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1st Herk I flew shook on takeoff, in the climb, and most of the sortie. And when I say shook, it's wasn't vibration, I mean it shook side to side, and hard. "They" said it might be due to the external tanks and removed them, but it probably wasn't. Plane was grounded shortly after I flew it and was retired, which probably prevented a pending Class A. Same with oldest Herk. 61-2358 was the 1st E-model and they said it spent a lot of it's life as a test bird. but it came to LR its final days with the 62d doing Pro sorties. It's now back at Edwards as a display.

Yep, came here to report the same e-mail. These are proposals and the links above are for public comment. Looks like tinnitus won't get a 10% unless associated with hearing loss. Also, the VA says that a person's current ratings won't change, but if these changes are instituted, one can apply for an increase if applicable.

Convoy!!! Go Rubber Duck!

I thought so. I worked until the retirement date minus PTDY date. I sold back the rest of my leave. Airline job start date was 5 weeks after retirement date. Another job. If you don't have another job to work while on terminal, then all you're doing is a regular AF salary paid vacation. Then you're out, no leave to sell, while you wait for the other job to start. That's where working to the last day and selling leave works out to a pay advantage. But if you have another job while on terminal, then yes, don't sell the leave. But you can get retirement pay and regular pay at the same time, ask me how I know. Ok, I'll share. I set a retirement date but interviews were kinda slow at the time, so I pushed it back about 5 months (easily approved). Well, the AF DFAS told the retired DFAS my 1st date, but didn't tell them about the change. The DFAS's don't really interact with each other I guess. So 2 months after that original retirement date, I start getting weird deposits and duplicate allotments to my IRAs (yep, they can transfer from one DFAS to another, but not supposed to). I called the only DFAS I knew, our AF one. They had no record of the deposits, no idea where they came from. I tell the companies getting th duplicate allotments to return the funds, they're not mine. Then I get my 1st Retirement DFAS statement 30 days before my new, actual retirement date and see the issue. I was getting retirement backpay and distributions to my IRA. I called to tell them to stop. No, they say, we can't stop paying you retirement pay even if you're not retired. I shit you not, that was the first answer. The resolution to fix the pay, calculations, and oh we overpaid you and now you own us and btw we're charging you interest for our mistake, and such, took a whole year! I'm not kidding here, its a classic office space thing where you can't talk to the people that make changes to pay accounts. It took multiple letters, scathing online feedback forms, and a handy e-mail to an upper DFAS mgmt gal to get a fixer involved. Oh, and try doing taxes on a screwed up 1099-R.

Don't Look Up was fine. You're just falling into the traps of critics. They're bandwaggoning the hate and I don't know why. In the tone of Jen Lawrence, What the Fuck Is Wrong With You???? I loved the lampooning of billionaires. I loved byline of the gaslighting politics. They didn't preach to you, they just tried to reveal the absurdity of politicians and gazillionaires. Don't skip it. You will thank someone, especially when you think, "we can't be this stupid, can we?"

So folks tuning in, there's an SWA advantance over others, especially UAL. At UAL, most can't drop their entire line. And if you can, pick is only premium if advertised on that trip; which if there is sufficient reserve coverage, premium ain't happening. 73 or Airbus, the premium is mostly during crunch times like holidays or summer. But working my ass off isn't my plan, so I try to coast with working as little as possible.

But it's unAmerican.

And here I thought Texans love freedom more than anything. Not very freedom like, if you ask me.

FedEx wants LAIRCM on a few jets. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/14/fedex-anti-missile-lasers-cargo-planes-527119 Gotta get those packages delivered no matter what!!!

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious. He was going to visit his granny and decided to take a test, come to find out, negative. Just some sort of teenager, get outta school, cold. (Last part is true. Know a person, got sick, thought rona, fam visit with olds coming up, got a test. Just a cold with cough. Shit, thought colds were extinct these days.)

This stuff is great for adding HEAT to anything. Mix some in with your season salt and done. A good alternative when you're out to peños or don't want the mess. Any Kroger brand store, like Pick n Save has it.

I used humor to suggest that masks and vaxs won't eradicate covid. And mask policies are like reflective belt rules. Wearing one is not a force field. Tell you what. You do you.

Read the recent airline thread? My local union council entertained a proposal to attempt to increase the age 65 rule (it failed, no surprise). One of the points, there is a "pilot shortage." Really, its a shortage of specific kinds of people, but they will take what they can when the preferred category dries up. A mil pilot is a well known quantity and usually produces well. They also tend to be mission hacking oriented. That said, I know numerous people that got out at 16, 17, and even 18 yrs of service. I know the check of the month club is very enticing, and it made being on min pay thru covid no big deal (thanks, Uncle Sugar!!). No OPRs, no 1206s, no PT tests, no uni-nazis (yep, nobody cares if I'm hat-less) or whatever beef o' the day in the Wrong on the AF thread. The job takes me to interesting places with breweries to try out. At United, there is need to hire 1100ish by this summer based on the last vacancy. Anyone with min Capt requirements could have gotten it at SFO, LAX, EWR, and IAD. I just heard Delta doesn't care about a degree. These are called hiring signs.

