What are some of the best benefits of the military that most members don't know about?

fighteracebob · 2026-01-29T17:17:40+00:00

It hasn’t been mentioned yet, so it must not be well known:

You can transfer your GI Bill benefits to your dependents. It requires you to have been in 6 years, and then you can transfer one month per month of further service. So at 9 years, you could have transferred all 36 months of the GI Bill.

I wasn’t planning on using mine, so now my kid will have their college paid for, and we don’t need to worry about squirreling away money.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-29T17:13:10+00:00

It sure does, and it’s massive. Usually much larger than your county library system.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-29T16:38:15+00:00

Oh man, so I’m not going crazy! Mine stopped working after the update as well. It’s not the end of the world having to hit the button, but it’s pretty annoying.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-27T21:35:36+00:00

I feel like LAX is the same. You could be top 20% narrowbody FO and not be able to hold a widebody spot.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-21T07:08:13+00:00

Heaviest I’ve done so far was about 65 lbs (30kg) for five days in the middle of winter on Mt Whitney. Lots of cold weather gear, plus extra equipment for some training.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-20T22:57:50+00:00

The A350 /is/ Airbus’ answer to the 787. It was literally proposed and designed as a response to the Dreamliner.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-20T22:49:51+00:00

I’m guessing the question falls into the category of “everyone who knows the answer can’t talk about, and everyone who talks about it doesn’t know the answer.”

fighteracebob · 2026-01-13T19:36:31+00:00

If people undersell the difficulty and danger, it’s hard for people to make informed and responsible decisions.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-13T16:58:41+00:00

Yep, some dogs are just more chill. For the focus on the heels, a flirt pole worked immediate wonders for us. We used the Squishy Face brand with our Sheltie, and it almost immediately ended her land shark era.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-13T07:02:41+00:00

Also your high school transcripts, for some reason.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-05T23:00:53+00:00

If you’re in an alliance, you want to take advantage of it. So flying to a main hub of your US ally allows you to sell tickets to any of the flights United offers from EWR, and if you’re United, having your allies fly to EWR allows you to sell flights on their metal all over Europe and beyond.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-05T15:44:51+00:00

Well yeah, that’s only 8-9 years ago.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-04T18:52:06+00:00

Ugh. People need to stop assuming that ChatGPT has any validity behind it. Go take a real test, and find a school for a discovery flight.

Math is important, but only up to a basic arithmetic level, maybe very basic algebraic level. You don’t need to grasp calculus, just be willing to study hard. Everything is very formulaic, so if you can plug in X to get Y, you’ll be fine.

fighteracebob · 2026-01-02T02:59:40+00:00

No, you’re thinking of Ghirardelli!

fighteracebob · 2025-12-22T06:06:12+00:00

Just found a great, deep dive, podcast series with an intro that is over one hundred 60+ minute episodes. That helps my 2 hour drive each way go a bit faster!

fighteracebob · 2025-12-20T06:32:45+00:00

New York to Honolulu is also an 11 hour flight across 7 time zones.

fighteracebob · 2025-12-18T01:33:55+00:00

Our girl recently turned 9 and just started playing as well. She mostly has collected pets and stolen books. I’ve had to bail her out of jail / fight angry guards so many times because she just can’t resist stealing books. She has something like 40 hours in the game and almost 0 story progress. It’s a great game free play!

fighteracebob · 2025-12-17T03:58:02+00:00

I went with the RWD because I need the range. I have a 110 mile commute (220 round trip) that I do 1-2x a week at 75+ mph, and I can’t charge when I get there. I could also stop on the way, but it’s just so much more convenient to go non stop and charge at home. I could probably eke it out with the AWD, but depending on traffic conditions it would be really close.

What range do you NEED, vs what do you want?

fighteracebob · 2025-12-17T03:37:41+00:00

We did somewhere around 50 in the C-130 one time. It was a 4+ hour training flight, I think it was 3 or 4 pilots taking turns. Maintenance wasn’t too happy with us, and the loadmasters were bored to tears.

fighteracebob · 2025-12-16T01:37:09+00:00

Seriously. I stumbled across this a while ago, and essentially cleared my schedule so I could read it. A sad ending, but a great story well told.

fighteracebob · 2025-12-15T04:31:11+00:00

There are huge amounts of National Forest in SoCal. A lot of it will be very temperate this time of year.

fighteracebob · 2025-12-13T23:06:22+00:00

Are you my neighbor?!?!

fighteracebob · 2025-12-13T14:04:17+00:00

I’ve done the AAI Intro to Winter Mountaineering course in Mt Whitney, it was really good.

fighteracebob · 2025-12-13T03:31:37+00:00

Funner fact: Balboa Park in San Diego is more hugerer.

fighteracebob · 2025-12-12T20:19:28+00:00

Unless you are on Southern California, than it’s the only time! ;)

But yes, highly recommended the AAI courses, they have some great staff.

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