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You get to keep your BAH if you're unaccompanied. OHA will be granted if your CC and the housing office agree that living off base is warranted (ie, if the dorms are at/close to capacity). OHA isn't like BAH...you don't get to keep the overage. Apartments can cost anywhere from 1.4K to 3K per month, depending on location/size/amenities (standard).

Off base at Osan is the shit. Do it if you can! Had a 4 bedroom apartment w/heated floors, bidet, heated parking garage, security system and it rocked. South Korean internet is way fast (shitty on base), so Skype, streaming HD, iTunes...way nice. Furniture is a bit hard to come by for a reasonable price. Try to get some basics included in your rental. That's not unusual. I had a bed, table, couch, coffee table, and chairs included. A couple hundred bucks at the BX later, you're pretty much G2G. Bring the family and have a blast. Cabs from Songtan to the local apartment complexes are just a few thousand gonk (< $5). I'd go back in a heartbeat. My liver on the other hand...

Heh.

The cost of KY and oral dams can really add up, I suppose.

We all know what really happens...

Our OG had a pretty legit stache. He's one of the good ones.

Everyone have your go bags ready. Let's do this!

It's all just fun and games irritating, dangerous, and damaging to your eyes until an airliner crashes and you get to spend life in prison for manslaughter.

Holy. Fucking. Shit. Post of the year. Thank you for writing this.

You believe this line? I have some oceanfront property in Kansas I'd be happy to sell you...

Nor do they have souls.

3 (not 2) met the board APZ.

I was expecting a third fist...not a chin under that beard.

Don't forget the salary/BAH/BAS/etc that we pay each of these airmen. If the organizations they leave behind while "on tour" can survive without them, one could argue that elimination of TiB could be simultaneously be paired with the insta-RIF of those 69-ish TiB members without ANY impact upon the mission at all. We're easily talking about $10M+ per year. Can that help at least one CAF squadron stay CMR? How about putting that funding toward a US-only Red Flag? We are literally mortgaging the future of air superiority in favor of a high-school-grade jazz band/drama club. YGBSM.

The NoDAK in the middle reminds me of this girl:

Phillip Oliver Holz

The Navy pics some strange callsigns. I met a Growler NFO at RFA who was named ShakeWeight.

Phil McKracken Dixon B. Tweenerlegz Hugh Chardon ...to name a few.

Howie Dikter? (This thread is now about fun names to have on your velcro tag whilst TDY.)

We'll have to take your word for it. Navs seem to know a lot about stool and ass.

...and the large adam's apple.

No, they are not. Sometimes, subtle reminders are all it takes to help everyone remember this very important fact.

I want to be inside that.

Wow. How are you going to find time for all this between your CGOC luncheons and Christmas Holiday Party planning meetings?