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Linda, olevelo, good info, thank you, that sheds more light on what I had been hearing. I guess I'll hope for the FY16 slots to drop during this next VML. My sq leadership knows I'm interested in going this route, I am unfortunately the impatient kid who has trouble watching the cookies bake..

Cool video, thanks for posting. When I was at corpus, I really wanted to get into the MC community. Now I'm a slick J guy, finishing up my first assignment and I'm being told the MC-130J schoolhouse doesn't have a short/transition course available for people like me (and I've also been told the long course isn't an option either..). A long shot, but would anyone here happen to know any more information on why they aren't taking slick J guys or alternative routes I could pursue?

I've always thought altering some programming code was pretty minor and easily accomplished. The stuff that needs to be changed isn't controlling the engines or flight controls or anything like that, it's essentially just making the calculator work correctly. Changing a + sign to a - sign shouldn't cost the AF anything, but I'm guessing the reason that it isn't fixed is because the AF refuses to pay Lockheed to fix a defective product because it's a minor and easily mitigated defect..

Perhaps the issue of the CNI-MU not being able to calculate TOLD accurately? Or some of those other programming type issues the safety supps address in the -1?

Really? That's news to this FP. The "new normal" isn't really helping much though.

Maybe it's his week to sit Ops Sup?

From what I've seen of the VAT here in Germany, it's a flat 19% on everything. I'm thinking of something more like a state tax where different items are taxed at different rates or not at all. And, items in the same category are also taxed at different rates, cheap Walmart plates have a lower rate while the expensive Tiffany's china is not only more expensive but also has a higher rate. I think the VAT sucks because one, I am already paying an income tax, and two, I am not a resident of the country, so the tax revenue doesn't always directly benefit me. If we institute this in the US, number one is no longer a player and as for number too, I don't care if foreigners have to help pay for defense spending and public works. Plus, everyone gets to pay, even those who are payed under the table.. What am I missing Rainman?

A national sales tax with a progressive scale. More expensive/luxury items would be taxed at a higher rate than "necessity" items. I know this wold be a hard sell at first, but it seems to me the most fair way to tax. The more you spend, the more you pay. I agree asocial safety net is a good thing, but the size and scope of the current net is getting to be ridiculous, we have a program to give every family a cell phone.. What's next, an Xbox? A car? A cellphone with a data plan..?

Thanks Nav.. too much airplane? YGBSM.

How about a spitfire? Make some friends with the Brits? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/14/david-cameron-spitfires-buried-burma

I follow, except for the Traditional TSP contributions for the non-deployed months. Your taxable income for the year is already lower, so is your tax bracket. Wouldn't the roth make more sense for the whole year too? I guess, on that same line of reasoning.. When the roth tsp comes online, and we now have a traditional and roth version of both the tsp and ira, when would it make sense to contribute to the roth flavor of one and the traditional of the other in the same year? My only guess is that the traditional contributions would help lower your tax burden on your roth contributions. But the whole reason you are contributing to the roth is becaus e you expect to be in a higher tax bracket in retirement, which is when you'll now have to pay higher taxes on those traditional contributions. Am I missing something?

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Discipline. $600/yr is definitely worth it to me as a married w/ no kids O-2. I imagine an O-3/4 with 2 or 3 kids, that's a lot more expense which translates to a lot more rewards. It's *almost* free money (-that is unless you have an AMEX or similar with the fees to play..).

Do booms have a fuel flow gauge? Is it accurate?

This is a shocking story and I can't believe someone would actually let this happen. But then again, maybe I shouldn't be surprised when the focus of our ”leadership” is on uniform fashion statements and pushing for more ORIs.. Things like the mission, morale and dignity for our nation's heroes are all secondary.

I think he is referencing yesterday's after hours plunge.

You can have one there, the base has a speedball team

I will eat Robin Hood and/or Charlie's any day of the week over Subway .

Chicken little much? If anything, wouldn't it make more sense to decrease the size of the AD force and increase the ANG force (my assumption is that AD is more costly than AGR?)

The beatings will continue until morale improves...

Commanders can make the regs more restrictive... So if you were required to have a morale patch, that would be okay? How gay can things get? It's sometimes the small things I take pride in wearing (my POW/MIA morale patch) not my giant AETC shield..

Awesome, that works. Thanks for the help.

Quick question, Google has turned up two bits of contradicting information. I'm going to SERE this summer, would like to take a week of leave in California at the end of it. I've already signed the RIP with the requested leave. Now I need to get my tickets from Alamo Travel. Will they pay for a ticket from California back to Corpus Christi (up to the cost of a Fairchild->Corpus ticket) or will they only buy one from Fairchild back to Corpus Christi? I'm confused because of the verbage: "leave must begin and end in the local area" in one of the regs. I'd also heard that I could buy all my own tickets, and Finance would reimburse me whatever the cost the government would've payed. I don't have a real reliable Finance shop to talk to on base. Thanks for the help.

Corpus 11-10 Drop Dornier-328 Cannon C-130J Ramstein x2 C-130J Dyess x2 C-130J Keesler C-130 Yokota C-130 Peterson C-130 Little Rock There was an EC-130 to DM, but no one took it.

A toast.. thanks for taking care of us.