Everyone MOPP4, vaxed, taxed, and boosti-vaxed, and a few million crews like this cleansing the planet. There, done. Just watch out for that passive carrier that can zombify the world. (Courtesy of 28 Weeks Later)

That guy sounds like, suppose the Wright Bros told everyone to never fly on an airplane. I understand he came up with the idea, but it took a huge number of people to develop the idea into a product. Now he just sounds like a qwack.

Keep the receiver unless you don't like it, and just get a pair of quality floor/bookshelf speakers. Don't really need a sub if you got decent woofers. Just ask my neighbors. If you want to impress your friends with $$$$, just get a set of the revitalized JBL L100. About $2K each. If you want vintage, a great source is goodwill.com as they auction off all the best donated stuff. I got a 2nd Sony receiver for the garage for under $25. Some get speakers off there as the crossovers are great and refurb them with replacement speakers.

Most recent UAL vacancy had something like 1100+ unfilled FO and about 90 unfilled Capt spots (coasts). Hiring is a booming. So, don't sweat the hrs too much. Make a one-pager with the hours and any caveats like 1.3 hrs/sortie (for those that ask for it). And be able to explain it. Something like, "The AF does a good job of keeping track of the hours and we do a review together every year. Blah Blah Blah. This one page history consolidates all those hours into an easy to read format."

Kenosha is my home town and I know it well. BLM and etc jumped in to make a scene and others joined the fray and created chaos. Burn it down, they said. The asshole gov Evers, that piece of "gotta please the BLMers" shit, refused to send state help like the National Guard. So the people said screw that, I'm not letting them burn down my town and responded, and brought guns. And people are upset on a self defense verdict? That kid should have stayed home. Rosenbaum was looking for a fight and picked on a kid he thought was vulnerable, because that's what he's done most of his life, molest little boys. If Rittenhouse wasn't there, it probably have been someone else, the next youngest and vulnerable looking kid. And we would be reading about some other trial of someone that defended themselves against Rosenbaum. Skateboarder Huber should have summoned the police instead of attacking. Side note and I've mentioned it before, is that many of the businesses that were looted and burned, are owned by non-white people and serve poorer neighborhoods. Like this one below. Some rioters tried to loot a deli/convenience store near my grandparents house. The citizens heard it, and came out shouting. They scattered and the store survived with some door damage.

I had to go thru at least 6 news links before I found the name, but no pic. Look up the name, and finally got the mugshot. It's fucked up how much the medias hides certain details or pushes something hard. Out

Danger41 says this was deployed. SEFE dude is sandbagging, in his opinion. And based on the story shared, I agree; Wx above legal mins and solid alternate. All the facts and excuses aside, I would remove the crew, that was assigned to perform a tasked mission in support of combat operations, and call in the Bravo crew. I would then put that sandbagging crew on duty desk for the next umpteen days to weeks. We need crews that can perform ATO, ORM'd missions. That crew would likely have a sitdown with themselves and express some feelings to each other. Also, the other crews picking up the slack would eventually know. Would they side with the AC or tell them to sack up and do their job? I've seen similar and problem crews got the jist. I've also seen a SEFE do stupid downgrades and been told that they keep that shit up, they won't be doing the job anymore. That is all, out.

I don't. Zero reservation. It's guys/gals like us that bring perspective to their other roles, this case, Congress. It's the very definition of representative govt. it can make for some interesting crossovers too, like C17 AC and slum lord, or Chief of Training and Only Fans lady.

One. It goes out the hull to rain piss on France.

It was an ADSC for me and I signed up day 1 that the transfer benefit was offered. The deal then was if you had less that 4 years to 20, the ADSC was prorated to 20 yrs of active service. But it was all online, automated, and all laid out. OP, it's an ADSC. You signed, they give you a benefit. If you file for retirement, you may get to, but probably not with the benefit. PS, I used the transfer benefits for 3x dependants and all will walk away with 0, zero, no, college debt. That's priceless. When they live at home, the housing allowance easily covers tuition for another.

When history books will include your name on this topic, maybe directing the record is in the interests of your family name and rep. Assholes. How we got here is part of the story, but I will not forgive the fucking ineptitude of the exit. Zero excuses allowed, less that zero accountability observed. Fucking out

Also, in the warmer months in FL, there is always WX, EDTs, etc. Ops should always understand and anticipate those kinda delays. No other airline meltdown last week.