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<br /><br />He should have dyed his hair & prepared a story about kidnapping & running a marathon across the central Asian steppes to escape his captors. That tale has a really good track record so far.

That article really highlights the false reality that a lot of commanders live in.

I now have absolutely zero reason to deploy ever again. On another note, I assume if you're flying out of one of those "non-combat" locations and fly to Afghanistan or another IDP location, you'd be eligible for both the IDP and CTZE, correct?

Well the going in position for CPTS is that when IDP for those locations goes away effective 1 June '14, so will the CZTE. So the question to OSD is to determine if there will be an exception granted to keep CZTE even though there is no IDP. So plan on IDP and CZTE going away on 1 Jun unless you hear otherwise. Rules would have to be changed to specifically authorize CZTE even though the area is not an IDP area. So Fuzz, if you continue to receive IDP and CZTE for one of those areas after 1 June consider yourself notified you will owe money.

I knew a missile guy turned rpa operator. He was the happiest guy in RPAs.

Shut off his pay, ID card, etc and let him go…24,999 to go in the cuts.

How about " Suck it up, you little bitches." Must be rough getting to sleep in your own beds and not having to deploy to Afshitistan. Or better yet, getting fragged with a 365 to Afshitistan to "teach" them how to fly/employ an aircraft that they'll either crash or let rot on the ramp once you leave (which now won't be for another 10 years, thanks USG). Oh, and you constantly have to be on guard because you never know when Mustafa there is going to shank you. Once you go through that, then you can talk to us about being "burned out" from exhausting, unrewarding, stressful work.

Seriously? I know the story is no more real than Lord of the Rings but is it really necessary to make a Noah's ark story into a LOTR style epic?

Also of note, platforms like the AC-130U/W/J are highly CSO centric, the pilots really are mostly stick monkeys, and you get to do the bad guy shooting.