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hindsight2020

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  1. Right, because Guard babies are the reason AD Lite has become it's own cancer....
  2. What a bunch of cocksuckers eh? This is the shit why I'm so glad I never went Active Duty. I've seen it done to my AD peers, and I know I wouldn't have lasted 6-9 years in RegAF. All those bullshit non-AFSC REMF-laden deployments would have cured me from serving. And just like in your experience, I've seen it happen on the AETC side, which was supposed to be the spool-down make-bang-bang with the wife/girlfriend time for these folks. Now it's the god damn 'transpo pool' for miscellaneous 179s to nowhere. Fuck that. I tell those guys all the time, for the opportunity cost of losing 15 years (on average) of an annuity payout, you can skip over to the reserves and/or civil service and recoup the time served benefit at 60, and gain an incredible improvement in quality of life while focusing on the motivation that made you join in the first place: FLY. Anytime I'm feeling scoffed by AD-Lite shenanigans in the AFRC I mosey over to this thread and fast-cage back to wings level.
  3. I know. It would be epic. "So Captain, stand up and tell us about yourself...." LOL
  4. That architectural identity crisis has always been a defining part of the Air Force. The problem is as you suggest, the peacetime leadership's misguided attempt at providing the shoe a sense of belonging by chastising the trigger puller. In a true peer fight the shoe gets told to stfu. But this decade isn't gonna be it. As such it's the decade for corporate managers with an underlying testosterone deficiency to rule for a while. Remember the rule of life: it's all timing and luck in this life. There is no justice. Ill keep flying until they sideline me or fire me. Then ill go so something else. Fuck em.
  5. Speak for yourself. I want the govt promise thank you very much. If I wanted a diluted retirement that I can't self fund after cost of living, I'd work for the airlines with a lot less bullshit. Look, I know what you're saying. You want partial vesting because the proposition of staying to 20 is as secure as a baby fart during tornado season. But anybody who thinks you can get a 50 pct retirement in 30 years by doing a hands off contribution to some Miley mouse 401k on what they pay you these days is smoking glue. They'll never pay me wages to account for self funding, so fuck that concession. Now, you give me a B fund where the employer is te one who makes the contributions as a percentage of my pay grade, then hell yeah knock yourself out. But you're not touching my paycheck, otherwise that's a huge paycut and fuck I can do that at Olive Garden all by myself. Besides. The proposition of recouping my active duty points on the civil service is not beneath me. I'd lick stamps with a smile at the post office for 5 years and get the whole god damn thing back. Never mind I can double dip at 60 on the reserve side. Where there's a will there's a way. Fuck 401ks
  6. Fuck, we're there. I'm already off base, off duty, off uniform, SOP. Nothing good ever comes out of sponsoring host wing functions or socializing of any kind on base, which my family already boycotts by default.. See how that unintended consequences bit works? Just doing my 9-5 jerb, boss..... Drinking or socializing inside the fence, are y'all fucking new? LOL Now let's all sing the NEW Air Force Song everybody! Sure got a catchy tune to it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-gqMpZroy8 Workin' 9 to 5 What a way to a livin' Barely gettin' by it's all takin' and no givin'...............
  7. Don't sweat the 3 to 1 business. Nobody's keeping track of that ch$t...besides, most everybody goes to 20 good years. It's a no-brainer for a TR with airline aspirations. If it gets too painful there's always a better location you can roll over to in order to make the min run palatable. Best part-time job in the world, if money's not an object.
  8. Community dependent. As a generality? Perhaps a bit naive, yes.
  9. Yep, bullshit Q-3s. Another reason this job's in the toilet. Do the fighter guys mutilate their their young's FEF like this too, or is this a heavy thing?
  10. Ouch bra'..kick a man when he's down.... :D
  11. Hell, I feel like an expat already, working and living in Del Rio.....Can't wait for the chance to move back home to bona fide America.
  12. You're not looking at it from an economics and rational incentives perspective. It's dirt simple actually. As to count 1? Cannon. As to count 2? Navs. And strike two on ACC. It's not at ACC; it's at AFGSC that the big refugee camp takes place. If you need the rational incentives flowchart for those two counts explained, you're thinking too hard.
  13. This goddamn job has turned into such a bait-n-switch. Timing and luck.. you nemesis of mine! This is what happens when you base your vocational aspirations on information off fuckin' 1980s military-themed movies....I shoulda been a dentist. fvck.
  14. I'd be pissed too if I woke up at 0400 and realized I lived in Clovis NM..... [/stripot]
  15. I can tell you why I don't think maxiflex or 4x10s will work and why this thing is such a hung start. But you'll have to PM me. I don't want to let that cat out open source. The Crown's jackals probably lurk on here...
  16. Goes to show how shitty the morale is in AD, when people consider shaving a piddly 10 months off an ADSC or taking an ART job in DelAltuclovgordumbus as #winning. Meanwhile the dopes in DC still say they got this under control. I'm not an airline wave fanboy, but I can't wait for the airlines to up the hiring by a mere RCH and just watch the wheels on the Blue bus come off the axle. It's gonna be like those movies where the armored car explodes and money rains from the sky and people run around re-enacting the fall of Saigon. Money and carte blánche assignments for all my friends. #winning
  17. Yep. And Laughlin as well.
  18. If I was faced with that PCS and I had kids of school age, I'd be putting the family in Lubbock and geobash that assignment until the next PCS/expiration of ADSC, whichever came first. No reason your family's well-being has to suffer just because the DOD is in the business of propping up the local economies of the lazy and unambitious.
  19. I believe it. Bad enough when you're gone all year, but at least the wife (job/amenities) and kid (school) are provided for in desirable and populated Florida. But, gone all year AND the family has to do without happiness or prosperity in Clovis,NM? Fat chance, Bonus Bob. The AF really fucked AFSOC mission readiness with the Cannon quagmire...
  20. No love for the BUFF playa'? They got just as many rejects er aspiring fighter pilots. :D
  21. Surplus cockpits?¿..... Isn't the shortage one for 11F people to go cover desk jobs?
  22. Probably some PIT guy finally had enough playing puppet and pushed the envelope of his "stan" character. I hear golfclaps and a Denzel sequel in his future. Joke aside, glad the dudes are ok. A landing you walk away from is a good landing.
  23. Anybody care to bitch about the RCP visibility of the new seat now? Martin baker puts the old seat to shame. Of course we have a built in food processor and rear facing intake that makes the Texan pretty much birdie proof, but the MB setup is great peace of mind on both airframes. One hates to think how the outcome of pre MB -38 ejections would have turned out had they had the good seat. Glad these two made out ok! Martin baker's saving lives like a coast guard helo in The Guardian lol
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