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I once deployed with a strike group commander (jet pilot) who when scheduled for a PAX transfer would just walk up to a door and have a pilot get out so he could fly. He would have to be convinced to go to the other door if he walked up to where the HAC was sitting. I am pretty sure he wanted...

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I went to NPS for my first shore tour and it worked out for me. I picked up two MS degrees while there. I was there at the same time as a friend and we both screened for O-4 (YG02). He screened for DH and is in his DH tour right now. I opted out of the DH board was able to used my MS degree...

You might consider one of the fleet staffs (C7F/C5F). You will get a chance to interact with the intel community. If perform well you could get a recommendation from the N2 or the Admiral which would carry some weight at a lat transfer board. If your timing is good, you could breakout in a...

I was a 2002 USNA grad. YG02 Spring ROTC and USNA grads all had wings +8 for both rotary and fixed wing in their orders. Some OCS grads might have had wings +7 in their orders due to inconsistencies or errors.

One more note on the TPU. If you go to Puget Sound, you are entitled to travel from Seattle to your HOR / HOS (or possibly other locations based on costs). If you elect another PSD you only get transportation from Japan to there. Seperating in Japan will require approval from CNFJ and unless...

I separated from Japan earlier this year without knowing where I was was going to take a job. Mine was a voluntary separation vice involuntary so the entitlements are a little different - you should have more than I did. I was able to ship my HHG back to the US without a final destination...

This is some bad advice. An engineering degree does not mean you have take an engineering job. You will not be "stuck doing what you got your degree in." Top MBA and law programs are always looking for people with engineering backgrounds in their admissions processes. EE degrees are a...

From someone who has "jumped ship" recently I'm going to throw the BS flag as well. 1 - Unemployment for those with a 4-year degree or better is 3.7% right now. This is right at the "full employment" rate. Skilled people with recent work experience are highly employable right now. The SF Fed...

17th Street Grill in PG has pretty good burgers.

Japan is not some mythical place where crime doesn't exist. There are several thousand reported rapes a year in Japan that are never reported in the papers. Accounting for the US military's portion of the Japanese population, the crime rate tiny fraction of what it should be. There were a few...

If you're only thinking of ASW in terms of airborne platforms, you're missing the bigger picture.

Read the aviation major command board precept. A requirement for CVW command and is "significant career experience in carrier aviation operations." Note this is the same requirement for CVN command. "Significant career experience in carrier aviation operations" is defined later to be...

-1 You can never hate on the food in Japan. The depth and breadth of food in the land of the rising sun far outstrips what's available anywhere else. A SoCal burrito might be hard to find, but I can point you in the direction of a Mexican restaurant where the food will amaze you. If...

I would not sell any ACUs on eBay. There have been attacks on us bases in Afghanistan where the Taliban were wearing ACUs. Don't make it easy for them to get copies of our uniform. Don't sell anything to anybody you don't know personally. This is a fairly big issue in theater. It is not...

Already happens. There was a story in Stars and Stripes a few months ago about an American unit stationed on a Dutch FOB in Afghanistan. The Dutch have mixed gender facilities and the Americans (including women) had to use them. The women in the story said that is was no big deal. Everybody...

How badly has YG02 been mismanaged? There are a lot 02 guys that will not be in zone for this years board. JIZ is somewhere halfway down the list of people with 01Jun06 DORs.

Don't expect to be there 4 years. Most programs are 18-24 months. If you have been out of school for a while, you might get a 3 month extension.

I agree. And why did they take a step backwards and use a fixed width font. I don't think they needed to pad the page count.

Get your history straight. FDR was elected to four terms not three. Nothing he did was so spectacular. You can argue that many of his actions actually prolonged the great depression. When the Supreme Court ruled against many of his programs, he came up with a scheme to allow him to appoint...

Mostly on DDGs with no LAMPS det: Learn how to read and use the wind envelope. Nothing worse than waiting 15 minutes for flight quarters and then getting "Green deck winds Port XX/XX" when the winds are clearly out of limits. Note: there are day and night envelopes. Don't get them confused...

What other service industry doesn't nickel and dime you? Everyone I can think of has added fees for added services. Hotels charge you for movies, the mini bar, all kinds of stuff. If you ride Amtrak do you a free meal? Fuel costs are way up for airlines since the 1970s, but you still pay a...

BE CAREFUL BEFORE CLOSING A CREDIT ACCOUNT FOR ANY REASON. You might be upset at NFCU for raising your rate, but closing your account probably hurts you WAY more than it hurts them. This is especially true if you don't carry a balance. Closing a credit account hurts your credit in two ways...

Remember the 60B uses 1986's best technology. The video is originally on VHS tape. I am betting the ship has no way to digitize straight from the tape. I would guess that they are using the wardroom VCR to review the tape because. Filming the TV is probably the only way they have to get the...

