Buddy Spike

Give half your stuff to your first ex-wife?

That sounds painful. NTTAWT.

Step 1: Start out wide eyed and bushy tailed. Flying fighters/heavies/helos is the best thing you've ever done. Step 2: Try to change the world. Step 3: Get struck down for Step 2. Become disillusioned as the machine attempts to swallow you whole. (See: Monkey/Cage theory) Step 4: Find a Guard/Reserve Unit and GTFO. Step 5: Get hired by the airlines. Make a lot of money. Step 6: Military flying becomes fun again because you're suddenly kevlar and a true volunteer. You don't care about changing the world and the feeling from Step 1 returns. Step 7: ??? Step 8: Profit.

You're married to BQZip's mom? Side note - whatever happened to that dude?

I'm only here because the sidebar preview said "UPT Bases highest risk for sexual ass..." This is no longer relevant to my interests.

Don't tell me how to live my life.

Another argument for the airlines, I guess. Totally cool to get with the help. You may have to eventually give up half your stuff, but the companies don't seem to care FWIW.

Years ago they were insisting on hiring lieutenants as GS-9s. (AFRC Baby ART program)

Single seat / pilot mentality might be another benefit. IFF also has a basic surface attack phase.

Valid. I was referring more to the younger O-3/O-4 types getting out at the 10-12 year point referenced above. For the younger dudes it will be really hard to justify doing a 3+ year AGR after the first year.

Probation at AA is 12 months or 400 hours and a training event (R9). Typically by second year pay, as an O-4, you're losing money doing mil. Third year pay isn't even close. With the movement and pay the way it is these days, I can't see why anyone would drop long term mil leave after the first year unless you live at your ARC unit and are commuting to your airline gig and just want to stay home/not care about the pay.

Wow. What an incredibly ignorant statement. We can absolutely discuss the issue, but honesty is warranted first. "Unarmed black citizens" are not being "executed" by police.

I don't know. He says (after the botched roll) that he was "kind of hoping that would be it" and mentions wanting to take in the sights one last time. Sad to listen to.

Video of the barrel roll he did.

Of course it's not stressful when you're at an "advanced age" and the test consists of shuffleboard and maneuvering through a few cones with your hoveround.

Thanks, I'm still putting it all together still. But I was correct on green vs red and dropping, right? That's correct. Green trips can be dropped. Red trips cannot. Red/Redder is for trading with open time.

No. Red/Redder refers to trading for trips in Open Time. That's the biggest rub. If you have a shitty 4 day and you find a good 4 day in open time, if it's "redder" the trade won't happen. The only time the TTOT lights don't matter is pilot to pilot or TTS.

There is no set percentage (and the company won't divulge their metric for the lights). For this month? Most people, the percentage of their trips that are green is 0%. I have had one trip that I was able to trade to a better trip through our Trip Trade System (TTS). The rest is red/redder (AA is colorblind, so instead of normal colors like Green/Orange/Red for trading, it's Red/Redder).

AA has no minimum limit. The problem now is this thing called "red/redder" that basically makes trips impossible to drop/trade. Huge QOL issue.

If your hobbies are airplanes, boats, race cars, or women, you're going to need at least $20k per month.

That's fine in a theater where being a POW is an option. Being burned alive in a cage or having your head sawed off with a rusty blade on LiveLeak might motivate some folks to face those odds and shoot back.

This starts at year two for me given the above assumptions (moving to DFW and staying, working 73 hrs only). Salary only add 16% for 401k.