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Perfecto...thanks for the help!

Quick question about changing the % of base pay to contribute. Next year, I want to change my % from 1% currently to 14% so that I can max out my TSP in 2011. When should I go into MyPay and make the change so that the change effects my first 2011 paycheck? Basically, I don't want to do it too early to effect my last 2010 paycheck, but not late enough to miss my first 2011 paycheck. Thanks for the help!

I was thinking the same thing. If you must "Aim High", the jet needs to be boresighted.

I was there for 2 weeks recently and made every effort to walk around with my shirt untucked and no reflective belt. I even walked to the pool in my swim trunks and flip flops then stopped at the BRA afterward to have some beers and no one ever said anything to me. It may have been my "talk to me and I will fucking rip your head off" look I usually sport, or maybe the place is getting better.

Well, at Kandahar...if you get caught without your reflective belt, they give a reflective belt and take your ID. Then, you must bring your boss in to retrieve your ID card and turn in the belt they loaned you. Just gonna say, no one is taking my ID card from me unless I am in cuffs and they take it out of my pocket, or Haji demands it when I land under parachute in his mud hut. Just sayin'...

Are horizontal shoulder holsters allowed in Kandahar?

Have you ever denied a receiver gas?

Why would you be hesitant? MFA's are not cosmic.

Come on Rainman, I'm a CAS pilot...I never believe there is a single solution to any problem. Therefore, any suggestions/wisdom you'd like to pass on, please do!

I'm gonna start traveling here in a few weeks. What size bag will fit into a travel pod? Any suggested bags that are good for taking all your shit downrange?

2 on that. I smell a nasty, rotten vagina in the house. Makes me wanna puke. Instead of complaining, get the family involved. Drop the kids off somewhere, let the wife out of the kitchen and have her meet you at the bar. And a few other wives or girlfriends. We are never ones to kick bitches out of the bar (only strippers and midgets are allowed to stay during Roll Call). Hell, your wife is probably already sleeping with half the squadron anyway (fighter pilot humor). Shit, bring your mom too. I kind of like older women as it is. Once your mom/wife have had time to socialize with better men than yourself, have them give said better men rides home to change then out to the clubs. Is all that fighter pilot tradition? No, I think it's just a bunch of friends having a good time together. Of course, if you're flying on Friday, why not make it Saturday evening? BVR SOS and your Masters are the ONLY reasons you're allowed to miss. But I can see that not taking hold in AFSOC...after all, it is full of "special" heavy pilots...

AMF!

Vipers and Eagles strafing? Comical. That's why they have to call out their base altitude before rolling in...and that rule IS written in blood. I once saw a video of a Strike Eagle strafing a truck. The truck stopped for a few seconds after getting hit and then drove off. The only way that would happen with the GAU-8 is if all 300 rounds in the burst missed...then we'd just combat offset the second time on the same pass. God, I love the gun! No offense to the Strike Eagle bubbas meant...but Vipers just plain suck at CAS.

RB must be the PC douchebag that probably gave us the belts in the first place...oh, the irony here is very deep!

So the ADSC of 4 years only applies if you wat to transfer the benefits to your dependents?

Kandahar Airmen Use AFSO 21 at War "After a brief Lean training session, the team proceeded to inventory all of the items in the shelter essential to the A-10 phase inspection operation and segregate the things they did not need or use. Once finished, the team straightened the area and gave it a good cleaning by sweeping the floors and turning in unneeded items to supply." Okay, so they clean up after themselves and call it AFSO 21? Way to go dudes! I'm going to clean up my work area tomorrow and add it to my OPR fodder!

Ohhh, he's a WSO...totally makes sense now! Just playin'... Gotta be more to the story!

In terms of my time at the Auger back in 04, safe = verified birth control.

I think it's something called perspective...most of the shoe-tools lack it. While the CMSGT may be correct, clearly if he has the time to track down an O-5 to correct an O-4...his ass should be force shaped. I would track him down and ask him my he doesn't have the integrity to correct you on the spot if he thought it so important.

I would have put in a good word for her if her roommate gave me a BJ (or hell, even showing her tits maybe). Too bad my opinion about anything didn't matter at all during my time at the 50th. The T-1 chicks were almost always hotter anyhow.* *I never havebeen , am not, and never will be involved in an inappropriate instructor-student relationship. It goes against my core values and most the chicks were 0's anyway.

The only way to rule the innocent man is to make him a criminal.

Dude, wait until you get here then Craiglist a house full of chicks with an open room. I'm not joking, I wish I had done that. There are tons. You'll most likely be near the University, plus you'll be making bank with BAH.

Another quick question about an Overseas PCS and the ole auto... Heading to Spang in a few months and I want to keep my F-150, but I don't wanna take it with me. Will the government pay to have it stored here rather than shipping it? Thanks!

Damn, we have some sh!t hot pilots in here. Almost 50% with all Q1/no downgrades...ever? My bitter downgrade story...the NOTAM for the ILS said it was "unservicable UFN". First off, "unservicable" is not defined anywhere. I'll called the national NOTAM office and even they couldn't give me an answer. I know it could mean out of service, or it could mean they can't work on it...or other things. Well, I fly the approach the day prior, then I call the tower prior to the flight to see if it's up, then I ask approach prior to commencing the approach, then I get chearance for the approach, fly the approach perfectly to finish off what I thought was a perfect checkride. We walk back in from the flight, the SEFE says "great flight, except...". I get an f-in downgrade for mission planning because I shouldn't have planned to fly an approach that was NOTAMed as "unserviceable". I then asked him what "UFN" meant to him....f-in gay. From that point on, I made every effort to fly that SEFE with the Polish studs every chance I got.

It's very quick to move my hand forward on the handguard and rock the rocker switch inboard from the underside. Not a problem for me...although it may not be tacticool enough for others.