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Tell Mrs. Kind I'll be back on Thursday rather than Wednesday for my weekly visit! Scheduling conflicts, I'm sure she'll understand.

<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.

Lol. This is funny. Not really but I've had 4 beers and all I can do is laugh.

So that's why she's always asking me on Sunday what nights I'm flying that week....

Just more evidence of how clueless "leadership" is about the state of the Air Force as a whole. If you think this mentality that there are no major problems is unique to the ICBM world you're crazy. Leaders in every aspect of the Air Force are genuinely convinced that the Air Force isn't broken in a fundamental way. They think that suicide, sexual assault, alcoholism, etc are all problems of individual airmen or maybe squadrons, and not symptoms of a far larger problem.

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

EEEEEEEEASTBOUND AND DOWN!

This whole thing is stupid. If this is the case they should just say to TERA eligible folks that they have the option to apply, but if they don't meet their "quota" some may possibly be forced to retire… not this basic threat to take TERA now or never. They also need to come out and say if you apply for TERA then you WILL get it… not this apply and we'll let you know shit! A whole lot of people in this eligibility group were part of the last VSP debacle and some wondering if they would get the boot like the poor 157 non-continued guys. This isn't some fucking gameshow where you get to take your chances with what's behind door #2… these are people's lives here; and if we're talking TERA then we are talking about the lives of people who have served every minute of these 12+ years of war! Gameshow… its more like a fucking Clown show!!! Rant complete...

She now recognizes the need to give her airmen more off duty time with their family . Does that mean she removed the AAD cell from her strat spreadsheet?

FG, the CZTE is determined by Presidential Executive Order, and not by OSD or the Services. CZTE and IDP have never been linked. The only exception is in the Kosovo region where a Public Law (Congressional action) has authorized CZTE for it being a qualified hazardous duty area. http://www.irs.gov/uac/Combat-Zones So, barring any new PEOs, the "Arabian Peninsula Areas, beginning Jan. 17, 1991 -- the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, the part of the Arabian Sea north of 10° North latitude and west of 68° East longitude, the Gulf of Aden, and the countries of Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates" will continue to provide CZTE status.

FIFY

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.

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

Which will be the perfect incentive for no one to ever come forward again. Doing the right thing shouldn't require you to be a martyr. It shouldn't be illegal for you to expose illegal activity.

I have it on good authority that these wars will be over by 2012.

Why so angry? The BRA run out of Strongbow? The "clowns" comment was directed at the people who impede the mission and make it more difficult than it needs to be. Unless you are one of the guys who fall into that category and the comment rings true, GFY. I'm sure you've had a few choice words about the folks at TACC who do that exact same thing, so get over it.

Big picture, I say go to UPT if there is a choice between a wait and starting immediately. I thought I had the option to go ENJJPT while I was in ROTC (#1/6, 3.8, 99 PCSM, SP) and applied, thinking I wanted to go fighters. When I found out I didn't get it, I was pissed. Apparently, my det/cc, who was new, saw my speeding ticket I got right before packets were put in and bumped me down to #2, even though I was #1 for the last 5 semesters straight. I ended up getting Vance, and I was nervous, primarily because I figured ENJJPT was my only ticket to a guaranteed 38. I spent weeks looking at selection rates, realizing that I was probably boned and would have to go tubes. Honestly, though, phase 1 and 2 was not that hard. If you work hard and really want a 38, you will get one, I did with really no worry. At the same time, there were people in my class that were deadset on fighters at the beginning that by the end of phase 2 had them last on their track preference. Things change, and I saw that as a good thing for 4 or 5 of the 18 AD dudes in my class. After you go 38's, you are, for assignment purposes, exactly equal to ENJJPT - they don't get preference for fighters, it's all the same drops. I ended up gettting my fighter in the end, as did 5 other dudes in my class. Also, you have to consider that your competition at ENJJPT is going to have almost only those motivated super cadets/people with 690 hours of flight time/real type-A dudes. I don't know if I would have been able to do as well as I did if I had been pitted up against them. At Non-ENJJPT bases, you have a mixture of people and a mixture of goals, which I realize now was beneficial to me in a competitive environment. Waiting for a year sucks ass. While you do get a guaranteed 38, I don't think it would be worth the extra competition with respect to assignments/delay.