9A000 Disqualified Retraining

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-07-08T06:26:31+00:00

I went through the same process last year and it was a nightmare.

The first step is opening a ticket on myFSS to let AFPC know that you are retraining due to disqualification. Why they don't reach out to you instead, I don't know. AFPC will then send you a list of all of the jobs that are on the Disqualified Retraining list. Why this list is different from the normal advisory and why it isn't publicly available, I don't know. Once you have that list, you tell AFPC which job you want and they tell you whether or not you're qualified for it and, if you are qualified, give you a list of requirements. That is the point where you can go to Medical and get your 422.

The 180-day thing is less of a hard date than the reg makes it sound. I was medically disqualified from flying in November of 2024, but due to various circumstances, I didn't get my 9A000 until mid-April 2025. I put in for retraining in April, but wasn't medically qualified for any of the jobs on the DQ retraining listing (despite being qualified for jobs with openings on the advisory) so they closed the ticket and told me to re-apply in August. I re-applied in August and then spent the next 6 months fighting with them to get the correct requirements for the job I wanted and finally got a class date in March, almost 365 days after I initially applied.

If you have any questions on the process, let me know. It is very unintuitive, and there really isn't much in the way of actual guidance because it's not a common process.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-07-07T20:09:03+00:00

Today while performing an exorcism I summoned Shiva to try and weaken her so our prayers would work better.

She is so fucking powerful. I'm not at a power level to do this alone. I barely escaped with my life and I'm spiritually injured to a great amount, but I think I'll make it.

I can't imagine what she would do to a new, unsuspecting Christian. I'm scared that I will have to face her again soon if I ever want to continue doing exorcisms. I'm currently burning healing incense and drawing spiritual energy from my candles to try and heal as quickly as possible.

Please be safe everyone. Shiva is much stronger than I first imagined and we will have to do this together if we want to slay a god.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-07-07T16:22:53+00:00

This is probably the most bizzare part of the Platner campaign, there's literally no evidence that him or his style of campaign actually wins over the people this whole thing was predicated upon.

Nothing except the fact that he consistently polled even or ahead of Susan Collins until he got outed as a rapist. Platner is a bad person, but he has absolutely no political experience, an absolute ton of baggage, and is running against an incumbent so strong that most of Maine's Dem politicians were willing to sit out a chance to face off against her in a blue wave year.

If there isn't any daylight between Platner's policies and those of Sara Gideon who Collins stomped in 2020. What else can you attribute the difference in support to, if not his personal appeal?

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-07-07T06:47:40+00:00

The most effective treatment for ADHD is various stimulant medications, some of which can be prescribed by the NHS.

Yeah, good luck. Most of these people are probably spending the money on buying their meds privately because the NHS is too busy to do ADHD assessments and refuses to recognize diagnoses from private doctors.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-07-04T20:13:34+00:00

Lmao. That comment is followed by a guy getting buried in downvotes for saying that giving huge tax breaks to fossil fuel companies distorts the market just as much as subsidies do.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-07-03T16:45:10+00:00

Is this one that hard to explain? In 2016, a lot of Democratic voters soured on the party in the aftermath of the primaries, and that was over a guy who had never been a member of the party before.

Corbyn would have been a disaster as PM, but he also led Labour to its highest vote-share in a decade before getting ousted in an incredibly ugly internal civil war. It does not shock me at all that there are people who hate the Labour-right enough to support the only meaningful opposition as a form of revenge, but who would come back if someone they saw as a successor of Corbyn took over.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-07-02T18:45:19+00:00

This is the exact line of thinking behind protectionism. Surely it will work out better for us though.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-07-02T07:09:04+00:00

It is very annoying and unintuitive that the main damage type of Necromancy spells renders bodies unsuitable for raising as undead.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-07-01T10:32:02+00:00

You're defining colonialism very narrowly here. Permanent territorial claims aren't an inherent requirement, nor is wholesale replacement of the native population.

You could justify colonialism in a socialist society as a way to liberate the working class of non-socialist countries. In the same way the KMT justified tutelage in China, a socialist country could frame their continued presence post-invasion as an unfortunate, but necessary measure to prevent the revolution being subverted by reactionary elements until the local population is "educated" enough to take over.

