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    New Deid Dorms

    in General Discussion

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    No the Manas style dorms aren't open yet. Last I heard was that the TCN's swept the concrete dust down the sewage/water pipes and then when they added water...CONCRETE!

    Wondered what was going on with those things. I met the project manager when I was at the CAOC at the end of 2013. She was saying those would open July 14. Not so much I guess.

    Any recent Envoy pilots?

    in Squadron Bar

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    New hire at my 135 company just left Envoy. The pay was ridiculous and bordered on pay to play when he factored in the cost of a crash pad. Put it this way, I can make more as a substitute teacher working 20 days a month than he was flying 75 hrs at Envoy. There are a LOT of good Part 135 opportunities that pay better than even the 1-3 year at the legacies if you're looking for a decent way to build some time without starving.

    Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Certificate

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    Giving Skywarrior down at Pensacola a try this month for the ME ATP with SE add on. They do an ATP prep course starting at $1655 in Seminoles. They're also one of the few places left that are still VA/ GI Bill approved for the ATP course. They were down for awhile because their DE has heart problems but recently got a new guy. Seeing as their program caters to the military, I'd bet the new DE is a safe one.

    https://www.skywarriorinc.com/

    VA Loans

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    You can count me as another satisfied customer of NBOKC and Dave Devine. We closed on our re-fi on 30 Apr with zero out of pocket cost. Loan was 3.875% with $1700 incentive and only $1000 cost rolled into the loan. My payment went from $1745 on a $239K 30 yr fixed rate to $1411. Everything was done over the phone or email and the bank arranged for a local appraiser and lawyer to come to our home to take care of the paperwork. If I knew things were this simple then I would've done this sooner. I contacted USAA for a comparison and would've gotten a 4.25% with roughly $3000 out of pocket. Seems like about the only thing they're good for these days is good insurance rates.

    Study: Nuclear Force Feeling 'Burnout' from Work

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    Posted · Edited by lj35driver

    The frontal lobotomy runs strong in this Spings wearer! That article reads as if it was a forced piece and it's supported with incredibly weak facts as to what is actually good about the job. Seriously, a fvcking hamburger and tater tots or Stars Wars decorations bought out of some young enlisted person's own paycheck for morale? My seventh grader could've composed a better structured article and a more convincing argument.

    I've got several friends in the missile fields and have met many more. They all have the same thing in common- every one of them hates their job. It says a lot when Space and Missile guys are volunteering for any 365 they can find to get a break.

    MC-12 Crash in Afghanistan

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    Anyone else hearing anything about another MC-12 crashing in the past few hours? Someone here said ABC news is reporting 3 American ISAF members killed. Did a search on some of the news sites and haven't found anything. Really bad week for military aviation.

    Imminent Danger Pay changes

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    Those clowns at the CAOC will now have to deploy to the actual combat zone to get their extra $225 a month:

    Thanks, dickhead. The vast majority of us don't go to the CAOC by choice and we all question the validity of this place when our CENTCOM counterparts do their jobs from stateside locations and garden spots like Larissa, Tampistan, and Vokel. That's an old argument that no one in leadership will entertain.

    In other news, Detroit, Oakland, and all U.S.-Mexican border duty locations will be added to the stateside IDP list and Clovis, NM now qualifies for HDP-L.

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    Tops in Blue (TIB) - WTF?

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    First off, tell me a couple of those people in the video can even pass the PT test waist measurement. It pisses me off every day to see the airlift they're eating up because they get priority over some of the shit that really needs to move. Always pleases me to see when we crowd their jets with whatever else we can shove on there. That's right, sit down, shut up, and get up close and personal with some pallets or rolling stock for the next few hours you sequin-studded wannabes. Even worse, there's a group of TIB "alumni" traveling around the AOR doing performances as well. Who the hell thought that was a good idea? How about bringing out the actual USAF or Marine Bands from the States?

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    Military retirement under attack

    in General Discussion

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    What about the rest of the population? What are they sacrificing if I am giving up $120K in earned benefits?

    THIS! The President has stated many times about us all doing our "fair share", but I don't see any of our elected officials, welfare recipients, illegals getting tax benefits, etc being asked to give up ANYTHING. As many keep trying to convey, our retirement is an earned pension, not a discretionary benefit.

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    FY 14 Force Management Program (RIF, VSP, TERA)

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    SEC. FANNING: [...] [We] institute[d] every voluntary measure that we could, that we had authority to use. […] we'll try to use them in a proactive way to shape, but the tools don't always allow that capability.

    NOT true. Early retirement has been authorized by the DoD as a force shaping tool for the past two years. Only the Navy has utilized it thus far. We've chose to shaft people and force them out between 14-18 years of service instead or RIF them after denying VSP.

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    Say Goodbye to Manas in 2014

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    The AF will make it suck. It'll be tent city, no alcohol, $3.50/day, and only going off base after a full rectal and a polygraph to get back on. Kind of like how awesome Alcatraz must have been for the inmates. SF close enough to smell it...

    Based on the brief that a soon to be deploying sqd has received, all of the above is currently how it is. PT gear on base as well. At least they were getting partial periderm on our previous rotation.

    Gen Welsh - USAF Chief of Staff

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    Ex: why the F do I have to do SOS online so I can compete to go in res? This was a lengthy discussion, but the answer that got me to shut up was that its to compete to be a DG and like it or not, the AF values SOS DG.

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    YGTBFSM...I hope that bit of logic is gone from your memory if and when you become a Sqd CC. That's how the current climate and beliefs keep getting perpetuated and we end up with the state of leadership we're experiencing. Find some folks you know who've recently attended IDE in residence and ask how the other services view our stance on PME, bullsh1t online degrees that do nearly nothing to develop you as a leader, masters to get Maj, etc. The people they send to our PME are there to get a masters. By and large, none of them had a masters when they showed up, some were even O-5 selects, and even stated that having a masters obtained through TUI, US Military University, etc was more likely to mean non-promotion or non-selection to an IDE level school. Not saying that they do things better, but they sure as hell do some things that make more sense.

    Palace Chase info

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    The guys above are correct. I ops tested it and revoked the transfer. The AF would not remove the committment no matter what. I even filed a complaint with the highest board in the AF, the Air Force Board of Corrections for Military Records on the basis that the ADSC is unfair because the AF hasn't spent any money yet and no benefits have been used. I waited one year for their response and I still ended up losing the case. The only way out of the committment is to Palace Chase.

    That sounds like garbage as the agreement you sign for benefits transfer specifically states that it can be modified or revoked at any time. The initial read I got from AFPC was that if a family member hasn't used any benefits, then an ADSC would be invalid if you hadn't taken an action that would put it into effect. Their example was that it was as if you had signed to accept an ADSC to attend formal training, then decided against attending. The ADSC would be removed, but you would still have to request and write a memorandum to the affect that you didn't attend/even show up as the two paper trails don't follow each other. Whatever the correct answer is, and it sounds like you and I spoke with two different people, it's BS to hold someone to an ADSC for which they've done nothing to deserve.

    Leadership at the 'Deid

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    I saw a forty something year old woman walking her chihuahua through the bra last month and wondered WTF was going on. With all the new dorms and facility construction going on, that place is looking way too permanent. I took a few pics of the BX and food court and friends who had never been to the Deid thought they were taken at some stateside base. The last time I saw that level of permanency happening at one of our Middle East locations was at PSAB about a year before we left it.

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