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I joined via BDCP in Oct 1994 and had about 11 months in the program before going to OCS. My plan is to retire with 29 years, 1 month of commissioned service + 11 months of BDCP to get to 30 total years of service.

I had PRK a couple of months ago and the doc gave me Flarex steroid drops.

I drove to Millington this weekend, and they still require the DoD sticker. I told the gate guard that the AFB I work at doesn't require a sticker, and that the Navy had issued a memo earlier this year that the Navy was doing away with stickers too. He said "not in Millington". I don't see...

I was ship's company on NIMITZ during the filiming of Carrier, and I've since done a second ship's company tour on another CVN. I think the show gives a good snapshot of what life is like on a carrier.

I was the MIDN Coordinator on my last CVN. I found that a lot of MIDN that picked surface nuke only did it to be around naval aviation. I made an effort to swap running mates from nuke to aviator for those that told me their intentions. We had a pretty robust program, and all of our MIDN got...

It'll be unfortunate if he loses his command over this. The video was hilarious. The bosses that I've worked for that had a sense of humor seemed to help enhance the command climate more than hurt it IMHO. In this case, the video probably should have been restricted for Wardroom entertainment...

Sad news to hear. Worked for CAPT Joho for 4 months on Stennis before he retired. Fairwinds CAPT.

I left Bremerton 4 months ago and there were several people from the boat that took the ferry from Seattle. It's about an hour ride in each direction. I don't know the exact hours, but my Yeoman always wanted to leave work before quitting time to catch the ferry, otherwise she'd have a long...

I had my first hernia and didn't know it until I saw the Flight Doc when I checked in for primary. He wouldn't let me start flying until it was fixed. I was down for a total of 6 weeks. About 8 years later, I had my second hernia during my disassociated sea tour and had the surgery on the...

Experienced this during my second Inst Nav tour at the 562nd FTS. It was expected for O-4s to get the Ops Supervisor (SDO) qual, and a handful of O-3s did it based on their ground job. It always seemed backwards to me. The current CO of the 455th FTS in P'cola is a good dude. He did an...

That was USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) in Oct 2006.

A few weeks ago, my Div O and I were walking on base and almost got run over by someone texting. We had just left a command wide safety stand-down at the base gym.

The RAG/FRS squadron for the E-6 is VQ-7. VQ-3 and VQ-4 are the two operational E-6 squadrons. All three squadrons are based at Tinker AFB.

As Hozer said, SNFOs don't go to Randolph anymore. The last Navy class finished there in Aug 08 and the remaining Navy instructors dispersed after the Change of Command for our Navy CO. The Air Force is standing up two Nav training squadrons in P'cola on 2 Oct 09, and the Air Force Nav...

During my first instructor tour, we used to shoot the HI ILS into Randolph all the time in the T-43 (B-737) mostly as part of the student harassment program. I only shot a couple of HI approaches my second tour. A lot of the sim profiles for the students also had HI approaches associated with...

That memo doesn’t surprise me. I had two instructor tours in a joint Navy/AF squadron and the OG can be a Nazi about patches. All Navy instructors were ordered by the Deputy OG to remove the American Flag from our flight suits and wear the OG patch in the name of uniformity to stand in...

To me the whole benefit of being in BDCP was that all I had to do was go to school and sit back and collect my pay check without all of the other stuff Mids had to go through.

Even though I'm one of the HR types now, I don't think the job rates a pin. Most people transitioning to HR now already have a pin. It's the senior leadership of the HR community that tend to not have a pin because they've been on shore duty their entire career.

Maybe this is Big Navy's plan to get more fresh meat to fill IAs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Attrite from API, and you stop by Stucon by 1830 to pick up your non-stop bus ticket for a ride to Ft Jackson leaving at 1900.

Yeah, I was at the table. My roommate created the circle of trust, and it became an ongoing joke as to who was trying to get into the shooter circle of trust.

I was there on my shooter tour.

E6B On the Nimitz, the shooters lived in "shooter alley", which consisted of four 2-man staterooms. When we had more than eight shooters, they lived elsewhere until there was a vacancy in shooter alley. I could be wrong, but I think all Nimitz class carriers have a shooter alley. That was...

I was on this Nimitz deployment when the ICON crew filmed us. It'll be interesting to see what actually made it to the final cut they show on PBS. The film crew was every where on the ship and even filmed while we were on liberty. I'm hoping the Navy doesn't get a black eye from this project...

If you always write this way, it's going to be much harder to stop, just like any other bad habit. I see misspelled words and incorrect punctuation on a routine basis at work. Whether it's someone sending an e-mail to the entire command, or inputs for awards, evals, or fitreps, it doesn't set...

The flight doc discovered I had a hernia when I started primary, and I couldn't fly until I got it fixed. I was on convalescent leave for 2 weeks, and off for an additional 2 weeks because my name fell off the white board in scheds, so I no longer existed and I had to prove to the scheds bubbas...

Do ensure you register with the selective service w/in 30 days of your 18th birthday. I read the pasted article below a few days ago about a guy who was fired from the IRS after 18 years of exemplary service because he never registered. I copied and pasted a few paragraphs from the article...

