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Booze of any kind is now banned in the AZANG with limited exceptions on any facility. Wow.
I can think of at least 3 other states that have an alcohol ban on National Guard facilities. We've had this rule for years now...debriefs suffer!
Edit: This doesn't necessarily belong in the AF sucks thread, as there is a common theme of when these rules were imposed (not sure about he AZANG)...an Army officer running the show (ie...TAG).
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Thead bump.
Any pro tips (sts) from guys commuting to their guard job? Anyone living the life right now that wants to comment?
I'm potentially looking at a lengthy commute, i.e. air travel as well as advice for how to work lodging and transpo in the local area with out spending too much $$.
Living in a van (it's a house and a car!) is an option I'm seriously considering...it's like camping for poor people.
Based on air travel being required to commute, i'll assume you will be a part timer. If you're a flyer then you should get 48 UTAs, 48 AFTPs and 15 days of AT per year. While on UTAs and AT days, you are entitled to billeting, but AFTPs = no billeting. So as long as you log one UTA period in a given day then you should get a hotel. Keep in mind that if you go on any kind of full time orders then you'll most likely will not be given billeting.
Another option is to make friends with a single person in the squadron with a spare bedroom, and make a deal. $$$/mowing the lawn/stocking the beer/offering to be DD, are all acceptable forms of payment depending on the person.
As far as tranpo, unless you want to be "that guy," the easiest method is to drop a little cash on an "airport car" that you leave wherever your base is located. The tricky part is convenient parking. Is your base on a major airport with airline service? If so you may be able to wheel n' deal with one of the various parking lots for a reduced rate. If that doesn't work and there are FBOs or corporate flight departments nearby, you may be able to negotiate a parking situation with them (helps if squadron mates are employed by said departments). Some local hotels (that have shuttle service from the airport) may even work a deal with you.
Small consolation, but you can write off expenses incurred while commuting to your guard/reserve gig as long as you live >100 miles from your base. As always read the reg or talk to a tax guy.
BTW, commuting sucks! Feel free to PM me with questions.
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Other than that the only fun thing to do in Dayton is pack a bag and go the hell somewhere else.
What he said! If you're there over the summer, do yourself a favor and drive up to Put-in-Bay over a weekend. You'll thank me later!
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I thought it was hook 'em horns. Maybe your problem was you were trying to pass the signal to an Aggie?
Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!
Which brings up another question...how does an Aggie pass a BD check to his Texas Tech wingman?
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I would like to hope that the clubs aren't a thing of the past.
To late... The only time I set foot in the Sheppard club was for assignment nights, and I can only recall going into the Luke Club for a mandatory wing pilot call and my graduation. While TDY we stopped by the DM club back in 2010 and the score of a crud game, from when our squadron was TDY there in 2006, was still there!
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Forgot to mention. For any of you that cruise the ar15.com forums, the author is a regular in the General Discussion forum (as a rule, I generally stay away from the GD forum...ridiculous shit). It will take all of about 69 seconds to figure out who he is if you find any thread about CAS/COIN/etc...
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You can go ahead and tune this same thread up for next year....just swap Iraq for Afghanistan.
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Edit: Just to show how well researched this article is (he claims no FW A/C have been lost since 2001), check out this story. I'd like to see anything else land when shot up this badly. Plane landed but was a loss.
Or this...
http://warthognews.blogspot.com/2011/07/from-archives-warthog-down-in-iraq.html
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we military folk who make acronyms for everything, use an acronym to describe a few nationally accepted acronyms that these events are worse than they were before the term "ARI" came to fruition?
I had actually never heard of the term ARI until this thread.
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So you would have the member (in service blues maybe?) address everyone early Monday morning and the explain or tell the story to a early am CC call? I'm not sure what "next day" action you can really do. This individual at fault has a pretty packed schedule the following duty day after this shitstorm occurs.
Poor wording on my part. What I meant is, as the CC I would address my people, explain the situation/punishment and reiterate my expectations. I would treat my people like adults.
And don't forget, no action by CC's will make them look poorly. These guys have to protect their careers as well.
Ah yes...because if you don't do something visible, you have done nothing at all, line of thinking. I particularly love this leadership style...it usually goes hand-in-hand with the everyone wears diapers method.
I'll default to nsplayrs post for forms of punishment. If questioned by leadership what I have done, I would have plenty (public shaming, paperwork, stripped of IP/FL/etc...) to show them. Is this not enough?
But since you see it as a punishment Social, how many days do you wear your blues that you aren't forced to? We do this to ourselves. I'm assuming you'd bitch if blues Monday came back even if it wasn't a punishment.
