backseatdriver
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Have a question I can't find an answer to on all the GI Bill FAQs so thought someone on here might have some experience with it...
If you transfer your benefits to dependents you incur a 4-year ADSC and, beginning in July, this has to be done NLT 16th year of service. Once transferred, months can be reallocated at will without affecting ADSC. I'm tracking all of that.
The question is - if you transfer benefits to dependents, incur your ADSC, and then later add another dependent (i.e. have another kid, get married, etc), can you allocate months to them without issue, or is that considered a NEW transfer...and therefore has to be done prior to 16 years and incurs a new ADSC?
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15 hours ago, cragspider said:
No. Part of it might be. But it’s only tax free up to what an E-9 makes. Anything over that is taxed.
Specifically it's the base pay of the CMSAF ($8361) plus HFP/IDP ($225). So you get up to $8,586 of each month tax free.
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1 hour ago, Weezer said:
I got picked up last year 1 APZ. I was sitting in Joint Staff, got a #2/14 strat on the bottom line along with a push for SDE and Sq/CC. Don’t remember what kind of P/super P I got.
Pretty suprised when I got the news, but AFPC lady was pretty clear that that command push was 75% of what did me for IPZ.
Also wrote a letter to the board.
You got passed over while working at the JCS? Or did you PCS there after the board?
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3 hours ago, Azimuth said:
They were probably fucking. When's their court martial?
Wow. Jump to conclusions much?
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http://www.hurlburt.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/798252/colonel-thomas-b-palenske/
He's just about to hit 23 years TIS (commissioned in 95), so he still has a year until his pole window for O-7 starts (24-26 years)
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2 hours ago, celtic020 said:
Recent PCS to a JDAL billet with a million staff O-4s. Will have no face time with my senior rater, and my immediate rater is an Army O-5....don't know what to make of it yet.
Talk to your AFELM commander - they should be your advocate with your raters to make sure you're taken care of from an "Air Force" perspective while you're in the joint job.
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14 hours ago, Bandit6139 said:
"Transfer contracts in place prior to 180 days after the date of enactment of the legislation will be grandfathered. Transfer contracts signed after that date will be subject to the lower housing rate."
BLUF: Transfer your benefits soon or your kids will get 50% less housing allowance.
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There's even a video of info on the ACJ (including 150mm cannons) overlaid on...AC-130U video. The only footage of the Ghostrider is in the first two seconds.
Way to go CNN.
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yet another media article reaffirming they have no concept of aerodynamics. http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/20/politics/air-force-gunship-lost/index.html
1. Airliners typically crab, not slip
2. The act of inverting alone does not over-g an aircraft. See: Tex Johnson.
And it looks like we're getting 150mm cannons. That'll be pretty sweet.
Another stellar piece of well-researched aviation journalism from CNN.
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$2800 for a battery powered integrated circuit watch is a good deal??? No thanks.
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Weekly WAR Report...
Weekly "weekly activity report" report
Published by the Department of Redundancy Department
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So does anyone else feel like this entire demonstration is incredibly sexist? Ironic that there's an event that centers around reducing sexual assault and its underlying causes by having guys walk around in bright red heels - because clearly, what other kind of shoes would a woman wear?
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Sucks for the girl whose picture got thrown on the letter that didn't even write it!
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Can someone post what 12X's are on the list? MyPers is not cooperating...
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Where's the part of the video where they drop their weapons and run when ISIS shows up and let Iranian backed militias secure their homeland? Or is that in Part 2?
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...keep the meat machine going....
This statement lays bare the disconnect. It's about "keeping the machine going" - not about quality of life, not about balancing experience, not about retaining quality over quantity (or even good quality over poor quality), it's about "keeping the meat machine going." Hence why a squadron with 10 tails and a 1.5 crew ratio that has 15 newly minted Aircraft Commanders and 15 baby Copilots is "100% manned". "Spreadsheet is green, nothing to worry about here. And your complaints about lack of manning are completely unfounded." No regards for the quality or experience of those numbers.
I would love to be a fly on the wall and hear this same rhetoric of "we can buy off enough people to keep the meat machine going - there isn't a manning problem" being pitched to CSAF or some of our MAJCOM/CCs.....I'm not talking about you briefing the polished slides that show everything green and on a trend line that's based on metrics you created - I mean using the exact verbiage you use here. My prediction is A) you wouldn't dare use that language in that scenario, and 2) If you did you would get crushed.
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So, while being a mission commander was definitely the most fun leadership job I had, it didn't really teach me much I hadn't seen before.
When you and Dirk say "Mission Commander" I'm fairly confident you're not talking about the same things.
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"Hey - we want you to test fly this 747 with a Space Shuttle attached to it."
"Sure."
Damn. Here's a toast...
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I come back every now and then to read these threads. I am so fucking glad I left the shit show. A Weapon's School PRF guide? YGTBSM!
Dude. It's PRF guidance for the Weapns School organization, not PRF "TTPs" published by the WS. Contrary to popular belief, WS instructors have to compete for promotion too.
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Lol oh man, I remember one time down at Shank, the command at the time was Artillery. One day they spotted some guys setting up mortars. There was an Apache QRF ready to go but they decided to try to hit them with a 777 (of course missing horribly, it wasn't an Excalibur round or anything). It was only after they had fired a few shots all over the place as the guys were running away that they notified the Apache QRF. Of course by the time they got there, the dudes were long gone...
Even better - holding an AC-130 off to engage a target with 105mm artillery. Key radio..."You guys know we have a hundred rounds of that onboard and can actually see what we're shooting at right?"
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Couldn't decide whether to start a new thread, post this in the thread about the 2 star saying shit he shouldn't, here or the "what's wrong with the AF" thread as an example of what's right, but this is an example of a bro doing good work.
DFC with valor - these are the stories we need to be telling about OEF
http://www.luke.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123437149#.VMLAIOf1Hrs.facebook
Sounds like a helluva mission - wonder why it took
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Cyber experts doubt FBI claims about hacking source
Interesting...although I'm assuming (hoping) the FBI has more info than just what they're saying open source if they're pinning a cyber attack on a foreign government.
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Maxwell: -9% for O-4 & -8% for O-5...sucks for everybody that already signed leases for this summer....
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Good. We're giving in to the demands of the terrorists.
Since when does an international conglomerate corporation headquartered in Japan constitute "we"?
Accompanied at AUAB
in General Discussion
Posted
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/06/03/pentagon-unveils-new-policy-for-12-month-unaccompanied-tours-to-iraq-arabian-peninsula/
Looks like accompanied assignments have been turned off "permanently"