They quit teaching cel nav for the Navy and AF sometime after I got my wings in '97 and before I returned for my first instructor tour in '00. The Marine Corps trained their enlisted Navs here up until either '03 or '04 and they were still doing cel until they closed their school down. When we...

I hadn't either until my boat tour. Some factors you can't control (slow nugget or deck edge operator) to get a covey launch with a plane on the waist launching seconds before the bow in order to reach the bow of the ship at about the same time. On deployment, we almost always had one of...

If the phone is ringing in the bubble, you know the Boss is not calling to see how your day is going. Usually started with WTF? And then come and see me in the tower after the launch. By the time you made it to the O-10, he had usually forgotten why he was yelling at you in the first place...

I was TAD to the GW from Mar-Jul 04. I got off at the port visit in Naples and flew back to San Diego. Yeah, it was a good bunch of dudes on GW, and a couple of them were my TACAMO brethren. There was definitely a lot more bubble-to-bubble coordination on GW to prevent covey launches. When...

On the Nimitz, we always did 2 days top side, followed by 2 days in the bubble. We didn't do any late changes to bubble if it was raining. If my memory serves me correctly, I think we did 4 days bubble followed by 2 days top side when I went TAD to the GW for 4 months. I agree, being top side...

Well you already know not to wear black shoes. That's a good start. You'll be wearing khakis for awhile, I think until your class passes the EP quiz. The first phase of training will be a repeat of a lot of stuff you've learned in P'cola. As long as you do all of the nit noid stuff the AF...

USN99 -- The last class of SNFOs to go through training in San Antonio will arrive from P'cola in Feb 08 and get their Wings in Aug 08. The final Navy CO and all remaining Navy instructors and enlisted staff will PCS in Aug 08. The Air Force will stand up its Nav school and begin training in...

So there I was in the Gulf back in 2004, TAD shooter onboard CVN 73, in the gear pit, giving the Boss a green deck for the early morning COD -- Ding ding, ding ding, ding ding, ding ding, Naval Operations arriving ... Boss had to wave off the CNO on the first pass because there wasn't an LSO on...

These are the numbers referenced in the Aircraft Carrier Reference Data Manual (NAEC-MISC-06900) for Nimitz class carriers (minus Reagan) -- had some notes in my shooter gouge. All numbers are measured from the ramp (add 10 ft to include round down area) to 1 wire 169.9 ft to 2 wire...

The cost of moving the Air Force Nav school from San Antonio to P'cola has sky rocketed and some DoD folks were in town recently asking the AF WTF? This move was supposed to be saving the govt money in the long run. Honestly, I believe most of the AF folks I work with would rather just leave...

Some folks from BUPERS were in San Antonio last week for a Career Management Symposium. Force shaping is one of the topics they discussed. The briefer mentioned that the officer corps is right at about where the Navy wants it to be, and no more draw downs are planned for the officer side of...

The AF and their AFIs (Air Force Instructions) definitely make me appreciate the fact that I'm actually in the Navy despite the fact that I've spent the majority of my career serving on AF bases. The AF seems to operate on the principle that everything has to be written down in an AFI to...

A shooter buddy of mine took this photo onboard NIMITZ (CVN 68) earlier this summer as NIMITZ cruised in the Indian Ocean. His photo was selected as the cover photo for the fall edition of The Hook.

The Catapult Officer, more commonly referred to as a Shooter is typically a 24 month disassociated sea tour as part of ship's company. NFOs and pilots typically fill the shooter billets, but on my boat we also an LDO Aviation Boatwain's Mate qualify as a shooter too. There was an LDO AB in my...

I started BDCP in Oct '94 ($1,200/month back then) and did 1 year before going to OCS. I've often been asked if I'm prior enlisted, and I've always made it clear that I'm not prior, and that I have 1 year of service in BDCP where I received the same pay as an E-3. I then usually have to...

Completed my masters through the ERAU extended campus at Randolph AFB in 2004. Used tuition assistance to pay for most of it.

Right now the plan is for no T-43s to go to P'cola. They're sending the last 8 T-43s to the bone yard once they stop nav training at Randolph. The AF plans to use a combination of the T-6 and T-1 for their nav training in P'cola. They're making modifications to the T-1 to include a radar and...

Talking to a couple of BUFF Navs at work today, they told me it is part of the Radar Nav's checklist responsibility to visually confirm what they're carrying. Their thoughts were maybe the person really didn't know what they were supposed to be looking for, and of course they both said if they...

I read somewhere that the munitions squadron commander was relieved. I wonder how far up the chain people will be relieved if the AF COS is briefing the SECDEF every day about nukes. Apparently the President was notified when it happend too. The AF's Air Combat Command is having a stand down...

The last class of Navy guys to report to Randolph will be in Feb 08, with an Aug grad. The Navy UIC at Randolph will shut down effective 1 Sept 08, and all Navy instructors and enlisted personnel onboard will PCS. I was the last Navy instructor to check in in Oct 06, and those of us with PRDs...

The E-6B/TACAMO community now wings its NFOs at the Rag. The first two NFOs to get their wings at VQ-7 was in Jan of this year.

I agree, I have been around the AF too much, and I've wasted too many brain cells on all things AF.