Let me be clear, I have no problem using it as punishment...for the individual, but not the whole group/squadron. I've never worn my blues, when I wasn't forced. As far as the blues monday...the last time that rule was put in place, our OG didn't require us to wear blues, as we could always be thrown on the schedule. So no, I probably wouldn't bitch that much.
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Is the wearing of service dress meant to be a punishment?
It certainly seems like punishment in this case. If the uniform of the day was flight suits, but suddenly was changed to blues after a DUI...then, yes I would consider it punishment.
So are we considering this punishment or refocus on professionalism?
Why do I, someone who did nothing wrong, need a refocus on professionalism?
I've never been there so I'm not sure the pain level in this failure, but is public humiliation an option?
Yes. I've seen an officer in service dress at the front gate holding a sign after a DUI.
I like how all of a sudden people are upset that folks are being told to wear blues to an ARI, however these are the same folks who were trying to schedule flights or sims to get out of blues Mondays a few years ago. I'm PCSing in 25-days and I'll be wearing my blues tomorrow, not bitching, because I know this isn't a message to the old guys like me, this is a message to all the new guys that you'll pay the price when you make decisions like this.
This is nothing new...it's always pissed me off when leadership applied the, "one person shits, everyone wears diapers," leadership style. How about you just hold the person who committed the act accountable? Explain the situation, the punishment and reemphasize your expectations to your people (not via a fucking e-mail). Don't make them feel like they've done something wrong (if they have not), just because of a few dumbasses! What a crazy idea!!
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Under this effort, and with the support of Congress, the United States will preposition more equipment in Europe."
If approved, the funding will be used to increase military exercises and training missions on the continent, as well as rotations of air and ground forces, the White House said.
I vote for Hungary! Budapest would be great but Kecskemet or Papa would be fine as well. Get in early, before the girls start hating Americans!
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*Not any authority
I wouldn't waste your money. Maybe, if SWA was the only place you wanted to go...maybe. I just can't see spending the $$$ on the hopes of a job. But then again, I really have no desire to go to SWA. I sure as heck wouldn't get a A320 type. I can't imagine a type with zero time would get you much.
A guy in our interview group had a 737 type and it was never mentioned (he was hired). Even if it was asked you can easily explain that away as no matter what, you want to be an airline pilot and you're just making yourself as marketable as possible.
If you're at the end of a flying career in the military, or even your initial UPT commitment, I'm sure you have all the quals needed for the majors. Fighter guys with 2-2500TT, 15-1700 fighter, IP/EP, etc...are getting snagged up pretty fast right now.
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Along those lines, this is running on Netflix. I'm normally not one to put on the tin foil hat, but some if this shit, if true, is pretty fucked up!
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so i should bring my printed off flight records to an airline interview even though I've put all my mil stuff in Log Ten Pro to go along with my civilian stuff?
My interview invite specifically said to bring your AF flight records folder. I have my own military logbook, but left it at home in lieu of my official flight records. Each airline has their own guidelines. Bring both if you want, they'll take what they need.
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The more I think about this, it would be completely legit to add a .5 to every sortie covering the "brake release to takeoff" and "land to shutdown" time we don't typically log in the AF to be inline with what every civilian pilot logs. However doing so would negate adding .3/sortie (for example) on an airline app. Do you think Airlines would raise an eyebrow if you told them you weren't adding .3 because you already logged your time IAW the FAA definitions? I imagine it would catch their eye that a mil dude chose to not make the correction factor, but I don't see any issues with doing this. Why not log a .5 now instead of relying on a .3 correction factor later?
With Delta, United and AA, you do NOT add any correction when you input your times because the website does it for you. So when applying for airlines I would go with what is in your AF flight records, unless their application specifically says to add a conversion. I know AA has you bring your flight records folder to the interview.
The only reason I would add time to my logbook would be if I were stuck on AD (ie...won't be interviewing anytime soon), was short on hours (but close) and I wanted to get my ATP under the current FARs. Others may disagree, but I don't see anything ethically wrong with this based on the fact that all your civilian counterparts are logging time the same way. I would use the least amount of conversion needed to get to 1,500 and probably wouldn't go above .5/sortie. I am by no means a lawyer or a fed, but I think it stands the common sense test. Thoughts?
The reason I would not add .5/sortie on my own, FOR AIRLINES is because the airlines will most likely ask for your flight records. Airlines understand fighter guys won't have as much time as their civilian counterparts. For example, I got an interview at a Major with <2,000 TT with over 50% of my time being in fighters. In my interview group, all the mil heavy guys had >3,000 and all the civilian were >4-5,000. I wouldn't feel like you're lagging your civilian counterparts, trust me, you're not. I have lots of friends that are pure civilian that have over 5-6,000 hours and haven't heard a peep from the the majors.
