Wolf424

Agreed, cash is the best option. Because eventually you will have to call USAA in the lobby of your hotel the next morning because your credit card declined due to "suspicious activity" from various establishments the night before...and a fraud alert message may or may not call your house for your wife to hear...not that I've ever heard of this happening.

The free F-16 sim time...made the decision pretty easy for me

I have to say, the writing for this has been on the wall. At Yokota, we have been nearly 200% manned on pilots in the last 2 years (Thanks Dyess!). The correction involved numerous assignment curtailments...none of which went to a another legacy herk. Outside of a couple guys going AFSOC, I don't know of another pilot from Yokota going to a non-J herk assignment in the last year +. What we have seen is 7 or 8 UAVs, 4 or 5 MC-12s, numerous white jets, and still we have guys flying their 0.3 for a T/O/A/L once a month to stay current. I hope none of you think Yokota is going to be a bastion of hope with the other units closing.

You think the American public has trouble stomaching combat loses now, just wait until we start losing women on the front line on a daily basis. So far, less than 50 of our KIA (out of over 2,000) in OEF have been women. Bottom line: make the standards the same. End of story.

FIFY, otherwise you end up with this:

I feel like I'm reading the baseops version of GI Jane.

89% of his usual 5%? Must be routine post-2009 I'm done.

Wow...were they all written by the same liberal person?

Sad.

You're right, I guess this isn't technically outsourcing...

Let's not feed the troll...

But if it's always true, then...

Seems nice.

...so it is vague...

Yeah, I think I recall the same thing. It's completely legal. We have people who are married in the squadron fly together when we go to exercises. (one on the orders and one Pax manifested) The only requirement is that they can't be on the orders together. 1.10.2 is very vague, so it really depends on how your local STAN/EVAL interprets it.

"There is no sack here" Checks

11-401 has not such spouse restriction (since Space A is not a orientation flight). However, many units have restrictions in the form of a SRF or a sup. Our unit, for instance, has a SRF that says we will not allow our spouses to fly Space A on a plane we are on if we are listed on the orders. Our SRF came about from the "one person ruins it for everyone" file. Long story short, a few years back, an AC released 20 seats, thinking his wife and kids would make it. They didn't. He then reduced the number to 15, told his wife to stick around in the terminal after everyone had left, and then called back and increased the seats back to 20, allowing his family to make it on the plane since nearly everyone in front of them had left the terminal...expect for one old retiree who called BS when he saw they were related once they were on the plane.

Anyone have a map of people who own planes in the Jasper area?

I'm not saying that I was surprised... I laugh when people say we "avoided" the fiscal cliff. We simply stepped back a foot or so. The sequestration cuts are still looming, so we will be having the same conversations in 2 months.

Anyone else wonder how many more times this can is going to be kicked down the road? This "deal" still leaves numerous issues that the next congress is going to have to deal with.

It's also lacking Vampires...no way she's seen it.

Him Him

Go ROTC. Spend four years at a public university chasing tail and drinking beer. You won't regret it. (even if you don't get a pilot slot)

Another proud TUI grad

2