2 hours ago, pawnman said:

Usually the least maneuverable aircraft leads a mixed formation. 

Did all of the available B-1 fleet at Dyess get generated for the one in the flyover?

22 minutes ago, Negatory said:

I’ll entirely agree that the whole of QAnon are not Republican voters. But the majority are.

The DOJ has said a lot of the QAnon rioters at the Capitol that wanted to “stop the steal” didn’t even voted in the 2020 election.

On 1/31/2021 at 12:58 PM, Scooter14 said:

 

It’ll be my first time there, I’m really looking forward to day 15 when I can leave the quarantine dorm and actually do stuff.

 

Get an A-2 jacket from Mr. Lim's.

3 hours ago, MyCS said:

People think we are about to turn a corner. That's not the case anytime soon.

When a 2-star has to remind people not to have Super Bowl parties unless it's 10 or less people. It feels like kindergarten class. But that is what it takes because people don't listen.

Just passing along what the military medical experts and GOs discussed yesterday during our biweekly briefing. I should have emphasized that point.

Military medical "experts" all told me that the burn pit I lived next to at Balad circa 2005/2006 was "fine." However, the VA just registered me in a deployed base burn pit registry because they're afraid of another Agent Orange fiasco like they had after Vietnam. If I was taking medical advice, the military healthcare system would be at the very bottom of that list.

1 hour ago, LimaLowdown said:

Any differing info on the 135 than what is on here?

Also open to hearing about any airframe people wanna boast about...

Go to the -135 then immediately do PTX to go to the -46.

4 hours ago, slackline said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/02/02/josh-hawley-has-voted-against-all-biden-cabinet-nominees-so-far-heres-what-that-means/?sh=640e5b6c5bfb

Josh Hawley is such a tool.  Does he fancy himself more knowledgeable than every other GOP elected officials?  It's simple obstructionist behavior for zero reason. I can easily see objecting to some, but all?  Tool...

The scary part is him and Tom Cotton were on the short list from Trump to replace RBG on the SCOTUS. Hawley declined, which is one of the reasons he went with Coney Barrett.

37 minutes ago, MyCS said:

Why are states like CA able to tax our retirement checks? Would states put up a fight if a president pushed to repel txeing military retirements?

I know CA pushed a bill last year to not tax military retirees and it died. A succubus is a CA politician.

Move to a state with no state income tax when you get out?

6 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Amen brother. 

As a commander I tried to stay old school, there is no substitute for a good old fashion ass chewing...yell, throw in some profanity to get the point across.  Perhaps not professional but I saw no need to electrocute every Airman for a simple mistake....a mistake I probably made at one point and was lucky not to get caught doing.  If we truly believe people are our greatest asset, then invest in them, not only when they do good, but also when they do bad.

When I was being court martialed for a crime I never committed, I had people turn their shoulder to me. I had people talk shit about me to friends, family, even some people on here on other online forums. Thankfully, I was found not guilty of the serious stuff, but found guilty of the typical malicious overcharging that the JAG Corps likes to do. During the sentencing phase of my court martial the best squadron commander I ever had, now O-6, wrote a letter to the panel saying:

”People are not the sum of their mistakes.”

After my discharge board, and being separated less than four years from retirement, I was the lowest of the low. I had senior Enlisted, Officers, JAGs tell me that I would never amount to anything. No one would ever give me a job due to a court martial conviction, etc. I even had a FGO that told me I should just kill myself now instead of making my family go through pain of watching me to turn into a homeless drug addict statistic. I thought about it, and almost did it. But I remembered that saying my former commander said. I decided I wasn’t going to let my mistakes define me.

This May I’m graduating from Georgetown with my Masters in Cybersecurity. I just was accepted into an aviation and space doctoral program at Oklahoma State. All paid for by the VA’s Voc Rehab program. I make way more money now than I did as a MSgt working in the KC-46 program as a contractor. I even have a security clearance. What I learned along the way was not just resilience, but I was humbled. I learned a hard lesson that your life can be taken away from you, either by the judicial system, or by those who doubt you so much that you start to doubt yourself. But in the end, you are not the sum of your mistakes, regardless of whom you are. I’m not religious, though I grew up Catholic, but to add onto that quote from my former commander is:

2 Timothy 4:7

”I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith."

To those of you who had the honor of being a commander, and allowed people to rebound from their mistakes, thank you. You’re appreciated more than you’ll ever know.

When people ask if I'm going to get the vaccination, I just tell them my herpes is much worse, so I'm fine.

58 minutes ago, pawnman said:

It's the guy kicked from here.  The one who fought the government over doing his job as a drone pilot.

Man never met a lawsuit he didn't like.

Yeah I know. His wife went to Harvard Law and is an attorney in Washington State, which he seems to mention 6-9 times in every paragraph he writes.

22 minutes ago, MCO said:

This entire thing is ridiculous. A one sided story slamming a guy, names included, then turned on the girl. No one wins. Everyone loses.

Especially when they find your mugshot from a few years ago.

1 hour ago, Waingro said:

Apparently someone is deeply triggered by CMSAF's Facebook page. Imagine having enough time on your hands to file a lawsuit over something like this.

