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That's on the people posting, who should know better. This is awful enough for the families, finding out via Facebook is even shittier since they could be anywhere looking at their phone.

We lost a dude in T-1s. Couldn't land the thing, which isn't that hard to land. He was the only one I knew about in my 2 years at Vance. We've got a couple of UPT washouts in my current squadron (MQ-9s) and they're doing well. To bring this back on topic, nether of them were SIEs.

If that isn't Casus Belli, I don't know what is.

International dudes can wash out? We started with one in UPT and it was like this guy knew the Contra code for 99 lives only for 89 rides instead. This guy hooked tests, showed up to events visibly hungover, had the worst attitude I've ever seen, went home to the desert for 2 MONTHS in the middle of UPT for his arranged marriage, and supposedly rolled a T-38 in the traffic pattern. Apparently being an Arab prince has its perks.

Slightly off topic: Does anyone here have experience flying with the Border Patrol? Is it a good deal or a shit sandwich? Any first hand info (benefits, culture, locations, how much flying versus how much queep) would be greatly appreciated. I'm currently an MQ-9 guy leaning very strongly towards getting out in a few years and am considering Border Patrol as an option.

Is this even possible? How can you graduate with a bachelor's degree and not pass UPT academics? It's all 8th grade level stuff; everyone called it Slackademics for a reason ...

Isn't this one more reason to not go to USAFA? I know so many people who went there and all but one of them either regret it or find it was only worth putting up with for the pilot slot.

Kayl, for your sake, please understand that taking prescription drugs prescribed to someone who isn't you is a crime. The USAF will ruin your shit if you are caught doing this. Knock this shit off, go to college (refrain from "experimenting" while you're there) and find gainful employment somewhere less stressful after graduation.

The problem in bold is primarily a function of two things: rising health care costs are eating any potential raises and a virtually unlimited supply of unskilled labor from the rest of the world has held down the wages of people with no/few skills. Supply and demand is still in effect.

This.

I saw Trance the other day. Excellent. I was pleasantly surprised they dodged an NC-17. Don't google image Rosario Dawson and Trance if you're at work.

This is the one upside to the sequester. If your unit isn't flying, this is the right time to get all that nagging shit checked out at the flight doc since being DNIF is moot when there are no more flight hours.

If this is in reference to the waist measurement, I read the AF Crimes article differently. I thought they were implying "This is too hard to fix, so let's just stop doing it." That would be a significant improvement. We've had multiple* articles in the last month that were relatively anti waist measurement. I think either higher ups are floating a trial balloon or hopefully the fix is in. I suspect that this is largely driven by the Grand Forks debacle. *I couldn't find good links for the others. Not without everyone needing a subscription

What did you win?

No way, they always have the best class patches.

Not sure about dramamine, but TUMS and Pepto are legal.

I bet his cellmate disagrees.

That's an awful way to go, at least it was over for the poor guy in a matter of seconds.

This is what I'm hoping for. Looking at the 2013 pay chart, you'd get $37,000 a year for life and never have to go to another job interview. That's more than enough to retire somewhere cheap and tropical in your early 40s if you're single.

I take it Ashley Judd does not pop out of a cake, Erika Eleniak style?

Assuming this was the first fail, they couldn't have sent the Colonel to the remedial PT course with the rest of the chubby/slow airmen? I think watching the Full Bird take his lumps like anyone else would set a better example than resignation. The waist measurement is retarded as is anyone who supports it. If Chief Cody gets it canxed, he will have single handedly justified the existence of his billet.

We rack up plenty of Aerial Achievement medals. Most of the guys aren't happy with where this medal ranks, because it brings down even more derision upon us. They probably should have put this thing between the Purple Heart and DMSM.

It doesn't matter which base you put down on your dreamsheet, they just assign you one randomly. The worker bees at AFPC don't get graded on how well they match up assignments to dreamsheets for first assignments, so they don't even try. Since you can't control this process, don't worry about it. Good luck, memorize the boldface and pattern pages in the IFG and you'll be fine.

It depends. If you're a pilot, you've got what is essentially a 11 or 12 year commitment depending upon how long you sat casual. So if you transfer benefits as soon as you're eligible (6 year mark), the threat of getting stuck because of a 2 year ADSC running concurrently with the remaining 5-6 years of your UPT ADSC is probably low. At this point in a pilot's career (5-6 year mark), you're probably looking at a PCS, which incurs a ... 2 year ADSC. So if you're getting stuck with that anyway at approximately the same time you're first eligible to TEB. There's your case for transferring as early as possible.

You're misreading this, at least if the Lts in my squadron are an accurate indicator. Most of them are ambivalent at best about staying for 20. I think you're seeing guys annoyed that their early FENCE out is delayed.