...With God As My Witness....

[MikeKozlowski]

...I have no idea what to do next:

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Mike

[Johnnie Lyle]

...I have no idea what to do next:
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Mike

Consult your wife to see if she will permit it.

If permission granted, consult your doctor to see if you can reach the necessary fitness in reasonable time.

[MikeKozlowski]

...I have no idea what to do next:
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Mike

Consult your wife to see if she will permit it.

If permission granted, consult your doctor to see if you can reach the necessary fitness in reasonable time.

John,

The Fair Melissa and have have actually just concluded a brief, quiet discussion on the subject. The decision is that if I get a letter in the mail telling me there's nothing voluntary about it and I'm to present myself posthaste, then I'm going. If not, then she would rather I didn't volunteer.

Healthwise, I'm not sure they'd even let me back in the door. My diabetes and my back issues would probably be disqualifiers all the way around. Ammo is a very physical field, and even if you have a primary desk job, you also have a secondary tasking that involves building warheads to drop on foreheads. The other issue - and one I am loathe to bring up here lest my friends skewer me unmercifully about it - is that I'm going to be 64 years old next week, which means, for example, I was on active duty when there were still F-105s in the inventory.

Mike

[Johnnie Lyle]

That all makes sense.

ETA for my application for a PHS commission is 1JUN2024.

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

Tangential, several years after I took early retirement at a down-sizing pf our small corner of Big Pharma, a former colleague contacted me and asked me to come back, part or full-time.

I indicated my wife's shaky health, a major driver for my departure, had declined further than expected, so my options / hours were very limited...

Also, what was the admin / paper-chase like now ??

After a ghastly, ghastly silence, my former colleague made a sorta-whimpering noise, apologised for troubling me and rang off...

I later heard it would have taken six months or more to get me sufficiently re-trained in just the documentation procedures to be cost-effective...

Run Away ! Run Away !!

[Poohbah]

...I have no idea what to do next:
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Mike

Consult your wife to see if she will permit it.

If permission granted, consult your doctor to see if you can reach the necessary fitness in reasonable time.

John,

The Fair Melissa and have have actually just concluded a brief, quiet discussion on the subject. The decision is that if I get a letter in the mail telling me there's nothing voluntary about it and I'm to present myself posthaste, then I'm going. If not, then she would rather I didn't volunteer.

Healthwise, I'm not sure they'd even let me back in the door. My diabetes and my back issues would probably be disqualifiers all the way around. Ammo is a very physical field, and even if you have a primary desk job, you also have a secondary tasking that involves building warheads to drop on foreheads. The other issue - and one I am loathe to bring up here lest my friends skewer me unmercifully about it - is that I'm going to be 64 years old next week, which means, for example, I was on active duty when there were still F-105s in the inventory.

Mike

I turn 59 in July, and I was on active duty when there were still F-105s in the inventory!

[Bob Dedmon]

Consult your wife to see if she will permit it.

If permission granted, consult your doctor to see if you can reach the necessary fitness in reasonable time.

John,

The Fair Melissa and have have actually just concluded a brief, quiet discussion on the subject. The decision is that if I get a letter in the mail telling me there's nothing voluntary about it and I'm to present myself posthaste, then I'm going. If not, then she would rather I didn't volunteer.

Healthwise, I'm not sure they'd even let me back in the door. My diabetes and my back issues would probably be disqualifiers all the way around. Ammo is a very physical field, and even if you have a primary desk job, you also have a secondary tasking that involves building warheads to drop on foreheads. The other issue - and one I am loathe to bring up here lest my friends skewer me unmercifully about it - is that I'm going to be 64 years old next week, which means, for example, I was on active duty when there were still F-105s in the inventory.

Mike

I turn 59 in July, and I was on active duty when there were still F-105s in the inventory!

I turn 67 next month, the 100, 105 and 106 were still in use... the duces were drones, they've retired my Rhinos and are nearly finished with my 15s even though they do gave new builds.

[MFOM]

Is this sort of thing usual or are they really that hard up

[Craiglxviii]

...I have no idea what to do next:
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Mike

Consult your wife to see if she will permit it.

If permission granted, consult your doctor to see if you can reach the necessary fitness in reasonable time.

John,

The Fair Melissa and have have actually just concluded a brief, quiet discussion on the subject. The decision is that if I get a letter in the mail telling me there's nothing voluntary about it and I'm to present myself posthaste, then I'm going. If not, then she would rather I didn't volunteer.

Healthwise, I'm not sure they'd even let me back in the door. My diabetes and my back issues would probably be disqualifiers all the way around. Ammo is a very physical field, and even if you have a primary desk job, you also have a secondary tasking that involves building warheads to drop on foreheads. The other issue - and one I am loathe to bring up here lest my friends skewer me unmercifully about it - is that I'm going to be 64 years old next week, which means, for example, I was on active duty when there were still F-105s in the inventory.

Mike

Do it, just so you can be the crusty old bastard in the corner who never allows the young lads 1/32” of slack in anything.

You know you’ll enjoy it!!!

[MikeKozlowski]

...Well, USAF has announced that the upper limit is 58.

I can imagine that conversation:

GENERAL 1: "Strictly speaking, we could go up to 67."

GENERAL 2: "Nope."

G1: "Why not?"

G2: "Because then Kozlowski and Dedmon could come back."

G1: "............."

G2: "............."

G1: "58 it is, then."

Mike

[Johnnie Lyle]

...Well, USAF has announced that the upper limit is 58.

I can imagine that conversation:

GENERAL 1: "Strictly speaking, we could go up to 67."

GENERAL 2: "Nope."

G1: "Why not?"

G2: "Because then Kozlowski and Dedmon could come back."

G1: "............."

G2: "............."

G1: "58 it is, then."

Mike

You know G1 laughed through reviewing all of the paperwork about The Incident with you, Bob and G2 when he was a lowly captain.

[Jeff Thomas]

I'm going to be 73 in April. All you kids need to get off my lawn.

[S. Murray]

And meanwhile, here I am just wanting them to bring back TERA so I can gtfo at 16 years.

[Johnnie Lyle]

And meanwhile, here I am just wanting them to bring back TERA so I can gtfo at 16 years.

That’s a ringing endorsement of current conditions

[S. Murray]

And meanwhile, here I am just wanting them to bring back TERA so I can gtfo at 16 years.

That’s a ringing endorsement of current conditions

You have NO idea...the fact that I'm entertaining walking away at 16.5 years instead of staying for 20 says a lot doesn't it?

[Johnnie Lyle]

And meanwhile, here I am just wanting them to bring back TERA so I can gtfo at 16 years.

That’s a ringing endorsement of current conditions

You have NO idea...the fact that I'm entertaining walking away at 16.5 years instead of staying for 20 says a lot doesn't it?

I can guess, and yes.

Getting a lot of post-Vietnam vibes (or at least what I assume they are since I am too young to have been there) across a lot of fields, especially my own.

We may have survived but we didn’t win the war.