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9 hours ago, GDAL said:
I have only earned my PPL (in 2010) and was IFT exempt. However, I remained current.
Wouldn't be the first time the 340th told people one thing and did another, probably won't be the last.
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For Reserves, the squadron in charge of the training pipeline told me it was having earned your PPL within the past three years (i.e. presumably if I had earned mine five years ago and not flown significantly since I'd have to go to IFT).
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I'm at OTS right now, at least half the class is prior enlisted. Not sure what the numbers are like for applicants though, there could be a ton more prior-Es applying, making the process more competitive for them. There's at least one 40 year old prior-E here, so it's not impossible. Just difficult, and you're gambling an enlistment on everything lining up perfectly for you.
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Yeah, GS-9 is not super exciting. Once I finish the training pipeline I'm looking at an $8,000 effective paycut going from O-1, <2 years, to GS-9. More, if what I've heard is true about having to take local residency while an ART and I lose my current no-income-tax-state residency. It's even worse when comparing O-2, >2 years, something like $20k difference. Guess it's a nice incentive to volunteer for lots of trips and deployments early on?
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Rush squadrons, don't be a tool, and you should easily get picked up by a tanker / transport squadron. Some might not want to do age waivers, but I'm guessing most will.
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2 hours ago, JRBac said:
Okay, cool. Another option you might want to look into is getting a house on base. The ones they give to Lts up here are way more spacious than the UOQ rooms, and you'd break right about even with BAH
Eh, I'd rather have ~$1200 a month tax free (collecting based on my HOR rate) and a small studio apartment, than a house and no money.
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Just now, JRBac said:
Did you hear that from the UOQ manager? Just curious
From the 340th FTG during inprocessing at Randolph a few weeks ago. Due to being Reserve and having a spouse and lease elsewhere. I know it seems contrary to the what the regs say, but they were firm that it would be allowed.
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18 hours ago, YoungnDumb said:
Dude no one will ever give a $hit if/when the wife visits, enjoy your family time to the max extent. Those rules are there to prevent people from having 69 people living in the same dorm room. Now that all being said, find someone who has an open room and go live there, save a few bucks and it gets you away from base each day.
Good to know, just making sure. I'm told that I can live in the UOQ and collect full BAH, so it's not a matter of renting a room off base to save money.
11 hours ago, viper154 said:No one gave a shit 3-4 years ago. Bunch of the guard bros lived next to each other in the dorms, we always knew when ones one wife came to visit by the noises made in flight room that Monday morning. Apparently there were a lot of screamers, or fakers.
Complete side note, lots of cool areas around Columbus that make a good weekend trip, Nashville, New Orleans, Pcola, just to name a few.
Weekend trips are definitely planned, but I'm operating on the assumption that there will be times when it would be nice to see each other but I won't have the time to get away.
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At the risk of deviating from transport-related questions here, what's the current situation for overnight visitors in the UOQs at Columbus? I'm married, planning on doing UPT unaccompanied, and am told that I'll be able to collect BAH while in the UOQ (since I'm a Reservist with a lease elsewhere), but I'd prefer my spouse be able to visit on the occasional weekend. Seems like it's prohibited by the AFI unless otherwise authorized. Is it allowed (officially or otherwise), or should I just expect to spring for an off-base hotel when she visits?
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2 hours ago, YoungnDumb said:
Since you brought up evidence, where's yours?
The very first line he caveats that it's an unfounded theory with no evidence. Not much onus for a citation after that.
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46 minutes ago, gear3green said:
Wouldn't having the FC1 class approved better your chances of selection?
I don't think it's a consideration. They know that a certain percentage of selects are going to not end up going to OTS/UPT for medical or other reasons.
I'm not even sure they'll send you to get your FC1 until board selected, I'm a little hazy on it but for me the ball didn't start rolling until after.
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You shouldnt wait (why would you?), but you only need to have MEPS cleared to make the board.
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56 minutes ago, HeloDude said:
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Yeah, it's not like these guys have a record for brutality against, well, really anyone not in their immediate group, going back since before Elphinstone started marching out of Kabul in 1842.
