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Arc Light posted:Stepped out to lunch to find four inches of snow atop my car in the two hours since I last cleared it.
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I'm still in, it'd be 2020 season 3 as gently caress if I end up fighting in WW3
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gently caress PCSing, especially to/from overseas. Some people think it's romantic/fun/a-life-experience/whatever, but really it's a loving nightmare, and half your poo poo always gets broke, including stuff that can't be replaced due to sentimental value. I'm dealing with this poo poo right now and I practically have to be wasted to deal with it all. I've been back in the US for 6 months & haven't received my HHG poo poo yet; and my ex just received a lot of her HHG poo poo broken, and guess who has to file the claim due to bureaucracy. As for the slow speed of this thread, I think everyone just migrated to the USAF subreddit now, especially since Slippery went MIA. He seemed to be the glue that held the SA USAF thread together.
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The USAF subreddit can be good, if you filter out all the goddamn memes which plague it. I come to it for answers way too much , but it works.
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I wonder if he's still as ultra-perky and always-happy as he used to be. real edit: wtf am I saying, anyone in past 10-15 years is jaded as gently caress, i should know
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1514233575549411328?s=20&t=pXYuV9JaH4Q9jUtEXImZoQ Good luck relying on EFMP to get you the gently caress out of a bad situation though if you really need it. That process is ssllooww. Going through the EFMP process ultimately screwed me out of $2K because it couldn't address a dependent emergency fast enough, so I have a bitter feeling about it. Jimmy Smuts fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Apr 17, 2022 |
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I hear the BAH is too low for those areas, not sure how true that is.
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The cheat code is to do married mil-to-mil, so you get double BAH. This apparently results in a hugeass house and plenty of $$$ left over, and folks doing this tend to like to flaunt it via USAF-approved parties hosted at their house, but I digress. Meanwhile, us divorced folks at the same rank are barely scraping by. Honestly, is it fair that mil-to-mil folks make so much more money than mil folks married to civilians?
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Apr 29, 2022 04:43
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I'm halfassing my own epr because of the massive change in format that's coming. And just lol at how the USAF will handle these new EPRs
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I remember December 2013, that was fun. What was it, a day or two before Christmas the USAF announced they were giving 25,000 of us the boot. Merry Christmas
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Godholio posted:The 2011 version was about 3 weeks before Christmas. Jimmy Smuts fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Jul 14, 2022 |
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Sacrist65 posted:
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It's ugly as hell, but at least switching to modern engines has a lot of advantages
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Congrats at passing the finish line! It seems to get more difficult the closer you get to it.
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What made years 14-18 the toughest?
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Oh, yeah that sounds rough. Congrats!
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I'm 2.5 years away from retirement and honestly, retiring and getting out makes me nervous because I let myself become institutionalized. Turning into a contractor is going to be one hell of a life lesson for me.
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You know what owns? Civvies as the Uniform of the Day. My previous unit was like that, and I can't wait for that again as a civilian
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djfooboo posted:before coming back AD.
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djfooboo posted:The good days still outweigh the bad days
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I accept the clock is ticking though…
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djfooboo posted:18yr TIS O-3E Nurse. My nurse job on the outside was killing me. This one the AF gave me has bankers hrs most days.
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I really hope narrative EPRs make writing EPRs easier...but from what I've seen so far with the new narrative awards, the same petty nitpicking by SNCOs is still going to occur. Things such as using ampersands rather than the approved "and", & focus on pointless metrics in a job field in which everyone in it knows that metrics don't mean poo poo about a person's character. SSgt Dumbass who clicks a button so that a system can spam out thousands of automated reports & then goes back to BSing all shift, on paper looks better than SSgt Genius, who has special advanced training & slaved away for weeks or months on a single thing that is far more involved.
