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If you are single, live at home with your parents, and then enlist -> pipeline, there’s not a case for BAH to be paid that I am aware of. You have no dependents and your housing will be provided to you while at school.
I 1000% do not recommend fucking around here, finding out will be painful. $10K is nothing in the scope of what you will make in your career, even if that’s just one term of enlistment.
If your details are different, e.g. you are married and your spouse is staying back in your local area in a home you currently rent or own, etc., you may have a legal way to be entitled to BAH.
Good luck and may you have a long and prosperous career!
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5 minutes ago, uhhello said:
Or Russia was behind it to pin on Ukraine connection. Many many options to pick from here.
Yea my first thought was false flag like before Chechnya to justify future crackdowns & atrocities in Ukraine.
https://www.rferl.org/amp/putin-russia-president-1999-chechnya-apartment-bombings/30097551.html
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No more lectures. I’m retired from that shitty hobby. I’m an MQ-9 pilot, never been an ROTC instructor, so I consider myself well qualified to say I’m “conducting foreign policy.” Many AFSCs can say the same whether you believe it or not.
Again, I’ll say this and leave it to this. Many of y’all are sadly negative on the United States, a country I and I assume most of you have dedicated my life to serving in uniform. I tell the same thing to my zoomer daughter who’s a bit of a doomer leftist: temper your criticism with a dose of reality. America has its flaws but overall I still find us to be the good guys the vast majority of the time.
If you believe otherwise, honestly it’s better if you are retired or choose to move on from uniformed service ASAP. TYFYS in both meanings of the phrase.
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Y'all are the sorriest bunch of pessimists I’ve ever seen, seriously.
“Damn, the federal government and our foreign policy are so bad I just spent 20+ years working in the DoD and personally conducting American foreign policy.” 🤦♂️
Freaking sack up. Don’t be doomer Gen Z kids who think everything is inexorably fucked and they are to blame (bonus, everyone gets to fill in the they with whomever they want!).
Be a good person and family member, be a good officer / pilot/ Commander / etc., be a good citizen and vote, run for office, etc. If something is broken try to fix it. You won’t always succeed but you should still try. It’s not all hopeless, everyone in charge isn’t just a moron in dire need of your brilliant counsel, but if you really think you can do it better then do it better. Talk is cheap, action isn’t, but it’s well worth the cost.
I was taught all this shit as a child, were you guys not?
America is already great, we’re not going anywhere fast, and yes we have our flaws but modern western liberal democratic capitalism is the worst system…except all the other ones. 🇺🇸
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Yea 80 years of being on top, what a disaster /sarcasm 😂
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1 hour ago, brabus said:
It’s just a shame the DOD gives said capes/missions to a bunch of dumbasses…
Ain’t that the truth 😄
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20 hours ago, Pooter said:
Love listening to the service that would play quite literally no role in a China/Taiwan conflict calling the Air Force irrelevant. Army is welcome back at the big boy table the any time they figure out how to field a weapon with a range relevant to anything happening in the pacific.
I hear ya, and I'm as much of an Air Force partisan as anyone, but Army ADA branch and HIMARS capes are super useful in INDOPACOM.
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1 hour ago, BashiChuni said:
i've never heard one republican talking point that says this. your understanding of the republican position is incorrect.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=america+is+full
The first result is the former president, current GOP presumptive presidential nominee and leader of the Republican party tweeting that exact phrase, “Our country is full.”
The second link is a longtime GOP senator saying that exact phrase.
Do I need to continue?
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Inshallah we will land safely…green light!
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20 hours ago, Chuck17 said:
There is no such thing as "air littorals"
Lol, air littorals.
I can never hear that word and not think "clitoral warfare" and laugh.
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Terrible end for a clearly disturbed person. Obviously had no business near a commission or a security clearance.
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In my very limited interactions with Dag, I was not impressed. If he is indeed next, it sucks that AFSOC's leadership selection process keeps hitting foul balls over and over again at the highest levels...
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Anyone who thinks the USA is overly racist or that our government is a big offender for persecuting people due to political views or political speech…I highly encourage you to visit ::waives hands around wildly:: almost any other country.
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25 minutes ago, DirkDiggler said:
I personally believe that at the upper echelons of leadership the AF knows exactly the problems it has; they're just either unable or unwilling to take actual steps to address it. CAT 5 being a case in point. After he put an Osprey in the trees as a Grp/CC, his wing commander told the AFSOC/CC "I can fix him". Nothing happened, and now fast forward 12 years we're all dealing with the fallout.
I heard RUMINT at one point that "the plan" was to take both Slife the Knife and Fat Tony and exile them to Korea as a career-killer SOF backwater, but that happened right as KJU started sabre-rattling, suddenly Korea mattered again, and inexplicably they both snatched victory (i.e. more stars) from the jaws of defeat. 🤷♂️ It's quite hard to F-kill toxic senior leaders in any large organization, I guess I just had higher hopes that AFSOC would find a way in this case.