Well and there is the fact that the MPD in the aircraft is monochrome green. (not black and white).

The housing allowance will give you enough for a 3 or 4 bedroom house if you want that. A one or two bedroom apartment should be easy to get. You should have the money for the deposit, but you can take advanced pay (repay over 12 months) if you need that to cover the deposit. But for rough...

You can still get DLA when you move there too. Just don't stay in the BOQ too long. I don't remember if I got the MIHA or not. The first paycheck after moving out in town was 5 or 6 thousand more than normal and I woud not have noticed 500 or 600.

I am not sure what that is supposed to cover and when they pay it. When you rent a place in Japan, you need to pay four months rent up front. The rent, a fee the land lord, a fee to the agent that you used and a security deposit. When you first move in, the government will give you enough...

COLA and OHA rates. For OHA, the housing allowance is based on your rent. Additionally there is a utility allowance that is in addition to that and you can make some money here. The current utility allowance is about $700 for a single O-3. As long as you don't live in a huge place and run...

Just a little advice. Whenever you write anything for a fairly educated group (such as officers) they ARE grading you on your grammar. Their impressions can be a little more important than what grade you get in high school English.

Strippers on Guam have a slightly different reputation.

Academy and ROTC graduates are eligible for the post 9-11 GI bill which would leave me to believe that BCDP is as well. They need to serve 36 months after completion of their commissioning commitment. NAVADMIN 187/09 has the details.

It replaces the RAST trap. Same idea to secure to the deck before chock and chains.

And this is what happened when they landed on the oil platform. After several hours of EMCON games and poor procedures, when the crew flew back to mom for recovery, the ownship symbol was nowhere near where the boat was. Running short of gas and unable to find the boat, they landed on the only...

Just for everyone's information. From the JAGMAN the boat diverted the plane to NASNI. The squadron made the decision to divert to Miramar from shore after he had checked out with the boat. It wasn't the boat that screwed up, it was the squadron (CO, OPSO, and ODO specifically faulted in the...

3710 trumps aircraft NATOPS here. Paragraph 7.1.5.1 is very specific about what you are supposed to consider when choosing a landing site after you are single engine (it uses shall). "Land as soon as practicable" implies that the pilot in command can choose to extend flight at the PICs...

5.0 is the new 4.0. I think it because FITREPS/EVALS are now on a 5.0 scale. Just think of it as grade inflation.

The JAGMAN Investigation is publicly available. Reading through it there were a lot of events that changing one might have prevented the mishap. The Pilots statement to the investigation is also available.

So that is why CVNs and LHA/LHDs go out alone all the time? How much native ASW or ASCM capabilities do they posses? LCS is a replacement for FFGs. FFGs' only weapons are a 76mm gun and CIWS. No missiles. Why does its replacement need SM-3? How good is SM-3 against ASCM coming in at 25'...

Pilot seat is not equal to HAC seat. I am sure that I know my NATOPS better than you. No where is there a requirement that a HAC sit in the right seat. Such a requirement does not make sense. There are valid training requirements for being able to switch seats. If you think training stops...

There are a couple of people making the argument that we should be using "CVL"s. They envision a ship displacing approximately 40,000 tons with and airwing consisting of 18-20 F-35B (V/STOL) and 4-6 helicopters. They believe that this combination (with non-organic tanking) has the same striking...

MILPERSMAN 1300-1000 has the official Navy policy for mil-mil couples. How it will work for you will depend on some luck and timing.

Just to add to the list: Georgia Tech and NC State both have distant learning master degrees in engineering as well.

Those 60-90 hour months were pre-FLM. People haven't seen that in years. My highest month was just over 40 hours underway. I think 700hrs in model will be well above average for DHs in the future. The average will probably be closer to 500 in model. That could be scary from an ORM point of...

Is the JAGMAN out there somewhere for us to look at? I have found a few in the past, but the navy doesn't seem to like to make them easy to get to even though they are releasable.

I know there is a sense of privilege associated with the brown boots, but I think it it a bunch of BS. I wore out 4 or 5 pairs of the black Frakenboots before switching to the brown boots and wish I had been wearing the brown boots all along. (My command wouldn't buy the brown ones for anyone...

This is another case of why talking about something you have yet to experience is a bad idea. Unless you are severely uncoordinated then you can be taught the required monkey skills. Good headwork and good Situational Awareness are much more important skills for flying successfully than having...

Anybody want to buy one ... Here is one some guy started restoring but couldn't finish. Ebay Link Better hurry auction ends soon. ghost

On the 60 I would think that the tail would initially drop. The T/R produces a small amount of lift, but it is at the end of a long arm. The sudden loss of this moment should cause a pitch up reaction. Once you lower the collective though, I am not 100% sure what would happen. Between...

From memory so not to be too trusted. White - attack unlikely Yellow - attack probable Red - attack imminent/in progress I could be off on the exact terminology, but that is the jist.