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FWIW - the AMEX Platinum has a new benefit - you get 2 $50 credits (split before June and after June) to spend at Saks 5th Avenue throughout the year.

I got it, but damn, what a nerd joke. Also, I was an Economist major, so #statsforthewin.

Not much to tell. Hurricane relief... frustrated residents. Shots fired. Found out on post flight on two separate incidents.

You joke, but when I was a stud at the the HT's, I remember hearing about an instructor who had done a deployment to Iraq x2 and had never been shot... did Hurricane Katrina relief and his helicopter got shot twice. :mad::rolleyes:

Yeah, but it seems to be in name only and the Admiral isn't like "this is the new hotness," it's more like "we had something that worked better than what we have now, let's take the best of both," is the impression I got.

Just what the Admiral himself has said and a bit of "scuttlebutt" from his staffers that I'll keep private. What the Admiral has said is that he wants something that's transparent, defensible, and standardized. Among the changes (of which I'm sure I'm butchering): 1. Go back to above / below...

The replacement for MPTS. I assume it's Naval Flight Training Syllabus.

Yeah, well.. err... "un-officer like qualities." Showing up late, wrong uniform, lying, etc.

Sir - 2 recommendations; wait for one of the top promo offers to come out (spend x get y back in points, ideally 100,000 but those are rare) and get a member on AW or a friend to send you an invite code for a little extra bonus for one or the both of you.

Yeah, I'll believe your theory about the USAF. However, we implemented our own rules about downs and what not, so that's on us. When I went through flight school, we had MPTS, but it was 3 total failures or OLQs of any variety and you were going to see the man about if you should be retained or...

To be clear, it used to be this way as well, and it also included OLQ Pink sheets which it doesn't now... Like @sickboy said, it just drives an IPC or FPC situation depending. Also, yes, attrition probably rose immediately after the plan was implemented but has normalized now. Why did it go up...

I find this hard to believe. He's stated repeatedly that he wants attrition earlier on than later on because of cost and time to train. Under the old system, it was frustrating how many failures one could have in flight school - we were routinely winging people with 8-9 failures and they may...

To be clear, these are exactly the reasons cited why TRAWING 1 was almost shut down and told to restart and why CNATRA has been in shock about how flight school is administered and why he's changing things drastically. I can say that as an IP at TRAWING 5, gradesheets are reviewed pretty...

Yeah, it's not SCRA specifically, but the credit card lenders often refer to their benefits as SCRA benefits. From what I've read, most of them are doing this mostly as a CYA with some of the legal interpretations of MLA and SCRA.

Anyone have any issues with the Chase Sapphire Reserve? I recently (less than a month ago) opened the card, but after sending in my LES, I got a letter today saying I wasn't eligible for SCRA benefits because I opened my card after my active duty service period began. Anyone else have problems...

Agree with most of what you're saying save for the bold parts. It bothers me to see commentators and his talking heads say "he brought us off the brink of war!" when his threats, use of twitter, insults, and lack of typical diplomacy was what brought us to the edge (?) of war in the first place...

Appreciate the gouge and hope it's true. MSR is still 2 years away and I'm already concerned I'm missing my opportunity...

Huh, weird. Yeah, I mean, my memory is of single day that was 8 years ago, so I might be mistaken too, but I remember there being footage he destroyed, and this was one of the main points we kept crushing him on ethically; I remember his response was to the tune of "I know what we are taught as...

Really? I remember at an ethics brief at USNA, the actual pilot came in to surprise us (I've told this story before here - long story short: USNA presents us this as an honor case, we sit around in groups crushing the guy's decisions, then, he presented himself as one of the instructors /...

I've always said, your Skipper and XO will take care of you if you're great at 2/3 of the following things, and good at a third: 1. Good pilot 2. Good officer. 3. Good dude. Same idea.

Great question. One of my biggest concerns...

I think it looks terrible when not sewn on (when the alternative is velcro). I'd highly recommend getting a Tipsy Gypsy generic one and not get another one that's specific to your squadron. I always thought that was stupid until you make Skipper and you can be like "yeah, that was my command."...

I also have a Tipsy Gypsy name tag, and I do love it. However, waiting 1.5 years was a real bummer. I'm not normally a fan of Wings and Things in Pensacola, but they too make nice name tags of at least comparable quality to Tipsy Gypsy at least cosmetically and without the wait. I was very...

