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Long forgotten as my goal was to retire early anyway. Stayed single in a target rich environment, no kids, lived well BYM, and retired at 59. Enjoyed the job but have never missed it. Multi millionaire DAL brother in-law recently found out he has cancer two years passed age 65 retirement. Changes everything.

The Army figured it out before the Air Force! Army's Top Enlisted Leader Removed Diversity Consideration for Top Enlisted Roles The Army's top enlisted leader has removed key guidance that required diversity to be considered when selecting individuals to serve in upper-level noncommissioned officer positions, according to a memo reviewed by Military.com. Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer, the top enlisted leader of the force, recently issued new guidance on selecting command sergeants major that was essentially copy-and-pasted from his predecessor -- with one exception. It removes a line directing that a command sergeant major candidate's diversity be considered... (full article at title link)

Not sure on how displacements will fall quite yet. SWAPA is working the numbers. Our schedule research guys are on it and are great about getting the projections out there when the company won’t. That being said, our D terminal in BNA is expanding further to the east. I was surprised by the construction going in there last week having been away a month or so. All indications are that we’ll be continuing to ramp up there. It’s hard to speculate, but I won’t be surprised if we don’t see further drawbacks in the near term…then sudden panic in a year or two when we don’t have the manpower. It’s like the place is run by a bunch of AF guys.

Gay. That is all.

Bravo to you Springer! You last point is spot on! I lost my Dad to cancer, just 1.5 years into retirement at age 65. Left me with the regret of missing out on so much while working two jobs, and being TDY/deployed. It certainly changed my entire outlook on life and has greatly impacted how I live my life now. Still saving obviously, but building wealth in a way that will allow me to work less/play more in my working days and retire early if I want. Picked up the book Die with Zero, which I highly recommend, that talks a lot about this very subject. As an aside, a buddy's wife is a partner in a wealth management firm and gives this book to all their new clients. Carpe Diem! Break break Anyone else noticing an increasing trend of angry controllers out there? Got yelled at a few days ago for something trivial and against long standing norms. Yesterday had a ground controller that sounded like he was at the end of his rope and yelling at pilots, when he wasn't clear and issuing non-standard instructions. Just a few examples of many I've seen lately. Wondering if the hammer is dropping on controllers after all the close calls we've seen lately. Either way, watch yoself out there and keep the ASAP link handy lol.

In some old school systems you can do this by overflying a point with a known lat/lon (VOR/airfield etc.), setting said lat/lon, and updating the INS when over the point. Essentially telling the INS, "here's our location, now do math.." It's not something that you're gonna fly an RNAV from, but it'd be a lot better than having your pos be over BFE when you're on final at ATL.

What the hell are they thinking? We need that black lesbian non-binary general to lead us where no man has gone before. Now we're really screwed.

I only need to buy one bottle if I get it at Costco.

Yeah the CAL/UAL one was a nasty one at my squadron back in 2011-2013. We had a boatload that took long MLOA while the lists integrated. Pretty heated stuff among so called squadronmates. A bit embarassing as an external observer tbh, given the fact they had no control over the process, and the personal aspersions were nothing more than impotent rage. Things settled as they always do, the world moved on, and they're still richer today than yesterday and will retire as multimillionaries anyways. Boo hoo.

Great words Lord! I'd add that after 1st year pay, learn to budget on min line guarantee (65 hours at DAL) and use the rest to as funny money for toys, upgrading to 1st class ticket for vacation, and otherwise splurging on the living a great life now. When rona hit, I remember flying with a 330FO that was freaking out becuase he "needed" 85 hours/month to maintain his lifestyle. I can't imagine living like that and putting that stress on myself. This may be controversial to some, but you do not HAVE to pay for your kids college. Especially if it means you're gone 18 days/month and has a detrimental impact on your marriage.

Agreed. It did the same for my expectations: - Expect that your path to retirement will involve periods of backtracking. - Do not expect to be making more money than you are currently making today (buy what you can afford now, not what you think you'll be able to afford later) - Expect to retire having made less money and accrued less seniority than the projections indicated when you were a new hire - Expect someone else to get a better deal than you thought you were getting when you were hired (2001 TWA vs 2013 USAir, America West vs AA) It's a strange job.

Ouch, that sucks. But at least you can forget about those days and go rip around in an RV!

Wow, those are some real turbo douches. Army officers though, doesn’t surprise me.

As a career REMF and former CAF guy during a time when MWS got told to sit on its hands and navel-gaze in PACAF, I'm completely indifferent to the back and forth of proving one's ego/legitimacy in life via these anecdotes. But, there is a cohort of veterans who unironically advocate for the means-testing of outright retirement benefits based on a combat service metric. Nasty and divisive undercurrent if I ever heard one; I can't break bread with those people. And I do challenge those utterances publicly, as letting that narrative stand unchallenged can be materially important to all of us. Thankfully, even Congress isn't as myopic so as to buy into such nonsense as a matter of policy. Brittle egos abound.

This. Who cares what others went through. My training sorties in helos were pretty fucking scary sometimes as well. You wanna have the shit scared out of you, teach a new CP how to do 180 autorotations in a Huey. Much scarier than seeing people shoot into the air. Edit: Don't tell infantry guys about how scared you were getting "shot at" or what a badass you are for it. Hogs and helos might get a pass on this one but most others probably not.

I love these hate on other platforms stories. I did 4 months in Afghanistan in Herks and we’d hate on C-17 and tankers for the same thing and didn’t call in anything or get AFCMS except the plane that came back with holes in it, but we assumed all of the other dumb platforms who don’t know what they are doing were. Like the C-17 on short final into Kandahar 5 miles in front of me yelling on the radio he was taking fire while I was staring at him on nogs seeing nothing. Everyone else that doesn’t fly what I fly is dumb!

B-1 doing SEAD/DEAD "so the rest of the missions could go safely," a bomber dodging a SAM, and the pilot hearing the missile? Sounds like that story might be pushing the 10% rule.

AH-64 1.69 hours. 1 Takeoff, 0 Landings

My favorite part of fam flights with fixed wing guys was with them shaking the cyclic to pass off controls....