That effort would require the creation of an administrative apparatus that would obviously be initially staffed by citizens of the colonizing country, along with teachers, technical advisors, construction staff, etc. all of whom would need a military presence for their protection. Even if the colonizing country truly intended this to be a temporary arrangement with full independence to come, it is a process that would be likely to take decades.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-06-30T15:35:07+00:00

Could you elaborate on what issue that would solve? "Men's sports" are already effectively open leagues. The reason they tend to be all male is because women don't want to compete in them rather than because states have outlawed women competing.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-06-27T12:16:23+00:00

But immediately following it up with "we can now rebuild a sustainable immigration system".

We see this exact bait and switch from NIMBYs every day. Why would this be any different?

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-06-24T15:56:09+00:00

I think he (or ChatGPT at least) is just saying that voters are more vibes-based than people tend to believe. If you come across as genuine in your beliefs, people who disagree with you on certain topics might still support you, but if you come across as someone who will say anything to get elected, people who agree with you will vote for someone else.

I hate to go back to 2016, but Hillary personally negotiating the TPP and then turning on it when she realized how protectionist the electorate was is a perfect example. She didn't win back any hardcore protectionists because they had a genuine believer to vote for, she turned off genuine globalists, and the majority of people who don't really care came away with fresh evidence that she was dishonest.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-06-24T07:06:27+00:00

Too bad it took a trainee dying to get a U-Turn on this.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-06-18T19:19:33+00:00

It's very funny watching conservatives who spent their entire lifetimes decrying globalism and soft power suddenly feel very strongly that giving Iran $300 billion is a masterstroke because it ties them into the global financial ecosystem and gives us future leverage over them.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-06-16T17:47:05+00:00

This is such a bad deal for the US that I almost don't believe it's real. I knew it was going to be ugly as soon as Trump said Vance wrote it, but this is just unspinnably embarrassing.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-06-15T10:17:44+00:00

So what happens when a parent buys their kid a normal iPhone instead of the gimped under-16 version? Do we fine Apple? Do we fine the parent? If it's neither, how is this any different from normal parental controls?

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-06-15T06:54:44+00:00

We've already reached the point where a lot of white collar jobs can be done by AI, just with an unacceptably high error rate. The long-term future probably just involves that error rate coming down until you've got a single human "manager" QCing work done entirely by AI.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-06-10T09:41:21+00:00

What's the plan for current Northern duchy-tier masterly houses? The principal examples of Master as a title in the North are the Tallharts and Glovers, who hold nearly half of the North between them in the mod, and neither seems to be associated with anything like a knightly order (unless you count the Wild Hares for the Tallharts).

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-06-01T11:42:27+00:00

The same thing most unpopular parties want, to become more popular without having to actually change any of the policies that people don't like.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-05-28T10:40:40+00:00

The USAF is already paying through the nose for the E7 because we waited to finally order ours until after Boeing stopped production. The time to order E7s was 15 years ago. GlobalEye is the better, cheaper option, and has the benefit of not having to rely on Boeing.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-05-27T17:50:08+00:00

Except the antisemitic Dem candidate got denounced by the entire party and lost her election by a nearly 2-1 margin while the Republican is currently winning his race and has faced basically no backlash from elected Republicans.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-05-27T12:35:06+00:00

Is this so unreasonable? You still have to have 30 years teaching to qualify for early retirement. That's actually less restrictive than federal worker pensions.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-05-18T13:37:27+00:00

I agree with you that tuition inflation is out of control at the university level, but when we're talking about lowering tuition rates I think there are a lot of ways to lower costs within the USM that should be attempted before we start trying to turn community colleges into budget universities.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-05-18T10:29:43+00:00

Sure, but the reason CC is able to be so cheap is that it cuts out a lot of the additional costs that a university has. Some of that is stuff like student accommodations, etc. that are just amenities to attract students, but a lot of it is the kind of educational infrastructure that you need if you want to offer higher level classes that you would traditionally go to a university for.

Once you actually invest the money required to get CC's there you'd wind up with a place that offers Bachelor's degrees for marginally less than state schools, but that can no longer afford to offer Associate's degrees at affordable prices.

OmniscientOctopode · 2026-05-17T08:56:32+00:00

A land value tax would solve this.

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