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sputnik

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  1. I kind of hate it when people tell me how to spend my money. That said, I tend to agree with Huggy. Unless you are 100% positive you won't ever need it, you are closing a door that will be a lot harder to reopen.. There may be options later down the road, but I guarantee you they will be significantly more painful and/or expensive.

    Delta for as long as I've been looking has only required a current written. I doubt many folks get hired without a full ATP, but clearly it's possible. Since your written is going to expire soon, that fact is irrelevant. I don't know of any major that will hire without the written, as I understand it (?) the written is the part that is about to get difficult.

    I had no intention of going to the airlines....and here I am. Hell, even Butters is apparently going to give it a shot. If you're going to close that door, make sure you do it eyes open.

  2. By making his statements, Maj Gen Keltz could be seen as influencing every single member of the 19AF into believing that the accused is guilty. The defense would argue that this is "influence to reaching the findings of the case." If the defendent choses to take this to trial (not very likely), a UCI petition would be the first one filed from the defense.

    Couldn't the prosecutor counter by saying "and then he got fired for it?" Proving it wasn't appropriate?

  3. Here's another plug for the Amex Platinum and Amex Delta Skymiles Platinum especially for those of you that are new hire airline pilots. Nothing beats waiting for your commute home then being able to go to the Skyclub for some free food and drinks before heading home, and it's sure better than the crew lounge. Since separating from AD both of my cards' fees have been waived, and I've still been receiving the companion tickets. I'll let you know if anything changes, but as far as I know, if you're still a reservist you still qualify for the fees being waived.

    I like the way you think. Reading about the card it says to enter the lounge you need the platinum card, and ID and a ticket showing travel that day. What do you do for the ticket?

  4. Awesome of Jimmy!

    When I was shot down in my AH-1 Cobra, (no ejection system or parachutes) I bought my self a Rolex in Hong Kong for $135! Biggest mistake was not buying a box car full of them considering today's prices!

    Wait, what? Story?

  5. I'm retiring. I've always been told you can't use the 20 day separation persmissive TYD if you have a job. More specifically, you can't be permissive TDY while working at a new job. When I check afi, I didn't see anything about that restriction.

    Any guidance? Really not a big deal either way, I just want to know the answer.

    Thanks

  6. I have seen the eat your own, didn't occur to me it would bleed into court as well.

    I once sat on a retention board with two Lts, both of whom had a chunk of E time. We retained the guy, my assessment at the time was that two standard 23ish Lt's wouldn't have seen the big picture the way these two did.

  7. I can absolutely guarantee any amount of money saved by catching the one dude who's cheating on his BAH (though I'm still unsure how this will catch anyone) will be dwarfed by the metric ass-ton of man hours lost by having the entire Air Force stop what they are doing, find the documentation, go to FSS and be immediately and efficiently helped.

    Sort of made up the last part.

    Kind of impressive really, someone measurably reduced the productivity of the entire USAF active duty work force...for an OPR bullet.

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  8. The AF is behind the times - other services have been doing this for a while now. And believe it or not the army caught people with fakes, making money for being married, having kids, etc.

    This isn't much of a shock that we are playing catch up.

    Chuck

    Isn't that what DEERS is for? I seem to recall dropping off birth and marriage certificates. And a bunch of other stuff.

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  9. I can't argue with C-21. I spent a lot of money on my ATP, very happy with what I did as it completely met my needs/constraints.

    That said, APT is a box to check. So far as I can tell, it's an idiotic box to check. Therefore doing it with the least amount of money spent is utterly and completely the smartest choice.

    Find the cheapest place that you know you'll pass.

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  10. I know we don't have Warrants in the AF, but as an O in the AF; you also won't fly as much as you'd like, and your flying hours will significantly drop as you promote in rank.

    It's relative. I've worked with FGO Army aviators, their hours were about the same as a heavy guy after one assignment. Army O's just don't fly.

    As for AF flying--luck and timing. I've never had a non-flying assignment.

  11. INSUBORDINATION. Direct verbal order from a superior commander, unless it is illegal, follow it.

    Meh. Cadets aren't allowed facial hair by their regs..

    Message had two faces.

    1. Don't violate standards--checks with CSAF guidance (I think, based on what I've read here anyway).

    2. And, you're not allowed to play.

    Reminds me of pulling into Salem. Had fun there but was taken aback at otherwise excellent aircrew brochure. The first first item was about the fact that morale patches were not authorized. I could really care less, but how the heck was the that the first thing new aircrew needed to know?

    Crap, I hate staches. Sort of feel compelled to grow one now. We'll see if I remember in morn.

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