pawnman

It was already a waste of time.

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Agreed, and I hope you're right. The comparison was in relation to your comment: implying that I have to buy my way into a promotion.

The English used to do this too...letting privileged people buy their rank. I don't think that led to the best leaders then, and I don't think it will now. Hell, why don't I just go ahead and write a check to my rating official so I can get promoted. Edit to add: I don't see the cut they plan on making having a big impact. They aren't eliminating it...TA for Master's classes will go from $250/hr to $225/hr. Oh no, $75 a class? I don't see a large drop in TUI's enrollment anytime soon. I do see a mass exodus coming, but that's a different issue.

Actually, depending on your deployment cycle, you end up doing those two-year CBTs every 6 months (to be current all the way through the deployment, then to be current for the next ORI, then to be current again for your next deployment). Of course, part of the problem is that our training managers insist on making people current THROUGH the deployment...when the reg only requires you to be current the day you set foot in the AOR.

If your'e going to quit, go out in style.

So...when does Code Pink start protesting Obama for starting new wars? I mean, they didn't even wait until the invasion of Iraq to start protesting Bush.

I don't know what the requirements are for 365 deployments, but even the support folks we took with us for six months only needed two sets of ABUs.

Your UDM should have access to the AFCENT reporting instructions (they may be on the portal as well). The last revision I saw, which may be a bit dated, had 2 sets of either ABUs or DFDUs, and if you were authorized to wear the DFDU as your primary uniform there was no requirement for ABUs. This requirement has gone back and forth over the years, but even when ABUs were required the only folks in my squadron who ever wore them were the CC and the DO.

So is the reporting that terrible, or did the poll come back with "we shouldn't be in Iran"? I could believe either one from the general population, seeing as most of them can't find Iraq OR Afghanistan on a map...but I do expect a little more from veterans.

We can hope.

A bit of a moot point at this stage, no?

Birdstrike. On the stab. From the 6 o'clock.

You're not going to do a song while I'm here!

I think my DO would have been on board with some mild retaliation. Necessity and proportionality need to be considered, but that doesn't mean you can't do anything.

The price hike didn't bother me. Splitting streaming from DVDs bothers me. The list of random changes the Air Force has made is endless.

The lesson the Air Force can learn from Netflix, especially recently, is that making random changes that benefit no one for the sake of making changes tends to piss people off.

"The baby doesn't weigh 100 pounds, right?"

Well, at least he recognizes he's adding nothing to the fight.

So we will finance their childcare...but only through the CDC and not through any daycare centers off-base? Even if it's cheaper? Guess I'm not following the whole logic train there.

Yeah, I think we're sort of on the same page here...although let's face it, not all kids are planned out. I'm not for subsidizing other folks' bad financial choices, but neither am I against lending a hand to our enlisted guys who are scraping by on the same paycheck they could be earning at McDonald's, for longer hours and less thanks.

Point is, if you max out your credit cards and take on two car loans and a huge mortgage, don't expect me to subsidize you with cheap childcare. One wonders if we could meet the childcare requirement more cheaply by just adding a "basic allowance for children" to the paycheck and closing the CDC.

"You can't fix stupid".

On a previous deployment, we actually had our own cards printed. Then when some guy tried to REMF you in passing, you'd stop them and get their name, office symbol, phone number, supervisor, etc. We told them the boss was cracking down and we had to take this info back to our chain...the reality was, we were trying to waste as much of their time as possible with each and every REMFing.

Agreed, and I have a kid. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?