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Your regular and Roth TSP will be two separate accounts. You can roll the regular TSP to a Roth IRA but will have to pay all of the previously deferred taxes at once for this tax year, and 7 years on you would likely be at a higher rate. I rolled my TSP to a regular IRA, and at my new job opted...

Management for a company working on commercial space flight.

Wasn't trying to talk to airline gigs, though I imagine you guys can be reached in the cockpit anytime the company wants to. But out of the plane, sure, there probably isn't much of a need (and I'm sure that's a perk to some). For the corporate world, once you reach a certain level (which...

To address the "attached at the hip to the company idea," I think just about any job with decent pay is going to have you tied to a smart phone these days.

I understand R1's frustration, but... Industry is every bit as much to blame as govt for the issues. Over-promise/underbid to secure the contract because we can always go back for more? Sign us up! Pay us to manage ourselves so the govt can reduce headcount? Sign us up for more $ and less...

It is way past optimistic. But sequestration will at least put an end to the business as usual of doing more with less. Is it enough to inspire constructive change? Probably not, but nothing else seems likely to do it.

It isn't about cutting particular projects, it's about systemic reform to the process. But we need a severe enough impetus to force a change because too many people benefit from the current system. Abject failure in multiple projects might cause enough pain to enough important entities to give...

But if we were forced to have less maybe we could get over some of the institutional hurdles (lobbyists and congress, for instance) that keep reform from being attractive or even possible.

Honestly, sequestration might be a good thing in the long run. Nothing else seems to be getting through to our political parties, so maybe shared misery can get them to see some reason. Not going to be any fun around the spaces this year, but could make subsequent years easier. Better to have...

I always let the junior HAC sign for the aircraft if qualed after my instructor tour (I had plenty of HAC hours). But the older I got the worse I was at pretending to be the copilot. I was honest with guys up-front about it, at least.

Honestly, I think the "OOD/CDO underway matters" thing was developed as a way to sell the billets after the fact to people as being good for them, as opposed to the real reason for the billets which is that somebody needs to fill them and the helo and MPRA communities have the bodies to do it.

I've always had the impression that in larger summary groups (like helos and MPRA) which have less transparent detailing and career managing (like helos and MPRA), the unhappiest officers are the ones still striving for the breakout who don't realize they aren't going to get it. Yes, their...

For Pickle - the Navy won't get any more or less screwed up while you take care of the home front. Do the right thing there - I'm glad your command recognized that that is where your responsibility is. (Pickle owned his role so what I'm about to write isn't about him, but his honesty opened up...

The site is only for awards post-9/11. I didn't count, but there probably aren't 50 total entries yet. If you expand this to earlier dates or lesser awards it is going to grow in cost. If you tie it into the services' different personnel systems the cost increase is going to be logarithmic.

You are right that deciding to build it is cheap. We may even have kept those costs to the low 6 figures. Actually implementing it IAW with all applicable regulations (let alone integrating it with any other previously created software architectures) will be stupidly expensive and work poorly to...

"Rectum? Damn near killed 'im..." That is all.

All of which suck. /CSB from my boat tour It isn't YOUR money; if you don't want to buy flight deck boots for my guys I can't make you, but I can make your department man every working party until you do... And if you don't like that then maybe you could find one jerkass from the supply dept...

Honestly, I spent my last 7 years in a Joint environment; we don't work any smarter than the the other services, we are just more comfortable with our own brand of asshattery.

I flew the last flight of the first Navy one to get to 17.5k. It had already been extended a few times by Cherry Point, but we couldn't get them to commit any further and it went into a corner and was eventually trucked off to the desert. Kind of cool.

We used to do EP sim hops for the Canucks when I was a Phrog RAG instructor. I was always impressed by their optimism with their Synch Shaft Failure EP (the shaft running down the center tunnel that turned the front XMSN from the aft XMSN and engines and kept the front bits from bumping into the...

Second best school I ever had - and Bayonet/Black Horse with the 1330ish quitting time couldn't be beat.

/Stan I learned something today. /Stan

"Command" an "audio-visual squadron". Just wanted to be sure I read that right. I wonder how you translate that to your resume?

