Jaded

Can anyone recommend a tax consultant or firm they've had a good experience with? My tax situation became much more complicated this year, and I'd rather hire an expert than spend another top 3 tour wading through IRS regulations.

F-16 at 19k per hour? For reals? I thought it was like 6k.

Well, the Super Tucano buy went off without a hitch, right?

I wouldn't recommend this job to my children.

Do promotion boards even care if you're an IP or not? Honest question. I thought that the strength of a PRF was based almost exclusively on the quality and quanitity of your strats.

What the hell is going on over there? U.S. service member opens fire on Afghan civilians: official Read more: https://www.nydailyne...6#ixzz1onVOBTm8

I wonder if it's at all because of this thread.

Fraud waste and abuse would be requiring that 100% of your pilot selectable tailkits be hardwired to low drag every year. Oh wait.

Derp.

I'm sad I've never had a chance to drop low drag weapons.

Yep.

I don't know about you guys, but when I think of legit news sites, the first thing that comes to mind is freebeacon.com (especially since it's apparently existed for a whole 3 weeks now). https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/02/07/the-washington-free-beacon/

Well, remember that once you commit to taking the bonus, most of that 18k per year will be tax free.

Can you actually see the bullet coming out of the gun in that first pic?

Can someone post the email train?

haha, hilarious.

It will be changed to flight suit/ABU Monday. Every other day we'll wear blues.

Right, and that would be true whether you put it in a TSA or in a normal taxable account (like a brokerage or standard mutual fund). The TSP is a tax deferred account. If you aren't paying taxes, there is nothing to defer. Thus, there is no advantage to tax free in TSP.

Putting tax-free earnings in a TSP (or 401k, or traditional IRA) is pointless. You're not deferring any taxes, you have to pay taxes on your earnings anyway, and you're preventing yourself from touching that money until you have old balls. Just put that money in a brokerage account; it's the same. The way that reads, it looks like you can't contribute to a Roth if you literally have $0 of taxable income (which I didn't know). If you still want to fund it, you might want to look into interest income (SDP is $1k to start) or capital gains.

Here ya go, from the same FY10 report: FY90 38% FY91 40% FY92 69% FY93 79% FY94 81% FY95 76% FY96 58% FY97 35% FY98 28% FY99 42% FY00 32% The FY11 numbers would be interesting, even if it is from a small sample.

From the FY 10 report: "Unfortunately, because of the transition from the 8 to 10 year active duty service commitment, our pilot bonus leading indicator is of very limited value this year. Only 34 post pilot training pilots were eligible for the bonus in FY10. The good news is the take rate was 76%. The bad news is the population is too small to infer any continuing trends. In FY11 there are 200 initial eligible pilots and FY12 that number will increase again to the more typical 700+." Here is the last 10 year's worth: FY01 30% FY02 47% FY03 65% FY04 70% FY05 65% FY06 66% FY07 67% FY08 68% FY09 65% FY10 76% Edited for table failure.

Operation dinner out?

Why, again, do I want to work so hard? I'm having more and more trouble remembering what it is exactly I'm working towards. I'll be a tactical expert so I'm able to serve my country in a time of war. I have no idea what a masters buys me (retirement? more deployments? less flying?).

Just to add to the chorus... WTF.

Couldn't the same be said about your posts?