I love this thread. Spade callers one and all! It's nice(I mean sad really) to know that all this madness I see in the Army is going on in the AF too. The Army could stop alienating their pilots for FREE, but instead their planned solution is just to increase the throughput of initial training at Ft Rucker. "Nothing to see here folks! move along. No pilot shortage here!" Said General Peterson before the Armed services Committee a couple weeks ago. He said the will 'consider' a bonus for IPs and MTPs next year. Pro tip for you, Sir: It's not the money.