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327 Airlift Squadron (AFRC) Our patch is a hand holding five twos of spades. Originally, we were the 2nd Combat Cargo Squadron, the cards represented the five flights of the squadron. In the game of spades, after the jokers, the two of spades is the highest trump card, therefore the five flights represented by the cards were Winners. Fast forward to when our unit was stationed at Willow Grove, an unofficial motto emerged around the patch, "if you can't win...cheat!"

Why would you ruin GA by involving the Air Force bureaucracy? 1-800-wxbrief “hey bro I’m flying a plane from here to there, thanks.” I still pretty much never do that seeing as I stick with VFR.

Why ruin GA with a 175?

File it til it sticks. The Air Force VCL is always out of date and no one references it.

I never file 1801s for CONUS, the 175 is the heat. Why would you ruin GA with the 1801?

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"Break rules and go fast... but don't break MY rules"

Prior to late 2014, if you heard a flight of two with the callsign HUGGY in the Western US, you can be assured that flight lead did all of the paperwork, coordination and such to make it happen. Absolutely!. No way he would just file that every time he went cross country without having run it through the AFI wickets.

IIRC, the AFI referenced applies only to the static callsign list (ex: AF1, RCH, EVAC, etc, i.e. callsigns good pretty much anywhere or for a specific purpose). For locals, it doesn't really matter what callsign you use, so long as there aren't duplicate callsigns flying in the same center at the same time. An LOA with the ARTCC helps deconflict all of the units flying locals within that center. That's what I did when I worked callsigns at UPT-added a bunch of local callsigns through coordination with centers and the other squadrons within the centers, and added a couple cross country callsigns to the static list following AFI guidance. It's a bit of a pain, but much less so than checking in with ATC only to discover a different unit/aircraft shares that callsign and if already on freq.

Of course there is an AFI on callsigns and a random nonner enforcing it.. Aren’t these the kind of irrelevant regulations the SECAF and CSAF told us to get rid of?

For locals, we could just make them up. Dude flew with FURLO last government shutdown. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk

Just watch this one on prime with my wife. I vaguely remember this attack but it didn't get much media coverage in the west. Thought it was pretty good insight into how terrorism can just destroy the lives of innocent people. Also a good look at some of the best heroism in humanity.

You always pin on the first of the month. If line numbers 100-500 pin on in September, and your line number is 101-499, you pin on September 1.

O-5 board. No BPZ possible to O-4.

I haven’t, but I recognize an overinflated self importance based on surface level knowledge when I see it. Let me know when you’ve passed the bar and actually argued something in a criminal court, I’ll take your boasting more seriously.

If you failed because of an issue that was 100% out of your control (weather, maintenance, etc) then you could try to get the college to remove it from your transcripts. If not, just explain the case. It will probably look bad at first glance, but if you have a good explanation it should buff out. Just my $0.02 Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

I hit 20 years last month, all as an officer and all promoted on time. I thought you might be interested in some gee whiz numbers from my 20-year career earning totals: Base Pay: $1,254,900 BAH/OHA: $411,531 BAS: $47,787 Language Pay: $80,573 OCONUS COLA: $120,740 Total: $1,915,530 The BAS really surprised me. That $250/month added up over 20 years. I also never got flight pay. My net worth is now $1,370,779. I’ve never had a 2nd job, my wife has never worked outside the home, I’ve never owned a house, and I didn’t inherit anything. That’s all from investing my military income, basically in S&P 500 index funds. Here are my totals: TSP: $380K Taxable index funds: $558K IRAs: $296K Cash, bonds, CDs: $137K I’ll add that I haven’t sold any investments since 2008, and that was only $4K of stock to fund a honeymoon. Everything else has been buy & hold for my entire career.

I’ll do that until UPT starts awarding degrees in law or government.