ThreeHoler

Assuming you haven't looked at it yet, you might want to look at how much of a bump staying to 21 years will give you in your monthly paycheck after retirement, rather than get out at 20 if your ADSC takes you to 20 years and 7 months.

Bob's voicemail message says he has a backlog of more than 250 applications to build. Expect the numbers to jump to closer to 50% take rate within a month to 6 weeks if everyone that started one finalizes it.

It didn't used to be this way. Back in the day, 10s flew coronets and cargo around the world for their 90%. Those are the days I miss most...although, as an old fart I get to fly world-wide a lot more than I get to deploy. So, life is still good in the 10.

FIFY

I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that by current law you cannot be removed from AD after 18 years of service except for UCMJ reasons.

Pretty sure it has been that way for at least a few years...since they are the "top 1%" or somesuch.

"FY 14 Officer Voluntary Force Management Programs" message is out for those who have access to myPers: https://gum-crm.csd.disa.mil/app/answers/detail/a_id/24198

Not for the SIB. And don't expect a public release unless they're running an AIB in parallel.

If you have your annual privilege training, you can request your own AFSAS account for read-only access. You may not print or redistribute the privileged information in AFSAS without properly sanitizing (arguably some reports can never be fully sanitized by the reg). Depends on your wing safety office. YMMV.

Yup. It sucks to read.

https://news.yahoo.com/pilots-union-says-probe-asiana-crash-revealed-too-181628708.html

https://www.vogue.co.uk/ Once the page loads, type the Konami code. WTF?

Don't know. Sorry. Only what I heard from a bro who talked to the ARP dude today. We should see the Jul take rate in a few weeks.

Not sure of the # of eligibles for this year's program, but there are already well over 200 ARP applications submitted.

That is the best post I've seen you write. More please, because I'm at a point where I'm pretty jaded by some O-6s that will not 'hire' anyone who doesn't have an AAD regardless of job performance. I enjoy both flying and desk work. I am self motivated, but leadership valuing the wrong things in my part of the world is very demoralizing.

That is why we brief 45* off in the MAF. Keeps you in a better position not to get hit. At least that is the theory.

Always possible, but supposedly the company has a very good safety record. My interest, as a safety dude, is in the fact that the tail is off aft of the doors and just prior to the horizontal stab.

Sarcasm detector inop in the "OFF" position.

QoL is better than 2011 but worse than the early 2000's with "130%" manning. Sequestration cut a lot of the flying. Used to be around 4-500 hours a year, not sure with the flying cuts. Expect to deploy 2-3 times a year on a 1:1. Due to the geographic distribution of current conflicts, McGuire has more trips per month than Travis right now. During AEF swaps, trips go up on both coasts due to the coronets. Travis camaraderie is better than McGuire. "Standard" upgrade timeline is around the 2-year point, but will be adjusted sooner or later based on your individual performance and potential to lead the mission. FY14 training dates haven't come out yet as far as I have seen, but normally, a person goes into IQT right after getting to their base. Expect a desk job approximately 6 months after finishing MQT, possibly sooner. "Standard" career progression is BS. However, the two classics are coast-to-coast and KC-10-UPT-KC-10. There are also several exchange officer opportunities (A-330 Australia, A-310 Canada, KDC-10 Dutch) as well as other random assignments if you keep your eyes open (C-12 Botswana, etc). Recently, there have been a few assignments to the MC-12, mostly for people who did the MC-12 deployment. Many people apply to and are accepted by the 89th. After the first three assignments, it is a smorgasbord of varying places and jobs. You'll be an 11M, so if you get a staff job, it could be at AMC, ACC, AFSOC, HAF, Jt, NATO, etc. Good possibility to come back to the jet after staff. According to the powers-that-be, only bright shinies will get staff after school. Still waiting to see what that means for the rest of us. The current 5 AD Sq/CCs are all good people. Each squadron is a little different. The last OG/CC at Travis was awesome and he has been replaced by another good dude (who can school pretty much any line IP in the jet by the way, he's a night one leader for sure).

I think most of my frustration stems from our collective propensity as a service to do the same thing over and over, yet we expect different results. That, gentlemen, is the definition of insanity. For the youngins, pick up a copy of "Over the Hump" and "Overlord" if you want to see what I'm talking about. For us old farts, actually read the books if you haven't. As personally disappointed as I am in the senior leadership I've seen over the last few years, I still desire to stay in and take care of my guys and gals. Maybe I am naive to think I can make lasting positive change on a broad scale, but I have done it before at the wing level and I will continue to do it at whatever level I work today and in the future.

A PRF is nothing more than a fancy amalgamation of the salient points of your various OPRs...so, yes, you can change terms as long as you don't substantially change the meaning. Noonan!

Use "bomb." Problem solved.

Same.

Wow, I thought FSA was designed to cover the costs of visiting one's dependents. The more you know...sounds like time to get rid of that shit. I'm all for getting rid of the dependent BAH rate. It is piss-poor social engineering at best.

To add to what Rusty is saying: the largest KC-10 squadron on AD is the deployed squadron. How does the manning work on that...