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    Retirement / Separation Considerations

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hypothetical situation here...say I know a guy, let’s call him “Danger”, who planned to separate and go to the airlines before some guy in Wuhan decided to eat a bat and give the whole world the plague. The AF approved his separation but now he’s having second thoughts. Is it possible to move that date back/remove it and stay AD for awhile? What about signing a 1 year bonus? Is that even a thing for pilots?

    I do know of guys who have cancelled a separation request or had it adjusted to the right. So it’s definitely possible!


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    The new airline thread

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Not a day goes by where I wish I stayed in. Job security included. 
     
    Live below your means, keep your wife amount to under 2 definitely less than 3, save appropriately, and enjoy the ride. 
     
    Always hope for the best but plan for the worst. Still better than Active Duty.

    I am so glad I decided to keep a Guard job and not just cut ties completely. Being able to bring in extra money for just a little bit of work is a good shock absorber in times like these.


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    *catchy title to get people curious about my situation*

    in What Are My Chances?

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    We had a similar situation years ago at my ANG unit. A guy who was essentially in your same situation. From what I recall, it will all depend on how your attrition was classified. This guy essentially washed out of the ground school and there was no way to bring him in the unit. On the other side, I have been trying to help one of my old UPT students get picked up by the NOAA to fly after he was washed out of B-1 ground school and then told he couldn’t cross flow into a mobility asset (ridiculous). The latter guy had everyone from his flight commanders to the wing commander vouching for his ability when Gen Rand decided to overturn the recommendations and just FEB him completely.

    Maybe things have changed but my guess is that you have a really big uphill battle to fight here. Hopefully someone who has more recent intel can chime in, but bottom line I think it’s going to fall with how you were classified at the termination of training. Force shaping=ok; performance based=probably SOL...


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    What is a good company to Mil-leave from?

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    When you look at it through the lens of a bean counter, or think of airline execs leaning on the .gov, it all makes sense.  They want a full time force, they just don't want to pay for it...which I get.  Kind of like when we had wildly different benefits based on whether you went vol or non-vol on non-contingency deployments (12301d vs 12304b...finally changed for the good).  However, I never knew our tanker bros were getting title-10 exempt orders.  I assume those are early retirement eligible?  Good on ya, that's truly a great deal!  How many "man-years" (can we still say that?  Person-years? Human-years?) of orders does your squadron get per year?  Each alert squadron gets 10 sets of orders per year.  For a while some squadron got 12, but I think we're all back down to 10.  

    Yeah! Early retirement eligible and also TAMP-180 (I think that’s the right term). We are currently fighting TACC and A3 about Manning. Technically, we get 2 full crews on Title-10 alert. Which if played out, would be working 15 days a month... good luck getting anyone to volunteer for that. A3 supplements us with enough “man-days” to create another crew although that is not the “intention” of the days they give us. When scheduled out, the 3 crew ratio lets us schedule people to work 10 days a month, which gets a lot of airline guys and even guest help beating down the doors to participate for 33 days here and there.

    We have 2 pilot managers and 2 boom managers who stay on Alert Orders most of the year and deal with all the management and scheduling headaches. I was blessed to be able to slide into this job post divorce and life has been pretty incredible since. Coming off orders soon though to knock out my off-probation checkride, but when I figured out my “break even” point, Alert vs. SWA, I will have to be a 5 year FO before I start losing money on Alert... that puts me so close to an AD military retirement that it would be stupid to walk away from the O-5 pension. I just need Alert to hang on for a little while longer.


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    What is a good company to Mil-leave from?

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    Not sure what is considered alpha or bravo alert. It's like, you stay in a facility on base 24/7 and when the horn goes off, you go running for the jets.   

    Yeah same here. Hmmm. Sounds like a screw job for sure. On another note I have been told that while y’all are DAV coded from deployments when sitting Alert, we are not. How many days a month are you actually “sitting”? We are 1 on, 2 off, but we can stack up to 5 days straight to give us more block time off. I sit Alert and also do the Managing for the Wing. I absolutely love this job. Since the ex didn’t try to take my military retirement, I plan on maxing that thing out just to spite her!


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    What is a good company to Mil-leave from?

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    Well I'm guessing it's kinda like how the NGB staff takes care of themselves with USERRA exempt orders (though I heard those are getting cut as well), but the peons don't get the same.  For us fighters, our alert orders are title 32 and we only get a title 10 day IF we have a real world scramble, and only for that day.  I've sat alert at two other units and it's the same everywhere.  They've been "talking" about getting them USERRA exempt for quite some time, but it gets shot down year after year.  It's part of the reason I don't sit alert anymore.  

    Is this Alpha Alert? Launch within 30mins? I know some units that have a Bravo line and it doesn’t seem to be as good of a deal as we have here.


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    24 AFTPs and Finance

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    So I got the full story today. A couple months ago, DFAS apparently shut down all AFTP processing for about a week or so thinking they were going to get some new system, but that blew up and is now delayed at least a year.

    My AFTPs had just been sitting with someone at my base finance in CMS for over a month and a half because she didn’t know how to process them...

    But bottom line, AFTPs #17-24 are still done in AROWS and then have to be routed to DFAS through CMS. Expect a slow payout on those ones.


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    24 AFTPs and Finance

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    With the new reg that was published sometime last year, we are now allowed to do 24 AFTPs per quarter and a max of 72 per year. Unfortunately the finance system apparently couldn’t handle that minor change and all additional AFTPs past 16 had to be done by hand through CMS.

     

    So I have 8 AFTPs that still haven’t paid out since Aug/September 2019... and another 8 that haven’t been paid since October/November...

     

    I run to my finance office yesterday to ask what is going on and I am told that the have stopped processing additional AFTPs until the finance system gets fixed.

     

    Does this check with what you guys are hearing at other ANG bases?

     

     

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    VA Loans

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I got the letters (same deal, NBKC sold my mortgage to Freedom), and also found it odd that my auto payments didn't transfer.  Was a bit of a pain to get it set up with Freedom and make sure it was working correctly within the 2 month grace period.  Freedom seemed a bit shady, so I pinged [mention=611]Jon - Trident Home Loans[/mention] and got a refi done through Trident.  Shaved 2 years and half a percent.  Trident sold my loan to Caliber Mortgage about a week after closing on the refi (which was expected, clearly stated in the paperwork they won't be the loan servicer).  So far so good...

    I used Caliber for a loan before in Florida and had no issues with them (builder incentive to cover closing costs etc). Next time I’m using Trident though.


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