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I was a married but geographically separated from my spouse Lt/Capt. I got a three-bedroom duplex to myself. Most of my married with kids Lt/Capt friends had 3 bedroom duplexes and some had the four-bedroom houses. Nothing special, that's for sure. convenience was the only reason I lived on based instead of the market.
As of this year, housing includes rent and utilities. The utilities were an allotment from the rent. If you used less, you got a rebate. If you used more, you paid more. I pocketed about $200-$300 in utilities by the time I left.
They were struggling to fill NCO housing so people got a break to go into those homes and pay less than BAH. Good luck.
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I'm surprised that he didn't fight it in court. If he was willing to enlist and wasn't allowed he shouldn't have to pay. They could have even reassigned him to another officer field.
He fought through congressional inquiries and got some legal advice but ultimately wasn't able to win. I don't know if he tried to enlist or if even offered but I think there were about 10 guys that year who just got slammed by the Air Force if they DOR'd at UPT. For whatever reason, some senior officer had a large stick up his ass and decided to make an example of some people for god knows why. Watching that fiasco go down was my final eye-opening moment with the AF and that everyone is just a number.
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When students put in their dream sheets at the bottom it says for their assigned IP to mark whether or not they should be Fighter/FAIP qualified. Below that is the same container for their Flt Comm to mark answering the same question. Out of the 100+ sheets I've laid eyes on, only one was ever not recommended for Fighter/FAIP.
For the second question easily well over a million dollars. Never met a 2LT millionaire but the Air Force has made other people pay back training for circumstances of when dudes just quit some type of training. Example would be the Academy where guys needed to pay back the roughly 400,000 for that. I know of no dude that has 400,000 laying around unless he's a grey beard.
Academy recoupment is for education costs. The $400K number is a clever pat-on-the-back number for high school students to quote that is pretty much based on the cost to run the USAFA base (including the 10th ABW) divided by the number of cadets. The actual number is closer to $120-140K for education recoupment.
Several 2009 USAFA grads ended up self-eliminating in UPT. The "workaround" to make them pay was to force them to separate. They couldn't recoup the UPT training cost, but they could get the pro-rated USAFA commitment back. One of my best friends got slapped with a $120K bill from the gov't. It got even more shady. The gov't sold the debt for an unknown amount to a private debt collector. The debt got classified as both education debt AND gov't debt which means that A) he couldn't get rid of it in bankruptcy and B) they can garnish wages without a judge's order. As of today, he has a decent job and he is happy. But his wife has to keep her finances separate from him as much as possible since his credit is trash now from the gov't debt. Trying to get anything that needs decent credit is not possible for him alone without exorbitant fees.
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Lets say on a decent day any given dude
hasdoesn't have 10% SA on everything going on in the AO. Average a crew of two's lack-of-SA level and you get 1% lack-of-SA. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not be one man with 90% SAthanbut two with 99%, or evenworsebetter, 4 with 99.99%! SA = Directly correlated with performance. Math, you just can't argue with it.
FIFY.
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I have been in touch with three of the four bases with eligible 11B's who applied, (not counting whiteman) the ball is in their court to prove me wrong or provide some data to the contrary, I dont have every data point but enough to make an educated guess..
An 11B T-38 IP at Laughlin got VSP. Don't know year group.
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Does that mean we can put noseart back on the jets?
Bring an extra paintbrush and I'll help.
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Really? What does high school have to do with this? When was the last time you saw "guys in cheerleaders outfits and chicks in football jerseys" in the AF? Comparing drag to HS powderpuff has dick (sts) to do with anything in the military
OK, history fun fact of the day: WW2 U.S. Soldier Drag Show (1942) | The Public Domain Review
Panch, someone seriously thought runnersworld was distasteful? Holy $H**. I can understand where you're coming from better now.
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How can the Air Force allow such promotion of excessive sexuality to take place on base and at the same time crack down on workplace display of personal items that might be interpreted as sexually offensive. The attendees should be labeled as bystanders and cowards for not reporting this violation to leadership and SAPR.
Regardless of your sexual preference this is just total hypocrisy. Would it be okay if someone held a heterosexual female pole dancing contest at the O-club? No, it would be an outrage in this day and age. The organizers and attendees would be punished severely and kicked out of the AF.
On the other hand, the GLBT fundraiser organizers will probably get rewarded with quarterly awards and firewall 5s for this little event.
Last thing, GLBT activists should be outraged at them for perpetuating the stereotype (unless it's true) that gays and lesbians are nothing but freak shows & cross dressers instead of the regular hardworkin' warfightin' airmen that they should be.
I missed the pole dancing in there. Drag isn't sexual (at least that show wasn't). It's no worse than the hilarious powderpuff games I've watched at high school games with the guys in cheerleaders outfits and chicks in football jerseys. What about all the youtube vids of soldiers/marines/airmen/sailors in only short shorts singing madonna or Brittany spears?
Mountains out of molehills.
