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Shabbat Shalom, momma.

By quite a few...you mean some have different ones? That is classic.

Kinda sad. All this has been blown up. Letter from CC directing a more restrictive TDY lifestyle. Guess all my old skilz are for not now.

Ha, AFSOC has had that policy for years....talk about written policies getting disregarded at the sq/og/wg level... It will go strong for awhile, then someone will realize that someone didn't get their 1LT PRF DP recommendation because they didn't do enough "office" stuff for their records... Actually had a paraphrased conversation with an E-8 a few years back, "Hey Capt, I need that guy to do be in charge of that thing. I said "No, he is brand new an inexperienced, there is that policy, ya know"...He said, "yeah, but nobody follows that one". I said, "didn't I just watch you correct someone for a random minor uniform infraction, that usually no one follows"? The conversation pretty much ended there.

Put in a dumpster? No thanks. I do however, want this... (I think it was previously discussed somewhere on here) http://myholysmoke.com/

True that! Pilot in plane = missed gear call Pilot not in plane = missed country Details.

It won't matter until you happen to be the owner of an ID that is used in some sort of foiled attempt to gain access to something..once the trail goes back to "well I just wanted some Oakley's"...well, nobody might care, God knows the USAF has a rich recent history of not having knee-jerk and overblown reactions to seemly minor infractions that everyone was doing anyway. Not sure the juice is worth the squeeze, but that's just me.

lol, so wait, that means I should be able to sell to my CC the need for intense drinking and unhealthily eating/living and some good ol' fashioned smoke-ins.....If I can just make it till...say 50, the AF only has to pay out 10 years of retirement and then a piddly death bennie...I like it! OK, I don't but that is just cause I want to meet my grandkids, but I am totally on board with the irony in trying to make us live longer, then say they can't afford it if we do! Totally agree. We can say we are warriors all day long, but our actions say we are Queep-monsters, well, then at the end of the day, we are....*sigh*. I still have a warm fuzzy for the TSgt that threw me against the wall when I was an Amn, and I am not talking Penn State style here, it was a legit military learning event...I never forgot it, and improved pretty much on the spot and forever.

You won't hear anything from me. I think the USAF needs to take a good hard look at itself and really see if Physical fitness is the drop dead drag out fight that it really wants to make it. Ironically, most folks I know in the AF, if in an actual knock down drag out fight...would get crushed. But that is besides the point. Meet a basic standard in BMTS to get in the door, Let AFSCs set their own standards, and test each other with a test that is appropriate to their job, and let the CC (my vote would be Wg/CC, not sq), simply have the authority to say, "Hey, you look like shit, get to not looking like shit like yesterday, or I will crush you". Maybe ruck marches for cops, box of copier paper carry for MPF, case of beer carry for co-pilots, you know let it make sense. Won't ever happen.

See below for the accurate move plan. Hells yeah it did! LOVE it here.

That whole program was a FW&A issue. There is what was on paper, and what was really going on. When the 3 SOS was still at Nellis, we had MX dudes that were assigned to us, and MX dudes that were assigned to Creech, but literally worked at Nellis for over a year...NEVER going up to Creech. Creech MX dudes, got the pay, Nellis guys, nope. Also, the cops that worked up there (for longer, even more boring shifts I might add) Never saw a dime of that debacle of a program either. Cause they were not "assigned" to the 432. Ironically, I am now in the 432...but for some reason, I don't get it. So I guess it is not just as simple as being assigned to that unit, and in fact, it is a location pay. I still am hoping for my $100k a year RPA bonus. It was never promised, but when the AFSOC A1 asked what it would take to keep me in past my commitment, I said "$100k bonus after taxes, per year, you got me till I die". He said that was unrealistic and never going to happen, and I said, "I know, that's why I plan on retiring, but you didn't ask me what is feasible, you asked what would keep me in past my commitment" Although, I may very well stay in a little while past 20, I had no idea that simple PCS doing the exact same job could have such positive affect on my morale.

Just email they person you are replacing. Find out what you "need". Then, take what you want, and have the "needs" that really just take up space all prepped up in a box to mail if required.

There was an American at the 17 Sq in Winnipeg back in 2001 when I toured that place. Now who they were, where they were form/how to get it, I have no idea, but I do know that there was an American USAF member, flying C-130s in Canada.

Gents, we can chat about quality of life, schedules(as in one type vs another...not "Hey, This guy works at this time"), stateside bases...but we will not be talking about any LR locations on here. I don't care what any open media says.

You can be in an ACC sq, flying for the EXACT same customer, doing the the EXACT same job, but not have to live @ Cannon. If being 6 hrs vs 12 hours to home is that big a deal, fair enough, but you better be making that drive every single weekend (if, in fact you have one of those) to make that worth it. Not even a close decision in my book. But then again, that's just my book, and some folks don't like the stories in there!

That just means he will be replaced with someone who will be willing to break that faith. Good on him for standing up through, and I hope there is no one to fulfill my overly cynical prophesy. I just went over 18yrs... I am too close for this type of madness!

Follow up question/statement should have been "Well then Chief, you are obviously so far gone and separated from reality, that I think you need to be mentored by us, not the other way around". Then a nice little walk out should have ensued. (well, depends on the audience vs Panel rank wise I suppose)

Yeah, this has been in the works forever, ACC has wanted the 2 SOS out of the CAOC-N's backyard for years, it's just the lease is finally up. This is not additive, it's simply moving an AFSOC reserve unit to an AFSOC location. I think they are going to loose some folks in the move, but they will get others to take their spot.

I don't know, that Wiki site specifically says that it does not count as that law if the topic at hand is a topic traditionally "Nazi" in nature anyway. The connection between Nazis and Muslims over the decades is well known and documented. I don't think it counts.

Nope, Whiteman. Family in KC and St Louis, and rumor has it...they have trees there. A general green-ness. Very much looking forward to it. Plus, I already know a bunch of folks there and all things are looking good.

Hey, I am PCSing next month....but I am staying in the RPA world. just upgrading my location.

If you are me, you still get a DP to O-4 and move merrily along your career. I suppose it may mean I don't get 2 below to LtCol, but like you said, I know I am done before that really matters, so why go to that crap? Just remember though...once you make your bed, you better be ready to lay in it!

It is nice though, if you own your own trailer, you get to count the total weight of the filled trailer for your weight. (eg, I went and weighted my SUV all empty, then after I filled it with stuff, loaded up the trailer, then I weighed it all together. Paid for the trailer like 3xs over. There are some other little restrictions on the size of said trailer...but it sure did make it nice!

Holloman recently tried to have some fun with it, they had a "Raptor Pull" contest....

lol, I can only imagine this was a DOR conversation or that I actually said "I am better than you because I am me". Rank has nothing to do with that, but I can see where the misunderstanding could happen.