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Please don’t rush to judgment on the Mueller report, people! We need to wait and hear the opinions of Alyssa Milano and Robert De Niro before we can draw a final conclusion! 😂

Why would that matter? An F-22 Pilot is more valuable (money invested already/percentage of the force) in terms of retention than an Army pilot. Tactically, the Apache guy is worth his weight in gold in his role but the Raptor guy is a much rarer commodity and represents a much bigger loss when he isn’t retained.

How would you support this position to a third party who thinks we are biased because we’re in the Air Force? Pure numbers based on flying hour cost, or by saying their skill set is too hard to replace? I dont necessarily disagree just trying to check my own biases.

A lot of it is grand standing. It’s still gray area if a president can pardon himself while in office. And as most everyone knows the president has wide discretion to issue a pardon to whoever he wants. Which is really the catalyst why the NY AG/DA indicted Manafort and possibly more of Trump’s family knowing he has no pardon jurisdiction in state proceedings. I expect the Mueller Report to blow up in the face of the Dems much like the pitchfork raising Republicans had the Starr Report/Impeachment blow up in theirs, specifically Newt Gingrich in the 90’s. If it does, it’ll be a landslide re-election of Trump for another four years.

Well this post didn't age well...

He said they attempted, and the other services (namely Army) shot the bonus amount down ($70k)

An O-8 just briefed us that “we will produce our way out of the problem.” He also deflected questions about retention. So the AF has that going for it.

A CAP-USAF Cat E just made O-6, so it's not impossible. Same formula as anywhere else: PME, AAD, work the boss recognizes and appreciates. The aforementioned O-6 select spent WAY more time on his Reserve job than several Cat Es combined, took great care of his people, and totally deserved the promotion. Most Cat Es that make O-5 will do so based off their career/strats/OPRs prior to leaving a more active position. There's plenty of PRF-fodder work to do as a CAP-USAF dude; most don't want to do it because that's why they're a Cat E in the first place. I've been told explicitly that as long as you can get 20 good years in 21 or 22 (?) years you won't get booted as a twice passed over Major. There was something about it that could mess you up, but most of us wouldn't fall into that.

Best early Sunday morning coffee time I've had in a very long time. Magnificent.

With "standard locality" I'd have to be a step 9 to break even with Maj AGR, even with the 25% bonus. You must be figuring in a hell of a locality pay (which I'm not saying isn't possible, but by definition location dependent). And that doesn't include all the ridiculous asspain that goes along with being a technician that doesn't exist as an AGR. So I'd say you need to be a step 10 to start getting ahead of a Maj AGR...how many O-4s on here who are 13 step 10s? Bottom line, moving to AGR is the right move...the better move is laughing your way to your next fill-in-the-blank airline trip.

I vote for public shaming and rehabilitation. People who are obviously fat should be mocked and made to attend daily organized PT. After un-fucking themselves they then owe two years of PT mocking patrol and helping other fatties get skinny.

Went to CGSC...took away a couple of nuggets that have really helped me understand my successive Joint (spelled A-R-M-Y) assignments But overall a huge waste of time, although the DLI program, the electives and the SOF branch-off after holiday break were pretty good. In-Res IDE might put you in the ballpark (on someone's command list) for SQ/CC but no guarantees. I was a draft pick to be named later so I went out and found myself a job. Just remember, there is no "ONE" path and timing is everything (Life Rule #1). Cooter

Blessed up in here guys, hope is back! We got time brothers the clock has been reset. This is such awesome news!

Just like when the internal combustion engine but the entire horse-transportation industry, the entire steam engine industry, and others out of work forever...the world was never able to recover.

The O-6 formerly in charge of the solving the crisis at the Pentagon is quoted as saying, "it's a production problem, not a retention problem." This was about a year ago..