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Godholio posted:Well an MSM is higher than an AFCM so of course you weren't going to get one if that's all he was getting.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 04:11 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 01:20 |
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You forgot Finance Warrior! and a bronze star.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 04:24 |
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Godholio posted:Well an MSM is higher than an AFCM so of course you weren't going to get one if that's all he was getting. Like it or not, medals generally correspond to rank, so unless you were an O-4/E-7 or higher, good luck. MSM is usually a PCS medal for squadron commanders or superintendents/shirts, for example. Ya I got it backwards. I knew I should've double checked that before I posted.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 04:41 |
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Protons posted:Thread hasn't moved in four days. I can only assume you guys are beginning to stumble out of your whisky induced comas from NYE and/or your regular weekend schedule. As you blink away visions of your debauched weekend, I'd like to pose a Real Question about Good NCO Leadership vs. Bad NCO Leadership. This is going to sound lame, but go talk to the E6. Let her know she's micromanaging her SSgts and undermining their credibility by removing their ability to actually manage their folks. If she has issues with the way her SSgts are running their poo poo, she needs to be looking at them, not jumping the chain. They're getting paid as NCOs and should be doing the work, not being glorified airmen who just do whatever the boss says. If she won't budge, talk to the Lt about it and give him the same story. If he's leaning that hard on her out of inexperience he's probably blind to the issue she's causing and needs to know what's up. If neither one will budge, your options are to elevate it and air out their dirty laundry or just shutter the windows and ride the storm out as best you can, watch for them to gently caress up and burn 'em as hard as you can. They may need that lesson that happy troops help you fix mistakes, unhappy troops will throw your rear end under the bus and laugh as you're crushed.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 05:01 |
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SalTheBard posted:Ya I got it backwards. I knew I should've double checked that before I posted. In that case, your supervisor was a d-bag. Nobody earns an MSM without standing on the shoulders of people who earned an AFCM or something similar.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 05:24 |
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I never got any medals.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 05:24 |
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I got an AFAM for being an MPC chief and doing some contingency plan work with no staff for HHQ. An Aerial Achievement got lost along with my sep medal.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 05:27 |
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Godholio posted:In that case, your supervisor was a d-bag. Nobody earns an MSM without standing on the shoulders of people who earned an AFCM or something similar. Exactly. This is the same TSgt (who was married) who tried to gently caress a SrA and then had a nervous breakdown when she rebuked him. Then later he went to find her and she was worth a different guy and he flipped poo poo on her. He also made sure they never worked together after that. He also gave me an LoR because I didn't return "his truck" (they were flight vehicles) in a "timely" manor. I could probably write a much looney post about how hosed up my deployment was (and I was not anywhere close to combat)
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 05:38 |
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Should have just told him you were on the way to give it back but you ended up hooking up with the SrA in it. Tell him he can probably still sniff the seats if he wants.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 05:55 |
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Wild T posted:Should have just told him you were on the way to give it back but you ended up hooking up with the SrA in it. Tell him he can probably still sniff the seats if he wants. If I said that to him I probably wouldn't be alive to post this.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 07:56 |
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Just echoing that the advice to go talk to the E6 is the right advice, even if the paperwork has already been signed/accepted.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 09:56 |
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It's pcs daaaay Pcs day
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 14:07 |
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I'm not an expert but it seems retarded to get a medal purely from PCSing/finishing your deployment as coffee boy in the CAOC. People look like Qaddafi by the time they make e-7.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 16:04 |
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After a 3-year tour, our Canadian major went home with more medals than their chief of staff.
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# ? Jan 11, 2016 16:41 |
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My achievement medal arrived 33 months after it was signed by the commander, after I had separated.
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# ? Jan 12, 2016 00:06 |
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Our new Commander was in charge for less than 10 hours and we managed to get 2 DUIs in that time frame, that has got to be some AF record.
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# ? Jan 12, 2016 01:30 |
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Rythe posted:Our new Commander was in charge for less than 10 hours and we managed to get 2 DUIs in that time frame, that has got to be some AF record. What a great way to meet the new commander. They're hosed.
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# ? Jan 12, 2016 01:35 |
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I was reading the memoirs of a guy who'd flown fighters from World War II to Vietnam and he talked about how, after a change of command ceremony where he'd turned over command of a wing of F-105s to some other colonel, he was boarding a plane back to CONUS when one of the aircraft that had participated in the flyby during the ceremony made an emergency gear-up landing on the runway. He said that sometimes when he tells the story, the incoming commander was running down the tarmac trying to give the flag back.
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# ? Jan 12, 2016 01:41 |
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Cojawfee posted:I never got any medals. A couple years ago I led a team that replaced every mobile radio on base. Then switched over to adding new grounding to buildings all over base to fill a contracting oversight. Didn't get poo poo for that.
