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Devastating, huh? Let's not tell them about some of the other callsigns we fly with on a daily basis.

Maybe if they stop non-voling them to RPAs, they'll solve their shortage.

The correct response: "If you just put in a $6 million pond to support water usage, then shouldn't there be plenty of water?"

Edit: What Spoo said.

Perhaps...but you find a route from some of our favorite non-disclosed locations that don't depend on overflight of either Iran or Pakistan.

These are our allies, gents.

I'd love to see the back and forth between our diplomats and Pakistan. Pakistan: "WTF? You put American troops into Pakistan, miles from the capital, and started a firefight?" US: "WTF? You let Osama Bin Laden camp out on your front doorstep in a mansion and didn't call us?" Good work, fellas. If we ever meet, beers are on me. Lastly, am I the only one that thinks we should enshrine OBL in NYC, in such a way as to encourage passersby to tea-bag his corpse?

Should be easy enough. Basically the same form, right?

Maybe...although as you say, the good guys are getting out at their commitment points anyway. If anyone doesn't think the 500ish people who applied for VSP and were denied are even more solidified in their desire to punch on their ADSC date, they are sorely mistaken. Further, if the goal was "keep the good people in, throw the terrible ones out", why offer a VSP at all? I thought it was all about the total numbers anyway. At least, that's what SECAF put out there. If anyone thinks that denying VSP for those guys is going to keep them in the service past their ADSC, you're sorely mistaken. They'll be real lucky not to get thrown out in a couple years as passed-over captains who couldn't get an in-residence SOS slot or another upgrade because they aren't "team-players"...remember how pilots who didn't sign on for the pilot bonus and the additional ADSC were treated in the not-too-distant past? How much worse will it be for someone who actively TRIED to get out and failed? Congratulations, you just made permanent snacko, but at least the squadron's manning number look good. Oh well, someone had to soak up that ALO bill, right? Disclaimer: I didn't put in for VSP...but I also didn't spend more than about an hour on my RRF form either.

So instead of voluntarily separating a few more of the 540 who applied, we'll instead force out people who want to stay? Awesome. What a great plan. My prediction: not even 1% of rated officers will be cut, and those who are will surprise no one (DUI, fraternization, multiple Q-3s, etc).

Country's all yours, Iraq. Best of luck.

If you have th kind of time, you probably aren't that important to the mission...and you should probably be up for this RIF. Sadly, cheerleading probably gives her no end of "community involvement" bullets for her OPR.

If the Airman no kidding cries to his first shirt, then it's probably time to end the "We'll take care of this privately" and start the paperwork trail. Step one is telling the shirt why you yelled at the kid in the first place.

Now you, too, can ride out the coming economic/zombie/machine apocalypse in style! http://all-that-is-interesting.com/post/4956385434/the-first-zombie-proof-house

Jesus. If I had a dollar for every time I got vectors because another aircraft was on short final and we didn't have the spacing to make a landing afterwards, I could quit the USAF and open my aviation-themed bar, complete with topless "stewardesses". Did these reporters do NO research? 3NM is a long distance. Probably didn't even trigger the TCAS, I'd imagine. This was certainly nothing dangerous. Inside minimum spacing for a landing behind a heavy aircraft? Yes. "Narrowly averting a collision"? Yeah, the same way I narrowly avoid a collision when I stop at a red light and someone goes across the intersection.

Hey, for once the slow and inefficient nature of the USAF acquisitions process is working FOR us!

I thought the program that hacked into officer's brains and uses them as tools was based at Maxwell.

Ah. Sometimes, when you've done something a certain way for a while, you forget that there are other ways of doing it. So to speak.

You mean there was a time before "Every officer needs a Master's and PME in addition to conduction the actual mission of our service." ? That's crazy talk, like strippers at the O' Club and flying under bridges. I think you older guys make this stuff up..... Not really. But I am jealous. Except of the guys who didn't do PME and didn't get an MBA because of the aforementioned policy and then got screwed down the line.

Bad?

I don't know...the US is in a budget crunch...the US has a stockpile of JDAMs...I see a solution here.

Harumph!

So instead of giving up "prestigious", if useless, institutions, we'll instead cut the number of F-22s, RIF officers, and mothball aircraft. It's fine, I'm sure the next war will be fought with harshly worded academic papers.

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You can also designate someone as your representative to talk to/watch the movers when they are packing up your stuff. I ended up having to get my parents to do this when my orders were cut for P-Cola about a week before I graduated OTS, and I was given about 7 days between graduation (in Maxwell) to my RNLTD in PCola. You don't even need a power of attorney, just a designated individual (TMO should have the paperwork that will let you designate an individual).