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Pretty sure you can't do the added .3 per sortie when getting your times for a faa rating. My understanding is there is no reg that allows that and it is airline specific for hiring purposes only.
Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!
If you want to get technical about it, you could note the time you started and the time you shut down and log that in your own personal logbook. I know that would add, at least, an extra .6 per sortie for me. Most GA aircraft log this way, and most airlines log break release (at push, or just prior...)/beacon on/etc..., to engine shutdown. You bet your ass your civilian counterparts are logging everything on the hobbs meter, which if I remember correctly, runs off oil pressure as soon as the engine is started. I've always logged block time in the airlines, which means from brake release to engine shutdown. So that 1 hour wait to takeoff at LGA...logged.
You do not have to present the FAA with your AF flight records as long as you have kept your own logbook. I would say you are well within your rights to log in this manor. You're just putting yourself on par with everyone outside of the military as far as time toward a certificate or rating.
Different story when applying to airlines, do exactly what they say.
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Also, if you get a sneak preview of the EPQ, don't e-mail it on a government computer...
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Had one where they recalled the whole squadron on a Saturday...
Reason #69,000 you don't answer a phone call from work on the weekend....let that shit go to voice mail.
Stract has it right and yes it is 100 pct legal.
I'd actually like to see where it's legal to take my cell phones away. Not doubting you, just wonder where something like that would live.
What a bush league....
I wonder how this all works with technicians?
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Isn't an instructor pilot on the GS scale usually a GS-13 as opposed to a GS-12? Also, I think the operational units have some kind of percentage bump in their pay because they are aircrew. Something like 10 or 20%. Either way, the GS-13 major IP in the unit is getting killed, pay wise, by the active duty captains.
30%...here are the pay tables with the applicable pay bump. Add an additional 25-30K/yr for Guard pay. Given the choice, AGR all the way...but a GS job is better than no job.
http://apps.opm.gov/SpecialRates/2014/Table055801012014.aspx
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*Thread Revival*
*SIGH* - Good luck with the DoD IG
Pilot's career stalls after criticizing oxygen system
http://www.stripes.com/pilot-s-career-stalls-after-criticizing-oxygen-system-1.279043
Color me surprised! What status was this guy? TR/AGR/Tech? He was a guard guy, right? Who even looks at their OPRs? I guess some squadrons are more political than others...
These guys were whistle blowers. While the heavies were playing politics with a jet they felt might kill them, this was their only way to bring it to light.
Rather than wait, some have just decided to leave the community after their own experiences.
Whistle blowers go to their commanders, IGs, or congress people.
Guys need to understand that going to the media undercuts the organization.
As FUZZ said, I think this was a result of going to congress. What do you think commanders and IG were going to do? We're talking about an AF that would rather piss on a pilots grave than say there is something wrong with their baby...
Neither of those dudes are heroes in the F-22 community.
Of course not...the AF prefers those who just tow the company line.
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I just didn't use email. As a part-timer, every time I showed up, I required a new password or they needed to re-map printers or something and it became a royal pain and waste of my time...so I quit checking and happily flew my ass off.. After about a year and half, some guy shows up at my door asking if I could please delete some stuff because it is clogging up their server. I had something in the neighborhood of 1500 emails.
Well played Tree! Being a part timer truly is the best gig there is!
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After the fact we tried to get access on our phones for long distance calling and were told that we could:
a) Be issued a long distance PIN that we'd have to enter prior to every long distance call
b) Have a phone granted long distance access, but every long distance call would have to be logged.
Both of these are kind of inconvenient when there's a smoldering jet on the airfield, so we just stuck with cell phones and jogging.
This! The only reason I can make long distance calls is because I have "acquired" a pin that has been passed down for quite a while.
Can we bitch about DTS in this thread? I submitted an authorization >30 days ago for a TDY that was supposed to start last week. It's still sitting in CTO submit, waiting for my airline ticket to be booked. Life was so much better when I could e-mail/call our SATO chicks and have tickets w/in minutes!
One of our part time LTCs was supposed to airline out to a TDY. Showed up and surprise, no tickets. After he tried SATO (no answer) and the emergency number (couldn't help because it wasn't after hours), he called the PROJO and told him to scratch his name off he list, that he was going back home.
What else...
- Along with doing a DTS voucher, I now have to go into the portal and E-certify my orders after every TDY.
- Every TDY I travel on a mil transport I have to re-print my VRED (I thought we had it centrally located for a reason?). But for some reason it's not required if I fly my own plane...
- I have to fill out a new 2587 every time I go TDY to an AD base. Holy fuck, how haven't they figured this out yet! I can go to any other Guard base and have full access with just my ID.
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in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves
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Not sure on that one...I'm an airline guy, so I've never dealt with airfare.