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47 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
You’re not wrong, and of course the other piece of that is the airline policy. My memories are vague on this, but I think either my application or interview invite had some requirement that read along the lines of “military must be fully retired/separated or on terminal leave prior to the class date.” Then at the interview I remember signing something and later was asked to verbally attest to that. So, I have no recommendation about what to do, just a data point to consider how you’d respond.
A lot of it is semantics and fortunately, there is a lot of ambiguity to take advantage of when it comes to the military and the airlines. If your intent is good and you speak with everyone involved on both sides to make sure they're all good with your plan, you will be OK. Looks like you've done that already.
"Terminal Leave" by definition is (AFI 36-3303): "Terminal leave is chargeable leave taken in conjunction with retirement or separation from active duty. Member’s last day of leave coincides with the last day of active duty.".
If your commander is willing to sign your leave request as being "Terminal", then that is on your commander. I guess you could say you are "separating active duty". The ARC has the unique ability to "separate active duty" an infinite number of times. Maybe you can talk to your FSS and have them cut you a DD-214 for "extra credit".
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A buddy of mine just tested positive, after several home tests showed him being negative...
User error. Gotta jam that thing up in there real good. I hear the new rectal tests are going to be 1,000× more accurate and are going to really "flatten the curve".
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18 minutes ago, Guardian said:
I think he’s asking for specifics of what those USERRA issues are.
Well I am no JAG, but if he is talking about long-term orders that aren't AGR, they are most likely Title 10 MPA orders funded by the gaining MAJCOM. Taking accrued leave associated with a long-term MPA tour is not considered "Terminal Leave", which to my knowledge, is the only type of leave that allows starting a civilian job while in a leave status.
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49 minutes ago, Agent P said:
Guard guy on long term (not AGR) orders, I'm just wanting to finish the set of orders I'm on in leave status and double dip legally and use up my leave, not returning to on-orders status and just DSG from that point on.
Very true and hence the question
Rog, more context - DSG dude on orders with an end date that would occur inside of when I'm at training.
If I'm on leave while at Airline X and in training and all my supervisors on the Guard side know it, you think the airline would have a problem with it?
I'm NOT trying to go on leave, train with Airline X and then immediately drop mil leave and go back on orders.
There are USERRA issues with doing things like this. Have your unit curtail your orders and cash your leave in. You are still on AD while on leave. What happens if you are hurt while away at training? Does AA cover it or the ANG?
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4 minutes ago, WheelsOff said:
For those that work at AA:
What’s your honest thoughts/opinions on where the company is headed in the long term?
I ask, because of all my bros currently at the different airlines, it’s only several of the ones who work for AA that seem to express any reasonable doubt/concern/hesitation about their company when you talk with them about it. I’d be living in one of their main domiciles and not commuting, close to family, so that’s the big driver for me.
Definitely not trying to stir the pot or fling any poo…read enough of that from all the booger-flickers over on the APC forums… Thanks for sharing any insight!
I've been with AA for a little over 3 years. I don't get much into the politics and armchair financial analysis, but I really don't see the company going anywhere. The job is 100x better than the full-time ANG job I had before for various reasons. I live in domicile with a relatively short drive to the airport. 99.99999% of the people I've worked with here absolutely great. Contracts change and we'll be getting a new one soon. Your progression to a wide-body may be a bit slower than other companies, but narrow-body captain is going to get more and more junior. I believe this last bid has a LGA 737 captain with a hire date about 6 months before mine. I've done a lot of mil leave over the past year and a half with COVID (got furloughed for a month), but I've definitely missed the job when I am not there. The past 6 months or so has been busy with a lot of manning issues, but I know that's going to get better. I'm on the 320 and now that hiring has started again, I've moved up about 6% in equip/base just over the past few months. There is definitely some post-merger drama that still exists with a few individuals, but just about all the captains I've flown with have been great.
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You've got nothing for me because you don't know the facts. It's all on the internet.Yeah, it’s generally less severe than the already non-severe for our demographic delta. But it’s significantly more transmissible.
John’s Hopkins, the CDC, and the NYT are tracking hospitalizations in that ballpark. But maybe that’s not confirmed enough.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-overused-for-covid-19/
And if you don't believe that, I went through airline training with a an older fellow who almost died from COVID and he explained exactly what's in the article above because he refused the ventilator. His sister, a nurse, actually told him to refuse the ventilator in favor of a BiPAP machine w/O2 (and slept on his stomach) for 3 weeks in the hospital, which is most likely what kept him alive. He had a pulse/ox of 82% when he got to the hospital. Doctors are trigger happy with the ventilators, again, because they get money for using them. They don't get money for using a BiPAP machine.