Odds that his “Harvard Law Grad” wife is the one who files?

52 minutes ago, MyCS said:

Riddle me this Batman... Unlike SGLI, VGLI is a rip off post retirement?

USAA has really solid life insurance rates, but requires a "medical checkup" from a medical professional who will meet you at your home or place of your choice. I wonder if your PHA would be a suitable alternative for USAA. 

Is there an age restriction where they have to a physical (over 55+)?

3 hours ago, MyCS said:

Yo, is anyone wearing two masks that is being recommended now by Dr. Fauci? People should just stay home if you need 2 masks.

I have always worn an Under Armour mask and I swear it's double layered. Moot point to me.

No, because I’m not a cuck.

If given a position with a federal entity, or even some contractors, they will pay for your clearance/poly. This is true at least with employment, my I’m a DoD contractor and my company paid for me to obtain a clearance due to having longer than a 24 month break from when I separated. I don’t know if the same procedures apply with Skillbridge.

In my experience being in the MAF for 16 years (excluding FTU time), Sq/CC’s rarely flew because a lot of them were PHOENIX products and what community they commanded in wasn’t the community they “grew up” in. A majority of them were poor flyers to begin.

I had a Sq/CC tell me once he didn’t feel “comfortable” instructing in the KC-135 compared to his time in the C-130, so he’d rather just be an evaluator. I reminded him he’d done two flying assignments in the KC-135 and left the C-130 after one assignment. Thankfully, that dipshit is an OG/CC now.

5 hours ago, slackline said:

Family is in Spokane, I’m in class in DC, weed smell is everywhere, all the time.  It’s worse in DC, go figure.  When my teenagers come visit they notice how much more you smell it in DC, and it’s not rare smelling it in Spokane...

The shit smell from downtown and off Sprague Ave covers any weed smell in Spokane.

3 hours ago, hindsight2020 said:

Would love to hear more about these avenues, as someone who has made a career in the T11Kxx world with little interest or incentive (less than 10 years to self-imposed full retirement after .mil retirement) to dabble in the airline thing post .mil.

Are we talking GS jobs? contractor? OEM employer? flying, non-flying? PM if you don't want to divulge specifics. How did Stan/Eval affiliation helped you? Cheers.

 

 

PM sent

4 hours ago, arg said:

When I hit 20 I started looking for a job. I didn't look real hard because as the Group Stan/Eval guy I was still able to fly and do a lot of airplane shit, minimal queep. I still, for the most part, enjoyed going to work. Having said that I understand Gp stan/eval is not the great place to work it used to be. Finally got the phone call that put me where I am today, still doing airplane shit.

Same here. My degrees are in other things, but I still do airplane shit, but get paid a ton more without the queep, but also not the actual flying. My experience in OGV and the FTU is what helped me land my current role.

You should take a job with the least amount of work/stress/queep to help you focus on your transition (i.e. writing a resume, job applications, interviewing techniques, moving logistics, VA claim, etc.).

Helping the USAF in any type of way your last year in should be the last thing on your mind.

6 minutes ago, Swamp Yankee said:

I also browse BBC frequently. 

 

 

 

6 hours ago, pawnman said:

What will they do...not let you retire?

And if they KEEP insisting, just give them the most scribbled in crayon, nonsensical citation you can.  Force them to keep sending it back for corrections until your final out.

The day before I got out Flight Med said I had to get a Yellow Fever shot. I told them I wasn't getting that shot and had no desire to visit anywhere where Yellow Fever was prevalent. The NCOIC said if I didn't get the shot, he'd tell the Med Group/CC, since it was reported to her for non-compliance. I told him that no one was giving me a shot and that at noon the next day when I was an official civilian, I'd personally tell her to fuck off.

The next day I picked up my records and they said I didn't need the shot.

2 hours ago, mudhen69 said:

That's not F/W/A. Mil leave is a benefit for all Federal employees.  It would be no different if they were a school teacher or a lawyer in town and took leave and got paid by their civilian job.

Except it’s more like having the same job being paid by same employer two separate ways to do the same thing.

18 hours ago, jazzdude said:

Why should military members get VA disability when they can work post military service?

I broke my hand flying, due to a pilot, while at Red Flag in 2009. My ring finger on that hand doesn’t have the same mobility and I get arthritis in that hand a lot. Thankfully it’s not my dominate hand. Being a KC-135 Boom Operator for 3,000 hours ruined my back due to the 1950s ergonomics. Do I work now? Yeah, I’m a contractor working with Boom Operators on the KC-46. 

I didn’t ask for that to happen to me physically, but it was a risk due to the job. The same job the military wanted me to perform. Therefore, the government can pay me the rest of my life for it.

You want to go after fraud, waste, and abuse? Go after all the AFRC/ANG ARTs that double dip and take Mil-leave from their civil service status to get their GS-whatever pay and then get their military rank/allowances pay when activated under Title 10.

Or watch people get falsely accused, and acquitted, of sexual crimes in the military, only for their accuser to claim Military Sexual Trauma and be rated at 100% for life.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game.