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Check it out on Google Maps Street View. https://maps.google....,348.13,,0,7.32

STS Vault music was above the number 69 on the list of things to eliminate in that MFR.

8 degrees of flaps There's also a sweet caution about a loss of 1&4 and how it affects flaps.

ORI pep rally. It still haunts me. A year later in the same hangar, we got the presentation. If there's accountability up and down the chain, at some point the AMC/CC has to look in the mirror at himself and say "WTF" which he probably did.

Except: AW/CC - retired. He also danced around in MOPP 4 with NFL cheerleaders so his was inevitable OG/CC - went to Scott, then retired SQ/CC - ***White House Fellow*** SQ/DO - tucked away somewhere quiet until 20.

Skardu itself didn't hurt you, but the mission needed greater oversight from your leadership. They didn't provide that. Combat basic crew + FCC, hardly 3 weeks into a deployment. Make it happen: -Combat Camera -Airfield didn't have sufficient enroute support and combat offloads -Thunderstorms enroute -Thunderstorms at a destination -Foreign ATC and language difficulties (KARACHI KARACHI !!!!) -Procedural IFR -Emergency airlift of passengers Each of these added weight to the crew. Skardu diverted attention away from these things. What happened to the guy that signed your orders? And your CC?

Echo Homestar: Who in their right mind sends a MP with some FPQ's to Skardu? Did your pallets look exactly like these, or different?

The weather radar is a hot topic, but it diverts attention away from the people who signed the flight orders and the Form 8's, and away from the inadequate EP training. Also, 17 Sept

62 AW attempted to brief a couple hundred people in a C-17 hangar, but the heavy duty fans on the ceiling were left on and delayed the briefing for a good 15 minutes. It was stupidly ironic, because they had emphasized how much a crew could do in such a short time, but in as much time some staffer or Colonel could figure out how to turn off a fan, the entire EP was over and the C-17 was on the ground. The audio was then restarted from the beginning but just about the entire wing already saw the irony.

Lawyers are not in demand, USAF included. USAF only wants cheap-o lieutenants that they can abuse. Also, rated to JAG only spells one thing: our favorite TV Naval-Aviator-turned-Catherine-Bell-Coworker-Show

Accounting date: say that again? Next year, as in Nov 2014? Or next Fiscal Year just 3 months from now?

Last year MPF sent me the wrong checklist, and also loaded the wrong one in vMPF. For a primary function, if outbound assignments makes a mistake like that, I would expect some immediate corrections.... not caught until I completed it and tried to get orders. "Oh, the codes don't match."

On CG shift - lots of factors, but the simple thing is that it is engineered to be smooth: With a nose-high attitude, the platform is allowed to fall several feet during the exit. 1 G down and a couple G's backwards make for some platforms that just sail smoothly out the back as if they're already in free fall. Deck angle is only a few degrees, but it reduces that moment at the ramp that would be exerted by a static platform. The faster the exit, the more the "weight" is really just vertical acceleration and not a problem. The pre-drop and post-drop CG being identical would be best, but to load a heavy so far forward makes for a long exit time, so just keep both numbers in limits and consider the worst case of a platform that gets stuck at the ramp edge.

Happened 2 weeks ago. How did it not get into this thread? http://www.theguardi...ershoots-runway

I want to know more about these land lords who are just mopping up.

I think these will be common: Job satisfaction is highest when airborne. The grass is always greener, whether its stuck on a trip wishing to go home, or sitting at home wishing to get on a trip. Also, I think either way, you'll have a triple digit leave balance for several years.

....my hazy confidence in what the gov't can do in their exception clause.... like, meeting end strength.

Sanctuary is just for the Reserves. For Active Duty a late separation is just considered a shi**y move.

AMC has too many pilots..... moving around changing jobs. Flt/CC, Exec, IDE next, my 1 of 30. Flew 2 combat sorties this year - Huah - Lands on the right rwy 99% of the time! Ready for 2-dimensional leadership!

