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Solid info. There’s also Tier 1/2 bonuses for higher amounts if you’re confident you’ll be full time for greater than a year. If you want to stay a free agent after a year of orders, then stick with tier 3.

You described me most of the last 3 years. When the bonus comes out around Mar/Apr, you can sign for any length of bonus as long as you are on full time orders at the time of bonus application (this includes DSGs currently on orders). The only factor to consider is it’s WG/CC approval to allow your bonus length to exceed your current order length. What this amounts to is the WG/CC is saying give him the X year bonus because we’re confident he’ll be on full time orders for that length of time (it’s irrelevant how many sets of orders are strung together to add up to the total time, including AT days). Of course the member has to understand in the event of curtailing orders/the promised orders don’t show up, they may be subject to bonus payback depending if they’ve done the min years or not. That’s spelled out clearly in the bonus announcement. I think you’re fucked on any retro action if you were thinking about that.

I’ve heard a couple talk that way personally, and it seems the higher in rank the official, the more full of shit they are on this line. Many are not telling guys there’s nothing, but rather overselling the AF. The last batch are actually fully transparent about the fuckery and openly admit the pros of outside options. No judgment on staying in, but I have seen a lot of guys stay in because they’re afraid of the unknown and taking the leap of faith. I want guys to stay in for other reasons, not for that.

Or how Biden and company touts climate change as so important, but then he decides to fly to St Croix for vacation the day prior to the omnibus bill ready for his sig, which then necessitates another jet fly the bill down to St Croix so he could sign it there. He and the dems give zero fucks about climate change, they care about consolidating power and control (and money).

This is so damn true. I’ve turned down more airline CA level paying consulting jobs than I ever thought would happen. I know many bros with the same experience. The point is all of you are incredibly valuable to a lot of industries - you simply bring more to the table than your civ counterparts and businesses know it. The mil lies to you and attempts to make you feel as if there’s nothing out there for you on the other side, so you better keep clinging to the gov safety blanket. There is so much out there, I would personally skip the masters and let them non-promote you, then get out at the earliest chance. Do the ARC on the side to keep scratching the mil itch while you have it.

Cough, nuclear power, cough…

Poor people can’t afford solar, ergo solar is racist, but the left pushes “green energy”…but they’re “anti-racist”…hmmmm. The progressive left is such a dumpster fire full of shit.

Still plenty busy with real world stuff, but not necessarily including shooting and dropping. We’re back to holding the line for wars we hopefully will never fight.

Personally I wait until comfort+ to board under that perk, and only once in all these years have I actually been questioned for ID, and at that the GA was annoyed I didn’t board the millisecond she called for mil…yeah OK lady.

That’s in direct contradiction to what Sua posted. Now that I’ve read that, I’d go ask finance to prove in writing why fill-in-the-blank type of orders BAH location is contradictory to those official sources. Maybe they have some exemption somewhere, but I’d at least want eyes on. Too many times I’ve seen Finance, TMO, etc. be confidently wrong.

If college was what it SHOULD be, I’d encourage my kids to go. But good luck getting college, or even public primary school, to be what it SHOULD be by any means short of “burning the system to the ground and rebuilding from the ashes.” The dumbest people I’ve ever interacted with are college grads and many of my non-degree friends and acquaintances are very smart and capable people. On the whole in my experience, I interact with more dumbasses with degrees than I do without degrees. That’s a sad reality and not what I want, but it is reality.

College is horse shit - I will actively discourage my kids from going unless they have a specific career goal that actually requires a degree. Quite the opposite mindset from when I was a kid.

Always hilarious in an infuriating way to watch leftist spout progressive bullshit and socialism this and that, then leave the meeting in their BMW M3, $100k vette, the 17 yr old “expert on life” driving away in her Range Rover going home to her parent’s $2M house. Funny how 99.9% of the ones arguing for this bullshit are well off white people (predominantly women).

Details matter, that’s the lesson here!

They’re classic progressives - hypocritical shitbags. Unilever is no better.

I would love for the GOP primaries to come down to deciding between Paul and Desantis - that would actually be different than the usual turd sandwich vs. douche choice.

True, fuck those guys! Haven’t given them a cent for 6 years.

Obviously in ICN, fell for the age old lie of “we’ll just grab one kettle and then head back to the hotel.”

Tell me how you have zero SA without saying you have zero SA.

We’re kicking out the wrong people, while letting in the wrong people - sounds about right.

@Sua Sponte @SocialD Thanks guys, you rock! My google skills clearly failed Sua, so I'll take a shot or two of 18 yo scotch as a "punishment." Like I said, phenomenally better help amongst the bros than your standard shoe clerk.

@Smokin@SocialD Do you guys have any AFI/DODI references for the BAH zipcode thing? About to have some T32 orders written, but they're not sure if they should put the unit address or my home address on the orders (significant variation in BAH/different states). I want to make sure I'm not getting screwed out of the higher BAH (unit zipcode), but also do not want to erroneously get the unit zipcode rate for 6-9 months, just to get audited and owe the govt a bunch of money. Per usual, I'll probably get more accurate data here than from the finance office. Thanks guys!

I hope they're that clever, and this move (and moves like it) accomplish that end state. But the skeptic in me says this wasn't some epic play by the GOP, and at best they just got lucky. The other question is IF Trump is pushed aside and doesn't make it as the nominee, does Trump's hardcore base still get out and vote? I hope they're paying attention enough to know voting is crucial, even if it's for DeSantis and not Trump (for example), and not voting is the epitome of cutting off the nose to spite the face. But again, I'm not so confident in them doing the correct, unemotional thing.

How does this happen - so many means to validate you’re at the correct airport and runway. But I guess they’ll have a juicy TMAAT/lesson learned story ready to go for their airline interviews!

That’s exactly where they fit in the modern and near future world. I think we need the general capability for things like a kinetic NEO in some 3rd world shithole. But the Marines will do none of their doctrine in the peer fights for many weeks, if not months. And by the time we MAYBE execute somewhat along their doctrine, it won’t be in a situation where F-35s or similar tech is even remotely required, or even decently suited, to achieve the desired end state. @Majestik Møøse Absolutely we’re at the “it is what it is” phase, but that doesn’t change the fact this was an epic acquisitions failure made by people who don’t know shit except for how to line their’s and their friend’s pockets to the max.