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The guy said Fox3?! Wow, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve worked with some awesome 64 guys, but I also have been surprised at some of the mouth breathers flying them.

Oh he did wrong - rotated at 120 because that’s the arbitrary technique he picked up somewhere, with zero regard for actual rotate speed (in this case 136 on card, 143 actual conditions). He also raised the gear 1 sec after perceived takeoff. Both of those actions are completely wrong and if he ever had an IP tell him either, that guy deserved to have his IP qual taken away. This was more than a simple error on the lineup card. @BashiChuni It’s almost like you should confirm sustained, positive climb rate before raising the gear in any aircraft. Basic pilot shit…that i assume is still taught at UPT these days, or at least I hope so.

I know several dudes who’s wives were living in Korea, but they were claiming BAH back in the states. Nobody went to jail at least, but they got very lucky with good leadership at the time.

Well if we’re counting UAS as shoot downs, guess I’m damn near an ace! (/sarcasm)

The CEO should have been out yesterday, why does he get until 31 Dec!

There are various grants and loan options. IMO, it’s better to get your finances prepped so you can afford to be consistent (2-3x week ideally) vs. “pay cash” as you’re able (i.e. very inconsistent if you don’t have high income). The loan will be worth it. Also the reserves may offer some options, so look into that.

Me the first time taxing at ORD:

Either you misunderstood or they gave you horrible advice. Good on you for asking, it was not a dumb question. As mentioned above, watch out for common “make an extra buck” scams like cinder blocks in a trailer, moving an extra car in a trailer and claiming that as HHG weight, etc. There’s a lot of “tricks” out there that people claim is no big deal, but will actually screw you very badly if caught. Never worth it.

Am I reading this correctly that the plan is put your parent’s electricity bill in your name (or similar) and that’s good enough for BAH? That is 100% fraud and will fuck you.

You may have enlisted into a unit, but you’re not permanently assigned until after you’re back from all your schools. If you are married and your wife is living back in the unit’s town, there’s a case for BAH. If somehow they do permanently assign you the unit, and send you TDY to school, then that would also be valid BAH. Those are the only two valid ways to get BAH while you’re in the training pipeline.

150 hrs gets you in the right seat?! Yep, never flying those guys.

It would not bring any value add to the SEAD mission, and is much less capable in that role than the F-35. But that’s not a dig on the Raptor, it was never designed for that role. Old jets belong at the 65th as mentioned above…that is one of the best ideas I’ve heard the AF have in the last 10 years, too bad it’s taking them about 10 years too long to implement a good idea.

That’s called an F-35

So how good was the flight attendant “mishap” before the unintentional decent?!

Young guys are in a tough spot, not like there’s a bunch of TXs floating around the guard right now. But, even they can hop on the airline train if they desire, but understandably that’s usually the furthest from your mind as a young fighter pilot. Good luck boys, hope you get to wherever you want to end up.

There’s a balance to what I’m about to say, but a while ago people went through life acknowledging that everyone has shit happen to them, has a hard day/week/month/year, etc. People sucked it up and persevered, because there was no other good option. The weak ones didn’t make it. And that was life. Nowadays, there’s so much push for therapy and talking about feelings, and it’s OK to be sad and confused and blah blah - how about sack up and get on with life. I mean the first thing I said, which is there’s a balance. I’m not anti-mental health and taking care of it. But when I see large majorities of people not being able to handle their fragile emotions, I have to say most of them just need to suck it up and stop being weak little candy asses. But they won’t, because our society and culture enables them to be weak. Leave the mental health work for those who truly need it, and not for every swinging dick who’s simply a pussy because they were never taught an ounce of resiliency.

Hard to say, but probably fairly equal when averaged out (assuming full time guard). Guard maintenance is way better on average, so that probably gives an edge to the guard guys. All subjective feelings, not based on data.

Yep, that probably applies to 99% of the Army. I can count on one hand the number of Army dudes I’ve worked with who I think actually have a clue about what they can and should do in PACOM. I’m also primarily talking regular Army. Higher functioning SOF dudes are a different story.

Very subjective as no two careers look the same. I probably had around 1500 hrs fighter time at my 10 yr point (~1800 TT including UPT/a year of BIT). That was all AD. My rough guess is a full time guard guy in fighters gets around 169 hrs per year if not deployed; add some more hours for a deployment year.

Not to mention additional capes the Army provides in that AOR. It’s just a shame the DOD gives said capes/missions to a bunch of dumbasses (not to say there are no smart people involved, but they are an extreme minority).

Makes getting flagged by Joe’s 240 in the chow hall not seem as bad in comparison.

( . )( . ) fixed it for you…I’ll see myself out.

To be fair, look at Keith Richards, Ozzy, and grandpa who smoked 3 packs a day from age 12 and is still alive at 103. Outliers exist.

Army: O-6+ are mostly complete retards Air Force: O-6+ are mostly pussies Navy: O-6+ are mostly closet C-suite at Grindr Marines: Actually kind of have their shit together, but are too poor to do much

Oh look, another retired GO talking out of his ass, I’m shocked!