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Check this picture out. It looks like it was almost zero forward airspeed at impact.

Here's a random question for the masses. Doing the interservice transfer into the Air Force, spoke with the IST office today about what kind of orders I will get. I was expecting TDY enroute to Mildenhall, but the SSgt said they typically issue PCS orders to IST officers for pay purposes. Question 1: Is there a max length for a TDY for training before it must become a PCS? I.e., if they project 180+ days, it's automatically a PCS? A follow up, and the opposite question, can a PCS be written for potentially as short as 4 months? Question 2: If I do in fact get PCS orders, I plan on leaving my family at my current PDS while I go through the FTU. The Navy has a policy called "geographical bachelor", which basically means you get BAH for where your dependents are at and get a free room in the BOQ where your PDS. You have to use government quarters though, if you stay anywhere else it's on your own dime. Does the Air Force have anything similar? If not I’ll probably have to bring the family with me as it’ll be expensive to pay for two rents. The plus side of doing a PCS to Altus and then another PCS to Mildenhall is that my timeline takes me from FY19 to FY20, so I'll get two full DLA payments, on top of the travel costs.

The Air Boss (Navy 3-star Admiral) basically wagged his finger at them and said "shame, shame". Both guys recently promoted. For once, logic prevailed.

Looks like Danerys took a page out of the ‘Curtis Lemay’s method of attacking a city’ playbook.

My money is on scissoring the help.

I’m not an airline guy (yet) but from what I have gathered is that some dudes drop a day of mil leave to get out of an undesirable 3-4 day long trip. I understand that it’s most prevalent around holidays, etc. Thats apparently perfectly legal to do but they are buddy-ing someone else who now has to pick up said undesirable trip. I can also see how it’d leave a bad taste in management’s mouth if enough dudes did it.

Pretty sure UPT time has to be logged as ‘dual received’ since the students aren’t rated yet. SIC would apply once complete with UPT and winged.

Nah, Bran isn’t ISR, he’s cyber. Hence why he didn’t see it happening.

Like my ex-wife, they have to occasionally take a breath between spewing hate and discontent.

AMD deployment? Reading between the lines, it sounds super awesome...

Going AD, heading to join the boys out in Mildenhall.

All of the talk in the PRF/promotion thread about MyVector, etc, made me start wondering about jobs at the O-4/O-5 level. I’m getting nearer to my switch over to the AF and I’m trying to get some clarity on what I can expect as I don’t have access to anything in MyVector, etc. For SA, I’m switching over to fly the 135, and my first set of orders will have me with a squadron flying like normal. After that, what options exist? For comparison, in the Navy after a senior O-4 tour with a squadron, if you don’t make squadron command there’s an almost zero percent chance of ever flyingp again. From what I understand, there’s a higher likelihood of flying in the Air Force as a non-command O-5, and I have to imagine that if I don’t pick up O-5 that I’ll have greater flexibility in staying in the cockpit. That said, I’m not naive about how the machine works and I know non-flying jobs are a possibility as well. It’s a broad question but I appreciate any gouge on what I can expect. EDIT. To focus any input, what do I do to stay in the cockpit for the rest of my career? Can I volunteer to stay in a normal ops squadron? Go to an OSS and augment as a ‘guest flyer’?

It was virtually unheard of for age waivers prior to this change so I’d be surprised if one could get approved now. That said, if you don’t ask the answer is automatically no.

How old are you? The Navy just increased their max age to 32 for dudes coming in off the street.

I dunno, it looked like Daenerys got slow at the merge which let the Ice Dragon get close enough for guns.

The unit commander can’t order a specific individual to undergo a ‘random’ test. If the commander has reason to suspect a service member is/has used drugs, the commander can order a test but the individual must be informed of his rights and why the test is being administered. What usually happens, the ‘random’ test is generated via a computer and the person in charge of the program doesn’t change any variables from the previous text. For your specific case, what likely happened was that when you were in a flight status your name popped up on a list and the administrator marked you unavailable due to flight schedule, etc. When you went DNIF that no longer applied.

I’m pretty sure I know the answer, but could this Rhat dude take someone busting his balls? I’ve met some pretty big assholes in my day and they seem to soften up when you throw shade back at them. Of course, this dude does seem to be on a whole different level.

The only true benefit I’ve seen with the two piece is when I’m in the helo and I have to wear hard and soft body armor with full kit. The ‘combat shirt’ makes that exceedingly more comfortable. Otherwise it’s really not needed.

Hell yeah. If you get naked you can shit facing backwards and have a convenient little shelf to hold your snacks.

I’ve worn literally every flavor of flight suit from the original Army two piece of early Iraq, high speed Crye two-pieces, and even an orange one piece that was a ‘SAR helo’ suit. I’ve recently gone back to wearing the one piece bag because nothing is as comfortable as a properly broken in one piece bag. And it’s really not that hard to take off a one piece to take a dump, and I’m a pretty big dude.

Indubitably

I don’t know your particular situation, but I’ll second/third the staying in the house if you can. Especially in Florida, if you move out she can try to use that against you wrt child custody, etc, as she can phrase it as ‘he left the family’. I had a few bros get divorced in Florida and they moved out and their hindsite was they should’ve stayed there as long as they could.

What’s a typical month look like flying international? Three/four four day trips? I’m assuming the airlines give you a full day between legs? I can definitely see how laid back it could be, you fly the one flight, take your crew rest, then fly the next trip home.

Is the T-38 considered dual piloted? That’s where I think I may have assumed incorrectly. Navy single seat absolute mins are 200 - 1/2, dual piloted can take it to published mins.

If that’s published mins, what’s wrong with that?