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You can try to get an Exception to Policy, but it ain't gonna happen unless you've got some pull with a US Senator or the President to push the right buttons for you.
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21 hours ago, Dan Meyer said:
Hello All,
I just found this forum and I am new to baseops.net, but I will throw the question out anyway. I know back in the day, Reserve and Guard UPT slots were sometimes awarded to undergraduates. If I was a straight A student in HS and college, very involved in sports and leadership positions AND I had my FAA Commercial ASEL,AMEL,CFII, 1st Medical, was 21 years old, could it happen?
I am happy to hear any feedback.
Thanks,
Yes, a lot of squadrons will let you apply when you're withing a year of graduation.
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12 hours ago, MooseAg03 said:
His statement about how the Taliban are better than US forces just goes to show where his loyalties lie. He should rot in prison for the rest of his life. Considering the punishment in Article 85 for desertion in wartime is up to death, I think he would be getting off easy (sts) with life in prison. What a piece of garbage.
They charged him as if he deserted in peacetime, so that the death penalty was off the table.
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2 hours ago, SPAWNmaster said:
More or less. They are trying to figure out how to put me on orders but the only option we are getting from NGB is to submit an ETP and rob from my MEST days (for MQT) which would make for a short seasoning. It just sucks because I have a wife and kid and my civilian job is seasonal (worst timing for all this unfortunately). Just trying to stay useful at the unit and use drill days until we can figure something out.
Not exactly ideal, but shouldn't you be able to mil-comp your CPL and go tow banners or something along those lines?
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9 hours ago, tac airlifter said:
I'm in a similar position, my job should not exist and certainly not be filled by a rated officer. I successfully lobbied to leave early and let the position go unfilled which was difficult but not impossible. In lieu of an audit, there should be a mechanism to ID useless staff jobs. But there isn't, so if you can leave, you should. This organization doesn't want to be fixed.
It'd probably take a flag officer flying around basically reenacting the role of the Bobs from Office Space ("What is it you'd say you... do... here?"), but it could be done. I'm surprised the Navy doesn't have something similar for alleviating their shipboard manning problems, just a rear admiral going from shore posting to shore posting finding the manpower that's been squirelled away for some reason or another.
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Don't know about the age waiver, but as I understand it Lasik/PRK only has a six month wait now.
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How many hours to get your PCSM into the 80s? I'd say if you can get it there you have a much better shot. Retaking the AFOQT and TBAS after you get some hours might help your scores as well. Especially since you're going to need an age waiver, and a relatively "big" one too (you'll be 33, at least, by the time you start training).
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3 hours ago, mcbush said:
So it begins...
What's the over/under on how long it takes someone to challenge the max duration of a "state of national emergency"? 16+ years seems to be pushing it.
We've been under a state of emergency for the past 38 years due to the Iran hostage crisis. Last I checked, those hostages were returned a while back.
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2 hours ago, iceman said:
Are the height/weight standards for the FC1 the same as for MEPS? I'm borderline, so at MEPS I was pretty dehydrated, and that caused my urine sample to show protein and I had to go back and do it again. I'm going for the FC1 next week at Wright-Pat and I'm 5'7 and just weighed in at 174. I think at MEPS the max weight for me was 175.
The technician at Wright-Pat told me that so long as you weren't significantly over the height-weight standards, you'd be fine. I busted my limit at MEPS (by 1 pound!) so I was sweating it a bit. Seems like they really only weigh you to make sure you're within the T-6 weight limits (I think 245 lbs?).
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I've seen some squadrons that allow applications as far as a year out from graduation, so you've got some hope there I suppose. I'd definitely be taking summer classes and trying to graduate ASAP so that you avoid as much of an age issue as you can.
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Asks advice on Friday, gets hired on Monday. That's a pretty fast result! Congrats.
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ARC seasoning day orders drastically cut?
in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves
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Yeah, they made it clear in the briefing the 340th gave us that they couldn't force you to do the TDART deal. And, there's always the possibility of it being scrapped for an AGR gig by the time you graduate.