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Duck

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  1. Congrats! It is a tough road ahead and UPT is just the beginning. My advice is to get plugged in wherever you all live, doesn't have to be at the base with base wives, just somewhere you feel comfortable and people you trust. The real work starts now, deployments, TDYs, missing birthdays, holidays and anniversaries. Be understanding and realize that this too will end one day. His Air Force career will be over and it's really up to both of you to decide if you are gonna stick it out together or just be another AF statistic of a broken marriage. Tell him I said to always make sure he puts his family above the Air Force (there is a line for the stuff you have to do versus chasing the carrot). Trust him that he has your best interests at heart and be there for him and support him on those tough days. Bottom line, be honest with each other and keep the communication open.
  2. Exactly why we have heard 14 year commitments coming to a UPT base near you! That way 10 years sounds like a great deal!
  3. Ha ha. Exactly. Not sure, coffee and back rubs maybe?
  4. You are obviously being sarcastic, but to answer your question anyways. No. It only got difficult when the AF decided to put new engine pods on them. GE (?) told them to put the gearbox on the side of the pod like you see on modern day 737s (would cost around $10K more per jet IIRC) but the Air Force would rather just scrape pods and then hang the crews. Cuz that's leadership.
  5. Best of luck! You would think the AF would approve almost anything inside 3 years so that at least they retain that person in the ARC/ANG for the maximum amount of time. If someone is trying to PC they will probably just separate outright at the end of their commitment if they don't get approved PC.
  6. To put it nicely, McDew majors in the minors. But damn will we all look so impressive and shit in our blues.
  7. Robinson just got selected for Northern Command. Guess she's out. Can I just resign my commission if McDew is picked?
  8. Mine sat for about 3 weeks last time. About 2 weeks the time before that.
  9. And for every time Gazmo and I had a cool trip like those, we had about 600-900 hours sucking it up in the desert. So in my opinion, Big Blue definitely gets the better end of the deal out of its aircrew, even when taking into account some of the sweeter deals out there.
  10. Or nowadays being in the X-band and absorbing all those BS deployments that pop up.
  11. Moto, that's what I figured. They seemed adamant about it with my PIT class. Even had a guy who was just a year out from his UPT ADSC expiration and he got the 3 year too.
  12. Interesting. I don't understand why they have to make the jargon in regs so hard to read. I need to look up who I need to call to get this taken off my ADSC list. Thanks Craftsman.
  13. I was a T-6 guy in UPT and I still picked up a 3 year ADSC at PIT when I went to be a T-6 IP.
  14. Thanks Guardian. I hated the Tanker by the way. Was thrown into it out of T-38s back in '08 so I am just thankful I got a plane back in the day where we were overmanned in fighters (lol). But yeah, the plane's terrible. The guard was fun, lots of Pacific AEs flying nurses from Travis to Hickam and partying on the beach. That was the hardest part of flying the tanker, picking one nurse to go back to the hotel with... I jest, I jest... Or do I?
  15. Guardian. Glad it takes so much skill to fly whatever it is you don't want to tell us you fly. Unless it is the U-2, it isn't harder to land than the 135. The KC-135 mission is by far one of the, if not the easiest flying missions in the Air Force. I can say that as a prior KC-135 guy. I spent 3 years flying as an associate with a KC-135 ANG unit which had airline guys who came to us from the Viper, Eagle, Hawg, Harrier and Hornet. Their previous missions were undoubtedly more complex than anything we did, however every single one of them took a considerable amount of time to figure out how to land the bitch. It takes new co-pilots on average a year to land consistently. Believe it or not, your Evaluator experience and hard fought CFI doesn't directly translate to every plane in the Air Force inventory. Unless you have flown the tanker you have no credibility to talk bro. Just like I have no credibility to tell you how easy it is to airdrop or do a 2v2 or fly the president or whatever you claim to do.
  16. Last year was Sept, this year July. If they are done by January 17, I'm wondering if the 17 boards are going to be even earlier than July...
  17. Not saying it would help the retention problem, but didn't we push back the Majors board as a result of high retention just 4 years ago?
  18. Would that mean the next board possibly getting pushed up earlier?
  19. 35%? Great it's just a stones throw to hit 65%!
  20. As it stands right now, you couldn't pay me enough to stay in. Now fix some of the issues, get rid of the terrible middle management leadership, get rid of the bs deployments that contribute nothing but keep me away from my family for 6 months, end 365s and I would stay 20+
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