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    WTF? (**NSFW**)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    10 hours ago, M2 said:

    Therein lies your problem.  No one in Texas or Florida would ever be convicted for defending their homes, loved ones or self. 

    It's a difference in attitudes.

    Get out of CA while you can.

    Convicted!

    We would never be charged. And likely wouldn’t be arrested. 

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    Days of availability guard/reserve

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    3 hours ago, ViperMan said:

    Do what @brabus said.

    The mil retirement is worth a lot, so if you can get it, I recommend it. It's inflation protected, not subject to 15.3% payroll tax, and as such is worth a substantial bit more than its apparent paper value.

    Tricare standard is usually FAR superior to any plan an airline offers and will save you about $600/month or more. 
     

     

    Promotion and PRF Information

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    2 minutes ago, herkbum said:

    I also never had any desire to be an airline pilot. But when it came time to retire, I realized I had a skill set that the airlines wanted to pay pretty decent money to utilize. And it ain’t just about the money. My life is much happier now without all of the bs while I served. I had a great 29 years but I now realize that life is much better on the outside. I really love my retirement career.


    Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

    Ahem … PART TIME retirement job. 

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    Promotion and PRF Information

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by HossHarris

    There are only 3 optimum points to get out:

    -the moment your pilot training commitment is up. 

    -at exactly 20 years 

    -when they kick you out for High year tenure. 
     

    Any other point on the timeline and you’re giving something up. 

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    4 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:


    No not at all
    I think there is just a point where in the long term it is better for us and the Ukrainians that accepting some of their territory was lost is better than further war and the cost of further fighting.
    Not a fan at all of Russia or Putin.
    Free Ukraine will need large long term aid, I’m cool with that, it’s just that at some point if it can be had, ceasefire and focus on rebuilding.
    I’m also okay with a surprise deployment of 25k US boots on Free Ukraine with no end date to prevent Putin from trying round 2


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    Ain’t no party like a free Ukraine party ….

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    Personal credit card on the road?

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    11 hours ago, Pooter said:

    Yet another horseshit aspect of the GTC, a tale as old as time:

    -get home from a deployment

    -fill out voucher at finance day after with over the shoulder guidance from finance

    -finance kicks back the voucher they helped me create

    -9 grand in airline/rental car fees just sitting there overdue

    -now I'm on the naughty list

    -pay the 9 grand out of my personal account to get off the naughty list

    -voucher approved 2 days later

    -get on Citi website to get refunded 

    -I have to wait 10 effing business days for a refund because of transaction timing limits

    Never ever pay off the GTC out of pocket. The naughty list should be a red flag on someone’s slide for finance … not for you. 

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    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

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    Just now, Pooter said:

    There's a phenomenon where people will subconsciously self-select out of a career fields if they don't see people who look like them doing those jobs.  As white dudes we don't notice it because we're well represented in most desirable high caliber fields. But I have multiple female family members who are military pilots, and they say that feeling is something they had, and is still prevalent among girls. 

    I'm not for quotas or specific DEI hiring initiatives but outreach campaigns like the "fly like a girl" one the Air Force has pushed are great in my opinion.  If you truly want to get the best talent you need to cast the widest net you can and whittle down the pool from there. 

    Perfectly valid … as long as you’re still selecting for the “best”

    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted · Edited by HossHarris

    The underlying assumption for all DEI is that talent is distributed evenly across the spectrum of humanity. 
     

    That’s a large assumption….

    I’d concede that it’s probably true at level of young children. But once talent becomes merit, and effort, motivation, hard work, aptitude, and drive is involved to increase your merit…all bets are off. 
     

    and there are physiological differences amongst groups of humans as well.  For example, There’s a reason there aren’t any women playing in the NFL. and I don’t think it has anything to do with recruiting efforts or barriers to entry. 
     

    could a woman attain the merit to play … absolutely… it’s just a lot less likely. 

    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

    in Squadron Bar

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    1 hour ago, nsplayr said:

    I mean, I’m a normal liberal and I am ok with some of the milder DEI initiatives to give more opportunities to folks who have historically be underrepresented in fields like aviation or finance or whatever.

    You…are having weird dark fantasies about putting hoods on people and conducting super weird interviews.

    🤷‍♂️

    95% of ATP holders are men for example…there’s just no believable explanation for how we arrived at that by chance or “merit” alone.

    There is some natural & mostly benign career sorting by gender and that’s ok, but it ain’t 95/5. Shit, 14% of nurses are men and 11% of elementary teachers are men…and yet women are only 5% of airline pilots, a career that’s much more lucrative and provides better benefits? My wife is/was an elementary teacher and you sure as heck don’t do that job for the money or prestige, let me tell you.

    Anyways, I digress. I don’t even really wanna debate any of this because I know y’all’s positions.

    I’m just  here to say that as a normie liberal I think about race/sex/gender/DEI culture stuff WAY less than some of y’all on the right appear to. It’s not even in my top 20 list of things I care about, and there are way more people like me than terminally online lefty weirdos. So please just ignore them as much as you can, like I do.

    So is your answer to fix the societal and pipeline issues that are detecting women from getting involved in aviation ….

     

    or just hire more women at the majors until you get the demographics you like (regardless of skill, experience, etc)?

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    Investment showdown -- beyond the Roth, SDP, & TSP

    in Squadron Bar

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    1 hour ago, FDNYOldGuy said:

    100% this. As @nunya said, you can still do the backdoor option (sts) and it is legal, through the recent IRS paper, but it's  got a few extra steps, one that could end up closed through legislation, and could potentially raise a red flag for audit radar purposes. But, definitely worth doing, if you're up for the extra hoops to jump through. 

    That said, making sure you at least open a Roth IRA ASAP and working on pumping money into a Roth 401k that you one day roll over into the Roth IRA is clutch. You get (most of) the best of all worlds, with the exception being Roth 401k's don't really allow for as risky/nuanced/particular single stock investments and are usually whatever the Large/Medium/Small/etc funds are your company offers. But, no income limits, easy to put money in without a hassle, and usually reasonable fees, with the option to bail out and roll it into a Roth IRA upon retirement that helps you avoid RMDs and pick individual securities.

    What you can put your 401k/Roth 401k into JS entirely employer dependent. 
     

    at delta, you can buy anything but delta stock. Individual Stocks, bonds, mutual funds, foreign stuff, etc. 

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    Investment showdown -- beyond the Roth, SDP, & TSP

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    26 minutes ago, nsplayr said:

     Even for an airline dude, making over $340,100 is fantastic pay.

    That’s 5-6 year narrowbody captain pay at delta just flying an average line … with no contract ninja-in. 
     

    you can be a narrowbody captain the same year you’re hired currently. 
     

    It’s not fantastic nor out of the ordinary. That’s everyday, walkin around Money. 
     

    (expectation management)

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    The new airline thread

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    Posted · Edited by HossHarris

    You’re just out on military orders. 
     

    whether you’re actively working military stuff or taking the leave, it’s all part of being out for the military. 
     

    delta would have a theoretical issue if you were working for delta while on military leave … they’ve got a hard on about double dipping … but that pendulum may be swinging soon. 

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