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The third link addresses the limit. You can't hit it with just a Roth IRA and TSP.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590.pdf#page1 Too lazy to find the 2012, but I'm sure it is out there. The above is the IRA contribution rules. https://www.tsp.gov/PDF/formspubs/oc91-16.pdf This addresses the question at hand...

Just to make sure you understand the tax difference: a Roth defers your tax advantage until you withdraw the money post 59.5 years old. The standard IRA or TSP gives you tax savings now (reduces this tax year's AGI). I just worked my last day in the Navy, and at some point will start a thread...

Low fees plus the tax advantage make TSP well worth it. You can roll it over to a better fund family when you get out (and you can even convert it to a Roth if you have the cash/deire).

You can contribute to both an IRA and TSP.

Dude, they're making fun of you. Just let it go.

Even daytime? That's just stupid.

I kept a dual qual in the Sierra and Romeo for 6 years and regularly flew both in normal and test configurations so I think I am qualified to comment on both airframes. I appreciate that the two airframes are tactically employed in different ways. But even though a barely competent HAC can...

Nope. I think a lot of the people who do understand it don't think that rope is worth pissing up.

There isn't. We made a blanket change to what we do based on a misunderstanding of technical data.

Others have replied, but I will add this explanation in case it didn't get through. Ng and Np have no physical connection - thus the "gas coupled" blurb they used to make RP's memorize. Np and Nr are only connected one way: Nr can drag down Np but Np cannot drag down Nr. The only ways to have...

For the Navy, only 1510's can go as O-4's (though they have to complete by their CDR board); 1310's have to be able to make their DH tour which narrows their window to around midway through their first shore duty depending on their timing.

If you leave your first tour and your kiss goodbye at the same rank with the same CO drops your average, you have to accept that you've been finished in your community. You ought to make plans to either re-designate or get out of the Navy. I've met too many JO's who couldn't/wouldn't read the...

The case I know of the rope wrapping around the aft head resulted in a class "C". For Brett, the HAC was a known issue - it wasn't even the worst incident he had that FY.

Not true.

While the dispute is another sign of the awful failings of our acquisition process, we can at least hope it leads to program getting the axe. Giving our "allies" those aircraft is a complete waste of money IMO.

All 60 blades (the Mike has new blades and I don't know what their twist is, but I doubt it is too different) have a -18 degree twist so "flat" pitch is a fuzzy concept. Not to geek out, but... - All models have the same available degree of travel for the collective full down to full up, but...

And they got all their flight deck clothes from DRMO so choices were limited.

Well, at least nobody can say "I told you so". Or almost everybody can. I'm sure it is one of the two. Just another example where the program would have been fine at double the cost and schedule and honest appraisals of where it stood. But as-is it was always going to fail.

I knew some locals and ex-pats there, so I'm sure that improved my visits. COLA would be a nice touch as well. All that said, I wouldn't be holding my breath for it.

Re: #5: While I normally don't endorse blue-on-blue crime, if we ever really put an FDNF squadron in Singapore (and there are a ton of reasons why we wouldn't, most of them money related) you can feel free to stab as many of your peers in the back as necessary to get a billet there. A jury of...

Go watch "The Right Stuff". It is the opposite of that plus some math and a lot of how to write test plans and technical reports (very useful skills in the outside world). And just because it doesn't match the common perception of it doesn't mean it isn't a good school. The only downside to it...

The precept was even worded to specifically protect guys who screened. Absolutely, there were some good guys tossed out on that board, but for the last few years we just werent getting enough folks retiring on their own. In addition to the added personnel costs, there are downstream effects on...

My bad - I thought you were talking the involuntary retirement boards. But since this is the Internet please assume I tried to argue that you were on the wrong topic, not me, for at least half a dozen more posts.

Not sure I agree with this except for people worried that they are going to get tossed. I know some of my friends are hanging on as O-5/6's to their 27/30 more because they are afraid to get out to the real world (or they have some sweet, slacker shore duty gig) than because they are still doing...

Depends on how worried you are about an EA vs. EA kind of fight. I don't think we really are (not trying to argue the right or wrong of that, just saying that's how it is) and there are plenty of scenarios where a "dumb" UAS with a smart pod would work fine. For the other scenarios, it's pretty...