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Sure. If you can show me that a cold causes 150k concurrent hospitalizations, I’ll agree with you.
What classifies a hospitalization? ER visit? Overnight stay? Gunshot wound and COVID positive? Gallstones and COVID positive? Remember, hospitals are getting MONEY for COVID positive patients, putting people with COVID on ventilators (whether they really need them or not) and deaths with COVID, not necessary from COVID. Can't really believe all of the numbers we read because there is f@ckery going on. Anyone who denies that is in another world. I went to the ER years ago for the flu. Did I have to? Probably not, but I had a bad cough and wanted to get a chest x-ray. How many people are going to the hospital out of precausion?
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Not so fast...and I would NOT celebrate liberty just yet.
Yes they killed the mandate for companies with more than 100 employees but the issue is FAR from settled. If you read the opinion was very narrow and it was not about the mandate as much as it was about the power of OSHA and a kick of the can to Congress to pass a vaccine mandate law.
On the same day SCOTUS ruled against Missouri and upheld the mandate for Healthcare workers.
There are several cases still working their way up through the lower courts that will likely land on the steps of SCOTUS with the Federal Employee Mandate case being another major decision point.
True... this had no effect on the vaccine mandates most of the major airlines imposed on their employees. Does anyone really think the airlines want to deal with 30-40% of their pilots/FA's not being vaccinated when a lot of other countries and destinations they fly to mandate vaccinations? It would be a operetional nightmare. The airlines don't give a s*** about the health of their employees. They want the company to operate. They have a "mission" just like the military.
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We've been down this road before:
Strong-arm tactics by the DOD, coupled with inadequate oversight and politically driven behavior by CDC and FDA, have resulted in the following problems. The final four points identify needed reforms.
1. The safety and efficacy of the currently used anthrax vaccine have never been established, either for cutaneous or inhalation exposure in humans.
2. FDA standards for use of an IND (experimental) product, which apply equally to civilian and military vaccines, were bypassed because of pressure from the DOD.
3. Anthrax vaccination appears to be one of the causes of Gulf War illnesses.
4. Vaccine manufacture has been substandard. For years, the vaccine manufacturer failed to meet current Good Manufacturing Practices requirements but was allowed to continue production. Over 6 million vaccine doses have been quarantined by the FDA, have failed the army's supplemental testing, or both.
5. Service members have been subjected to a CDC-sanctioned double standard of medical practice in which risk–benefit analysis does not apply.
6. The ability of military physicians to exercise their medical judgment has been suppressed.
7. Ill, recently vaccinated service members, who rely on military medical care and who are barred from filing suit against the government, find themselves reliving the plight of ill Gulf War veterans.
8. Medical professionals, who expect information from the CDC to meet the highest standards, have instead received misrepresentations concerning anthrax vaccine.
9. The CDC is supervising the conduct of safety and efficacy trials of the current vaccine, but its ability to be objective is in question. Furthermore, because the safety issues are unresolved, conducting a large trial of this vaccine in previously unvaccinated individuals is unethical. Retrospective surveillance to assess safety should be performed first on the recent vaccinees, as recommended by the Committee on Government Reform.20
10. Medical defense measures for biological warfare, including the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program, need independent civilian oversight, so that balanced medical decision making can occur, free of the influence of the chain of command.
11. The same regulatory requirements imposed on civilian vaccine and drug manufacturers must be met for military products.
12. Anthrax vaccine should be used only in the most dire circumstances. When employed for prophylaxis or treatment of inhalation anthrax, it should be under the conditions required for “off-label” use, including active surveillance for adverse reactions and obtaining free informed consent.
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You think someone who dropped hundreds of bucks on a plane ticket and has somewhere to be is going to cancel his trip? People have hacked up lungs on airline flights for decades. Noone gave a shart. It was all part of the human experience.Tell that to the guy in 17C, next to me on the plane yesterday who was hacking up a lung. Unfortunately we live in a society where many people think it’s ok to fly, use public transit, or go to work while sick, even in a pandemic. Personally, I’m glad ‘Typhoid Mike’ was forced to wear a mask.
