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I completely understand what you two are saying. It would be roughly $3,000/mo to purchase the adjacent property. It's within the budget. But I'm at a point where my priorities are changing. I don't want to work full-time anymore, I'd like to split my time between San Diego and N CA. Time is the only thing we can't make more of. If I can put that extra $3,000/mo towards the property I purchased, along with a couple decent big principal payments I can have it paid off in about five years and go fully part-time. My daughter is seven and son is two and I want to spend more time with my family while I have time and while they're young. I'll never get that back. I don't think there is any chance of there being a "neighborhood" around there. We have no mailboxes, no delivery options, no infrastructure for electricity or plumbing. Everything is completely off-grid up there and there is no industry, so little chance or development. Plus, I don't think many people want to live with bears on your back porch! Buying it would mean my chance of going part-time moves from a five year plan to 15+ which means I won't get to spend much time up there... Maybe I'll stop and pick up a few lottery tickets on the way to work this morning. Or just sell my home in San Diego.

Do both... Pretty sure an Only"Fans" account that just posts gratuitous close up photos of C-130 engines covered in leaking oil and hydraulic fluid would make you a millionaire overnight just from @M2's secret combat pornography budget

There is a search function believe it or not..

U-2 bros right now

I've seen 10% +/- a few points depending on the class but seems to be trending higher. OP, I've been part of about a dozen commander reviews now (the process for removing someone from UPT). Attitude is probably the biggest discriminator for what your follow-on will be. If you gave it your all, with a good attitude, but just didn't have the hands....you tend to get helped out. Huge douch-nozzle blaming everyone else? Not so much.

Solid points, love the priorities. Enjoy life away from the city bullshit! If you don’t have to carry a gun for wildlife protection on your own property, are you really even living?!

The US manufacturer will immediately sue them and say they need to develop something in house that works half as well and costs 3 times as much. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm sure it would stretch the budget, but if your budget can be stretched to buy it, I would for sure. And this isn't empty sideline advice, I've personally done exactly this to control my surroundings as much as I can afford and I have had no regrets. Especially when I see some properties down the road getting subdivided and suddenly a quarter section that had a single house now has a small neighborhood. Can always sell later if finances stop working out or rent/lease it out. I know multiple people that had an opportunity to buy adjacent land and didn't that lived to regret it when a bad neighbor moved in and set up a bunch of junky trailers on the edge of the property and junk like that.

This guy wants to be the next President. He is getting scorched.

Lesson learned, especially as a newbie (not even a SNAP), never miss an opportunity to keep your mouth shut. Everyone wants to be a youtube star...I even have a small channel with some flying videos, but dude you don't even know what you don't know. If you truly want to be a military pilot, go all in on that task. Don't divert your attention with podcast thought pieces. Every year 4 million men and women turn 18 in the United States...a substantial number of those have at least dreamed of being a USAF pilot. USAF picks between 1200-1400 to enter UPT each year....the odds are against you so don't distract yourself with trivial BS. If you want internet fame, start an OnlyFans, if you want to be a USAF pilot get to work and focus on that task.

Yeah, low UPT washout rates is true. If you want it and study for it, they'll probably find a way to get you through. If you do washout or DOR, it depends on the style of your leaving and what the AF needs at the time. If you just quiet quit (stop studying, etc), your IPs will probably hate working with you and give you zero support...sucks to suck. If you try hard, but just can't make it work (rare), you'll probably get good recommendations for your next AFGSC. If you DOR for a well thought through reason, you'll probably get support. If you DOR a month into flying because it's "too hard" and "too much work"...yeah, IPs aren't going to have sympathy.

T-6 washout rate is only about 10% according to a friend in that world. He said it is uncommon to washout for airsickness since they have the B Chair workups pretty well perfected.

Yes it's the latter, non-T38 T6 FAIPS go from UPT T6s -> PIT -> FAIP tour -> straight to heavy FTU. No kind of T1 training exists for anyone anymore And everything is still the same for T38-trained T6 FAIPs going to fighters. Since IFF is going away, new ones will do UPT T6s -> FBF (combined T38 UPT & IFF) -> T6 PIT -> T6 FAIP tour -> short T38 spinup -> B-Course

I’m not 100%, wasn’t an OTS grad. Fairly sure you incur a 4 year commitment with your commission regardless of source, otherwise it would be pretty easy for OTS grads to say F it, I’m out and just quit if they decide they don’t like their job/tech school. AF all about getting their pound of flesh, they ain’t going waste time/money sending people to OTS to have them quit a couple months later. It’s fairly common to not get a scholarship through ROTC, I didn’t, although I went through in the height of the sequester years, so maybe that’s changed.

Like just about everything in the world of military aviation - it depends. It depends on the circumstances of your departure. Did you resign or did you get kicked out? Did you get kicked out because of inability to perform, or because you were being a shitbag? Better circumstances have better outcomes. There's also the needs of the Air Force. A decade ago they were sending everyone to missiles. I don't know what the needs of the Air Force look like now. There's also if you have a specialized skillset. If you have an engineering or medical degree there's a good chance you're going to do that.

Are you sure about this? I know an Academy grad or ROTC candidate already has an ADSC due to the money spent on their education. But why would someone who shows up and signs on the line to go to OTS have any commitment at that point? All they’ve done is 90 days of basic training, gotten maybe a couple of airline tickets and attempted UPT. A ROTC commission with likely hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to a college gives that new officer a four year commitment prior to them getting their wings of course. It seems unlikely that an OTS candidate would have a similar ADSC with a fraction of the money spent on them so far. I would think if they were so inclined that would be the end of their USAF career.

So... Random13... I see you also posed this exact question on the Navy's forum. You've received good answers to your questions, and now I'd like to know where YOU are in the commissioning process, and which Service you are seriously looking at. What's your story?

I think it’s a great idea! in fact I’d document every UPT training sortie. Maybe you can discuss things your IPs should have done better. Make sure to tag the UPT base in the hashtags