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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    1 hour ago, pawnman said:

    The flu shot also needs refrigeration...yet we somehow manage to distribute that to millions of people every year.  Refrigeration is not an insurmountable obstacle...Hell, it's not even a difficult obstacle.

    -80 degrees C (colder than dry ice) is not your standard refrigeration obstacle.

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    Atlas 767 (Amazon livery) Down

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    On 7/14/2020 at 10:36 PM, BashiChuni said:

    Hard to imagine why the captain didn’t immediately take the jet

    The FO’s incompetence and the CA’s competence intersected well below the available recovery window in this circumstance.

    FO made an input well outside  reasonable expectation, so much so that it produced a startle effect in the CA, fatally delaying the attempted recovery on his part.  

    An antidote could have been a timely and assertive “MY AIRCRAFT” from the CA, but given the data, even that is left to doubt; regardless, no such declaration was recorded on the CVR.

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    The new airline thread

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    12 minutes ago, FLEA said:

    Curious what people's thoughts are on what I should do; advice, etc...

    Making some assumptions that the airline industry will have a solid bounce back by the time I'm eligible to get out in 3 years at 13.5 years of service. 

    I'm really worried about my PIC time. I've done MQ-9s and staff. I'm on my 3rd MWS now and restarting as a copilot. I have 100 AC hours from my first MWS but I feel like I'm unlikely to finish the tour where I'm at adding more anymore than 100 to that. A lot of the career websites for airlines say that 500 PIC hours in a multi engine turbine is preferred but I'm not seeing myself coming close. Especially since getting PIC time as an AC is difficult since the minute you throw an instructor on board for training you lose the a code. Supposing a hiring environment in 3 years similar to the one last year what would you do? Apply anyway? Or should I start looking into other things? Staying in the AF is not an option for me. Nor is working for the federal government in any capacity.

    I value free time more than money but need to make at least as much as I'm making in the AF to sustain QOL. Just curious what other oppurtunity people might see in this situation from their angle.

     

    In 3y the regionals will be back to picking up .mil with R-ATP mins.  If you can sprint to an EP qual, you could potentially go straight to a major.

    UPT Next

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    12 hours ago, FLEA said:

    Going to be completely honest here. There was a great oppurtunity for this in RPAs but most people only gave that prospect a single glance. 

    I might be wrong on this (second hand rumor) but I think it was implemented in some form in the RPA world.  Funding to go flying at the local FBO I’d heard.  Correct me if I’m wrong here.

    Live Free or Die

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    3 hours ago, TheLaughingCow said:

    Many of these protests are being organized by dark money multimillionaires.  Here is an interesting NYTimes opinion piece about it.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/opinion/coronavirus-protests-astroturf.html

    The author appears to have an axe to grind but I have no reason to doubt their statements.

    Or, hear me out now, these protests are being organized and participated in by people who have lost their income by excessive response to the threat, while those with a recession proof stream of income write op-Ed’s about “dark money” (which makes me think Soros actually...).

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    Brown Nominated to be Next CSAF

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    11 hours ago, dream big said:

    Who cares about old shoe Chief of Staffs? This guy is the real deal.  Fighter pilot, weapons officer, down to earth ops focused dude.  

    So was Welsh.  Lots of hopes were high.  And he decided to front load a RIF and then cash in all of his chips trying to park the A-10.

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    VA Loans

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    On 2/10/2020 at 6:28 PM, Nuke77 said:

    Today I get a letter from the VA saying I’ve fallen behind on my home mortgage, so naturally I investigate: NBKC apparently sold my loan to a company called Freedom Mortgage, and notified me with letter(not certified!), which I somehow missed due to being in another country all summer, early fall. I’ve gotten weekly, sometimes daily refinance offers from Freedom since I bought the house, so everything from them automatically goes in the circular file. Turns out that as of Oct they’ve been mortgage statements, and as an added bonus my auto-payment didn’t transfer, so I’m 5 months behind, hence the VA notice. Paid in full but so much for my stellar credit. Anybody been through this or have any advice? Recommend stay away from Freedom, btw; they’re notorious for VA Loan Churning. NBKC can pound sand too, seems like they’d make a bigger deal about the transfer than a single mailing.

    Yeah, Freedom Mortgage can go get bent.  I noticed immediately that my payment didn't go through, antennae went up.  Called my servicer (Dovenmeuhle), who said that the transfer was in progress, but that federal law prohibited any penalty or adverse action for 60 days due to the transfer.

    I even went the extra step and reached out to Freedom; same answer.  60 days.  Got it.

    So, about the 45 day mark, I reach out again to Freedom to make my payment and set up auto pay; lo and behold, there's a $25 "VA Inspection Fee".  According to them, it's not a penalty, but a VA required fee since I was so far behind in my payments.  They seemed to give a shit that it was their timing (triggering the transfer right at my payment date, therefore I start out 30 days since my last payment) and that I was talking to them to pay within days of the transfer.  

    Moving this summer.  Going to do all I can to ensure that sketch outfit doesn't end up servicing any future notes if I can.

