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    Long shot - MAC C-5A Crew, Egypt, 21 Sept 1977

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    4 hours ago, Guardian said:

    Story time Hoss

    I did an ETSS gig in Egypt flying F-16s for a year. It was wonderful. We were on dip passports, the only other Usaf F-16 pilot in country was my boss, who was 90 minutes away. I owned a compound with 140 local national employees. 
     

    and 90% of the effort was running an expat bar in Cairo and scuba diving the Red Sea. 
     

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    Staying Beyond 20/Taking IDE

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    It used to be ... that being on the command list and turning down a command spot was considered a 7-day opt and you were done if you didn’t take the bad deal. 
     

    pretty sure that changed in the 2010-2015 timeframe .... but worth asking the question. 
     

    although if the game plan is a “good” command spot or retire, it may not matter to you. 

    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    9 hours ago, di1630 said:

    Why aren’t we seeing this virus decimate the third world which has less sanitization and healthcare?


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    Probably because you don’t see a lot of really elderly folks.  What’s the baseline life expectancy in a third world shithole?

    also fairly hard to linger on with serious underlying conditions (co-morbidities for you epidemiologists at home) in a third world shithole. 

    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

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    2 hours ago, pawnman said:

    I guess I'll hold my opinion until I see the execution.

    60 down days...what does that mean?  No flying, no deployments, no training?  

    Are we going to actually do a re-scrub of the background investigations looking for extremists, or are we going to sit in a sharing circle talking about why extremism is bad?

    What's going to count as extremism?  Is anyone who has ever called AOC dumb or mocked Biden's inability to put a sentence together on the chopping block?  Or are we going to actually look at people's connections to extremist groups?

    Are we looking for extreme leftists (like that West Point kid who wrote "Communism Wins" inside his wheel cap) or only QAnon supporters?

    I fully support the idea of rooting extremists out of the ranks.  But I have a lot of fears about how this will actually be implemented.

    It’s A downday, sometime within the next 60 Days. 

    Retirement / Separation Considerations

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    47 minutes ago, Chida said:

    For the Reserve Retiree: hypothetical. Assumptions: reached age 60 in Dec 2020 (so using pay charts from 2018-2020 to calculate high-36). Served age 23 to age 43 and transferred to grey area in 2003. Had 20 good years and 5000 points. Note that since grey area time counts for pay chart purposes, the years will be 37, 36, and 35 or put simply the max pay on the chart)

    $8088: high36 for Maj (didn't serve 3 yrs TIG to make O-5 stick). $2808 per mo retired pay

    $9539: high36 for LtCol (served at least 3 yrs TIG so takes O-5 into the retired rsv). $3312 per mo retired pay

    So the difference in retired pay isn't as huge as I had thought, but if you're close you might as well try to get that 3 yrs TIG before your transfer to retired reserve.

    $500 a month buys a lot of beer and hookers 

    The new airline thread

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    6 hours ago, TnkrToad said:

    Sooo...for someone who still needs to do the whole ATP CTP & ATP Practical, any recommendations for a good program?

    In Colorado, so looking at FTI in Denver, but if there are better options (lower cost/same or better success rate), I'd love to hear folks' advice. 

    Apologies if this is the wrong thread--did a search, and this seems to be the best place to ask. 

    If you have any interest in Delta, they’re program guarantees your app gets pulled and scored ... and has been pretty successful for folks  

    Chet Kreske is a strike eagle bubba and runs MIL2ATP.  One stop shop. Check it out  

     

     

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    Retirement / Separation Considerations

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    27 minutes ago, JimNtexas said:

    I recently went on TFL.  Based on my experience with my November very expensive knee replacement followed by months of PT, I'd say TFL is the Golden Ticket for American insurance plans.  

    One other note.  If you are on TFL, but your spouse is not yet on Medicare then you have to pay $12.50 a month for their Tricare.  

    I'm really grateful for what I have in the way of insurance, now that I'm old enough to really need it.   I tire of the other old geezers who whine 'I WAS PROMISED FREE FREE FREE' about having to pay a minimal amount for great coverage.  

    Other than the fact that they/we were promised free healthcare as an enticement for our service .... but yeah ... other than that it’s great!

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    WTF? (**NSFW**)

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    3 hours ago, Prozac said:

    Wish we had audio of it becoming unstuck. I feel like there would be a great BQZip’s mom joke in there somewhere. 

    Like stirring a big pot of Kraft Mac and Cheese 

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    Retirement / Separation Considerations

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    You can start fairly early out .... and the VA will work your stuff through their wickets. But you get zero feedback until the day you turn into a mister. Then poof, it’s 75% through its steps. 
     

    start early. 
     

    expect the VA and your base dude that helps put your package together (sts) to fuck it away early and often. 

    The Next President is...

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    56 minutes ago, Negatory said:

    You can have organizations that pay more equitably that aren’t run by single persons. This is not black or white.

    So start one.  Let me know how the economics work out for you. 
     

    be the change you want to see... or some such shit 

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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    22 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    I mean shout out to all my 60/70s/80s/90s babies who died from polio...oh wait!

    The science seems good here and I can’t wait to take the vaccine and end this long, shitty pandemic. There can always be problems, but the alternative is currently extremely problematic so I vote we go with a very promising solution.

    Yes ... the 99+% survival rate for military aged folks is very problematic 

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