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Uh, no. There's zero reason not to transfer your GI bill to your spouse. Do it the week you get back from your honeymoon.

Ha! I thought he would have moved on by now. I bet he's bummed he only gets 5 weeks now to tell everyone how awesome he is. I also thought he was a clown.

No, but I would say that it was my during my first deployment where I started to lose faith in the USAF as a service. "Combat" did not miraculously fix our problems.

It's not about a focus on reflective belts or the silly PM system. It's about outdated weapons, worn out equipment, a broken command and control concept in the AOC , and inadequate training and manning. Are we a better or worse air force than the one that went to war in Gulf war 1 almost 25 years ago?

I'm more of the mindset that a real shooting war would actually just reveal how broken the air force actually is.

No, you have to fire an O-6 to show Congress you're serious.

You think the roadblock is the SecAF? Really? Like someone else in this thread said, it would take one phone call to get this authority if AFPC actually knew how many pilots it can cut.

Champ, being serious or cheeky?

Isn't there another program where we sourced parts from subcontracts from all 50 states? Sorry. Wrong thread.

We'll always be the best Air Force, because we outspend the enemy 10 or 100 to 1. We're definitely not the best air force per capita or per dollar spent.

Looks like some of the writing I've seen in discussion posts in my masters classes.

It only took what, two years to make this ridiculously simple change happen? We are an immovable, bloated, disgrace of an organization.

You serious? He posts primary sources rather than random rumor like the rest of this board. You should appreciate it.

Bob is my new favorite troll.

This thread has 169,171 views. Missed it by two. Pretty amazing how many people are interested in these force management programs :P

A mil restricted ATP requires a paper IACRA, just FYI. It required that we look in various FAA circulars to figure out why the electronic version wouldn't accept the input.

Your implication being that if he was going to SDE he would be advocating more for the status quo?

It's probably a legal thing. If someone is eligible for TERA, but gets RIF'd, the Air Force would be involuntarily separating someone who they just had said was eligible to retire. Legitimate ground for a lawsuit, I imagine.

Isn't there some stipulation about writing a letter preventing you from getting separation pay (of like $75k)?

ColorodoAviator, I just did mine at Arlington last month. Here is the writeup I made over at airlinepilotforums: Just did the practical at Arlington with All ATP. My examiner was thorough and fair, with a reasonable knowledge portion and a flight right out of the practical test standards. There is a second examiner there that was giving a really ridiculous oral (sts) test, asking questions that nobody that's flown a Seminole twice would be able to answer (what do the springs that hold the gear down look like ) . The instruction wasn't great. My CFI did not know the ATP profile, so we ended up wasting time doing stuff that wasn't on the check ride. He wasted so much time on the ground prior to the flight (6 hours ) that our second flight was at night. Their experienced instructors appear to leave as soon as they get hired somewhere else. Maybe I'm just used to a different quality of instruction from the military. The ground school was non existent, and you're forced to memorize their Seminole supplement completely on your own. Ultimately, the check ride is not difficult, even for a fighter guy. If you're in Dallas, Arlington would work. There's no reason to prioritize it though-I was not impressed.

It reads like something that will be up for interpretation by whatever examiner you happen to be paired up with. It's not getting any cheaper; I think most would advise scheduling it before 31 Jul 16. I totally didn't answer your question.

Applying for VSP may increase your chance of getting RIFed as well. I think commanders will be hesitant to waste good strat on a guy who wants out.

I guess everyone could just put on the new reverse OPR that he doesn't support equal opportunity and end his career.

I can open xfld files on my mac. Soon after I discovered how, I stopped working on oprs from home. It turns out that they can wait. But seriously, I just searched for "xfld mac" using my Google machine.