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Sounds like u need to get married then. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

DOOOOD! People actually pay $60 for that sheet! End up looking like a gendarme.

My neighbors help out with things. The key there is to have good relationships with the people who live near you. When I rented, the landlord took care of house maintenance problems. I was deployed when my GM died and there was no releasing me there. Once my car blew an engine right before I deployed. I was able to mostly take care of it, but if I hadn't been home I probably would have been taken at the stealership for the repair. Cest la vie. Problems with sons/daughters is not my issue since I don't have children, but the wife would basically be on her own if it were. I can advise via email/Skype, but that's the limit. In the absence of good neighbors, you can rely on your squadron leadership or peers. Extreme situations, they might let you go home early. I try to make sure that when I am home I take care of as much as I can for the future. I keep a spreadsheet of expiration dates of various things (CC's, car tags, insurance, property tax, etc.) so that I am not taken by surprise. Just plan ahead is all. Sometimes things pop up. While I've been away these things have happened: broken toilet, broken sewer, broken fridge, broken AC, broken mower. Everything worked out OK because we had a plan to deal with these contingencies, i.e. if this happens, call this person. I also helped out a squadron mate while he was deployed. He lived in base housing (single), and the housing authority was doing renovations and required he move out within a couple weeks. I arranged the TMO and supervised while his stuff was boxed up and moved to another base house.

If you have a break in service you won't meet a promotion board (assuming you're eligible) until you have 1 year of continuous service (regular, reserve, or a combination) prior to the board. At most you will be delayed 1 year. Who's getting booted? I'm not following....

You have to do the AFBCMR process. Here's my timeline: May 2012 DOS from active duty Jun 2012 gained to IRR (received break in service of 20 days) Jul 2012 gained to SELRES Aug 2012 I found out about the break in service and filed BCMR Jan 2013 scheduled promotion board (I didn't meet it because of the break in service) Jun 2013 BCMR directed extension of DOS to Jun 2012 to erase break in service which meant I rated a SSB since I would have otherwise met the scheduled promotion board Nov 2013 SSB met Jan 2014 notified of backdated promotion, DOR Oct 2013 Apr 2014 received back pay for 20 extra days of active duty (from erasing the break in service) May 2014 filed claim with local finance and received back pay from the backdated promotion (Oct 13-Jan 14) Jun 2014 filed BCMR for accelerated promotion, DOR Mar 2013 Sep 2014 BCMR was resolved by ARPC (it didn't go all the way to BCMR) for accelerated promotion Oct 2014 filed claim with local finance for back pay claim for accelerated promotion (Mar 13-Sep 13) Dec 2014 back pay paid

Little Rock O-4 down 6%. I suspect reservists who go off and on active duty orders for >30 days at a time don't get rate protection. We'll need to see what happens to BAH-II which is more applicable to most reservists.

As far as I recall: Palace Front: TAMP Involuntary separation (RIF, 2x passed over and not continued): TAMP Palace Chase: ?? VSP: no TAMP Separation with no ADSC: no TAMP That's the way it's been ever since I started paying attention to separations (since 2006). If you're going into the SELRES, you hardly need TAMP, though, because now we can get Tricare Reserve Select for pretty cheap.

Do the transition class now or as soon as you have time. You don't necessarily need a DOS to do it. Go ahead and apply to companies now. Usually the app has an availability date. If it does not, you can put it in the notes or somewhere. At the least it will get you familiar with the process and let you gather the required info. Since I have been paying attention, the board results have come out anywhere from Feb to May over the past several years for AD USAF. Just put your availability as Aug and then you can update it if it changes to sooner.

Fozzy Bear: Your deadline to get out is 6 months after the month in which the board results were released. You can move this to earlier as you request, though, through a request from your commander to AFPC. I, personally, did this. My board came out in Mar and my DOS was auto-set to 30 Sep. I made the request and got out end of May--didn't take any terminal, though. It seemed to me that 2 months is about the earliest you should request because of all the bureaucratic processes that need time.

If by AAD you mean a Bachelor degree, then yes. Bachelor degrees in general are highly desired but not required. High school diplomas are generally required. Can't speak to community service. Of all the apps I've filled out I've seen it mentioned once, on AA as I recall.