Adding on a second seat would be stupidly expensive and nobody is going to want to shoulder that cost. The EA mission is going to be considered a great candidate for moving to a UAS.

I don't believe I've ever tried to dip in INS only, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

For the OP, what is such a bad fit about the AF (or such a good fit about the Navy) that makes you think taking on student loans would be better than having the AF pay your way? No offense, but considering you've only done 1 semester of AF ROTC, I'd wager you know less than nothing about the...

Nope.

This is just back of the napkin math, but... Assuming there are anywhere from 10-13 CVW FITREP cycles a year for CO's in the airwings: Even if you assume that #1 tickets for CO's are evenly distributed among the 4 VFA, 1 E-2, 1 Prowler/Growler, and 2 Helo CO's, there are still more than twice...

I had one as CO in '01.

I wasn't very clear here with my actual point, so I will try again: I don't think there is a whole lot of interest in the job from helo guys of my peer group. Maybe that will change with guys on their first tour now as more of them spend time in the air wing, but I think a lot of helo guys...

Not relevant at all to who can be CAG. But something you have to think about in the who wants to be CAG discussion. To me, it's a "be careful what you ask for" issue (like more of our CO's deploying on the CVN now). As I said, to some people that won't matter. But it would to me.

There is another piece to this discussion that you have to consider. CAG's (and CVN CO's even more so) spend a lot more time at sea than, for instance, a maritime or helo post-CO. A LOT more time. Yes, they have a chance at flag where helo guys hit a glass ceiling, but they are also in their...

Multiple generations of pointy-nosed Air Bosses, if you want to be specific. Unless we had a helo/maritime CNAF while I wasn't looking. It is a fiefdom, and a good one to have for their community because if you don't screw it up it can easily lead to a star. Though I don't doubt there are guys...

Who fills those jobs is a function of community fiefdoms, same-same as almost all other such billets in the Navy. Don't sweat it. Personally, I believe it is a good idea to keep your ears open and mouth shut about detailing on the senior end of the Navy as a young guy. Watch your CO's and DH's...

Even if he wasn't right (and he is), Brett wins via Godwin's Law (http://xkcd.com/261/).

And yes, the aircraft commander is always responsible for navigation whether the chart is in his hands or not. You delegated the performance of safe navigation to your 2P, not the responsibility for it. We expect aircraft commanders to be able to monitor their copilot's navigating and fly at...

Flight line cafe at Amarillo makes a great monte cristo - ideal for that next leg into ALB ferrying a/c out to the west coast. (And while RON'ing in ALB, stop at the Library for dinner, beer and scenery). That is all.

This would have been a great place to stop. Since you obviously have no background, knowledge or experience in the certification process (our's or Europe's) you may as well quit on your whole "design flaw" theory right here.

If you are crappy at math and calc didn't "make sense" to you, beating your head against a technical major will do you no good. Major in something you have a chance to do well in and that you can potentially use to help yourself earn a decent living (in a job that won't make you set yourself on...

Should be easy - you can just practice training your eye for it while you are turning for upwind in the 'D.

FIFY. Wait, what if that was sarcasm too...?

True, but you have to remember, part of that "good attitude" means going where the community wants you to go and doing what the community wants you to do. I genuinely give guys credit who are still willing to deploy as they get older, take crappy staff jobs, IA's, etc to stay on the career...

Yes, but we don't have the time or money or need to make you both a champion dipper and a champion sled tower (piss on that job with a -60, btw). We can easily create a detachment or squadron of M197 experts perfectly trained to defeat a small boat swarm. But we won't, because it would be...

FIFY. Your 1/decade estimate was looking pretty high to me...

I'm curious for those who have gone - do tickets to these events not have some sort of liability waiver printed on them? Given the circumstances surrounding the crash (age of the pilot, video evidence of the failure, etc) you would have to expect a suit if there isn't. Being a lawyer makes this...

Post-mishap FNAEB's aren't really mandatory - there is a waiver process. For my "A" our boards were waived and my crew cleared to fly less than two weeks after the mishap and well before the SIR came out. The "mandatory" post-mishap FNAEB was prompted by a failing aviator who slipped through...

They will take an ethics opinion from legal, but I'm not sure that would be faster for you. My organization is used to doing them, but I'm still 3 weeks out from when I first asked for it.