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In absolute numbers, enlisted retirees absolutely outnumber officer. In terms of percentages, they are not representative of the force at large. I think that's what nsplayr is referring to when he says dispropotionately.In 2011:Retired- 27% officer, 73% enlistedDoD - 17% officer, 83% enlistedThe AF does better because our officer ratio is higher (R: 25/75, DoD: 19/81) but the gap is very large in the Army and USMC.
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@ClearedHot. Yup, I didn't miss anything. :)
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I always laugh when I see/hear comments like this one. You reeally must have pushed it up, man. Granted, some cadets are white new-balance with jeans faux leather jacket wearin narps, but a good time could be had by all. Most of my high school friends went to CSU or Boulder. I saw what I missed out on. I'm glad I did. Because after a weekend of hitting the slopes and the beers equally hard, we were back to work, jumping out of airplanes and learning Russian. I feel like we got the best of both worlds. I got to party my ass off and still feel like I accomplished something come Friday. I mean how crazy do you think your civilian college life was? Short of doing coke off hookers' asses on a Tuesday morning, I can't really see what the huge void in my college experience was.
This. I mean, there are some things I really did miss. Having to pay tuition. Room and board. Another job to pay the bills. Being a TA maybe. I could have had the gourmet dining at CC rather than Mitch's mountains.... I guess jumping out of planes, flying other planes, and skiing all winter just won't cut it.
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For those who attended the USAFA did you enjoy it or do you wish you would have gone to another college?
Loved my time there and wouldn't have traded it or the opportunities I had for a civilian institution. Went to a civilian grad program after and didn't feel like I missed anything.
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Academically, the Academy is outstanding? Outstanding at what? Preparing its students for what?
Are Academy students doing groundbreaking research? Do they go on to develop new technologies at companies like Google/IBM/Microsoft? Do they go on to excel at Goldman Sachs at a higher rate than other colleges? Are they accepted into graduate schools at higher rates?
What exactly does the Academy do academic wise that is so outstanding? The vast majority of its graduates go on to be officers in the military, in which all of that "outstanding" academic preparation is completely unused.
Justify it if it makes you feel better, but the USAFA is not the nationally recognized institution that you cadets seem to think it is.
~10% of graduates attend graduate/medical/nursing/dental school.
Of that, typically:
3 to Harvard Kennedy School
~10 to MIT (Draper/Lincoln labs usually)
~ 1-2 to Rice (Draper)
3 to UofMaryland Public Policy
3 to Pardee RAND Graduate School (PhD)
1 Holiday Scholarship to Oxford
~1 or more Rhodes, Marshall, Hertz, Truman scholarships
The rest usually spread between AFIT-CI programs and AFIT proper at Wright-Patt.
Med school ranges all over but not uncommon to see grads head to Harvard and John Hopkins.
The top places like MIT, Harvard, RAND, etc. keep asking USAFA to send them.
Academics are good.
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I don't know how to ask this without sounding like an asshole or belittling your accomplishments, but are you by chance a minority, athlete, or female?
I am a white male and was applying for ROTC scholarships having been accepted to Purdue, Rose-Hulman IT, and Georgia Tech engineering programs. I was a DG at USAFA and went on to a grad school program afterwards. Had all the standard application squares checked (tests, ECs, grades, etc.).
Ya, I was left scratching my nugget but took USAFA as my first choice anyway. Who knows.
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This should be mandatory reading for anyone considering USAFA.
What is it the zoomies say..."BOHICA"?
F*ck that place. If you're smart enough to get into the academy, you can get an ROTC scholarship at a school for normal people.
Apparently not - got accepted to USAFA and did not receive any ROTC scholarships. I even put in for a techie major.
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Being gay ain't about the sex. I mean, if you want to keep imagining it, have at it. Are you straight for banging chicks or loving chicks? (Well both, right, but which one is the go to work conversation). I'm sure the gays around are more likely to talk about their boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife in the same context as a straight person would. In fact, I know they are. A gay guy bringing in Chippendale's photos is the same as the straight guy bringing in Hooters.... I don't see the problem.
Again, if you don't like gay pride month, ignore it as much as you'd ignore all the other heritage months (I know I do). Besides nsplayer's picture, maybe you'll get a fabulous office renovation out of it. Who knows.
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Don't assume it's the gays pushing for DoD to celebrate pride month. Look to the same people who support/promote Black/Asian/Hispanic/Woman/spaghetti monster pride/heritage month.
Don't care? Don't participate (as much as mandatory fun allows).
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I'm fairly certain the malware causing it is the AddLyrics or similar ("lyrics") malware. I've been infected twice with it and didn't start having issues until I came on the forums here.
AddLyrics will cause random words on your browser in text to highlight and point to random advertisements. If you are seeing this, then you were infected. Search for "lyrics malware" on google and you'll get the info on how to remove it.
Short story: go to add/remove programs in your control panel and remove anything that says lyrics in it.
That all said, I don't know where in the forums it is located.
The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)
in Squadron Bar
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Maybe don't use a picture from *2015* as evidence?
https://www.startribune.com/black-lives-matter-group-to-rally-disrupt-operations-at-minnesota-state-fair/322479171/