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Go buy the AFOQT study guides at your local bookstore. Best $30 I ever spent. Good luck!

Viper154, does your location rhyme with Schmannon?

$25k in 1990 adjusted for inflation is about $46k today according to http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/.

There's one aircraft he could "fly" that you missed ...

I've seen this as well. As long as it's neatly trimmed it looks pretty good. If you have a hobby store (Hobby Lobby, Michael's, etc) nearby, you should be able to pick some up fairly cheap.

Enlisted folks have seen disparities in reenlistment bonuses based on timing, work continued. Everyone understands that getting a bonus is largely a product of luck and timing. Late Rates and priors generally don't see them on the pilot side because big blue figures (usually correctly) that someone whose UPT ADSC takes them past 15 years or so is probably going to stick around for the next 5 years without a bonus. If I was in charge of pilot manning, I'd offer folks the bonus to stick around even if it took them well past 20.

Actually it doesn't. I assumed they were pretty good at deploying the B-1s and just couldn't handle doing something different. I've come to the belief that maybe we should just have one pre-deployment center with a massive warehouse where you show up three days before your rotator to knock out all your ground training and pick up all your gear.

There was no single incident, just a continuing pattern of support agency epic failures, particularly for our deployers. I left prior to the transition, so I can't speak to how changing the wing patch affected the squadron.

MQ-9s weren't on your list, but if you're graduating UPT soon there is a non-zero chance you'll be stuck flying them in a few years. 1. Ops tempo: awful, I routinely worked 70+ hours a week. Deployments: not enough, I only got 1 that lasted 5 months. It was a nice break from the misery of home station. 2. Lifestyle/Family Stability: You'll sleep in your own bed, but 1/3 of the time you'll be sleeping in the middle of the day. If your absolute number one goal is to avoid deployments and TDYs, MQ-9s have got you covered. It seemed like someone was getting divorced every couple of months, but you never know what's really driving those. 3. Community Morale: Zero to very low. I'm shocked no-one at my last squadron killed themself. Things were/are that bad. We have a retention crisis that will not be abating any time in the foreseeable future. 4. Advancements & Future of the Airframe: There are two tracks in MQ-9s: one for the shiny pennies who parachute in to be SQ/CCs and DOs and one for the unfortunate bastards flying the line. If you're looking for any kind of career broadening (staff/instruct at UPT/white jets) you can forget it. These things aren't going away so you'll have job security. 5. PCS locations: Ugh. Two undesirable locations in New Mexico. Vegas is your most likely option. There is also Ellsworth AFB, SD which is a lovely location with a terrible wing if you're in the MQ-9 squadron. After my time there, I wouldn't shit on the 28th BW if it was on fire. YMMV. On the plus side there are Guard & Reserve locations all over, which is nice.

I picked up mine in Nov 2011 at the Baltimore FSDO.

If the bonus goes up, here's my prediction: Year 1: Max Money for Fighter Pilots and maybe Drone Pilots. Year 2: Max Money for Fighter Pilots, Drone Pilots and maybe everyone else. Year 3: Max Money for all Pilots when Fingers realizes "Oh shit, I'm out of pilots" and "I'm retiring in 6 months, I don't give a fuck"

I used to fly KC-135s and I have some friends who've flown C-5s. I'll caveat that this is all AD gouge and may be stale. The cargo mission involves a lot of flying from point A to point B, with a wide selection of As and Bs to pick from. The tanker mission involves a lot of taking off at point A then refueling someone and then landing back at point A with a less wide selection of As to pick from.

That's what I've got and it's magnificent. Strong recommend.

They're fighting it because administering a system to monitor every single servicemember's lease or mortgage will cost more than just giving people a flat rate. We have data on this system (OHA); there is no need to run this experiment. We already know that if you don't let people keep the "unspent" BAH, they will go and find a more expensive place. This already happens with literally every servicemember living offbase overseas. We are about to take the shitty system where we buy new flat screens every September and multiply it buy the number of servicemembers living off base in the CONUS. I propose a different solution: let us keep our current BAH and I will report to the nearest US Mint with my flamethrower and incinerate several million dollars. The net result will be the same fiscally.

That's why those services won't be in the contract, they'll be agreed to by handshake. This is a bad deal for the taxpayer, but at least the maids and landscapers won't be hurting for work.

My prediction is that this will be one big nothing, just like DADT repeal. We all do a one-off CBT and get back to work. Can't figure out someone's wacky pronouns ... try Rank LastName or callsign. We're looking at something like 1/3 of 1% of servicemembers here, I have a difficult time seeing how there will be too much fuss.

Firing, firing squad ... let's not get quibble over grammar.

pour encourager les autres

No it isn't. The EU will make a show of telling off the UK, realize that 17% of Europe's economy walking out the door is a bad thing and then invite them to take a deal similar to Norway's. The UK will then gladly accept that deal.

They also have goat NCOs in their Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Windsor_(goat)

The 18Xers are TDY, they're being forced into a hotel. 92T0s are PCS'd to their UPT base and the rules for that are different. For reference, the F-16 students are PCS'd here and may live wherever they like.

I believe HMN is getting a new Wing/CC soon, hopefully the lodging policy will change. The way they sold it was as if students were sitting at the on-base hotel on alert, waiting for the call to go do an EP sim. I would have a lot more respect for the outgoing CC if he had said "My hotel is rundown. I need money to fix it and the only source for that money is people using that hotel. Therefore I am requiring you to stay there because I need the money." On the plus side, taking away normal lodging options from FTU students should acclimate them to the fact that the USAF does not care about quality of life for RPA aircrew.