guineapigfury

Base housing assists officers as well.

We're only 1.5 trillion Space MREs away from solving the deficit!

I played football in college. I'm 33, and 1 each of my knees and shoulders are code 2, my back hurts daily, and it's possible that my frequent foul moods stem from repeated blows to the head. It was worth it.

We had to watch "The Invisible War" at my current location, and the single recurring theme (other than rape) was how the military completely fell down on the job with the prosecution aspect. The issue isn't sentencing, it's convicting. I was expecting to see a bunch of had too many drinks/he-said-she-said situations, but these were mostly violent attacks. This is a leadership problem on 2 levels: 1. Leaders aren't pursuing prosecution in cases of rape because ... 2. Higher leaders have created a promotion structure that incentivizes sweeping problems under the rug in order to create the appearance that all is well as opposed to rewarding people who acknowledge and address problems.

No, save YOUR money. Use tuition assistance, which is free, to get your degrees while you are in. Use your GI Bill after you leave for whatever educational needs you have at that point. FENCE in, but don't forget to FENCE out.

MQ-9s, if you'll settle for an Aerial Achievement Medal.

Because they graduated pilot training. The guys who did the RPA only track get a different set of wings.

FTFY.

Doubtful. I know someone who got a LOC for failing a PT test because he sprained his ankle during the run. We are officially at full retard with this PT stuff.

Copy, tankers to Cannon.

Just don't tell them.

No, the deviant act is the "poopsock". It's exactly what it sounds like.

Well, that's only 11 hours. Your schedulers is bad at maths.

This is probably the worst part. Ideally you want to enlist, then use TA to grab that Degree(s). Leave with your GI bill intact and then head to OTS with a pilot slot. I would either pursue a job as enlisted aircrew so you build some air sense, or go for something really easy like Services. You'll probably end up making PBJ's at Diego Garcia or handing out towels at the gym, but at least you'll have time to knock out the degree. Hell, sign up for 6 years and get your masters while you are at it.

It didn't come off as bitching, I just never pass up an opportunity to advocate for booze downrange. Ambien leaves me dragging for about 24 hours, hangovers wear off after breakfast.

Yes and non-flyers don't run the risk of killing themselves by flying their desk into the ground. The real solution is to allow alcohol at deployed locations so people can have a nightcap or 8.

You're risking your entire Air Force career for 20 free flight hours. Your post is essentially a commercial for Bad Idea Jeans.

I still don't understand the guys who want to go. You're trying to win the SuperBowl, take the 1st round bye.

This one speaks for itself. The WTF isn't for the article, but for the fact that things are actually this bad.

We elect lawyers, fast-talkers, gladhanders and people with good hair. In other words, people who are bad at math. Condoms cost less than education, jail, and healthcare. The single most efficient use of Government resources this country could devise is carpet-bombing our cities with Trojans.

I know family members frequently traveled Space-A on planes flown by spouses at my last location*. This was OCONUS, where dependents can Space-A without being accompanied by the sponsor while the sponsor is on leave. They are a lower category, so have less chance to get on the plane. The rules are different CONUS.

Is it just me or did noone have these allergies 25-30 years ago? I remember literally everone eating PBJs when I was a kid. Then it started with milk and peanuts. Once I met some poor bastard who was allergic to pen ink.

You're forgetting the Creech dudes have a minimum 1.5 hour commute daily, assuming they live on the north edge of Vegas and aren't driving 100 mph. And you're forgetting the shift work. I have shit I need to get done, but I'm working from about the time the national anthem starts and leaving before reveille. And I can't get my stuff done because I need to talk to people who work during the hours that normal human beings work. So everything takes an extra 24-96 hours because email is the only reasonable method of communication. It's like how people used to play games of chess by mail. Also, morale is terrible and that never helps. I used to be a mobility guy, and I worked the crazy hours but I had the energy to do so because I loved what I was doing. That is no longer the case for most of the pilots in my squadron.

I read this and laughed almost until I cried. I remember being warned about the bad side of Altus ...

I bet if you added up the number of people who leave the military after their intial enlistment/commitment plus the number of people retiring it's probably pretty close to 200,000 a year. As long as we don't do something stupid, like drive the economy off a fiscal cliff, everything should be fine.