Build a thousand bridges and you will be an engineer. Shove one crayon up a lion's ass and you're just another threadjacker...

HAL and KBay have covered most of this, but I will try to lay it out as I see it. Yes there are great guys who follow the golden path, get rewarded appropriately, and remain great guys. There are also great guys who get screwed along the way. And while in my experience the proportions aren't as...

You may already have tried this, but you can save it as a .pdf directly in excel and post it (but if there is a column with names I'd delete that). You also might have to play around with the column width. I've just gone through the job hunting process and can probably answer questions about...

Do that first, then step off the tracks and do your own thing.

He just said you CAN do it. It's not stupid 'till he says you'll live through it.

If you are going to lose leave because the OPSO keeps rejecting your requests do the following: (1) If it he is not your DH, have your DH fix the issue. If your DH won't or can't*, go to the OPSO (after telling AOPS and your DH you are doing so) directly. If he won't work anything out with...

The Chief should be ready with suggestions (and factual support that is matched by his eval submissions), but the DIVO should be involved enough to already know who deserves what, and the DIVO should be involved in the awards write-up and the awards board process. That is not only how the DIVO...

It wasn't anything personal - I just wouldn't want non-Cat I Sierra guys thinking that is a valid excuse for being all over he place.

I saw this late, but... No. The 60S sims are difficult to auto well, since they aren't modeled correctly (at least the non-motion ones) but they land just fine.

No doubt, but I thought the argument was teaching basic helo aero because there is no way there weren't warning signs as they passed through translational lift prior to them bouncing of the lake. Which doesn't change the fact that RLSO's suggestion would have worked also.

Lake Tahoe guys might have benefitted. Just saying...

It's been around forever in a bunch of different NFMs and MDGs. I think the fear is that even if they have the DT to support the real numbers (and the manufacturers do even if we don't), they still don't want somebody to think that being at 20 kts/1200 fpm on short final is ok.

Just a couple random things to add: - the 40 kts/800 fpm is just a gouge number, and some aircraft can find VRS easier than others (it is nearly impossible to induce in a 60). Having said that, a low airspeed/high rate of descent situation can easily cause you to run out of power the old...

HA HA HA! I get it - It's funny because he's a tool. In all seriousness, this would make for a good poll question: is one douchenozzle getting what he deserves worth an entire base worth of people you've never met getting screwed?

Nothing very interesting. Boat turned when it shouldn't have, bird wasn't ready for it, over it went. The guy you see running out trying to hold it up is the det OIC having a bit of a panic. He got over it.

What a difference in the videos - you can see the puff of smoke when the shaft decides that it doesn't want to play anymore.

(A) Don't know how to break it to you, but you are LAMPS. (B) What Jim said. (C) There's always this video: at least that crew got Air Medals instead of FNAEBs.

Come on, now, that cat has as many tactical missions under its tail as most of my peers...

With a wife/gf or without?

It's been a few years now, but wasn't that part of the prop sleeve impact fix?

But HSC and HSM could get FAM's through NATOPS/inst check done together and cheaply. And CVN based squadrons could interchange co-pilots as required.

A few of us (R and S for me). Honestly only the tactical quals should be different - they could easily have a single NATOPS qual.

The FD's are a mess, but some folks will have never seen anything better. hscs has it right, but the problem is that senior folks see the overland missions as a route to achieve parity with the jet guys (not that we would even come close) while the junior guys get all excited about joining the...

It's so cute when people think the current state of the Navy's helicopter communities is the result of some kind of coherent, rational decision making process spanning the decades and driven by a consistent vision and a clear understanding of both future requirements and future resources. And...

I know it isn't happening which takes all the fun out of the discussion. But I bet the constituents of the SF board of supervisors (or whatever that organization's title is) are ok with it, and that is who they represent so I don't care at all that they wasted their time passing the resolution.

You spelled "Naval" wrong. And "original". And "people". But otherwise you did great, Champ!

You are looking at as how you want it to be, but the facts are that if you do well academically then you can just do the minimum in the other two areas and you'll be just fine. That concept carries over to the Fleet as well. If you are outstanding at your ground jobs and not a complete mess...