Can confirm 85 is part of the nom process. Hell, when I left my sea tour, even NROTC billets were in the nom process and they weren't releasing the school names until after the production tour billets were filled so that guys couldn't game the system in order to get NROTC at an Ivy or other...

Just looked those up; they weren't them. From what I vaguely remember about the plot, it was a LT or LCDR who was the original protagonist, with his dutiful housewife, and he suddenly dies in an accident and from what I remember, a more senior officer, a CDR or CAPT, someone he considered a...

Second: Hilarious watching the 2 guys "fight" over a flight suit. So glad those days are gone (wearing anything but the bag on the boat, that is). Third: It's films like this that make me believe that humor, especially dry and somewhat self-deprecating (at least organizationally deprecating)...

First question: What's up with the soap coming out of the bugle?

I took a military aviation history class and we watched a couple movies that semester, but the one that really stuck out to me was The Blue Max - which was about WWI aviation and I remember distinctly my professor talking about how realistic and true to how life was for those guys (there are...

The going line is "buy in '20 fly in '20."

I agree with you 100%. It wasn't on his "top 5" list of redesignation hopes he had. He was given it. I was stating that if they are sending a flight school drop out to TAO which is a job normally reserved for 3rd tour LTs, I think the Navy is keeping to CNP's word of "everyone stays until your...

This is not great gouge. There may be some truth to it, but this has been the rumor for at least 10 or more years. There is a POCR board he would go to which would redesignate him based on - most importantly - needs of the Navy, but also what the member wants. I've seen people literally...

What was the deal with OV-10's launching of carriers? Never heard of this. Common for the time? Embarked as part of the airwing? Proof of concept? Curious here!

I did, so as long as I hadn't spent any money on the year yet they didn't seem to care. This was 1-2 years ago though so YMMV.

Color me uneducated on this topic - what's the short story behind this?

Is it still really that bad? Any word on when these guys will be full up again?

With all of this said, I consider myself fairly financially savvy and I think my peers and superiors would agree with that statement. However, I still don't really get what the USAA Subsribers' is. Can anyone explain in layman's terms? And why does it suddenly balloon after 40 years of membership?

To be clear, they aren't really any better or worse than any other major bank right now such as Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc. But for a bank with no brick and mortar locations, this shouldn't be the case and they should be competing against online banks like Ally, Discover, etc.

I'm with you on this one. Most of my savings account money is at Discover Bank for their 1.5%ish rates.

Hmm. That has yet to be the case for me in FL, TX, or CA. Home insurance in FL? Forget about it (but the same could be said about almost all the big insurers), but for Valuable Personal Property, Renters, and Auto, I've yet to find someone better than USAA. The one time I made a claim because I...

Given your real name is presumably directly attached to your username, I'd be hesitant using the language you're using here.

On the HT-side of the house, and I know this because my first job in the squadron was Supply, our Corpus studs were getting Wiley-X fingerless gloves, and the Whiting guys were getting the standards NATOPS issued gloves. Many have resorted to cutting the tips of the fingers off those if they are...

Late to the thread (was on XC this weekend) but it works fine with the standard issue gloves.

Have never been in a T-6, but my understanding is that it does not.

Maybe in terms of far they are apart in timeline they aren't equal, but correct me if I'm wrong, but all the principals immediately below the CSG within the CWC are equals in terms of their rank on that chain of command, are they not? They are just responsible for different missions. I don't...

Beta was a very cool feature.

I didn't say you were, I was explaining to you the author's advocacy which you inquired about.

I'll say when I was a student, there were no R instructors, and the B guys were telling us to stay the hell away from the R. Some guys wanted to do VERTREP, others wanted to do CSAR and SOF training (secretly hoping they'd do it for real, of course), and others wanted all the gucci weapons, and...

To be clear, Japan is still competitive, but mostly because spots are so limited - they just don't exist in every class like Norfolk, San Diego, and Jax do. My experience has been San Diego is typically the most desired / sought after spot and most SNA's don't care which platform they get...

I can tell you from working in STUCON that Japan is not the "Jets" of helo advanced. I'd say it's probably HSC West, and if it hasn't already, HSM West is becoming the "jets" of HTs, as in, the most desirable / most requested of our students. Easily, easily, easily, HM is currently the least...

There's 2/9 options for Norfolk, and one isn't all that common to select, which is 53's. Just put Norfolk last, but understand you're then risking going Guam or Japan (which may or may not be a preference for you). And, ultimately, 53's are the only current platform with a minimum score, which...