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Look we've been through this debate a bazillion times. We're beating a decomposed horse's corpse at this point. Do masks work? In theory, they should. I don't think anyone with an average or above IQ should be arguing that. However, are people wearing them correctly? Are they replacing them frequently? Are they using an N95 underneath their cloth mask or they just using a bandana over there face? I see so many people walking around with masks that are so loose they're hanging off their face. People have them below their noses as if covid can't come out of your nose and it only comes out of your mouth. It's like the Wild Wild West with the mask wear and we can't expect everyone to have the discipline to wear masks like a healthcare professional would. When you throw those variables into the mix, there's really no way to know just how effective wearing a mask actually is.if cloth masks don't work why is the DoD mandating them? asking for the Mayo Clinic
In addition to that, just like any other airborne virus, COVID can infiltrate the body through the eyeballs. Very few people wear goggles or face shields.
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Noone is ever shocked when they catch the common cold, which typically has an R0 of 2-3. They are saying Omicron is around 7-10, approaching that of Chicken Pox and Measles. The only difference is, the Chicken Pox and MMR vaccines are highly effective against infection and the COVID vaccine is not.Whoppie got it. And she was shocked because she said she did everything right.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/whoopi-goldberg-stunned-testing-positive-covid-
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True. Instead, our government should be spending more time approving effective and affordable treatments that can be taken at home during initial symptoms (ie: India). They are out there. We all know what they are. Oher countries are using them effectively, but for some reason we aren't. Kind of makes you scratch your head.This conversation should be near the end. Nothing has worked to prevent the spread. Not the vaccines, not the masks, not the closures, not the social distancing, not the bazillion dollars spent, not the fear tactics. Not anything. It’s here to stay and we will all get it. People shouldn’t lose their jobs over it and we shouldn’t divide the country any further.-
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This was posted here weeks ago, but I am assuming the vax fanatics haven't bothered to click the link and spend 3+ hrs of their lives listening to this. Took a while to get through, but it is very enlightening. This link should not be lost.
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Deaths look like they are hovering at about half to maybe alightly less than half of what they were during last winter's Delta surge. Do we have data that shows the majority of current deaths are the unvaccinated?https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/us-global-record-more-than-1m-daily-covid-cases
[mention=71394]ViperMan[/mention] et al? Looks like your feelings based argument that we would never go a multiple above 250k isn’t panning out. Just like COVID going away on its own, ending when it heats up, disappearing, etc… -
The flu "vaccine" has been around for decades using traditional vaccine technology, historically has only had a 40-45% national take rate evem to this day (mainly by the elderly), and it has always been publically known and accepted that it only has a 40% efficacy, which ironically is turning out to be very similiar to the COVID vaccine.And yet I've never seen medical professionals or the military protest flu vaccine requirements... -
And with that (the flu) being mentioned, our national flu "vaccine" coverage is only 43.4% (according to the CDC). Why aren't people being admonished and highlighted on national media for not getting their flu jab to "flatten the curve"?
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Yes, but let's just ignore all that and keep pushing the vax campaign because the C19 vaxxer clan has so much data to contradict the above report...
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How about NJ/NY/PA, Boston, DC, Chicago, LAX and Phoenix as well? Phoenix may be the only base you'd have to wait a while to get to. Despite a lack-luster contract at the moment, I think AAL wins the best base locations award.AAL just had an indoc class of 70 pilots (second class of 70 for the year; still under-performing their goal). If you want to live in Charlotte, Dallas, or Miami, you should be able to get to one of those locations within 6 months. If you're not interested in those areas, probably best to go to another carrier. -
ANG units are notorious for hiring from within, but to be honest, I am always the one on the board who is biased toward hiring strong candidates from off the street.
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None of these products contains ground up babies for flavor.
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Your HARM(s) should have been saving annual rips of your hours in your flight records folder, which is required to have an annual review (by you). Just recently they have gone away from paper folders, but I find it unlikely someone doesn't have a career history of your hours.You asked your HARM or SARM? Our HARM said they could only pull 18mo like you said but I just got a print out from SARM that went back to 2017 2 weeks ago…don’t ask me why they would be using 2 different systems - no clue. It is a different format but just had a buddy interview at DAL with no issues. To be honest the new format looks cleaner anyways -
The big thing would be the usage of fetal stem cells to develop the COVID-19 vaccines. Anything beyond that is stretching their religious freedom IMO, because yes, what about all of those other vaccines?Out of genuine curiosity: what is the framework for the religious exemption request, that doesn't apply to any of the other required vaccines?
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But I will have low cholesterol when I die.be careful bro...Cheerios have Tripotassium phosphate; thousands of people have died like 70 years after eating them
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COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)
in General Discussion
Posted · Edited by TheNewGazmo
Looks like Johnson is putting his Johnson on the table. Finally, someone with some common sense.