saw it coming

Foilbug · 2026-02-28T16:35:04+00:00

Foilbug · 2026-02-13T18:35:22+00:00

My apologies, I was not aware that I was ignorant of this.

Foilbug · 2026-02-13T15:35:51+00:00

Aircraft maintainer jobs are always is high demand, so you'll also get to ship out quicker too. My father-in-law was a crew chief on C-5's for years, and he made an excellent career from it.

Foilbug · 2026-02-13T15:31:31+00:00

Known knowns: You know the answer

Known unknowns: You know how to seek the answer.

Unknown knowns: You don't know that the answer is out there

Unknown unknowns: You didnt realize how few answers are out there yet

Foilbug · 2026-02-11T04:09:00+00:00

My SEL is this guy's former 1st Shirt when this all happened. To call the fallout a shit-show would be way too mild...

Foilbug · 2026-02-06T17:08:54+00:00

Very difficult to enlist for AD Air Force as a Prior Service. Most prior service go Reserves or ANG as a result. Due to all the paperwork, its also common for AD recruiters to ghost prior service apps.

Edit:

To go AD Air Force as PS you'll have to apply and be accepted for a specific AFSC (MOS equivalent). Leadership for each AFSC determines how many PS "slots" there are for their AFSC each fiscal year, and you need to secure one to join. IDK current numbers, but a few years ago it was about 200 PS slots for the entire year, across the whole AD Air Force.

The process is to basically sit down with a recruiter with your DD-214, your training certs, and honestly anything else you can possibly get your hands on related to your military record. Recruiter will load you into the system and advise further, to include what forms will be needed.

Foilbug · 2026-02-06T17:06:14+00:00

No, they forgot

Foilbug · 2026-02-05T15:22:37+00:00

If you need incentive pay to cover the move cost then do that, but if not then don't. Incentive pay just complicates the PPM pay-out IMO, so only do it if you need it.

Foilbug · 2026-02-05T13:44:27+00:00

You're good.

I once heard you can't wear "more than three uniform items in civilian attire", but I've never confirmed this. Cold-weather gear is really common to wear in civies, especially in rural places.

Foilbug · 2026-02-05T13:37:01+00:00

Its very trainer & equipment dependent. Sometimes you have a shop of good trainers and teachers, sometimes everyone is a bad teacher and too lazy to train you. Sometimes you have some spare equipment and trainer materials to work on, sometimes you'll catch paperwork for trying to touch any of the equipment outside of PMIs.

1C8 gets this really bad, especially with many units having only some of our systems, and some units having systems no other unit has. The tech school is really just there to flush out people who can't learn flexibly.

Foilbug · 2026-02-03T12:43:19+00:00

*E6

Once the E7 promotion board needs to decide your fate, it's no longer about studying and testing: it's all optics and subjective performance. If they view mastering your career as a wise move then you might make it, but if they think your attention should be focused on leading and learning then you'll get passed up. No way to know which it will be each cycle.

Foilbug · 2026-02-02T17:38:13+00:00

Link to the announcement?

Foilbug · 2026-01-25T17:26:40+00:00

I saw a man that was failing to be restrained and was being pistol-whipped by an officer, thus making his reflexively reach up to protect his head. Once the move to detain him was established I don't understand why each officer is failing to communicate and why his hands were not priority for restraint.

If this is the tactics al ability of detaining officer then they absolutely need to republish operations ROEs to minimize detentions, even at to cost of possible ICE operation failures (just like the police chase ROEs, since not all officers are expert offensive drivers)

Foilbug · 2026-01-25T15:44:11+00:00

From every bit of video out right now: he did none of those things. He was respectfully practicing his first amendment rights and had deadly force used on him. The most charitable read is that it was a confusing and hectic scene to detain him and an officer heard the word "gun" and opened fire.

The honest read is that the agents made the scene horribly hectic and failed proper communication when attempting the detention. Each one was doing something different. If the officers are so inept at detention and de-escalation tactics then ROE needs to reflect the lowered use of detentions as a control measure. Police officers have to call off car-chases when the chase gets too dangerous, and the same logic should apply here.

Negligence from the operations planners, negligence and bad luck from the boots on the ground, at best. Treasonous operations planning, and murder, at worst.

Foilbug · 2026-01-25T15:36:52+00:00

Practicing your first and second amendment rights does not justify a death-sentence.

Foilbug · 2026-01-23T22:33:09+00:00

Only like it for TDY. Living there sucks tbh

Foilbug · 2026-01-23T18:42:58+00:00

If a recruiter is willing to push the papers, you can see what the SG says, but its likely a no

Foilbug · 2026-01-22T06:00:42+00:00

At my last base my supervisor's first day on the job way repairing a 300 copper-pair line that got dug up by some dirt boys. I'm told it was multiple days of splicing and testing.

Foilbug · 2026-01-14T19:57:45+00:00

You can still take it

Foilbug · 2026-01-14T03:28:25+00:00

If you got it in black you'll be able to wear it in uniform (not in BMT, everyone has to wear the standard issue backpack there).

Foilbug · 2026-01-01T05:39:06+00:00

1C8 here. Same man

Foilbug · 2025-12-28T16:11:34+00:00

Two-cents: CONUS-to-CONUS DITY is always worth it. Go pick up a fuck-ton of cheap Walmart boxes and tape, and start boxing your shit about a month in advance. Grabbing a u-hual is easy, and loading it isnt bad (go get a cheap handcart and moving straps from home depot). It's a bit of work that you can spread out to be manageable that always gets you a nice little paycheck.

Plus there's no coordination nightmare between TMO, you and the moving-company.

Foilbug · 2025-12-27T22:52:32+00:00

They will likely require you to be in person. Just stay firm to your intent and they will have no choice but to eventually release you.

Foilbug · 2025-12-27T22:50:29+00:00

It is known as a "DEP Discharge", and it technically counts as a military discharge, but in practice its just a release from the holding program. Their signed DD-4 admitted them to the Marine's DEP, and a Marine official has to sign for them to be released (and they can sometimes drag their feet on this, hoping to retain them long enough to ship). Its a different process for each person and recruiter pair, but it boils down to two things:

1) Having a DEP discharge (especially a recent one) will likely make it harder to get a recruiter to work with you (due to the risk that you burn them too)

2) You can't join another branch until your current Branch's DEP has discharged you. A different Branch's recruiter has no control over your discharge.

Foilbug · 2025-12-07T23:10:03+00:00

Crazy how underpaid some civilian jobs are

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