Here's to hoping those poor bastard USAFA cadets get a (big!) new CC and AFSOC can be rid of the Sith once and for all.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/14/national-security-threat-mike-turner/
It’s Russian space nukes, not Iran.
I believe I saw a documentary about this back in the day…
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2 hours ago, nunya said:
I had to google to see if you were kidding or not. Not, I see.
Yep, I shit you not unfortunately. Big “under new ownership!” energy.
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15 hours ago, Bigred said:
a lot of the guys are staring at an AETC future.
Lol, not anymore! Its Airmen Development Command, geez, get with the times 😂 /sarcasm
God speed to anyone wanting a flying gig as a career nightcap. I know it’s not the same as manned flying, but Guard MQ-9 has been a fantastic second-half for me. Kill bad guys by day, sleep in my own bed every night. Ok to be fair sometimes those are reversed…
Haven’t PCS’d in 10 years and don’t plan on needing to. Will promote twice in my Guard time and additional opportunities are likely to be there if I want them, or not. Washed-up O5 line flyer ain’t a bad gig if you can get it, and I’ve seen about half a dozen tread that path very, very successfully!
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Worth its own thread to discuss. I see lots of new words and new places to park generals but 🤷♂️ IDK how this is all gonna work out when the rubber hits the road.
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9 hours ago, uhhello said:
It was terrible. come on man. doesn't matter who made it.
Agreed, I actually stopped watching it half way through. That movie sucked ass.
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14 hours ago, M2 said:
WTF?
Ok gents, fess up. Who ordered the child-bride LBFM who’s barely scraping 5’1” in 5” stilettos first from the center on the right? 😂 Right after your last tour in PACAF probably huh? She could nurse milk directly from the SQ/CC’s wife’s titties while they’re both standing fully upright!
I’ll refrain from making fun of you further if I can have her number…
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3 hours ago, URTSelect 19 said:
Does anybody know the process on how drops/airframe assignment actually function?
Not sure on how current UFT drops are working work, sorry. Having done the process twice previously though, here's how it went for me:
Back when I went through Nav school with Magellan, we were a class early in the FY and my flight commander was quite gregarious and had made great relationships with the folks at AFPC, who happened to be co-located at Randolph. He apparently regularly went over there, brought candy, beers, told tall tales, charmed the ladies, etc.; god bless you Capt. Gerry. Long story short, when our drop came up he had us all fill out dream sheets a bit earlier than typical, and then went over to AFPC and tried to acquire the jets we wanted. He succeeded wildly! Everyone in our class got their first or second choice, understanding that folks who kinda knew they were near the bottom didn't ask for the moon. He then released the final class ranking and aircraft list the day before the drop and said, "Look, I got you all what you wanted, but you are free to change your minds. We'll pick in rank order from these airplanes. Good luck!" Our class held fast to our dream sheets and basically everyone walked away happy. It was a great night! I got hammered at the Auger Inn in volleyball shorts and a sports bra (Olympics themed drop night haha), eat your hearts out gents 😘.
When I went through URT more recently I was a Guard guy so who cares how it went, right? I already had my assignment; problem solved. But for the active duty kids they got to rank MQ-9 or RQ-4 #1/#2, and for MQ-9 got to list I think a top three locations (e.g. Shaw, Creech, Cannon, etc.). My flight commander there (who was much less cool) then did some voodoo based on his judgement, what was available, class rank, etc. and we all just found out when we were called up in no particular order at drop night. He never even released our actual class rankings other than the DGs at graduation. Most people were fine, especially since the range of choices was much smaller to begin with, but the problem IMHO one of the dudes who was a DG (i.e. either #1 or #2 overall in our class of I think 23 studs) didn't even get his top aircraft. The flight commander in an executive decision assigned him to MQ-9s at Creech when what he really wanted was RQ-4s. Truly puzzling to (mildly) crush the dreams of a guy who worked his butt off and performed extremely well. OTOH another guy (not a DG but a top third performer) got the first-ever MQ-9s to Hurlburt so he could be close to his kids that his ex had anchored to NWFL. I got hammered at the Auger Inn once again dressed up as a woman (Captain Marvel for an Avengers theme), so there's a bit of a trend-line here...
May the odds ever be in your favor!
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22 minutes ago, Clayton Bigsby said:
It’s good, but some of the CGI is surprisingly BAD. Far worse than miniature work would’ve been. Surprising they let it air like that, but the stories aren’t the planes, it’s the people and characters.
Look, Apple is only worth $3 trillion dollars, they can't afford world-class CGI here folks, come one!
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Commanders are dropping like flies this year
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Gang bang?