If they had done the immigration process as laid out by USCIS, they would have been screened for TB and prevented from coming in to the country. But this is what happens when the laws of the land are disregarded. Edited for nonsense

IRR in the USAF is pretty F-'d up for officers because of what I can gather AFPC, ARPC, and the local MPF's don't care. If you want an ID card you can go to the nearest ID card facility and get one since you're apparently in DEERs. You can call DMDC prior to if you want to verify. Also I don't know exactly when the rules for the IRR changed but I suspect it was with ROPMA. It apparently used to be that an officer was retained in the IRR until reaching a certain age (possibly age 62?) or until he submitted paperwork to resign his commission. Nowadays the officer is discharged after his second failure to be promoted to the next rank. Continuation is not considered for IRR in general. At least in the Air reserve they only promote 1 guy per year in the IRR (I guess to keep up appearances). So your chance of being promoted is nil. The board you will meet in the IRR (to major) is in the year you have 6-7 years TIG and your subsequent board will be the year after. Your mandatory separation will be ~6 months after the 2nd board results are released. After this happens your commission is revoked and you are barred from further officer service. If you would like to prevent this from happening you need to submit paperwork to ARPC which indicates you want to resign your commission. You can resign your commission as long as you don't owe time, which it sounds like you don't. One final point for those getting out via VSP or otherwise receive separation pay and as a result owe 3 years in the IRR: AFPC may or may not put you in the IRR as they should. Also if they do put you in the IRR they will give you a break in service. This can be corrected administratively later on, but it's a pain.

Dupe: I suggest you go back and re-read. The point of getting the ATP-SEL instead of the Comm-SEL for military pilots who want to get the CFI: there are fewer maneuvers to do on the ATP-SEL check ride. This assumes that the prospective CFI already has an ATP-MEL and is doing an ASEL add-on for the sole purpose of doing an add-on to his CFI ticket (which he already has in the ME class because of military competency). That is the sole reason advocated a least one page back and maybe more.

Hmm. I have an option to take a checkride with more maneuvers or less maneuvers...which one do I do?

NSplayr: Half-truth. You can get 9/11 GI Bill in the Guard but then your are committed to the Guard for the same ADSC (i.e. 4 years' satisfactory participation). ADSC is a misnomer or misapplied in many people's minds because Active Duty Service Commitment doesn't necessarily mean "Active Duty Component". What it means is Active Duty as in Active Status, whether it's the Active Duty Component or Reserve Component. So, when they say leave if you want to leave they are probably saying you can go to another squadron in the Guard. You're not tied to the unit you signed up with, but you are tied to the Guard. It's up to their discretion if they want to let you transfer to AFRC--in other words, since you owe the Guard they don't have to let you go to the Reserve and vice versa.

Stract: I tried to get the NVG IP endorsement at Little Rock FSDO. Even had the FAR printed out. The guy claimed to have no knowledge of it and refused. I'll try again next time I re-up my CFI. I don't need it right now, so whatevs. Butters: You only get a Flight Instructor rating for the category/class of aircraft if you were a military IP in that category/class of military aircraft.

For those guard/reserve troughers out there: Let's say I am on an MPA tour and accrue 10 days of leave. At the end of the tour I take those 10 days of leave. Are there any restrictions on where I need to be when I finish my leave? When I was on active duty/Regular officer status the answer was "leave starts and ends at the local area." But since the end of my leave is the end of an active duty period, I'd think that it would be treated like terminal leave, meaning that I can be anywhere when my leave ends. I checked the regs I know of and this situation is not specifically addressed. Thoughts/opinions?

That statement from Cody is probably not the (whole) truth. The CSAF came to Little Rock during the previous VSP/RIF debacle and pretty much said the same thing. "We have to have a RIF because not enough people applied for VSP" and later "We didn't lie. The truth just changed." That was Schwartz, btw. I don't know why these guys in DC feel like they need to be sneaky.

I just use excel. Reasons: I can manipulate the data however I need to for whatever way the prospective employer wants it. Plus, I never need to pay for an upgrade. Seems like every few years the OS changes and the legacy apps need an upgrade to remain compatible, meaning more $$. With excel it's just raw data readable by whatever version of excel is current. Now, if you're doing smart-phone type stuff, I have no idea because I have a dumb-phone and don't need that. I just input my flights at 'ome.

...And webmail (from home) for Little Rock is magically working.

And then, in a few years they'll want to put the reserve under active duty ADCON, thus completing the circle.

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!?

I was talking to some Army grunts not too long ago and they said they thought that all AF pilots should be warrants just like the Army. My viewpoint is that the Army's pilots should be officers. The Army gets away with paying their pilots far less than the AF because most are warrants. So BLAB: Do you want more pay or less pay?

I still can't access webmail either through Scott or Little Rock.

The Port Hole is working now, but I still can't get the Email4Life (Scott) or Little Rock webmail from home. I get: Error code 500 Internal server error (1359) for both.