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Had an ORI not long after Gulf War, Round 1. Had to prove to the REMFs that we could do what we just did. 🤣🤦‍♂️

Can't imagine the current DC brain trust allowing the hunters to become the hunted with only minor retaliation in Iraq & Syria is inspiring many to run on down to their local recruiting office........ "We reserve the tight to respond" 🤮 When? After 100 attacks in 30 days on US bases 🖕

Flown with more than a few with visible tats at AAmeriflot 🤷‍♂️

Lesson 2: There are always exceptions to "why buy when you can rent".... 🎅

Try working for airline management..... True happiness is flying at an airline & not giving a single jack shit about said airline management. Cheers & Merry Christmas! doc retired USAF retired B777I

Union 101 for new hires: 1. The #1 priority of the union is to protect the union (protection of the members is somewhere near priority #69) 2. The #1 priority of the Prez/Vice-Prez/ST/BoD/MEC/LEC/etc is to enrich themselves; you are an afterthought Lesson complete. You now know 90% of union knowledge required for a 20-30 yr career. Only kidding a little 🤮 You're welcome! 😎

It's the AAPA way 🤮 ('21 retiree)

Nominee for Top 10 Baseops quotes of all-time. Can confirm. Reference point: 21 yrs AD/21 yrs airline Cheers!

Here's a small bit of positive (at this circus anyway); On 9/11, all new hires in training were sent home immediately. That hasn't happened. In fact, as of today, a new hire pilot class & mx class scheduled for next week are still a go. Furloughs "off the top" continue at 60-80/month. No clue as to when the postponed end of month class will be rescheduled. If the 76s are indeed parked soon, some portion of the 75/76 pilot group will most likely displace and utilize already scarce sim resources. Disclaimer: Long range planning here is usually just past the next meal period & lunch time isn't far off.

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What is this printer thingy of which you speak...........

Truth.....

Probably means Backup Aircraft Inventory. BAI are aircraft in addition to the primary (funded) aircraft. In theory, backup aircraft inventory allow for DLM/UDLM, modifications, etc without reducing the number of aircraft available for the mission. If a sqdn has 14 primary and one backup; crew ratios, flying hours, etc are based on 14 aircraft. But the backup is flown just like a primary aircraft, all transparent to the crew dogs.

Retired 12 years. Don't live near a miltary base. Had Prime for the first couple of years. From my perspective, it seems the further you are from a military town, the fewer doc's there seem to be in the Prime network (especially specialists). Depending on how far you settle from a mil base, might be OBE anyway. I believe Prime is being phased out this fall for persons living further than xx miles from a mil base (40??). Don't take my word for it, please check. Tricare Standard/Extra has worked well for me ("free" broken promise notwithstanding). Only in one semi-big ticket year did I come close to the annual cat cap. There are commercial Tricare supplemental insurances available as well (MOAA, VFW, etc), should you be interested. Haven't had a problem w/docs not taking Standard/Extra. I believe the rule is if they are taking new Medicare patients, they will take new Tricare patients as well. Again, don't take my word on this. Prescription program is good. Especially mail-order, especially generics. YMMV. Good luck on your retirement, thank you for your service. Cheers!

Damn, knew Rich at Pope....RIP :beer:

I would suggest Standard/Extra are only "free" in the sense that there are no premiums to pay. There are still annual deductibles to meet and, after the deductibles are met, still a 20-25% cost share. I've had better luck with Standard/Extra. Prime seems to get a little more problematic the further away from military towns you get (at least that's been my experience, ymmv).