Not as bad as deployment but a tad bit warm lmao

Please bear with me as I feel very alone and have no one to talk to, but my husband is currently deploy. I am unsure of when he'll return (hopefully no extension). Watching the news isn't helping. Can anyone offer any insight how to calm my anxiety? I know quite of few of us are dealing with this....any inputs would help..

Tried, tested and true. It works!

If you aren't saving money right now, you should start doing that asap- the government is likely heading for a shutdown in October and if the appropriations bill or CR is not passed, it will be at least a full month before any progress can be made (Senate is out all of October).

After 30 months of service. You can apply to get your A&P

Even if you think you won't use after you get out

www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/CCAF/documents/AP_%20Program_Process_Letter_2019_Canvas.pdf

www.86fss.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/A_P-Certificate-AF-COOL-Submission.pdf

Apply for jobs with the Major airlines and Cargo operators

www.reddit.com/r/AircraftMechanics/comments/1uzb3in/2026_mid_year_airline_pay_benefits_review/

Days closed for “training” are actually Squadron-wide grindfests.

My spouse and I recently bought a house, and that’s expensive!

So we are thinking of renting out a room to offset some cost. As an NCO are there any problems renting a room to younger Airman? Especially if they are the opposite gender of myself?

I ask assuming they won’t be in my unit or chain of command in any way

Any helpful advice would be appreciated

Your assignment manager:
“We really need you there.”

Your gaining commander:
“We’re excited to have you.”

Your sponsor:
“Can’t wait to meet you.”

EFMP:
“Nah.”

Tropical Storm Bertha did a number at Hurlburt

Today our unit completed 100% waist measurements. Along with the official FAC measurement, our triad wanted to see how consistent the measurements actually were, so volunteers also did a self-measurement and could be measured by our SEL and First Sergeant. I got approval to share the aggregate results and they're being briefed to Wing leadership.

For Airmen under 34 inches, there was basically no difference between any of the measurements.

Between 34 and 38 inches, both self-measurements and triad measurements averaged about 1 inch smaller than the FAC measurement.

Over 38 inches is where things got interesting. The triad measurement was the smallest in every single case. Self-measurements were usually about 0.5-1 inch larger than the triad measurement. FAC measurements averaged more than 2 inches larger than the triad measurement and about 1.5 inches larger than self-measurements.

The larger the waist measurement, the larger the gap became, this isn't a scientific study. But if someone is sitting near a cutoff, a 1.5-2 inch difference is a pretty big deal.

We also noted a small height measurement error. difference was less than an inch for all cases, but there was a clear distribution that someone who self reports over 5'11 will be overmeasured on height. And someone under 5'6 will be under measured on height. with the delta growing as you measure further from the median.

I need advice on how to go about my roommate situation. I am currently living in an apartment style dorm with 4 bedrooms, a shared common area and kitchen. I have 3 other roommates, 2 of which are awesome and I get along with well, however, 1 roommate is just unbearable.

It started out normal and things were looking good. After about 2 weeks though, things started to seem strangle. Dishes were left dirty in the sink, damp/wet clothes being left in the washer and dryer for upwards of 3 days, trash being left everywhere. I had a discussion with him and it worked for about 1 week before things reverted back to the way they were.

He bought a TV for the living room and spent a lot of time of the couch. to be fair, he did say he didn't like being cooped up in his bedroom all the time which I understand, but it went from hanging out in the living room with the TV full volume till 10/11pm to sleeping in the living room on the couch every night. It makes it awkward for the rest of us to most about the kitchen at night and respect him even though he doesn't respect our space.

He had some medical issues and was gone for a little over a month. Myself and my other 2 roommates were quite relived that he was out of the place, but today, he showed back up and is already back to lounging on the couch, TV full volume, trash everywhere, etc. We want to go straight to him to try and work out a solution, but we dont want to come off as anything other than good roommates. He is a nice guy and comes from a different background than the rest of us but this is a problem we seriously need to address.

If we need too, we will get Dorm Housing involved but we want to try and resolve this before we would have too. Any advice on how to go about this situation would be greatly appreciated.

Wow! Where is the US Army? I've been there, multiple tours too.

Can we please, for the love of all things good and holy, make the retirees get their IDs somewhere else. I'm currently sitting in a DEERS waiting room with 50 people and an average age of 87. Why even bother having appointments if I'm just going to get stuck behind the geriatrics anyway?

I'll take a baconator and cheese fries please, hopefully I can just have a heart attack in the next 45 minutes.

I’m an Air Force vet and I’m just venting but I need to talk about the fact that I feel a decade behind the friends I had in high school. I felt like an adult in the service. Now
that I’m a civilian I feel like I’m starting at 18 again. I get social media is a highlight reel, but I find myself looking at these people and I feel completely left behind.

They stayed in our hometown or went straight to college, and now they’re buying homes and completely settled into stable careers, getting promotions and raises and doing bigthings.They’re showing off fancy home renovations and hosting neighborhood barbecues with people they’ve known for a decade.

Meanwhile, I’m now starting over and trying tomake friends in our new city and wondering what I’m going to do for the rest of my life.It feels like the prize for giving years of my life to the service is having to start all over
again from scratch. I’m renting a shitty apartment that I’m embarrassed for anyone to see. When I get invited to the backyard barbecues, I have no clue how to connect with people.

This is a very specific type of impostor syndrome and I hate it. Did anyone else go through this after getting out? How did you stop comparing yourself to other people?

I have a significant amount of wood working tools and machines. pcs overseas were i won't have space for most of it, so it will need to go into long term storage.

any of you dealt with this? how where the tools after getting them out of storage? rusted to shit? broken?

plan on being overseas for atleast 5 years if everything goes well. may even retire and stay overseas.

Hopefully an AFPC wizard, or someone in the know, stumbles across this. I'm playing the Nov-Jan OSR/CMM list and had a couple questions that I was asked by my spouse and family.

1. For my rank and career field (3E0X2), there are only 5 total slots available being advertised. I struggle to imagine there are only 5 people eligible for this listing, so where do people go once those 5 advertised slots are taken?

2. I think I know the answer to this, but does someone who's DEROS falls in November take priority over someone who's DEROS falls in January? My logic is people leaving in November will be looked at first since they are PCS'ing sooner.

I'm thankful for any replies or insight!

Just got notified of selection to go to in residence NCOA, while I am currently on a 365 profile post surgery, with no future of being off that profile. It’s non duty restricting, only for PT.

Anyone been lately after all these changes that can tell if that will cause issues? Go against me for awards or be looked down upon? Can still do most activities and daily work, still fully worldwide deployable, just can’t do stuff that puts the hip in a lot of tension.

Who else is wondering when this shit will end? Ready to go back to my life back home.

So around 1.5 weeks ago I received an assignment to Eielson AFB, Alaska. My original date of separation was in 2027, and I was under the impression, as told by my leadership that I would be playing the stateside listing. Clearly that information was wrong, and now I'm left in a difficult position of having to extend or reenlist, for another 3 years, or canceling it, which from what I have read has its own set of repercussions. Mind you my DEROS is at the beginning of October.