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    Pilot Attrition in the US Military

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    Shit... cover blown.... Nah fr tho I'm just an aviation enthusiast and found this forum and liked the community. Then I browsed a little bit and noticed the opinions kind of match this video I remember seeing..

    Sorry. I should have made my first post be a "what are my chances? I haven't taken the AFOQT yet." Like another clueless person on here

    And who are the bobs?

    Aviation enthusiast? Your name makes you sound like getting pegged is your enthusiasm.


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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

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    Risk to fill squadrons with nothing but Lieutenants and Captains is acceptable.  Enough FGOs will stick around to adequately fill the commander positions.  The research is conclusive.  People on this forum don’t want to hear that, but not wanting to hear something doesn’t mean it’s not true.  The Pentagon is 100% focused on production ramp to 1500.

    Please ban this f*ck already. He’s been funny enough, but I worry actual GOs read his shit and think it’s serious, not satire.


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    New USAF officer - retirement elections

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    3 hours ago, ViperMan said:
    As other people said, use the Roth version of the TSP. Shelter as much of your future income as possible.
    Not necessarily a financial strategy, but there is something she's probably eligible for, called the lifetime learning credit. Even if she just takes personal interest courses, I'd rather have my $2000 spent on me than some social project.
    https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/llc


    It’s 20% back, up to $2000. I don’t think racking up $10000 for personal interest courses to get $2000 back is a great idea.


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    UPT Next

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    Well the news (good or bad depending on how you feel about the syllabus) is that UPT is going to something similar to the old syllabus. Should be about three checkrides with one after trans, one after nav, and one after form. Mission to top off then track select and graduation a few weeks later follow by T-1s or T-38s. So there is that. Dunno if that means it's getting more rigorous or not. 

    Still sim only for T-1s?


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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

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    For those that haven’t been here long, or have memory issues. 
     
    chang is an admitted and outed troll account. 
     
    still outstanding satire and the occasional useful nugget. And a well crafted devils advocate. 
     
    but Chang is not a general. 

    General Chang is a real account, and has stars on his shoulders. He is a personnelist. Bashi Chuni is Chang’s troll account where he pretends to be a pilot.


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    C-17 to Elmendorf

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    Just looked at mine. In 8+ years of flying C-17s, the most I was gone was 220 (deployment with COVID quarantine on the front). One year was 188 (non-flying deployment). Two years around 150 (120 day deployment). One year at 110 (90 day deployment). The other three years were <90. Not an Airdropper, SOLL II, or PNAF and my friends that were flew less. The only guy I knew who had more than 280 took a CAOC tour then a EAS deployment to chase his short tour credit (his choice).


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    C-17 to Elmendorf

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    Heard it from instructors whose previous assignments was C-17s that most of them were burned out from the minimum turn time between flying TDYs with TACC and said they were gone 280-300 days in the last few years 

    Ask them to print out their TDY history. They are exaggerating greatly. Or the scheduler was banging their wife.


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    C-17 to Elmendorf

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    Does anyone have any info on what life is like flying the C-17 active duty stationed at Elmendorf, AK? I am very interested in choosing that plane and location for my drop sheet. I’ve heard that C-17 pilots are extremely busy and gone upwards of 280 days a year at times (I know deployment cycles change all the time though). But I’ve also heard that the ops tempo at Elmendorf is lower than other bases because they do airdrop and are in PACAF. 
    Any tips or advice is greatly appreciated. I would like to be home more for my first assignment until my 2 kids grow up and are a little easier to parent

    Where did you hear this? FAIPs? I never came anywhere near 280 days/year.


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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    Separation and retirement orders in 2024 after certain dates won’t be approved due to a lack of available funds. I think the dates are 1 Jan and 1 Apr respectively. 

    That makes total Air Force sense. The PCS expense is a sunk cost that will be paid out eventually. Denying Sep or retirement just results in more expenditure when you force someone to stay on the payroll.


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    What's wrong with the Air Force?

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    It's hard to believe that the Air Force is facing a pilot shortage when promotes to major have been abysmal. My squadron was at 50%, a friend of mine in AWACS had 33%, and a friend of mine in a KC-135 squadron had 25%. Base wide, our promote rate for the guys hitting the board a second time was 0%. AFPC what are you smoking and can I have some? 

    The Air Force forgets that to get those pilot wings in the first place you had to be in the top 69% (I’m sure the actual number is higher) of your ROTC class (or get into the Academy, or however OTS works). Bottom 1% of the 69th percentile is still the 69th percentile. When I got passed over for O-5 I was pissed but shrugged it off. I had figured I was a coin toss to make it. When I saw the list and saw some of my more deserving friends missing from it, I realized the whole system is fvcked. The Air Force does not value its pilots; Welsh and Goldfein made that much clear, and CQ has done nothing to reverse course.


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    The Next President is...

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    Who doesn't pay taxes of some sort?

    I was about to ask the same question. Only answer I could think of was:

    People in Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon who don’t have property and earn little enough they don’t pay federal or state income tax. LOL.


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    The Next President is...

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    Term limits and campaign finance reform are the only way to fix this mess. Corporate donations should be outright banned. Out-of state donations should be outright banned. The candidate running for the 69th district of Georgia should not be getting financial backing from Dick Suckerburg in California because the candidate’s job is to REPRESENT their constituents, not the interests of some billionaire 1500 miles away.

    As far as terms go, I think the house needs to adopt a four year term, rather than two, so that they aren’t constantly running for re-election. For term limits, I’d say no more than six total terms in the House/Senate combined. That would give you 24 years in the house, 36 in the senate, and somewhere in between for those that transition.


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    Switching from heavies to fighter guard/reserve

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    So I saw that Maryland is having a rated A-10 board for all rated pilots…
    So if a rated non fighter pilot gets picked up would they have to still do a T-38 course or would they just go straight to IFF or even the A-10 B course? 
     
    I’m glad to see a fighter unit open up a board to all pilots. But curious on what that would entail for training. 

    This guy again…go with quals.


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    What's wrong with the Air Force?

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    I thought about this before. Every airmen a pilot. Voluntary, but give every airmen $5K-$10K towards PPL costs. Bring back Aeroclubs. Too bad none of this will happen. I completed my PPL at the aeroclub on base and was selected for UPT on an active duty board.

    Double edged sword. It might make some have an appreciation for what Winged pilots do. It also might make some think “I’m a pilot too, what they do is nothing special that I can’t do just as well!”


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