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    What's wrong with the Air Force?

    in General Discussion

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    Very well done.  With that said, an alternate ending:

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    For many of you it started as a childhood dream, maybe even a calling, you’ll never forget the day you took the oath, the day you were selected for flight training, that first solo, or that pride you felt when you earned your wings.  

    When you reported to your first operational assignment and joined your squadron, you became part of a dysfunctional family and realized there was so much more to your AF life than flying.  Maybe you even started a family of your own and fought with Tricare and MPF to enroll them in DEERS.  

    Your first deployment was a combination of nervousness and excitement.  Your second through fifth deployments were sheer boredom.  Leaving loved ones was hard, but camaraderie was high, except for the time you deployed alone through BWI with the Army masses on an ITDY.  You were focused on building PowerPoint slides, focused on your next “Friday” at the Muff, and focused on what happened to the mission you came into the Air Force to do.

    You returned home to reintegration checklists, more OREs, ORIs, more wing staff meetings, and fewer flying hours.  Squadron exec, group exec, wing exec, DTS expert, MICT chief.  It wasn’t easy and it only got more challenging, but still, you continued to serve because you had an ADSC.  Competing everyday with finance, comm, and MPF to complete the most basic of tasks.  While looking out for your teammates, your wingmen, your family, and your nation.  

    For being willing to strap on your nation’s business, for the sacrifices you and your families have made, and the sacrifices you will make.  Thank you.  We’re the best damn Air Force on the planet in spite of ourselves, and with you as a min-running TR in the Command Post, our slides are still gonna show green.

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    Airline hours?

    in General Discussion

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    Don't worry about it.  I kept personal logs because I'm OCD like that.  You can walk into any airline interview with your ARMS records and (maybe) a basic Excel conversion/assumptions sheet and be fine.

    Commuting to drill

    in General Discussion

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    3 hours ago, SocialD said:

    Was this something initially in the bill but then taken out? 

    Dunno.  I didn't watch the iterations that carefully and I don't commute more than 100 miles any more.  I just know my HR Block tax quiz (spoiler alert: I barely passed) asked me about my Reserve commute so it seems they knew about the 2018 law.  

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    Commuting to drill

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by nunya
    add more gooder link

    2 hours ago, Lockjaw said:

    Apparently it was written out...from talking to my CPA last month.

    If you travel 100.1+ miles for duty, get a new CPA.

    https://www.irs.gov/publications/p3#en_US_2018_publink1000176171

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    Are My Travel Expenses as a Reservist Deductible?

    If you are a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces and you travel more than 100 miles away from home in connection with your performance of services as a member of the reserves, you can deduct your unreimbursed travel expenses on your tax return. Include all unreimbursed expenses from the time you leave home until the time you return home. See How To Report My Reserve-Related Travel Expenses below for information on how to report these expenses on your tax return.

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    How To Report My Reserve-Related Travel Expenses

    If you have reserve-related travel that takes you more than 100 miles from home, you should first complete Form 2106, Employee Business Expenses.

    On Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 24: enter the part of your expenses, up to the federal rate, included on Form 2106, line 10, that is for reserve-related travel more than 100 miles from your home.

    For more information about this limit, see Per Diem and Car Allowances in chapter 6 of Pub. 463.

     

    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

    in General Discussion

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    20 minutes ago, BADFNZ said:

    How is Amn Bagodicks down at Finance going to feel when he finds out pilots are getting $100K a year on top of their normal salaries? 

    I hope he feels like I felt when I left active duty.  Man, there are dudes out there making way more than me, spending more time with their kids, and not fearing their inbox.  What do I have to do to get there!?! And then I hope he goes to the education office and signs up for a BS from somewhere other than ERAU.

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    AFRES Cat E Promotions

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    A CAP-USAF Cat E just made O-6, so it's not impossible.  Same formula as anywhere else: PME, AAD, work the boss recognizes and appreciates.  The aforementioned O-6 select spent WAY more time on his Reserve job than several Cat Es combined, took great care of his people, and totally deserved the promotion.

    Most Cat Es that make O-5 will do so based off their career/strats/OPRs prior to leaving a more active position.  There's plenty of PRF-fodder work to do as a CAP-USAF dude; most don't want to do it because that's why they're a Cat E in the first place.

    I've been told explicitly that as long as you can get 20 good years in 21 or 22 (?) years you won't get booted as a twice passed over Major.  There was something about it that could mess you up, but most of us wouldn't fall into that.

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    The new airline thread

    in Squadron Bar

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    41 minutes ago, LJ Driver said:

    change it to available now, knowing that I’ll actually not be available until a month after I retire (and then change it before the interview)?

    No 

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