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I think Big Blue could easily fix part of the pilot retention problem by getting rid of all 365s and BS 179s. The problem isn't the pay, it's the deployments. When I'm not downrange, what other job is going to pay me close to $100k to fly once or twice a week, occasionally click through some CBTs about lesbian trafficking, and work on a few OPRs? However, taking me away from my family for a year to have Afghanis try to kill me daily in a Cessna Caravan, or for 6 months to make coffee for some General at the CAOC, is not worth any amount of cash you can throw at me. I have no issue going to war with my Sq to help kill bad guys, but when you throw in the other bullshit deployments that we're all subject to, it makes me want to punch the second I'm eligible. Fix the miscellaneous deployments and you'll fix the retention problem.

Osan.

Holy fuckin hell, another eagle driver classic quote about colons.

1. Food 2. Bars 3. Proximity to outdoor funtivities

I say we add two pages worth of bullets requirements to the OPR and mandatory semi annual colonoscopies after you turn 23. And quarterly after 30. That could help solve things.

2 I also wouldn't recommend trying to finagle your way to an MP qual if you didn't already have one. Even if you don't piss anyone off trying, your ops unit will ignore it once you get there. If you don't suck, MP upgrade could happen quick and the syllabus is in house training anyways. Have fun though! ABQ is awesome.

Yes, you will be fine. The 21 year limit applies to active duty/ANG/Reserve wanting to get CRS while serving in the military. We've had plenty of pilot applicants show up with surgery before 21.

I'm here, send me to any manned airframe. It's not just a retention problem due to external forces, they've pissed off thousands of experienced pilots by locking them in GCSs for the foreseeable future. I don't know one person in my situation (non-vol to RPA crossflow) who isn't looking for the fastest exit. You want to fix this shit? Get us back into a cockpit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Online law school...Sounds legit!

My friends, it's time to face the facts: this is an impossibly broken system that is only being propped up on the backs of the downtrodden, who are crushed beneath the weight of this disgustingly corrupt government tool of imperialism. And praying for some kind of ubermensch to come and change the whole system is nothing but a fools hope. We can see this with welsh already. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk