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Depends on your employer. If you're paying for it all yourself, it'll be higher. If you have a family, it'll be much higher.
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So healthcare is legit the #1 benefit to staying in because it's literally unaffordable.
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Probably. But then there's military doctors and the VA, which kind of drag down the value of the healthcare you're getting. I'll say this: the one time I had to go off-base for treatment, the system worked. The base clinic couldn't do poo poo so I got a ride to the ER. Had an MRI or CAT scan or something (I didn't really care) got some pain shots, had a minor surgery and spent the night. A couple of follow up appts in the following weeks. I never saw a bill, got any kind of flak or anything. It's probably the only time I ever saw the bureaucracy work as advertised. Edit: I pay ~170 or so for medical and dental per month to cover my son and I. I can't recall how much the employer pays, but it's a lot more than my share. Godholio fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Jan 20, 2017 |
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Jan 20, 2017 01:27
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But at least your 'not' paying for it. Jeez $900 a month for health insurance lol gently caress this country
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Jan 20, 2017 01:28
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I'm at just under 600 a month for two kids and me.
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They're not kidding when they tell you you will need a ~$65k a year job as soon as you get out to not feel it.
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bear in mind median wage in the US is $27-28k and household is $51k
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Yea so it's rough out there and my quality of life is going to take a nose dive when I'm finally kicked out/allowed to retire.
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Larry Parrish posted:Every time I get reminded of all the cool officers I've worked for and with, Godholio posts and reminds me how ABMs really are
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Jan 20, 2017 02:09
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:laughs in contractor:
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lol https://www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/comments/2kslvh/air_battle_managers_reputationperception/
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whatspeakyou posted:Is this thing still a briefing where "we're not trying to convince you to stay in, but here's a giant packet of bullshit that makes civilian life look like a giant mistake" occurs? I don't really recall the one I had to sit through but I vaguely remember it including this. To be fair, civilian life is a giant mistake. Almost as big a mistake as military life.
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Ceiling fan posted:To be fair, civilian life is a giant mistake. Almost as big a mistake as military life. Quoted for truth
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Deborah Lee James is gone, so we can all say goodbye to one of America's worst SecAFs. Under her tenure the Air Force eagerly slashed personnel, immediately realized it should not have slashed personnel and spent the next few years furiously doing nothing to stop the manpower crisis all while spending all its political capital on establishing a new low point of trust between Congress and the Air Force. I look forward to seeing whether she can do more damage to American military readiness on the board of whichever defense contractor she's undoubtedly going to immediately go work for.
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Jan 20, 2017 07:38
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But we got full sleeve tats under her watch!
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I remember when Gen Petraeus, still AD, made a joke about the Air Force... google says back in 2009:quote:Petraeus, speaking to an annual Marine Corps Association Foundation dinner on July 30, praised the leathernecks while taking tongue-in-cheek shots at both the Army and the Air Force. "A soldier is trudging through the muck in the midst of a downpour with a 60-pound rucksack on his back," Petraeus began. "'This is tough,' he thinks to himself. Just ahead of him trudges an Army Ranger with an 80-pound pack on his back. 'This is really tough,' he thinks. And ahead of him is a Marine with a 90-pound pack on, and he thinks to himself, 'I love how tough this is,' " Petraeus said to appreciative cheers from his audience. I remember people at work getting all bent out of shape, and actually upset about this. "Maybe he wouldn't be thinking that without air support" "lets see how he does without space" "good luck getting to the fight without us" etc etc I thought his comment was funny and went on living my life. What am I getting at? Learn to laugh at Rek's posts, and stop taking them so seriously. I think they're pretty funny.
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That was inter service ribbing that's as old as the branches are.
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xaarman posted:"lets see how he does without space" That's probably my favorite one. Like some pissant 19 year old A1C at Peterson is the thin blue line between order and chaos around the world. Actually, it'd be some Captain who went to SOS and bought their profession of arms bullshit hook, line, and sinker. If people haven't figured out that the DoD's only real role is to help the DJIA generate solid returns, then idk what to tell them other than maybe drawing stick figures in crayon.
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Boy you sure have it all figured out
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I like to use these opportunities to educate those not fortunate enough to figure these things out on their own.
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Jan 20, 2017 22:54
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Such a platform of privilege doesn't come around every day.
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One of our new Airmen managed to somehow delete the entire medical readiness training spreadsheet for the whole hospital, leaving himself as the sole person on the list with his AFSC plastered next to his full name and all of his overdue training for everyone to see.
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Jan 28, 2017 23:30
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How the hell did he have anything more than read access to that? Other than that, that is hilarious.
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Goddammit the Air Force thread had fallen off the front page and I was hoping it would stay there.
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We're all busy processing what goes on in the CE thread to bitch about the Air Force right now.
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Has anyone seen the AF thread? It would be a mistake to bump it.
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Lite_Sleepr will enjoy this. So I'm about 23 days shy of sewing on MSgt, and have to turn a Chief (gasp) from my Group's (double gasp!) kid out. She's coming in to extend her dependency past 21, but the only documentation she's got is a letter from her college back in November for last semester. Her 21st birthday isn't until May of this year, so I explain that I can get her extended benefits set up 90 days out but I'm gonna need something showing current enrollment, not full-time last semester with "expected to return" in the spring since I have no way of knowing she's still a student, and TRICARE is kinda expensive. Cue the acting MPS sup rolling in and overriding me in front of my guys before I can pull him to the back for a big boy talk. When I straight up tell him this was an answer he wouldn't give to SrA XXX but is giving to CMSgt YYY, he balks and acts indignant. Okay, cool. It's a policy disagreement then, I'm gonna call up to my good buddy Ed at AFPC who runs their DEERS policy program for clarification. He immediately tells me to wait until after the kid has their card before I send a message to find out the answer. Yup, bad sign - that tells me you know it's wrong but you're too petrified of one Chief to follow AFI, especially once you rear end-kissed him and promised a result. I tell him there's no way we'll do it, he says he'll cover the hit, I tell him bullshit because my guys will have to do the work and will be ultimately responsible. After he shuts the gently caress up and listens to the second and third order effects (which would be said Chief's kid being potentially stranded in Europe with no TRICARE or ID until she could unfuck things with her school) he now has to go slinking back to the MSG/CCC he just made mealymouthed promises to and tell him just kidding. So, AFI and doing the right thing over politics and an E-9. What's the over-under on me losing my line number in the next three weeks?
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If all nobles must hang, all Chiefs must be drawn and quartered. It's the classical punishment for treason.
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You did the right thing, but of course you already know that. Better to ruffle feathers than get busted covering for someone who's ineligible. If the kid is actually enrolled in the new semester, she can get the paperwork to substantiate it. Even in the more hosed up units I've seen, there's no way you'd lose your line for that. You made the acting sup look like a total chump, though, so he'll probably hate you. Edit: you can ID the enlisted traitors early by whether or not they spring for mess dress when they make MSgt.
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It took half the day before I received an email that was free of spelling errors. Also someone apparently shook their dick all over a toilet seat in our clinic so our chief of cardiology took a picture on his phone and made us pass it around at our end of day meeting while yelling at us about how we should know how to use the toilet and that we need to treat the women in our clinic better and that if it happens again the male NCOs will be cleaning the toilets. This is not the first time someone has pissed ON the toilet. Also it's a public toilet so it could literally be some old rear end WWII vet pissing on it.
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I make a habit to piss all over the place inside military restrooms. Even as a retiree. Decades now and I guarantee I haven't pissed one drop in the toilet. It's fine. Everything is fine.
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Wild T, in my experience you'll get to pin on, but be sure that you'll get Not Readys as long as that person is in charge. Source : overly vocal TSgt with butthurt leadershit
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Every time the guy from P&S was a dick about scheduling I'd go upstairs and piss all over the toilet closest to his office
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so in the 5 months i have switched ANG units I will probably be picking my 3rd AFSC in that time. Originally went to WA to be 1N4, then interstate transfer to 1N0, now my new unit is telling me that 1B4 is the main driving AFSC of our unit......and theyre offering a slot to me.
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You want a 1N job of some sort.
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1B4 is where it's at. PM me if you have questions.
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WAPS tested today and we had three no-shows. I don't understand it.
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People want out.
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Godholio posted:People want out. Already informed my command that I do not intend to re-enlist in March, partially due to health issues, but otherwise also due to the current state of things.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I make a habit to piss all over the place inside military restrooms. Even as a retiree. Decades now and I guarantee I haven't pissed one drop in the toilet. What about poo
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