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He forgot the first rule in Fight Club...

Yorktown has the best schools. If you live in the privatized military housing off base, your only bills will be Internet and cell phone and they mow your grass for free and you are in the Yorktown school district. All of those houses were built 2008-2010. If you have school-age kids there, that's a great place to live. YMMV

This has little to do with fighting China and more to do with fighting the people who buy their stuff. China and Russia aren't the only A2/AD environments anymore.

Anyone have experience with a Seiko Astron (solar, GPS)? Know where you can get one at a discount or websites to keep an eye on for a discount?

While he's not going to get a third star or even another two-star job before he retires, I'd peg his retirement around Jan-17. COMACC will conduct a CDI (if it doesn't get taken over by DoD/IG), he'll get some form of documented reprimand that doesn't effect his pay or paygrade, and he'll then stay in job until Jan-17 when he retires. Over-Under: 01-Jan-17

No public comments from Welsh. He did do some fact finding.

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At the end of FY15, the USAF is forecasted to be at just over 312k. At the Corona in October, the 4-stars decided their goal of 308.8k was untenable primarily due to the shortage of maintenance personnel. Their new "redline" for manning is 315k. By the end of FY16, they are funding 317k uniformed Airmen billets. For these reasons, any personnel reductions (voluntary or involuntary) beyond the normal retirements, discharges and quality force review boards are extremely unlikely. There is absolutely zero talk about another TAMI-21 or stop loss.

Like maybe the town of North Pole underneath the JPARC?

Well said.

Anecdotal evidence: Of the 10 or so Eagle Drivers I know who were stationed there, 2 Stink Bug Drivers, and 10 or so Raptor Drivers, I never heard one say they hated their assignment there. YMMV

No, Jesus did not have a referral report...He walked on water.

Second thought: Why just load one GAU-22 when you can load 20?! Then that commander could be the next 6-star General of the Air Force and then F-35s could fly at 70,000 feet and drop 2 JDAMs with altitude AND attitude hold on...troll

Affirm, it accounts for the 1% reduction and the removal of the requirement for it to cover renter's insurance. -break- Dude, that's a huge reduction at Maxwell!

Slow accessions, continue the quality force review boards, and the normal separation/retirement process is the plan. I know the NDAA says the end strength is 312,###, but the SECAF/CSAF manning redline is 315,400 - we're pretty much there.

Don't count on TERA. The FY14 manpower cuts assumed the USAF "redline" end strength would be 308,900. Due to all of the maintenance manpower shortages, the new redline is 315,400. This means the USAF shouldn't have to use anymore voluntary or involuntary measures to "right size" the force in the near future. Any changes needed will be done through the normal accession/termination processes.

Not a separate board, just a one year slip to the right for '05YG.

Rumor: I heard from a HAF staffer that the '05 captains up for promotion right now won't have their first look for school until a year later than usual (first look attendance would start Summer '17 instead of Summer '16). This would allow one academic year ('16-'17) to clear the glut of selects clogging up the system. The end goal will be a strict 70/30 select/candidate IDE rate.

In 2000, apples weren't too bad. By 2020, oranges might be delicious. Just sayin'.

In the case of the dude being #1 in his SOS class but being #5/13 on his PRF, I'd like to think the WG/CC knew this guy would be a school select and therefore tried to use his higher strats on others? I don't know how #1-#4 faired on the board though.

There is no longer a DO/CoS board in ACC. Those candidates are discussed in the late summer DT now without any formal process. Don't know when the command lists will come out. I'd expect the wing and group CC picks to come out by December. School list is expected 12-Nov.

Anecdotal evidence from a PRF written in 2010 for the Dec-10 Majors board: #5/13 strat on his PRF with a DP was a school select. That's the only hard evidence I have to help answer your question. (It probably didn't hurt that the guy was #1 in his entire SOS class) Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

IMO, residence vs. correspondence IDE/SDE is going to be HUGE now. They may block it in the education section of your SURF, but you can't hide it in the duty history! It is what it is, and I think it's better than the AAD insanery. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

She has a whole chapter dedicated to her in a New York Times best seller, touting her as one of the AF's greatest leaders. She's a pretty big deal...people know her. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Read below that in the section titled "Early Eligibles" Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!