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Feb 10, 2023 23:56
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The Philippines still had a special thingy with the US government as of 2005 when it comes to entering the US military. (WARNING: Lame Basic Training story) My TI had to figure out how to track Filipino dollars when a Filipino dude was in our flight & had Filipino cash on him, and we all had to write out every single serial # of the cash that we had on hand & give it to the TI., so we could reclaim it after basic training
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Feb 15, 2023 05:30
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Is it true that Security Forces won't accept folks who go open general? I figured that's where they got 90% of their folks from. That, and tech school washouts.
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The enlisted force sure is sensitive about the whole beard thing
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xaarman posted:Not in the slightest. QoL and pay are superior in every way.
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Shalhavet posted:Lol my new ets date is 3888.
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That button must be so tempting at times. Get tasked to do a poo poo ton of EPRs and awards all at once, due yesterday? drat it would take some strength to not click it, I would be too weak.
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Do socks breed? I still have an insane amount of black BDU socks, and this is after I threw out a lot of them in 2014. I guess I got my money's worth though, I still wear 'em to work.
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Hotel Kpro posted:Up until a few months ago I still had some air force issued cold weather gear but I donated it to Ukraine. Pretty sure that was the last stuff I had
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lite_sleepr posted:Probably best to check the AF reddit (lol) page. I do wish this thread wasn't hanging to dear life anymore, as getting a goon's view on stuff was useful. It seems once Slippery left, the USAF thread went very inactive.
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pkells posted:Hell, we’ve got to be getting close to having goons who asked questions about joining in the original A/T thread getting ready to retire, right? I think I was asking questions about it when GiP was first created, and I’m closing in on 15 years already. edit: actually, the Coast Guard looks even more chill than the USAF, based on the few Coasties I've worked with Jimmy Smuts fucked around with this message at 22:18 on May 20, 2023 |
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RIP your mental health, E-7 sucks if you're in admin-heavy unit & are terrible at admin stuff like me, and I'm not even an NCOIC or anything. Just LOL if I end up being Flight Chief, which I likely will before I can retire to dodge that bullet 
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Due to the high cost of housing everywhere, a lot of the lower enlisted are having to roomie it up a lot or live in an RV or whatever just to survive. I'm E-7 and even my BAH level doesn't fully cover my rent, it's not like the 2000s when I could easily find a decent apartment & still pocket a lot of BAH as a single SrA.
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Arc Light posted:Yeah, as an E-7 I was paying out of pocket for a pretty mediocre rental at my last assignment. While at that same assignment, I got a job offer for a contractor job that started at $150K and great benefits, with a boost to 160 after the first year, regular raises, and COLA adjustments, to do essentially the same work I'd been doing in uniform but none of the admin nonsense. And the freedom to wear normal clothes to work. Would have been an absolutely massive boost to my paycheck compared against mil pay. .
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I don’t even know what the gently caress I spent my pay back then on. Like, I wasn’t a drinker, didn’t smoke, rarely left base, and I couldn’t tell you where one drat red cent of my E-1 money went. I didn’t have a cellphone as they weren’t cheap and ubiquitous yet, so I’m at a loving loss.
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Ugh, between this and my toxic flight leadership, I'm straight up until I hit 20 in 2 years....which might end up being 21 due to voluntary PCS due to said poo poo leadership.
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I don't think I'd recommend the Space Force over the Air Force. After dealing with the Space Force directly and indirectly in the two units I've been in since it was created (in my prior unit as Senior Enlisted Leader), that service has proven to be very chaotic, probably because it's an answer in need of a question. One trend I've seen is that they'll make a decision about staffing, then switch their mind a few months later, without giving a drat about how it'll affect the USAF and the other services. I'm kind of glad that my current org no longer has USSF folks, as dealing with their leadership in general is like dealing with a bipolar person.
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And although the Space Force inherited slots at great locations, it also inherited some of the more infamously lovely isolated places too. One of them wasn't open to my job field until the Space Force got a hold of it; that made me nope out of crossing over after being in a similar assignment.
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The Cyber Force would be so autistic that it would make Intel folks from the other services look like total jocks in comparison.
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