Say what?

Reduce the pilot ADSC so your non-t-crossers can leave earlier. Fewer Lt's taking master's classes will immediately improve morale. Keep your older 20+ year people in longer flying - it's a cheaper retirement for the tax payer and experience in all of those jobs doesn't disappear.

Another WTF. The math you presented makes the 20 year retirement the MOST EXPENSIVE option to the taxpayer. Time value of money, compare the annuity cost of a 20 year retirement (4 years in the future) with a 16 year retirement (TODAY). 36% of 7000 = 2520 ish 50% of 7200 = 3600 ish From an annuity calculator: 2520/month, 37 years of payout, 3% growth - annuity value present day is $677K Switch up the numbers......: 3600/month, 37 years of payout, 3% growth - annuity value at start day is $967K - Throw it 4 years in the future and it DECREASES in present day dollars to about 900K. Those are the annuity values, more or less. Whichever RATE you use to calculate, a 16 year at your 14-point discount comes 28% cheaper to the gov't. Reverse that, the 20 year is 43% more expensive (at the same term of 37 years). It costs the taxpayer 43% more to keep him until 20. So yeah, get the phuck out, you're too expensive. Thanks for your service. Now let's talk wages: The extra 4 years also costs North of $480K to employ this guy. If it is overmanned - that's pure excess. He's getting 7,000 base per month + increasing his payout every year 3.5 POINTS. To go from a 36-POINT retirement to a 39-POINT retirement is nearly a 10% increase in one year. Awesome deal for someone at 16 to get "paid" an additional 220K over just 4 years. He gets nearly 500 in wages and 200 to his retirement pot - 700K increase in cost if we're overmanned... Let's talk old guy retirement: Retire at 30 years, and 75%, but your payout is only 27 years! If he had somehow remained at 7000 base pay (today's dollars), his annuity over the next 10 years only goes up from 0.97 M to 1.17M. Now this is 14 years in the future - Today you'd only need 66% of that money (770K) to save away - This is an amazing deal for the taxpayer (comparatively). Every 2.5 Point increase has a marginally smaller value to the annuity payout. Each year, the member loses a year of payout, and the marginal increase of 2.5 points is worth less against the rate. Going from a 50% to a 52.5% is just a 5% increase. That last year going from 72.5 to 75 is worth just a 3.4% increase. That would be like contributing $0 in your last year of employment to a 401K and just letting it grow 3.4% with a bond fund. Stupid. Get out now GC. Happily, the old guy (O-6) sees his base pay also increase 50% in that 10 year time period, and the annuity is worth 1.75 M. At 66%, he costs the taxpayer TODAY 1.15M. Of course, I used math that assumes you could save money. It will be a loan from China that bankrolls all of this.

Rusty, I don't know your situation, but to address your hypothetical: The 18 year guy who's flying the line as an O-4 or O-5 has the best job in the world. Especially if he is actually in the squadron and isn't the SQ/CC or DO. He has gotten good at saying NO because the O-2's and O-3's in the squadron don't. He's 2 years from joining the check of the month club and probably has already figured out how to stay on station for the remainder of his 20. Hell yeah he'll keep flying. There are some people like him who do great things commensurate with their rank and experience that have a great positive effect on the organization. I agree here: the organization is currently f'd up. There are countless problems, mostly around throwing inexperienced people into a squadron, getting experience, and then removing them, all at the EXPENSE of the squadron. The experience is getting yanked well before the ADSC ends.

The local area is your place of duty. The pass area I had while at base X was "anywhere, you just have to get back to work on time Monday" I thought I had an epiphany but checked again. Your time off is either your pass or leave, but not combined so it just means I don't get 30 3-day weekends spent at the beach each year. I don't like it either.

WTF Just happened. I've never read so much gamesmanship in one post (GC) "Thanks for your service" is going to be making the rounds I suppose.