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I've had multiple snow days since I took this contract job with the army. Didn't even go in one week, it's been nice
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I think most people got out. I was for a while still working on an air force base but now I can't even say that. As it would turn out, contracting for the army is no different from contracting for the air force
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Mar 10, 2022 05:35
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Reumetointerviews is what it was, but I think the goon who ran it sold and now it's run by someone else. I've used it but it wasn't a super quick process
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May 13, 2022 22:33
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Hope my buddy made it, he got hosed out of a special assignment to Colorado not too long ago so we'll see if the air force screws him again
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Jul 12, 2022 21:58
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Sacrist65 posted:
It could I guess. There was some content posted in the forums a while back from some alternate account of someone who got banned, but I grabbed a lot of it and slapped together a third edition. I'm in no position to get another print going right now since I'm in the middle of moving. A few months down the road I could probably get one going
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Aug 9, 2022 13:10
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Enjoy the freedom from work, and the freedom from alcohol.
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Oct 31, 2022 05:32
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Last November would have put me with 7 years left. If I had a different job, I might have stuck it out. If I didn't have to rate on people, I might have stuck it out. If I got to choose where I lived, I might have stuck it out. I really couldn't see myself doing any more time at all and still feel the same
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Jan 29, 2023 05:35
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I did my exact same job as a contractor and I got treated better when I was AD. Not to say I would go back but the civilian life can be a dickpunch sometimes
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Feb 3, 2023 03:45
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It's worth noting that the air force isn't the only branch that flies jets. The navy also has tons of jets, and my community college buddy flies F18s for the marines. He may have better odds trying this in another branch
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Feb 14, 2023 04:39
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One of my coworkers is also ex AF and he told me his recruiter had told him there were no four year contracts, only six (we were PMEL). Another guy in my flight had said his recruiter had told him that enlisting with a degree was the fastest way to be an officer. The TI told him his recruiter was a liar. I've never heard of any backlash for selling kids on lies like that, I imagine it's the same for every branch
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Feb 19, 2023 04:18
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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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Apr 17, 2023 00:34
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Jimmy Smuts posted:How did you donate it? I got a bunch of old gear I can't use anymore that's just eating up space. I just kinda shipped it all to the address posted at the bottom of this page and hoped it would go to the right place. They have an Amazon wishlist set up and everything ordered off that goes to that address and I figured my stuff would just get lumped in. They didn't send it back so either it got thrown away or shipped off to someone who needs it more than me. I had never used my stuff either, I think my APECS pants were still in the plastic wrap.
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Apr 20, 2023 01:02
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Itchy_Grundle posted:Is that address still current/legit? Looks like it, it's a Ukrainian restaurant in New York, I don't think they've gone anywhere
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May 2, 2023 03:38
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Two guys I was in tech school with are on the list, both deserving so that’s good to see. Only 14 years in too.
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May 25, 2023 06:01
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I'm blown away at the BAH rate in Mountain Home, it's higher than Fort Collins and Minneapolis. That's great if you live in Idaho but seems to suck elsewhere. I should tell my buddy at FE Warren to stop loving around and make E6 this year, dude's missing out on over $400 a month in BAH just for that
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Jun 13, 2023 02:55
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The whole having no bills outside maybe a phone and internet thing was nice. The pay wasn't great but you could save as much as you wanted.
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Jun 15, 2023 14:20
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It’s something else every few years. Was it 2014 they almost couldn’t pay everyone and furloughed the government side? Surely they’ll be better prepared in the future
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Jul 15, 2023 02:41
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Adventure isn't a given, you could be stuck at some crappy base for a few years before you go anywhere cool. You may never go anywhere cool but that's probably more of an enlisted thing than an officer thing. As far as benefits go what exactly are you looking for? Unless you do a full 20 or get disability there's no payout at the end and I don't think you'd qualify for the GI bill either. Or do you just want the free military funeral?
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Jul 29, 2023 03:51
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No you're right, I didn't read into a quick description deep enough. So yeah, full GI bill after 3 years of service
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Jul 29, 2023 04:14
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lol if you're still in? Pretty sure I've been out long enough that anyone I knew either promoted to E5 already or got out
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Aug 9, 2023 00:10
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I can tell you about Biloxi, only three hours of driving away. Great place for gambling if you’re into that. Doing a quick google map search in Montgomery my food choices would be D’Road Cafe which seems to be Venezuelan and Island Delight at Dexter which looks to be Jamaican. Maybe give Dreamland BBQ a shot
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Jan 2, 2024 19:50
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Biloxi in the summer is also not fun. As I would learn later, there were places like Qatar that were even less fun in the summer. Did get to eat some cow brain in Doha, couldn't tell you where we were though
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Jan 4, 2024 03:20
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I tried an edible a few weeks ago and I just wasn't a fan. All this hype about how great weed is and it just isn't for me.
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Jan 11, 2024 03:21
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I didn't feel paranoid, I felt more like my mind was trying to make sense of things using old memories. The same thing happened when I smoked spice in tech school. In this instance I was watching Howl's Moving Castle with the girlfriend and all I could think was how weird this Disney movie was or where was Jake and Finn cause this was clearly an episode of Adventure Time.
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Jan 12, 2024 04:52
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Of course it’s better than booze, that’s just poison.
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Jan 19, 2024 03:47
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PMEL could be its own squadron, might as well be with how they’re treated. My old squadron was dissolved and they got moved into munitions for reasons. Other bases they were still CMS and depots were LRS. We never fit in anywhere. Although maybe they should have kept more active duty labs around too cause lol at the idea of staffing the contract/civil service labs with former active duty
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If I had never left I’d still have over five years left. Feels like a lifetime ago
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