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I've tried other documents to prove the bases and units I was in and the dates, but they insist that they need a paid travel voucher.

A family member landed a federal job a few months ago - GS8. They say this job is not really for them, a lot of stress and work and drama. They oversee more than 20 people who need a lot of babysitting, avoid accountability, can't communicate or write to save their lives, and like to have petty disputes. Many of them are GS5s who have been in the same jobs for several years. The higher ups who have been there for decades say this is just how it is, and the people aren't going to change.

They want out sooner rather than later.

Do they have to wait a year before applying to other federal jobs?

This is just a PSA

Next assignment windows

System / Type / RNLTD / Window opens

AMS / OCONUS / Apr-Jun 2024 / 16 Aug 2023

AMS / CONUS (OCONUS returnee, CONUS Mandatory mover) / Nov 2023 - Jan 2024 / 19 July 2023

I couldn't find a chart for more AMS cycles, it used to be there in mypers

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ETM / CONUS / Jan - Jun 2024 / 1-15 July 2023 (going on now)

ETM / OCONUS / Jul - Dec 2024 / 1 - 15 Oct 2023

ETM / CONUS / Jul - Dec 2024 / 1 - 15 Jan 2024

ETM / OCONUS / Jan - Jun 2025 / 1 - 15 Apr 2024

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Note that in AMS the CONUS spots are only for OCONUS Returnees and CONUS Mandatory movers; in ETM they are for anyone eligible for a CONUS assignment including those two cate

I'm working on military retirement and doing the DD-214. This block 18 stuff is out of control, the drop down on the worksheet has a bunch of jargon which I don't recognize. Right now it's populating stuff from the training block and the ribbons block.

I thought I had read somewhere that deployment time is supposed to be captured in block 18, or anytime you get hazard duty pay. Is that true? I don't recognize anything like that on the dropdown menu, and it's not populating that stuff automatically.

I have my overseas time listed, just as years/months/days, but that includes both assignments and deployments.

I know that some things like deployment time are necessary to access cer

Is there a max number of entries on the PME block on vMPF? It looks like that's what populates the DD-214. I have five in there, but ALS is not. I can try to go through the rigamarole of talking to MPF, but if 5 is the max and they can't add anymore then I'll just forget it I suppose.

I am mostly just curious for now, I don't have any myself. As my kids are in high school we are looking at college financing options.

Do student loans have fixed or variable interest rates? Do they follow the market at a given time, so the rate depends on when you took out the loan, or are they always the same regardless?

I read that the interest does't compound, is that correct? So a 5% loan cost $50 per year per $1,000; is that accurate?

Thank you.

I'm just throwing out some things I've seen improve over the past couple of decades. Some of these are by law, others by policy, some of these are rather new, some are not.

- Post 9/11 GI Bill - with housing stipend and dependent transfer

- Caregiver leave

- Skillbridge

- Expanded Tuition Assistance

- AFCOOL

- Joint custody assignments

- Enlisted Talent Marketplace

- Assignment Swap

- The pet PCS thing (I don't know the details)

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Share some improvements that you have seen over the years.

Just a poll, for the lulz

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(Not a golfer.).

People make a lot of hype about playing certain courses like St Andrews, Pebble Beach, Augusta, etc. Is that just hype and history, or is there something practical which makes some golf courses better than others?