{"id":150711,"date":"2023-12-11T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150711"},"modified":"2023-12-10T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T00:42:13","slug":"wrong-line-of-work-h-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150711","title":{"rendered":"Wrong line of work, H-town"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not that anything in the military is a wrong line of work, but some skills are more remunerative than others. When I went in I was advised to look at MOS that were shortage and consistently promoted quickly.\u00a0 Turned out to be good advice – thanks to a bunch of former sergeants and chiefs who advised me well.<\/p>\n

The hot set-up nowadays is to look at the crunch in pilots. People have been saying for years the boomer Vietnam era pilots were going to age out of the market, and not enough people have heeded that. For those who did listen, payday seems to have arrived (with a significant catch.)<\/p>\n

The US Air Force (USAF) has announced a new round of retention bonuses, offering up to $600,000 over 12 years, the Air Force Times reported.<\/p>\n

Announced on November 30, the bonuses are aimed at manned aircraft and drone pilots, combat systems operators, and air battle managers, with amounts ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 per year, depending on aircraft type and when they commit.\u00a0 Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Note that 12 years… better really want to stay in. |<\/p>\n

Might want to take a serious look, though, at WHY people stay in and get out. No service is having issues with reenlistment numbers, according to the various service secretaries. So why do they need huge re-up bonuses for a few ? Are pilots so avaricious? So unpatriotic? Or is there something in the way they are normally treated which is insufficient? All obvious jokes about pilots aside… might be a lot cheaper to make the pilots as happy as normal reupping folks than to throw giant bonuses their direction.<\/p>\n

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Houston dodged a major bullet this weekend – in the runoff for Houston mayor, State Senator John Whitmire beat Sheila Jackson Lee by almost a 2:1 majority.\u00a0 Final count somewhere around 64.4+% to 35.6%. In election parlance, 54-46 is already a landslide, she took\u00a0 a MAJOR ass-whuppin’.\u00a0\u00a0NY Post<\/a><\/p>\n

“When I called Jerome, he only sits up there like a fat [expletive], just talking about what the [expletive] he doesn\u2019t know. Both of y\u2019all are [expletive]-ups\u2026 This is the worst [expletive] that I could\u2019ve ever had put together. Two [expletive] big [expletive] children. [Expletive] idiots. Serve no [expletive] purpose,” Jackson lee said in an angry voice in one part of the recording.Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Classy talk from a US Congress Representative. Release of a recording of her saying this, plus urging her voters to vote (on the wrong date!) no doubt helped her loss along. Sadly, she did not resign her Congressional seat and could choose to unretire and run for re-election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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