ThreeHoler

You also need to look at the effective tax rate. For example, my effective tax rate for 2011 was ~8.69% without a single CZTE month. It is highly unlikely that I will ever be able to beat that rate later in life...

The MORAL LAW causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger. ... The COMMANDER stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage and strictness. ... The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success. ... Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. Sun Tzu

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/339572/20120510/vidal-sassoon-sasson-nazis-mosely-blackshirts-jews.htm Holy shit! You Don't Mess With the Zohan was real!

Interesting. The cynic in me wonders if these two "whistleblowers" were put up to the task by the man...

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The Navy only offered the 15 year retirement option to the ERB (Enlisted Review Board) guys. They're not offering it to officers at this time. http://navylive.dodlive.mil/2012/01/23/navy-offers-early-retirement-program/

There is a reduction penalty from the "50% base pay" for retiring short of 20 years.

Cats and dogs living together?

I guess you could call HFP "combat pay" -- if you actually wound up under hostile fire, as it is activity-based.

I think you forgot the Combat Zone Tax Exclusion.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Highlights-of-US-Afghanistan-agreement-3525476.php Summary: OEF extends to 2024.

Hopefully it is Through DVDs instead of the Internet, since the NGA has a shitty download cap of 500k.

FYSA: https://militarycac.com/PDFs/PKardForIOSPressRelease.pdf Very iiiiiiinterestink...

Can you pass on to the NGA people that if there were any way to reduce the download from ~3.0gb per cycle to something manageable like the Jepp app (~150mb a cycle)? Suggestion: the updates only replace the changed charts as opposed to every chart.

If you normally wear glasses or contacts to achieve 20/20, you are allowed to wear them for the depth perception test. It makes a significant difference.

Excellent use of the crazy-hot scale.

30' AGL with power at idle and max AoA...not any normal airliner mode I am aware of...in fact, the pilot pitched up so much that the flight computers commanded nose down from the elevators to prevent a stall. There is much discussion about this accident, to include whether the pilot was reading 30' RA and thinking 30m RA. Also, the only people who really know what happened edited the tapes before turning them over to the investigators.

Get rid of ice cubes. Learn to dribble just a little water in. The cold of the ice cube is not very good for the flavors. All you need to know: "neat with a water back."

Several times, great dives!

Rather piss poor example, as the pilots were in a regime for which the aircraft was not designed.

Hell, with the free 15 credits from Brandman...I'd recommend just signing up with them to complete whatever minimum requirements get you the credits so you can update to a Bac+ with no work. Then I would worry about doing some sort of degree. I think UVA offers an online education degree that is supposed to be pretty good.

But it was still the pilot's fault.

Fatigue and dehydration are the two biggest contributors to DCS. Getting bent sucks.

Au contraire...http://dictionary.re...owse/registrate Perhaps they are organists?

There was a guy a few years back at a certain 3-hole tanker "forward" location (and I use that term with all the sarcasm I can muster) who did something similar. The whole lot of CGOs received an email requesting that people take the time to help the CGOC deliver Christmas packages to every door in the trailers. This fine upstanding young aviator was angered by the email and wrote back "I do not have time for your emails or your projects, please remove me from your mailing list." As you can imagine, the Lt president of the CGOC who sent out the email was quite butt-hurt and cried to the Wg/CC. Within a few hours, this aviator found himself yanked out of crew rest to stand before the Wg/CC and explain why he thought the CGOC was a waste of time. It is always good to see when we have our REMF priorities straight...