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# ? Jan 12, 2016 02:01 |
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Rythe posted:Our new Commander was in charge for less than 10 hours and we managed to get 2 DUIs in that time frame, that has got to be some AF record. hosed up that the commander allowed those DUIs to happen under his watch When is his supervisor going to hold the counseling session with him
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A Kpro posted:My achievement medal arrived 33 months after it was signed by the commander, after I had separated. I got a certificate of retirement in the mail like 2 years after I separated.
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TheWhiteNightmare posted:hosed up that the commander allowed those DUIs to happen under his watch Funny thing is we are a GSU, so the big bosses are typically across the country, unless they came into town for the change of command and didn't plan on leaving until Monday.
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# ? Jan 12, 2016 03:44 |
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I got my CSB notice today. Should I take the roughly $22,500 now and 40% retirement pay under REDUX or not? I'm not dying for money, I'm not even hurting really. I only have about $1300 in consumer credit debt and my car. I want to take the money.
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 00:26 |
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Pretty sure it's dumb to take the money. 22500 is about 20% of an E-7 retirement (aka what you're giving up) over 5 years. If you are planning on retirement around 40 you had better have a phenomenal investment plan to make up the delta. We are dumb, we enlisted, take it and live the stereotype. standard.deviant fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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Unless you're planning to retire in your late 50s or later, I don't see many scenarios where you make more in the long run by taking cash now. They're trying to get you to buy out for a loving reason.
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 00:34 |
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Protons posted:I got my CSB notice today. Should I take the roughly $22,500 now and 40% retirement pay under REDUX or not? I'm not dying for money, I'm not even hurting really. I only have about $1300 in consumer credit debt and my car. redux is a bad deal e: except in an extraordinarily limited set of cases, but not yours
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standard.deviant posted:Pretty sure it's dumb to take the money. 22500 is about 20% of an E-7 retirement (aka what you're giving up) over 5 years. If you are planning on retirement around 40 you had better have a phenomenal investment plan to make up the delta. I guess my iPad is logged on my parachute account. I'm an e6 and will probably be for the next 5.5 years. Nobody in the military retires at 38 and doesn't work afterward. Everyone retires and gets another job, which is what I'll do. Why can't I take 22.5k and throw it in an IRA and in a savings account? Is 10 percentage points really going to make a screaming deal?
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 02:34 |
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:I guess my iPad is logged on my parachute account. https://communities.usaa.com/t5/Financial-Advice-Q-A/Should-I-take-the-CSB-REDUX-30-000/qaq-p/15207 e: take the redux
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 03:08 |
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:
Wouldn't you rather spend it on a bitchin' new V6 Mustang?
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 03:45 |
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Godholio posted:Wouldn't you rather spend it on a bitchin' new automatic V6 Mustang?
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 04:00 |
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:I guess my iPad is logged on my parachute account. But yeah, don't do the math, buy a sweet Mustang. EDIT: Fixed math to account for high-3, though it moved the bar up .03 months (1 day) before you're throwing away money. standard.deviant fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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krispykremessuck posted:redux is a bad deal This. The CSB should be taken out of the military retirement system. 22.5k to give up 10% of your retirement pay for 40+ years? They are required to notify you of your options, but yeah, ugh. Do not accept.
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 04:46 |
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xaarman posted:This. 20% of your retirement pay. 40% under redux is 80% of the 50% normal 20-year retirement because math. Edit: it's also not for 40+ years, because redux idiots get bumped to normal numbers at age 62 (but then fall behind due to reduced COLA adjustments). standard.deviant fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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xaarman posted:This. Some limited circumstances may make the csb a good option like, if you need to pay a loan shark $22.5k to continue having functional kneecaps. The math works out to be a government sanctioned predatory loan against your retirement.
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 04:55 |
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My experience in the military has taught me that if the government is offering you a large sum of money it's because of the following conditions: Risk of death or injury is very high They're loving you over
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 05:10 |
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holocaust bloopers posted:My experience in the military has taught me that if the government is offering you a large sum of money it's because of the following conditions: I work with an O-4 who just did the early sign-up for the bonus.
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 05:55 |
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As small as an enlisted pension check is; don't make it any smaller. The Redux is a scam. Seen guys take it to get a pool in their backyard, remodel their home (then lose said home in a divorce!) and buy a loving boat. Can't wait to turn mine down here in a few months.
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 06:02 |
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Offutt commander did a Reddit AMA today
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 06:16 |
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"Innovate to execute" is absolutely nonsensical. Military higher-ups are profoundly lovely writers.
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Also despite the shoveling of all this innovation talk down our throats I don't think we're particularly tolerant of new ideas or methods of execution, especially since the 2011 budget thrash. Unless it involves cutting positions without any easing of mission requirements, then we're very innovative! We fixed your persistent, debilitating manning problem by cutting manning requirements for your squadron
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