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    Gout

    in Aviation Medicine

    Posted

    Thanks for the responses guys.  For context, my friend has a few more years left until retirement and isn’t worried about hiding anything anymore and more concerned about the long term effects of it if left untreated.  If any.

    Gout

    in Aviation Medicine

    Posted

    Anybody have experience with gout and their FC1?  And what that looks like post AF in the civilian flying world?  Asking for a friend of course.

    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Danger41 said:

    For those staying AD, why is the UPT enterprise so derided? Predictable schedule, not deployments (mostly), fly a lot. Admittedly locations aren’t great but based on the above, why is UPT viewed so negatively?

    Been in for 15 years now, the best job I had thus far was being a UPT Flt/CC.

    China & Chinese Shenanigans

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Gotta love the world we live in today.  In one breath people are saying “(insert woke ideology here) is the reason we are going to lose to China”, are probably the same ones complaining when someone actually does more than just talk about it.

    I’m not calling out anybody in particular, just a general social media observation.

    I’m just happy somebody is actually trying to do something, instead of analyzing the problem, coming up with 6-9 coas, reanalyzing, performing a study, 3-5 coas, picking one then nobody actually doing anything with it.

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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    @Danger41Well said.

    I am in a similar boat to you.  I am also a guy who was denied VSP in 2014 and had a reserve job and separation date in March 2020 and the rest is history.  I hit submit on my apps the first week of March only to be told the second week everything was freezing for who knows how long.

    My wife came clean and said she liked the stability of the AF, I wasn’t thrilled about working two jobs (reserve and airlines), so we decided to stay in.  I took the three year bonus, this is my last year so this interests me to see what the AF does.

    In my opinion, if they do this “revamping” of the bonus right they can keep some fringe guys and start with a clean slate.  Big IF though, the AF has fooled me way more than once.

    All that being said, I’m happy as well for the guys getting out.  I hope their careers have no turmoil, and I’ll most likely be calling them in 5.5 years for some recommendations.  But for me, that will all be with the peace of mind of an O-5 retirement.

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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    9 hours ago, CaptainMorgan said:


    You wrote your Congressman? Whoop de-effing do! The only thing that will cause the rate to increase is enough people walking away to cause HAF to make a real case to Congress to increase it. Realistically, HAF will see the cheaper option is to just increase the UPT ADSC.


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    Yep, sure did.  And I didn’t even have to post it twice.

    Guys have been saying to “vote with your feet” since at least 2014.  How’s that working out for us?  Congress controls the purse strings, they just don’t think we have a problem because that’s what the senior leaders are telling them.  They aren’t in the weeds everyday like we are, so they believe them.

    I also don’t believe it’s going to happen, but instead of bitching about it I’m at least saying something to somebody that in theory should be able to change it.

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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Seriously said:

    also in the H.R 7900:

     

    (c) SPECIAL AVIATION INCENTIVE PAY AND BONUS 10 AUTHORITIES FOR OFFICERS.—Section 334(c)(1) of title 37, United States Code, is amended— 

        (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘$1,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,500’’; and 

        (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘$35,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$75,000’’. 

     

    Very interesting.

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