HossHarris

Klepto Bruiser Tracer So many more.

You don't ever have to be attached to be promoted/be a cc.

Stay in the squadron and fly as your primary job. Never volunteer to be attached and if you get wind that you are being considered for an attached or non-flying gig, resist it kicking and screaming!

Why do you need an Air Force base? You certainly don't need a runway. Wouldn't any base (army/navy/etc) have the personnel support you'd need? Hell, why do you need a base at all? Lease a few secure office buildings and put a dish on the roof. With enough "distributed architecture" there'd be plenty of redundancy. Hmmmmm: -Sydney Australia (The Aussies don't give a ) -Kiwi land -Maui -Guam -Nashville -Marathon -Belize -US Virgin Islands -Brussels/London/Paris (Western Europe) -Some tiny Greecian island from the posters in the gyro shop -And a Droid Center of Excellence (Hub) in maybe Denver or salt lake. You know, for hurricanes and what not. Shit, I bet we could put a deadbolt on the door to my office at home, set up a taclane, and run most everything from a desktop computer. Spread that out worldwide. Telecommute and get paid by the hour. It'd be a decent supplement to retirement income.

Better yet, park them in garden spots and spread them all out 4-5 timezones apart. Boom! No one has to work nights. No more shift work.

Gen Welsh was at Tyndall last week chatting with the pilots, among other things. I heard a lot of ideas and options to make commitments and contractual obligations longer .... Up to 15-20 years post upt. I did not hear anything about making things more desirable, or less painful, so that people would want to stay longer.

The ambien olympics. Classic

Also take this as a larger lesson for the rest of your Air Force career. People will invariably tell you what's best/easiest for THEM. You will be BFM'ing shoes for the rest of your adult life.

Iff adsc's and Tos start post-ipug.

The technical term is a mankini. And you can't beat them for freedom of movement and tanning!

It's uses a LOT of your post 9/11 benefit. You can get a lot more "bang for your buck" elsewhere.

Emails have started rolling out for this vml. Buddy got his Monday. I got mine today.

I just 7-day opted an Eilson aggressor gig....see if you can grab it.

Blue=tourist brownish red=official black=diplomatic no such thing as a "military" passport. If you can speak state department things will go smoother-ish.

There's a note in the adsc afi that says if you graduated upt after a certain date (10-yr adsc as I recall), then the AF can't give you any additional flying related adsc's. Or something like that. Read the afi. It's a note on a table.

That's also old data. Because I'm old. (Get off my lawn)

Assignments have been matched (you have one), emails have NOT gone out. Some commanders know. Talk to your commander or wait for the email. Back to the homestead discussion ... commute from key largo?

There is a "fixed wing QUAL" syllabus specifically for rotor guys going to fixed wing.

I paid for my Atp out of pocket and claimed it.

And the equation changes from new young guy, to young married guy, to guy with kids, to old grey beard with kids. Different priorities for each.

>you< can be the best of what's left! (excellence through attrition)

The "can we" or "can't we" wash folks out of upt who need to be washed out pendulum swings. Usually directly in correlation with perceived (or actual) pilot shortages.

Unless you get promoted or change dependant status

VLDs while listening to smooth jazz. (Did I win the queer delivery argument?)

Not bad ....