    Deaths Surpass 200, and State Department Urges Against Travel to China

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    4 hours ago, FLEA said:

    The prominance of these cases is in Wuhan which is very rural, has limited healthcare and no centralized hospital. Victims in more civilized countries seem to recover after 1-2 weeks.

    Don’t know how long it’s been since you’ve been to WUH, but the view out of my 30th floor of the Hilton didn’t look very rural.  That’s not to say many other points made (health care quality, dis-information, etc) aren’t valid.

    Taxes, the Deficit/Debt, and the Fiscal Cliff

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    22 hours ago, torqued said:

    This new money will take a minute to circulate through the financial system, and when it starts hitting the pockets of the average wage-earner, the price of everything will soar. The purchasing power of your nest egg in the bank falls dramatically. The average person will have less discretionary spending because they'll be spending earnings on the ballooning prices of milk, bread, utilities, healthcare, car payments, student loan payments, credit card payments, and mortgages. When money gets tight and cards are maxed, less consumer goods are purchased and loan payments slow. Borrowers default and it's 2007-8 again, but with multiple bubbles. Your savings and cash accounts are devalued, and your retirement/401K is crushed. Tax revenue shrinks while the Federal Government continues to spend $1 Trillion more (and growing) per year than it receives.

    One of the toughest concepts for the average joe to wrap their brain around is that inflation isn't just something that happens naturally, as we've been conditioned to believe, and at the end of the day, it is really a back-door tax.

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    AF enlisted "pilots" - rank doesn't matter, only ability

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    5 hours ago, Majestik Møøse said:

    To many enlisted dudes, sending their best qualified guys over to the officers’ team would be akin to a Democrat going to work for a Republican. They identify more with being enlisted than they do about being individuals with upward mobility.

    Lol, they won’t forget where they came from.  But every last one of their friends would be telling them “Fakouttahere; go get paid, brah!”

    The Next President is...

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    On 10/29/2019 at 4:03 PM, brickhistory said:

    So an Army LTC appears before the House inquiry today in full dress uniform despite him working in civvies in his job at the NSC.

    Active duty who works at the NSC or a part timer that works at the NSC as his day job?  There's a difference.

    And yeah, in the case of the former, I’d expect him to show up in uniform if told to report front and center, regardless of his UoD at work.

    Divorce

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    7 hours ago, Duck said:

    I definitely have more to tell, but unfortunately due to some recent developments, this thing isn’t over. Good for me and the kids, bad for her.

    As far as the military retirement, we were married for 12 years but she didn’t care about it. It was obvious she just wanted cash right away. So I get to keep 100% of that.

    Wouldn't be surprised if you end up pitching in for another two-circle.  Many parallels from what you shared with my own trip through BPD-land...including a post decree arrest, multiple convictions, and the list went on (all her, btw).  

    She must have had the shittiest lawyer I've ever heard of to ditch the mil-retirement asset.  Score for you.

    23 hours ago, Gazmo said:

    Unfortunately, in this F'd up society we live in and legal system we deal with, men dealing with a women with any one of these disorders almost always get destroyed in one way or another.

    True.  Complete financial ruin, an entire generation of wealth destroyed, barely able to make ends meet, unable to provide for more than the essentials for my kids for a while; luckily I was able to stiff-arm BK, but only just.

    In the end, the sweetest phrase you'll ever hear: Sole physical & legal.  Worth.  It.

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    Saddle up for Syria? Or Op Deny Christmas '13

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    11 hours ago, jazzdude said:

    And yet pretty much no one volunteers for AFPAK Hands... Which is focused on building up those 2 countries for the long term so we don't have to be there.

    Talk is cheap. Someone eventually has to pay the bill.

     

    AFPAK Hands absolutely was cheap talk.  It was another in an endless line of pulling on your "service before self" chain to get you to invest yourself in something that top level leadership wasn't willing to materially back.  The "incentives", what little they were, turned out to be hollow, and they were clearly not substantial to begin with.

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    Divorce

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    Just because they have the J.D., doesn’t necessarily mean they have a better crosscheck or eye for detail.  

    For anyone approaching the point of departure: I did a lot of writing during my divorce.  A LOT.  Like, more than I had in college, more than PDE/IDE.  And I fucking HATE to write.  I learned to do legal research and included citations.

    About 40% of what I wrote ended up on the floor after editing, but quite a bit ended up directly cut and pasted into my motions, with the legal mechanics built around the story.  And with my good lawyers ($$$) it saved me some coin.  But more importantly, there was no way that my attorneys could have had the in-depth detail awareness, or made all of the logical connections toward a meaningful conclusion, if I were just feeding them cocktail napkin notes the whole time.

    ...fwiw.

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    Degradation of SUPT

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    I was gonna suggest this should go in the WTF thread, but it fits here I guess.

    So, in time honored tradition (BUFF, Warthog, Viper), now that Big Blue has proudly stamped their nerd moniker on this thing, what are we actually going to call it?

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