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Depends on the overseas location on if they can stay. The AF can't tell your family where they can stay, but the host country can pull their visas when you leave. I had this exact situation from Italy and staying was not an option because Italy would not allow their visas to be extended after I left. They can then pick a designated location to move to. Key highlights for your plans, you get PTDY (can't remember if travel allowance is covered or not) to move them and get them settled into the designated location. Also, if your departure from your OCONUS base and your arrival at your remote allows less than 10 days of leave in CONUS, you get Continuous Overseas Tours travel allowed. Meaning, if you can work your dates to only have 8 days of leave in CONUS between your tours, the AF will pay for your ticket round trip from your remote to your home of record (I think your HOR, might be the designated location, check the JTR). Depending on your remote tour, this could save you $1K in travel costs for your midtour. If your travel between your current base and your remote base does not take you through CONUS, the COT travel should be automatic. Double check your orders when you get them, the travel authorization should be listed in the remarks. Edit to add - this data is based on memory from my experience with the older JFTR, not sure what the new JTR changes, so make sure you look it up. I guarantee the guy making your orders won't volunteer this info.

Pay may not be the only issue, but it never hurts. For me it was a large combination of factors, for some (like dudes stuck in preds) its a single issue. Pay is also one of the easier problems to solve from a bureaucracy standpoint. I doubt many here who are coming up on their decision could honestly say that pay was not a consideration. Maybe not the single consideration, but at least a consideration.

I know far more guys who have been hired than guys who are still waiting for a call.

Luke held a press conference a little bit ago, Taiwanese pilot flying a BFM sortie. No indications of a parachute or beacon.

I'd like to believe that's true, but anyone who has such a lack of mission focus as to volunteer for that train wreck probably won't truly excel at much we actually expect of them.

A recreational activity.

Turkey had repeatedly talked to Russia about their bombing of that area. The Russians are bombing the Turkey (and rest of the West) supported FSA. Reference my post a month ago about Russia being more concerned with keeping Assad in power than defeating ISIS. Two things surprise me about this. The first is that the ISIS claimed bombing of the Russian airliner didn't significantly alter Putin's objectives in Syria. The second is that the Turks had the balls to stand up to Russia bombing the Turkman groups in Syria. At least someone is doing it. A little sad and unexpected that the Western initiative in Syria is now being led by Turkey.

The available ones during each VML have always shown up on the fighter porch page, at least for Vipers anyway.

Not a real sport and I'm the larger half of a decade short of 40 and grew up during the massive expansion of video games as a kid. Sports are not the same as a hobby, pass time, recreational game, or even competition. As our society's obesity problem grows, so does the number of things we consider to be a sport. Pretty soon fantasy football is going to be an Olympic event if we continue like we are now. First google return on sports definition: "an activity involving physical exertion and skill". Yes, plenty of skill involved, but pushing buttons doesn't count as physical exertion.

A slightly non-standard one, but I have the IHG Rewards by Chase. $50/year after the first year, but you get one free night a year and 60K points. The 60K points will generally get you two to three nights free (points vary based on location and room, but 15K-30K is the range I've seen with most around 25K. So, after one year you should get at least 3 nights for $95. The other big benefit is that it automatically puts you in one of their top tiers of the hotel loyalty program. Was huge for me when I took my family to Disneyland and stayed at the Holiday Inn. We reserved the cheapest room and ended up in a huge suite. I also stayed at a Holiday Inn for a couple longer TDYs and got nicer rooms then and bonus points. $50 for three nights free plus auto-upgrade is really nice. Plus, if you can work out staying TDY at any IHG chain, your points go up quick.

Longest I've heard of recently (11F) was 9 months and it sounds like the guard squadron put some work into the justification.

Minimum weight always seems to me to be a high tech problem with a low tech solution. If it is purely a function of body weight, throw a couple pounds of sand into the already crazy getup they wear or even the seat kit. Now the total weight the rockets are lifting are the same as a heavier pilot, so same acceleration.

Bronze star for playing the keyboard. Must have been one dangerous keyboard.

Maybe I'm over-simplifying the question because it's not my life, but this really seems like a no brainier to me. Take a job on active duty that people are getting non-vol'd to do and getting out ASAP from, or take a job in the reserves that guys are competing for and often do for 30+ years.

He secured himself from conventional attack two years ago with encouraging the formation of ISIS. He intentionally helped build up the tide of ISIS because that made him the lesser of two evils to the west. The only way the west truly intervenes to kick out Assad is if the FSA once again becomes a credible threat. The Russian intervention will make sure that won't happen, so Assad will likely push back ISIS a little to regain some revenue sources and then let them stay in a perpetual stalemate. ISIS is extremely useful to Assad and he won't want to see them actually defeated.

There's also currently the early eligible and then initial eligible. Early basically means you sign the bonus before your ADSC is up and then you start getting paid once your ADSC expires. Best deal for you if you know 100% that you're in for 20. The initial eligible is the FY that your ADSC expires, which means you could be a free agent (thus not getting any extra money) between the day your ADSC expires until the bonus is released and they process your paperwork.

Apparently Minnesota is so dangerous that a family sent their kid to boarding school... in Somalia... only to be surprised that he was murdered. Don't even know where to start with that one. Story

I know this might be shocking, but most of the guys interviewing you were probably not fully compliant with the drinking age when they were in college either. I'd be surprised if this was a deal breaker.

Vipers generally have 2 (some units are getting an additional SATCOM). But to say we have two radios and therefore an extra one is not valid. You are generally assigned an Aux frequency that is your intraflight freq. Far more mid-airs with military jets have happened within a flight than with stranger traffic and I would never consider giving up my Aux freq to monitor a UNICOM, especially if I'm IFR. Vipers almost never fly single ship; I've only flown single ship once in the last year. Even single ship, being able to have the SOF know where he can reach me (on Aux as my Primary is constantly changing) is probably going to be safer than a fighter guy trying to monitor a UNICOM freq while under IFR anyway.

And this conversation may have actually taken a productive turn... A relatively open invitation to local FBOs to bring their students in once a month to over the shoulder RAPCON during a busy training day might help educate some guys a little better than the standard MACA brief the safety guy gives twice a year.

I'm constantly surprised how few people realize that fighters don't have TCAS. If it's outside my radar coverage and ATC hasn't put it on the link, the only thing I have are my Mark 1 eyeballs.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/07/27/cdc-data-says-montgomery-most-sexually-diseased-us-city-group/?intcmp=ob_homepage_health&intcmp=obnetwork Just going to point out that it is possible to have too much fun at shoeflag.

A normal remote PCS (like Korea) is different than the 365s. They can't by name shack you for a Korea if you 7-day. They legally have to run a non-vol list that ranks everyone vulnerable for and qualified for that assignment based on STRD. But if the wing gets tasked with a 179 to the Died, I'm sure a guy who just 7-day'd with 1.5 years left is going to be relatively high on the wing's list.

Might save you from the 365, but the guard is already pulling 180 day "deployments".

Sure, the lady interviewed just happened to be looking up and saw both the F-16 and the Cessna prior to impact and then witnessed the impact itself. She needs to be an air traffic controller or a JTAC with that visual ability. Amazing how news outlets just put whoever claims to know anything about an accident on TV.