Jaded

There are QOL options at the airlines too. A lot of people talk about living in domicile, but you could always just drop a percentage of your schedule each month. If, say, 12 days a month netted you 180k, you could drop 1/3 of your schedule, work 8 days a month, and still make $120k.

I commute from Fedex, and am gone from home 12-14 days a month in my 2nd year. We have many trips that start or end away from domicile, so some of those days of paid "work" are just you as a passenger flying to or from your real home to whatever city your trip starts or ends from. It's surprising to me how little seniority you need to hold the commutable trips. Fedex has limited domiciles but great commutability.

Yeah, the first year at the airlines sucks. However, due to the seniority system, every month is ever so slightly better than the previous, which is kind of the opposite of how the air force worked.

I didn't understand it either until I tried to get a new driver's license in Texas after living overseas for several years. Showing up with all my forms filled out, all the ID requirements from the website (including my military ID), and getting turned away because my military ID doesn't have my SSN on it (Wtf). It ended up taking 3 half days off work to get a driver's license (first day at the DPS, next day at the social security administration, third day back at the DPS.) If I couldn't afford those lost wages or if I would lose my job for missing that much work, I just wouldn't have an eligible voter ID. Obviously you only accept sources that reinforce your world view, and I'm wasting my time providing a personal anecdotal counter example, but whatever. Here's a 17 minute podcast that goes through a methodology of voter fraud claims. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/630/things-i-mean-to-know They use math as their source though, so not sure it it's something you are going to believe.

I wish there was a way to educate cadets about how the military justice system actually works. They have a right to know what they're getting themselves into.

Slackline, You misunderstood, have been debriefed, and are now quibbling.

Has there ever been a more crystal clear sign that an organization is fundamentally broken than the fact that this celebratory thread (the largest in years) is for an individual essentially getting notice he is being fired? That said, congratulations!

Nah, it must be because you're a "millennial."

Just because a place sucks less doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

I always wondered what would happen if people stopped jumping through their asses to get orders. Just do nothing, and when your DEROS is up or whatever and you don't have orders, you stay an extra week while the FSS gets fucked by some O6s.

BGI is a good company. All of the rank and file pilots they employ at the location I work at are good dudes.

ALPA has supplemental life insurance too.

There's no shortage of people applying to be pilots.

Have they eliminated SFOs out of the B course syllabus, or is that on deck for the next iteration?

Any truth to the rumor that it was being taped for the benefit of someone's young daughter, and wasn't meant for public consumption at all?

AGAIN, TO OUR VERY FOOLISH LEADER, DO NOT ATTACK SYRIA - IF YOU DO MANY VERY BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN & FROM THAT FIGHT THE U.S. GETS NOTHING!

Thanks for the words. The non-signature is from bureaucratic incompetence at the FSS; nothing administrative. I didn't lose my qual for any sinister reason. I did a QOL benefit analysis and told my unit I was going to move on when my palace chase ADSC expired. It's simply been so long since my fini flight that my form 8 is long expired.

AFRC. They said I'm required to stay in until the end of the year (I assume fiscal). There is no assurance that I'll be let go at that time though - just that I'll be allowed to try again. It's like this inescapable loop, with my family caught in the middle - 1. 4Q17 - Submit letter of resignation 2. 1Q18 - Letter not signed. 3. 2Q18 - Letter not signed. 5. April 4th - Because your letter is not signed, you're stop lossed. Try again next October 1st. Go to step 1. I'm not qualified to fly my airplane anymore (I stopped flying a few months prior to submitting my letter of resignation). I'm not even assigned a job.

From what I understand, congressional inquiries (like the IG) are pretty worthless.

Update: just notified today that I'm stop lossed. Submitted for resignation last November. If anybody has any suggestions on how to fight this, I'd appreciate it. I'm a TR.

Signed by whom? I have some skin in this fight, as my chain of command has been slow rolling my paperwork like nothing I've ever seen before.

Fedex pilot huh?

I already thought that the ARC was about >< close to a mass exodus after these last contracts got signed. People are already losing money for every day they work in the reserves. Involuntary mobilization would shove that rock right off the cliff.

Yes yes yes, but flying ability aside, does their mere existence help turn manning PowerPoint slides green? Or maybe yellow at least? We need to focus on what's important here.

And I quote, "Turboprop pilots... if the Air Force could send T-6 students direct to turboprop aircraft, which platforms would be willing to accept? And what would need to be taught"