the "fuck you" on top was getting allen dulles on the warren commission. they showed they are untouchable and hold unlimited power...much greater than any elected representative. what we see today is a mirage of what the founding fathers created. the more books i read on the entrenched state the more hopeless it feels... "Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer spoke of in glee, in response to then-president-elect Trumpā€™s criticism of U.S. intelligence agencies. ā€œLet me tell you: You take on the intelligence community ā€” they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,ā€ -2019
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