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  1. jollygreen07

    NEWS Seahawks Sink Houthi Boats

    Accounts of WWII surface engagements are chock-full of very grisly descriptions of battle damage and resulting casualties. Read about what happened to BIRMINGHAM when she tried to render aid to PRINCETON. Woof.
  2. jollygreen07

    NEWS Seahawks Sink Houthi Boats

    I’ve only seen it from the CVN standpoint but to successfully engage a target, there are a ton of moving parts, each with a sailor (or whole shop) that have to work right the first time. Are the guys in aft steering doing anything? No, but for the most part nearly every person on the boat is...
  3. jollygreen07

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    How does she handle compared with a slick A or B?
  4. jollygreen07

    Flight Training

    I know at least one low-life O-4 who made it. ? It’s a huge missed opportunity. Every time someone from PERS or CNATRA actual visits my TRAWING I ask the same question: “why don’t you extend this program’s reach to JOs who will fly their asses off? They are going to quit. Why not retain that...
  5. jollygreen07

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    Hallowed be thy name.
  6. jollygreen07

    War in Israel

    I remember that guy… It wasn’t IRfly but he was a hoot. I’d like to contribute the meme below to the conversation. Any/all of you feel free to heed its sage advice.
  7. jollygreen07

    War in Israel

    What’s the general QOL on GRF these days? I was a plankowner and took her to sea the first 1/2 dozen times. I hear she’s a veritable cruise ship compared to those days.
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    War in Israel

  9. jollygreen07

    USN Showdown between Super Hornet and F-35

    You’re surprised that Brett’s dunking on Chuck? Are you new here?
  10. jollygreen07

    TH-73

    Indeed. That was the intent of my front office at first, but various other factors lead to me standing OPSO instead ?
  11. jollygreen07

    TH-73

    It’s not retaining talent at the right level, IMO. The vast majority of PFIs selected are post OP DH types, so the Navy already has their hooks in them for 20. PFI’s are used as DHs at my squadron. We fill gaps when the TAR and OP-T guys drop for whatever reason, so we aren’t crushing as many...
  12. jollygreen07

    NFO Pipeline

    Yeah, I get it. Spent plenty of time teaching pilots, too and it blew my mind when we didn’t have the SNFO’s flying everything. It’s just not something we train to in our FITU. SNFO training is awesome in that you don’t have someone actively trying to kill you, but I can say I’ve been...
  13. jollygreen07

    NFO Pipeline

    There are five fam flights in SNFO Primary. Stick time is still a thing, more or less depending on the IP’s comfort level and student's ability to do NFO things. If you can’t do your part, I’m sure as hell not letting you fly.
  14. jollygreen07

    Meridian VT-7, cross country?

    Ran into a few post-CQ Meridian bois on a solo down at Stennis. Looks like a great deal!
  15. jollygreen07

    MIG-23 Ejection/Crash this past weekend . . . .

    Just got some OR Overlord gloves. Can confirm.
  16. jollygreen07

    MIG-23 Ejection/Crash this past weekend . . . .

    Random zone inspector: “Uuuuhhh Skipper, you’re gonna have to…” pilot_man:
  17. jollygreen07

    CNATRA Bids Farewell to Orange and White Paint Scheme

    Several designs, including our CONA paint scheme which bears a striking resemblance to the winning design submitted by 28. Picture below. My understanding was that there would be a “CAG” design and maybe a smattering of other non orange and white schemes. The one thing I begged my leadership to...
  18. jollygreen07

    CNATRA Bids Farewell to Orange and White Paint Scheme

    Interesting. I was a VT OPSO when direction came from higher to submit a color scheme yesterday for morale building. I must have missed that part.
  19. jollygreen07

    CNATRA Bids Farewell to Orange and White Paint Scheme

    Painting the planes a pretty color will do nothing whatsoever to retain talent.
  20. jollygreen07

    CNATRA Bids Farewell to Orange and White Paint Scheme

    I’m super not happy with this for a number of reasons. I’m old enough in life and in the Navy that I know howling into the void will do no good. *deep sigh*
  21. jollygreen07

    Europe under extreme duress

    No one can convince me that the moderators aren’t goading Chuck into saying some of this stuff. He is single-handedly keeping the non-wannabe side of this website alive ?
  22. jollygreen07

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    I hope the actual debrief was 15 minutes followed by 1+45 of bullshitting and drinking beer.
  23. jollygreen07

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    Not a 707. DC-8
  24. jollygreen07

    Non-NEX Uniforms?

    Looks like a perfect guy to name a mountain after ?
  25. jollygreen07

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    Beats the fuck out of sweat pouring down your face. I’ve seen everyone from students to O-6 associates wearing some kind of sweat band. There’s a whole cottage industry built around them.
  26. jollygreen07

    Marriage during the aviation pipeline

    Getting married in flight school is dumb.
  27. jollygreen07

    NEWS Sen Tuberville and Appointment Delays

    Ah yes. Truly a genius and the voice of a generation.
  28. jollygreen07

    UFOs?

    Joe Rogan?? Is that you???!
  29. jollygreen07

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    God no. Oh God no.
  30. jollygreen07

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    @KODAK and I will be there with a T-6 on Thursday.
  31. jollygreen07

    Safe on Deck

    0% chance anyone noticed that.
  32. jollygreen07

    Europe under extreme duress

    Nah. -Everyone on active duty.
  33. jollygreen07

    In which a TACRON CO wants some respect

    Dude hasn’t accepted his fate as a terminal O-5 yet. Welcome to OP-T, where careers go to die.
  34. jollygreen07

    Safe on Deck

    Yo I heard you are going to Oshkosh this year. Are you going to do a special on-scene episode?
  35. jollygreen07

    Ship Photo of the Day

    Patrick O’Brian pokes a little fun at the sloop/ship rating convention in the age of sail RN through the character of Stephen Maturin. Even rating the Leopard (a 4th rate) as a sloop when a lieutenant takes command of her at the beginning of “The Fortune of War” If you haven’t read the series...
  36. jollygreen07

    NIFE Phase 3 - Flying 2023

    Man, times sure have changed. I did IFS out of Destin with a former trucker who would show us how to land using nothing but the trim wheel. IFS wasn’t stressful AT ALL. We had pattern and cross-country solos, too. Also, stay below 3k working the area over the water west of JKA. Please and thank...
  37. jollygreen07

    Who’s gonna fly this thing?

    Damn that kid savage af.
  38. jollygreen07

    Ship Photo of the Day

    Three survivors… Jesus…
  39. jollygreen07

    Europe under extreme duress

    Have you actually listened to his podcast recently? I thought you liked Rogan? Or are you just dunking on Chuck for funsies?
  40. jollygreen07

    Anyone want to salvage a busted old CV?

    That would be fucking awesome.
  41. jollygreen07

    My Primary Experience + Gouge - Corpus

    *Laughs in KLN-900*
  42. jollygreen07

    TAF at Punta Gorda Airport today

    Sucks to suck. Also curious about the kiddy diddler story.
  43. jollygreen07

    TAF at Punta Gorda Airport today

    40kt wind limit on the canopy of the T-6. That just means wait for a lull, get in and hurry the fuck up before the wind picks up. Those X’s aren’t going to get themselves!
  44. jollygreen07

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    Tamiya makes a damn good kit. I need to get back in to building model airplanes.
  45. jollygreen07

    Big Wing to T-45 IP?

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