BFM this

Which is why this might be the smart, albeit short term play, ironically. I know dudes that are on their fourth (4) ops assignment. You might be able to sell someone nearing the end of their second assignement that there is still hope of returning to the jet after ALO/whitejet/etc. Likewise, that opens up the oppurtunity to draw from the deepest well as TAMInated alluded to: the TAMI-21'ers. If there is anyone who will pay you back with a few extra years service for the opportunity to get back into their jet, it's prob these folks. From there, your next deepest well will be the rest of the 11F's that have been sitting in dumpsters. And there is hope: just had two dudes in my sq get their ticket to the island with this vml: they are going back to their pointy nosed jet. But this all assumes that RPA's aren't among the list of bills that the porch has to pay--false assumption, and probably why hindsight is right, and this will never happen. But I also see it as the reason why we will not see a stop loss, for two reasons: #1: In order for a stop loss to be implemented, Big Blue would have to admit that it fucked up. Uhhmmm, yeah right. It was one thing for the mass wave of stop losses that happened a-la early 2003, ergo, #2: There is no looming contingency op (other that those that have been ongoing for 10yrs+), so that would further feed the vicious WTF-cycle back to #1. No, a projected airline hiring wave, itself the brainchild of quite a few economic assumptions, does not constitute a contingency. Sorry. My bet is that the AF will go to congress with it's hat in hand and ask for the easiest (and arguably least effective) solution: higher bonuses. FY14.

Left rear fender: appears everyone continued to play through.

Aww c'mon; you just had to go there? Did NOT need that visual in my cranium this morning.

Yeah, he could pull off a Navy O-6 character.

FG, As I see it, your limfac pitching into this fight is the JFTR. DTS was designed around that document. The reason that DTS is such a cumbersome pain in the ass is that, well, the JFTR is a ginormous, cumbersome, pain in the ass reg. In order to make DTS a more useable system you would have to literaly scrap the JTR and start from scratch there. The JTR, and ergo DTS, are documents/systems caught up in the dual task of performing their primary function while at the same time defending against FWA; already touched on in previous posts. What was also already mentioned, is that the dream interface from the user perspective is an interactive 1352-1 format. But that old friend depended on a well versed, multi-layer QC process that started at the finance office, and went through several layers of beurocracy that you could speak to better than I. But from my perspective, I only had to be able to fill out the simple form. Whether or not it got audited 6-9 months from now was not my problem.

Ok, so in the spirit of this thread, is this a good or bad thing? Is the ice cream cone just continuing to lick itself, or is there hope? Will she do anything to get us a tanker/F-35/CSAR platform/for the love of god stop the flow of flatscreen TV's (is that even an AFMC thing?)? The obligitory first-female________ PA drivel doesn't bode well, but lets see if there's something positive:

...and his name was Shaved Dog's Ass

Anyone tried to switch to Roth contributions yet? I'm not seeing anything in MyPay to make that change.

Nope. Annuity model. Based on a total 7% roi (4% return, 3% saved for cola increases), it would take an additional $30k increase in annuity value to drive the 2.5% additional retirement benefit. Again, dependen on where you finish off on the pay scale. Give or take...

I recently did the math for grins, and depending on where you end up on the pay scale, it equates to ~$30k per year to stay after 20. That's the rough equivalent addition to the retirement annuity to push the extra 2.5%. So someone separating 2 years early is giving up ~$60k of value. But hey, if you've got something better lined up, I say go for it.

They were not making a political endorsement. It would have been entirely different if out of nowhere someone had shoved a microphone under their nose and they popped the clutch on their mouth.

Yeah, my takeaway from that whole "article" was: Nothing to See Here. Hell, I'd cash in one or two of my AMs to get a reliable ARC210.

It's like BQZip's mating call!

Ok, I give up. Where's the downside?

Whoa, whoa, WHOA, there, Tex. That's not entitlement money, that's the Government's money! They better have used their GTC. Just sayin...

Clearly this line of defense was lifted from BODN...

There's just so much agenda in that statement I don't know where to begin. COO's of the airlines are fighting to the death against the 1500 hour rule, which as much as anything is a labor protectionist measure every bit as much as it's concerned with safety. Gen Fogleman of course has his finger on the pulse of the military, and Air Force manning in particular. So when he leaves a boardroom where everybody is hyperventilating, it stands to reason that he would be concerned about the impact on mil-pilot retention. But that's only to say that he's got his eye on another labor-protectionist issue as well: the military one. Get rid of the 1500 hour rule, airlines can continue to soak up starving regional FO's that are willing to live in ghetto crash pads and make $16k/yr while the pilots that the military generates can continue to believe that life is better inside the walls of the safe and secure asylum that they are so accustomed to. 144k ATPs. Pilot shortage? Really? That's why I'm shopping around for a good B-school after I hang up the flight suit; Washington will accomodate the airline executives who are telling them that the sky is falling, sooner or later. Edit to add: the average age of the ATP holder has gone up 3 years in the last decade. So there's no denying that the retirement wave is going to happen.

Mixed to not at all. Someone with exec stink can chime in with a better set of data, but it seems that for those prior MWS dudes released back to their respective porches, most go immediately toward the bill paying side of assignments and not necessarily back to a tx. What is the easiest bill to pay for someone with their credentials?...Holloman. But a few thinking that they've won their lottery ticket to the Island end up striking so there's that to look forward to.

One night, as a 20yo E3 playing DD for two of my buds, driving through the gate at Cherry Point, my bud in the back seat is passed out and visibly shithoused. When we finally got his ID, the E3 at the gate sees that Otis is also underage and waves us over to the parking lot for a sobriety check, which I obviously pass. SNCO of the watch gets called up to the gate to confer. Once he gets the story, the exchange unfolds thus: SNCO to Gate Guard: "So, these three were in the vehicle, and he was driving (points at me). GG: "Yes, SSgt. That one is drunk" (points to my bud), "and his ID says he is underage." SNCO: "But he was passed out in the back seat." GG: "Yes, SSgt." SNCO nods thoughtfully with a slightly pained expression: "Uh Huh." motions to the GG: "Come with me." Points to us: "You three can go."

Wurd

Uhh, is my math off? Isn't this the bonus, as it has been, for several years now? How is this bonus "Fatter"?

I would hang onto/retrieve everything that you can get your hands on for now. It can be tough to tell when you'll need something. I was in the middle of T38's when I got an email from someone down at Randolph. It seemed that very little data transferred with me from the Corps, and the DD214's that I'd supplied did not constitute valid documentation of service. AFPC was about to reset my pay date to OTS, in which case I was going to skip about 3 paychecks after loosing 10 years and the "E" after my pay grade. When it was all said and done, I faxed everything that I had laying around including all enlistment documents going back to the original contract that I'd signed in high school (not making this up). This absurdity has repeated itself a few more times, albeit on a smaller scale, with things like awards and decs. BL: approach the shredder at your own risk during this transition. You might feel like something of a pack-rat, but better safe than sorry here.

And on that day, throughout all the land, not a single fuck was given.

Mooney 201J's can be had for under $90k. Might not be the best solution, but it would take the edge off of some fair Wx days.