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“Restructure”…. Could they reduce the amount? Does this apply to ARC and AD?

Still (official) crickets on the ANG bonus, anyone else receive any official traffic?

Did ChatGPT write your advertisement? This isn’t how pilots talk.

Not yet, just planning assuming the new bonus will have the same verbiage

Trying to decipher the FY22 ANG AvB policy. If you take AGR orders, sign a 3-year AvB, and have to curtail the orders for one reason or another (but stay DSG and serve all 3 years in one capacity or another)… do you pay it all back? 4.7 Recoupment of Payment 4.7.1.3 Member does not serve the agreed-upon period… all previous AvB payments are considered a debt and full amount recouped. But then it states later: 5.2.1 Tier 1 Pilot (bonus) 5.2.1.3 Failure to serve the full agreement duration of service under this agreement will result in full recoupment of bonus monies IAW para 4.7. 5.2.1.4 Reduced Rate. A member on Tier 1 AvB who is no longer AGR will be subject to a reduced annual payment of $15,000 … and will remain at that reduced rate for the remaining length of their agreement. Trying to decipher, does 4.7.1.3 only apply if you completely separate from the ANG before 3 years (not stay DSG )? Or does it mean if you don’t serve out the AGR orders you owe it all back. The reduced rate paragraph makes it seem like your bonus will just switch to $15K per year as a DSG until the 3-year contract is over.

Not sure who you have CJOs for and I can only speak for Delta Air Lines, they will not let you attend indoc on personal leave. Must be terminal.

Thanks for the info! Yea I have a line number, AGR might be right due to family circumstances for a bit… TBD

Seems that April is the approximate date for the bonus announcement. Is ANG the same? Pondering AGR orders if a nice bonus is associated, just no idea the timeline when the bonus will be announced after this new NDAA

Curious about this too, haven’t heard any progress or updates

Anyone know if this is actually happening?

Interesting quote from BBC: "I have little doubt that it's going to hurt Biden," says Christopher Phelps, an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham. "It's going to be viewed as a loss, and possibly as a disgrace - it really was his call, fairly or not." Highlights the political nature of presidency, regardless of what deals (one, two, or three terms before you) were enacted.

The videos from Kabul this morning made me sick to my stomach. Godspeed to everyone doing the work over there right now.

Another statistical story that is all like the rest…. “Let’s paint the picture we want to paint.” Infers PhDs went up in hesitancy… which is wrong, everyone else went down. PhDs stayed mostly static… which is what you’d expect from those that aren’t swayed by media and did their research from the beginning.

Interesting. Figured they’d wait until it was off emergency authorization.

So much emotion with this from everyone. My family got the vaccine because my wife works with immunocompromised children that can’t get it…. not because we are concerned about ourselves. Every M.D. we know got it the minute they could (even pregnant or nursing)… so we trusted their decisions and followed, because as it turns out, I’m a pilot and not a medical professional.

Good thing tens of thousands of pounds of airdrop loads don’t require any planning either. Just press the green light and the load does the rest.

Not at the level you’d consider proficient. Quite a stretch saying MAF only does instrument approaches, but the past twenty years we have focused on different skillsets… none of which is at the level of a near-peer integrated effort. While some exercises exist, when coupled with the current ops tempo, only a small percentage of the Squadrons get exposure. CT will never replace integrated training and the opportunities are too small to make a dent. Your lifestyle is tactical integration… it will never be in the MAF until the ops tempo slows down, training opportunities exist, and we have reliable tactical hardware (with support). Even if folks want to work with the CAF, an OST currently requires a Wg/CC-approved CONOP, full itin, and DLOs (plus all the wickets to get there) and we wonder why why folks aren’t inclined to put in the effort? How do we make the enterprise better? Integrate in small volumes that doesn’t require 6-9 weeks to plan, because the DV visit isn’t going to plan itself.

Block 8 C-130s are RNP, LNAV/VNAV, LPV. Not RNP AR. Quite certain KC-46s are the RNP AR.

Retracted my statement, AIM reads like you can, FAA circulars clarify.

While the numbers were a joke, the few folks I know that were actually thinking about it, won’t sign because of the 5 year time commitment verse 3 years. I can’t imagine Congress cares about commitment, they care about money. Thus I still solely blame the AF, but anyone can feel free to enlighten me.

FY21 AvB releases Thursday

2. My unit was able to leverage the Wing to get deployable, granted at the sacrifice of normal currencies... but it’s great to see red tape disappear and priorities be executed.

WHO said 18 months until a vaccine. I was thinking weeks...

This isn’t a stab at you TX, but I do find it crazy that they have a boarded pilot position for dudes or dudettes with 1 year operational experience (I’m counting post-MR) with one schoolhouse Q-1 on file and maaaybe another Q. Pretty soon the 89th will start taking LTs at this rate.

Everyone I know who took the bonus were prior-E’s or Prior-navs... so were committed to 20 anyway.... aka retaining no one