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Maybe more shenanigans..."imminent national security threat."

No one needs 500 rounds and assault knives Brabus!

Is yours actually going through? I submitted an updated application April of 2023 and mine still shows "work in progress." I'm retired now, but call out FSS Chief today to see if she can check into for me. I understand things can take a bit, but this is pretty excessive. Thankfully, I have about 17ish years (depending on what they say) to figure it out lol. That sucks to hear. I once knocked out 4 OPRs in about 2 days for a guy so he could have them for an airline interview. Long story on how he was missing 4 OPRs. But to your strat comment, are those sought after things within your old Guard squadron? I bet I could have queried all the pilots (non former AD guys anyway) if they know what a strat is and I bet less than 50% would know what I'm talking about and the other 50% would say strategy? Having only been at one Guard unit my whole career, it's always interesting to see how things are done differently out there. Funny story... I'm out in PHX hiking up camelback and get a call from an old college friend. I hadn't heard from her since college, but I knew she was in a high profile job at Delta, so I answered. She said, hey are you behind on OPRs (she's mil as well)? I'm thinking well that's a weird question to lead with after 20 years of never talking. I'm like, do you mean am I personally (I was)? She's says, no I mean is your wing behind on OPRs? I just laugh and say if it's not a year overdue, we're not worried about it. She laughs, and says that makes sense, thanks gotta go. I hang up like, what a weird conversation. Fast forward a few days, I'm back at the squadron and figure it all out. Turns out she was interviewing a squadron mate who didn't have his last OPR. She was just calling me to verify if his story checks out because the others on the board were asking and her base appears to be pretty strict on OPRs. Dude owes me lots of beer.

You're right on that one, I try to fly as little as possible at my airline gig! Averaging 20 hours/month right now...need to deflate those numbers a bit though. Well at work anyway. Unfortunately I have to pay for my fun flying these days...some of the best money I spend though. Anywho, on topic, it's really hard to want to go back to an organization that seems to try their level best, to make life harder for the individual. I guess if you were in a non-combat coded squadron, that never goes TDY, it wouldn't be terrible. On an unrelated note, has the new pay system been rolled out yet? I'm told it's going live Jan of 2020 and will fix part timer flight pay.

Honestly this reads like a plan you'd create if you wanted to look like you're doing something, but don't actually want it to work. Maybe it gives them something to point at and say "see, we tried," I guess it's on to stop loss lol

Only the best Charlottesville has to offer! Lol, when I was on the WB, I used to hate on my plane flying to the 'burgs & villes," but now they're going to have to shut this thing down to get me to leave lol. I'll take my MSN layover over AMS any day because I wont be dead tired walking around...I just gotta bring my sunglasses. Speaking of fight club. Anyone see that Delta clown at the Transportation Committee Hearing? The memes generated from this goober are hilarious! BTW, if you didn't know, Mr Nehls has a 63 year old Delta pilot brother. He's one of the reasons it's made it this far. I didn't watch the hearing to know if this flexing pilot is him or not. O'Doyle Rulz!

Not sure what year that was, but I was a Capt, 4-ship flight lead in 2012 when orders dried up for a bit. I went to a regional to pickup some hours because, even with my 700 hours prior to UPT, I was still shy of legacy requirements (not that they were really hiring). Starting pay was $19/hr with a 72 hour guarantee. With the staffing levels we had at the time, there was no way to make extra cash. Second year pay was something like $30/hr...$25k/yr. I think Captains we're lucky to get in teh $60s...really living large lol. But none of those dudes seem care about those years, because you're making good money right now and it didn't happen when you were at Delta. Never gonna be another down turn or black swan event!

My Terms because I've already given up a lot of my life to uncle Sam. 2 years contract, then year to year after. $100k/yr tax-free bonus (minimum), both years paid before I depart for my duty station. Flyer only. 5/4/9 schedule. No in-voluntary TDY's/Deployments (I'm probably going, I just want control). No writing or receiving OPRs/awards. Paper Voucher (1351-2). Paper Leave Forms (988)...I really don't want to have to justify why I can't fly across the country with SVTC. Duty assignment of my choosing. No Blues. I'll do PT tests because it's always fun to beat the young 20-somethings as a 40 year old overweight dude with a jacked up back/neck. Oh, and I want that time to count toward my reduced retirement pay. If there is a real near-pear, shoot-em-up war, scrap all that, I'll be first in line to come back and do what I can to help!

Aside from the few at the top, this gets a vast majority of the group delayed pay/QOL, which I guess is great if you want to work until you die. I certainly wouldn't call having to wait two more years for all QOL/Pay increases a good deal.

Alright guys, settle down...not everyone at once!

