BFM this

You are right. There is a choice involved. A) you're a mil dude, so maybe you have to do a t&g at a regional, then off to a major. 3-6 months, if you took their bonus, they want it back. Hourly rate at year-1 for you. B) You think the regionals have awesome bonuses, and you're hell bent on keeping the money. You have to stay typically between 13 months and 3 years, because fuck seniority at a major. The BL is that yes, the regionals are flashing better money than historical averages, but just like the AF's bonuses, they are retention bonuses. Don't want to be retained? Then you don't get to keep the $. It's good for the .civ guys just reaching their R-ATP mins who are going to be there for 3-5yrs, but .mil guys should be prepared for some honest accounting if that's the route they end up on temporarily. It's not free money with no strings attached.

There it is: winner of the the dumbest fuckin rule of November, 2017. So there I was, finishing up my go-to workout set of warm-up, weights, pool, sauna. Like I've done a hundred times at this and other bases. Gettin my sweat on, a 1ea kakis and polo pops her nugget in the sauna, looks over at me, "Excuse me, could you please put a shirt on?" ...in the sauna? Time for this but no time to have towels available? Time to join the Y I guess.

The IRS doesn't play games with shitty customer service.

Then all of that stuff you posted earlier is n/a. Hourly rate...yum.

Average mil dude isn’t going to be at a regional long enough to keep their bonuses.

Meh. Probably cost $50k+ ($120k+ in gub'mint dollars) a copy to give a useable display, which would probably end up less useful than the garmin slapped into the light bracket. Unless it's going to include a poor man's datalink via the ADS-B interaction with the rest of the Red side, then why bother? It fulfills the fed's requirement and keeps the trains running on time. Not to mention, any talk of an upgrade could increase the threat of a "PMP upgrade". Yeah, nah.

Regardless of the outcome, this has been the most spirited discussion on the CAF Fighter FB page. Enough so that I'm wondering if big blue isn't going to shut it down.

So an 11F will PCS straight to a white jet base and go into IQT/MQT? Meh...probably more doable than skipping Phase III

There’s a curfew in Korea again?

Throwing your people and their families under the bus as a symbolic genuflection/trying to save face with the Japanese doesn’t solve the square root of fuck-all. Do some math. We’ve got 100k people and their families over there. Statistically, we are outperforming our national demographic in terms of crime and accidental death. Whe that’s not the public reply that should be given to our hosts, this is NOT leadership, it’s reactive CYA chickenshit.

Should be front page Navy times with an update on pilot manning crisis below the fold.

Easy: spring for the cellular data. No connection to NIPR. The co$t of $ecurity.

Hadn’t checked in a while. Is the latest version bold/italics from cover to cover?

As written, sure. Completely unnecessary? It depends... Speaking from a very personal perspective.

And there it is...

Yep. Really wondering if/how he got around the Lautenburg rule.

Yeah, I read the same source. Not to poop on his efforts, but that forum, like this one, has has a signal-noise ratio more suited to spirited (and useful) discussion than hard truth data. Hopefully there will be more actionable data on Mon, but as even Roto admitted, the he was not fully read into the news story before it went to press. Bottom line: I’m not expecting a TX date if I get voluntold, and that’s the problem with this, from my selfish perspective.

Recall me to a cockpit? Ok, I get it. Recall me to a desk? I will be raging pissed.

This is not VRRAD, if I'm reading correctly. I did not catch the word "voluntary" anywhere in the article. This is a "recall", with specific omission of the word "voluntary". Still think it's noise and posturing. I think this would be a bigger grenade to throw than stop-loss, and we haven't heard that bandied about. ...too much. ...yet.

Tried to cram me and my three kids (2 x Teenagers, a toddler and golden retriever) into a 1 BR TLF with lead based paint. While that was three years ago, don't bet on it.

Agreed. But you wouldn't be an IFF grad to stay in sunny Playa del Enid.

Hmmm...so lets do some math. Theres a whole squadron at HMN with jets and few if any IPs, so they're still ramping up. The leading edge of the production surge is going on a year in their ops units, pushing out the experience before them. And last but not least, if only there were somewhere to park IFF grads for two to three years while the rest of the pipeline gets up to speed. If only... Haha, nevermind, lets shut off IFF drops.

I was ambivalent about bump stocks. Don't own one, would consider it a novelty if someday I'd amassed a collection large enough to seek unique ways to entertain myself on the range. From a constitutional position, I was waiting to hear some justification; from a legislative position, I was waiting to hear how THIS was the panacea that volumes of previous laws and regulations had promised themselves to be. But just like that (*snap) I went from ambivalent to opposed. https://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/06/nancy-pelosi-hopes-ban-bump-stocks-slippery-slope-more-gun-control Guess politics is funny like that.

Ahhh, reading comprehension fail on my part. Thought you were referring to gun manufacturers being held liable. Disregard all after...

Which is why it costs nearly half a million dollars to buy $69,000 worth of new airplane these days. Great plan!