Definitely a political issue, like everything else going on out there. In something that's near/dear to many of us, just look at BRAC and where they choose to base things. If you could care less, the go ahead and do so. They jealousy seems to be more of the pro-67 crowd toward those against. Some of the loudest proponents of this thing got to where they are today because everyone ahead of them retiring at 60 and 65. Now that they're at the top, they just want an additional 2 years at the top. Some of the loudest supporters accuse "junior" of just wanting "25 years in the left seat of a WB." Many of these guys have already been at this airline longer than the entire career of the average newhire from when I was hired. I think all they look at is the kids getting hired today in their early 20s. Never mind that a vast majority of this generation was hired in their mid-late 30s. They also seem to think that none of these guy had it bad because what they experienced happened before Delta. They also seem to think that there will be no more black swans...it's all rainbows and unicorns from here on out! There is nothing hypocritical/jealous about being for maintaining the status quo.

FAA against Age-67. Interesting development since they've been mostly silent on this.

When I got back to my squadron way back when, it was full of very old school dudes. I think these cats didn't let their wives converse r hang out together...power is knowledge type shit. I don't think half of them even knew each other, probably because the wives had careers while raising kids. The more I see this type of shit, the more I understand their thought process lol.

What O face said. I remember the BRAC of the mid-2000s, when all of the 3 other wings in my state we're certain my base would be closing. BRAC comes out and two of the other wings are slated for closure and my base picks up an alert mission. Fast forward 20 years, both of the bases slated for closure are still open. One was supposed to lose their planes, but ended up flying another plane for a while, then switched back to original airframe. They've now lost their birds and switched to non-flying mission. The other base kept it jets for nearly a decade then switched to UAVs. The month they were slated to lose their last jet, an AD 4-star tried to reverse the process because he wanted the training capacity. Alas, it was too late...go figure. It's all political and crapshoot. Why the fuck did the AD give the F-35 to two bases where the locals absolutely hated the noise of the F-16 and cause all kinds of problems for the base? How strong is your politician?

3 episodes in now and agreed that CGI is terrible. However, I love the series from a historical point of view. It's telling the story of what these young men went through and it's certainly about the personal experience. I dig it, mainly because I'm just a WW2 nerd, but I certainly understand some may be turned off by CGI.

I have nothing more to add than, what a piece of shit! Delta thankfully doesn't have any maxes yet and I'd love to see them swapped out for more busses...much more comfortable ride anyway.

Did lots of cattle work as kid working on my uncles farm, a lot of it for free as a cost of doing business for hanging with my best friend/cousin. That's some tough work, especially as we age. It's one of the big reasons I decided to go to college and get out of my small ass midwestern farm town. Much respect to our famers!

Same, especially out in the small towns. Even my neighborhood there is group of kids out all summer hustlin, raking leaves, mowing lawns, picking up sticks, etc... However, I haven't seen those little shits lately...need them over here to shovel the snow! I'm too old for that shit 🤣. But seriously, these kids are going places.

Great to hear the pilot go out! Since everyone is ok. PACAF/CC right now...

Will do. Our best prospect right now is a strip nearby that the owner left to his nephew. Nephew flies but isn't sure he wants to keep it. He's checking with the township to see what can be done wrt breaking up the land into smaller lots. We're finding that that biggest show stoppers to building a grass strip or building houses on one, is the township bylaws, especially with how much land can be broken up. Around here you pretty much can't break off anything less than 5 acres and most townships have a limit on how many parcels can be broken off. I wish them the best. It certainly can be done, but unfortunately there is just the added layer of red tape around airports. A buddy built his own hangar on a local airport that has a living space inside. Dude is loaded but even he said it was a costly and painful process.

There is always a hater out there...

I don't know the current situation, but prior to rona, the FAA was starting to crack down on hangars. If the airport had received Federal dollars, they were going through and ensuring that hangars we're being utilized to hangar aircraft. They started forcing evictions of people who were using to the store shit or run unrelated businesses. Here's hoping that is actually happening. Anyway, make friends with the airport owner and you'll get a hangar lol. I'm not joking...he who owns the hangars/airport, controls the list... I had a relatively easy time getting a hangar for my first plane, but it's getting tighter in my area. The guys I sold my plane to are keeping it in my hangar as I sub-let it to them. I'm keeping it for my next plane lol. A group of friends and I are trying to get around all that by building our own grass strip and putting up our forever homes/hangars. Just need someone to be willing to part with the right 30-40 acres lol.

Yup, they can only have those cheap fares so long. After they've created a name and burned through an asston of cash, it's time to make some money. Then the fees show up and people lose their mind. Turns out it costs money to move people by air, but people think air travel is a born right, so they lose their minds when they have to pay more. Not long ago a buddy wad like why is it so damn expensive to fly these days? I looked and I could go round trip from DTW to LAX for $500 or CUN for $600. I'm like seems cheap for what you're getting... which is your ass parked in a chair in the sky, moving at 500 mph to a place that wasn't even reachable for 99% of Americans just a few decades ago lol. It's probably still cheaper than it's ever been to fly.

Lol just ran into a pilot training buddy and asked him his plans. He plans on getting out at 20 and said he was about to start dealing with the O-6 board BS. I'm like can't you just not do anything? I guess that's not how it works on AD? Anyway he said writing to the board to ask to not be promoted didn't even work for one of his friends 🤣. Given his record and what's going on right now, there is no way he's not promoted, but he's still bailing at 20. Crazy times.

Badass disc golf course...lol. You from Colorado? 🤣