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    Spake the Monkey

    529...not sure how, and I couldn't pull a repeat either.
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    The Good, The Bad and The Stupid...

    Not to mention the tank crew had an equipment malfunction which lead to the incident, not a brain malfunction.
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    Extra Degree: Help or Hurt?

    Oops. I meant for selection to a Navy OCS program, specifically aviation. I don't know, maybe they just want the guys fresh out of college? As for helping, for example, I've heard that having an M.Eng can help out for NUPOC selection(and even paygrade?).
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    Extra Degree: Help or Hurt?

    Having a Master's degree, say an MBA or M.Eng...assuming you did well, is it going to help, hurt, or do absolutely nothing one way or the other?
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    All female C-130 crew

    Aww you're only saying that cuz they had all those huge group shots. Does Vietnam have a mail order bride service?
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    Falklands War

    Prob getting higher for China as they build it up. For North Korea...what blue water navy? Seriously though they have a lot of ancient minisubs and patrol boats.
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    training for the 1.5 run

    I know plenty of dudes who passed their PFAs without ever running. They do water polo, crew, TKD(team/club sparring), Thai boxing, etc. And they all never run until about 2 weeks before the PFA. And they pass the run fine...esp the water polo kid, who's a friggin scorcher. Basically...
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    Advanced Standing Rumor

    Are you saying you know ppl who got picked up this year?
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    ASW coming back?

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/20050811/ts_chicagotrib/usreportwarnsofchinasubthreat Hope we're already on top of this one.
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    big 4 inspection question

    Disclaimer: Did not go to OCS. The OCS gunnies may do things differently, but: When ROTC mids mixed it up but corrected properly it was OK. What is BAD is when you have a brain freeze and go back to the beginning out of the blue without a "belay my last" or whatever it is and screw it up...
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    Fighter Fling 2004

    and more...going back to 1989 now.
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    Question about G-forces

    I know this really should be simple, but my head really friggin hurts. Not a good sign I take it...
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    ASTB No Longer Part of Service Selection Equation

    Anybody who's been a midshipman/officer candidate/etc. and didn't drink underage raise your (virtual) hand... Maybe you really are a perfect aviator. I still have no idea how that relates to having somebody drinking underage at your party. If that's seriously a factor in judging the future of...
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    Suggestions and for the PTI

    So you guys have mando PT? We didn't...only PTI duty was during O-week. But if you DID screw up, then you'd end up on mando remedial PT with the gunny. Stretches, daily 7, then it's off to gunny's next project. Circuit training, weights, long runs, whatever. Your AMOI would probably...
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    Anyone seen this before?

    Could someone explain how an aft facing tail rotor works? I thought the tail rotor's job was to cancel out the torque effects of the main...
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    Anger seethes over Quran allegation

    Simple...page by page. For example, with the Bible, you would start with the sleep inducing ones like Numbers(begat so and so...), then work your way to the New Testament. It's like sending people piece by piece. If they don't comply immediately, you start with the non essentials, then...
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    NROTC without Scholarship

    A girl in my former unit got offered a scholarship after the first semester, as she had the grades, a passing PFA score, and showed effort, and I believe it was all done within the unit...no talking to CNET or such.
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    Contracting Early

    Spot on...and you DO need to pick it up before end of junior year(usually meaning sometime before 2nd semester starts), probably has to do with sending you off to your 1st class cruise.
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    Fight's On! The origins of TOPGUN and dogfights back in the day/future prospects

    Yeah, and all us wannabes love hearing it. Nothing like a good sea story to catch our attention...
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    Bdcp

    Thanks guys. Sounds like a plan.
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    Bdcp

    When does the BDCP window close for new apps as far as your year in college? Some posts here indicate that senior year of college is too late, while you can only apply as a non-tech major after 2 years...so you can basically only apply DURING your junior year? And what's the significance of...
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    Bypass the recruiter because of medical question...

    One thing you CAN do for yourself is to look up the regs. If you have a medical question, I assume you've got a medical CONDITION to go along with it. If it's something iffy, it can be found in the medical regs. Naval Aero Medical Institute is probably what you're interested in if you're...
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    Achieving maxes

    I noticed this as well. Generally, I've found heavier shoes tend to have really nice supports(especially for an overpronator like me), while the lighter shoes aren't as good at shock absorption. I switched to the light ones one day and was passing people I normally lagged by a bit...
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    Fleet Week

    New York Fleet Week? Prob more DDGs, a CG, and maybe an amphib. We New Yorkers haven't had a full blown CV come in since USS America got decommed...there was the RN Invincible years back. But if they bring the JFK, that'd be nice. Don't be afraid to ask questions, but don't be a tool...
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    Achieving maxes

    Sorry, that should read: "You can slide your hands without raising them off the ground." No question mark. You're saying SOL for somebody who after doing one pushup, realizes their wrist is canted a little off, slides their hands a little bit to adjust, then continues? When you consider the...
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    Achieving maxes

    You can slide your hands without raising them off the ground? What if your palms get slick from sweating? What if you started out wrong and you're stressing a joint the wrong way? If there's anything about pushups that pisses me off is that people get away with camelbacking and doing...
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    Does the college matter?

    Just some issues: Yeah, it's nice to pick a major you're interested in where you'll work hard. Except a buddy in engineering busts his ass(I mean a REAL work ethic, the kind most people wish they had) and is barely passing the prereqs...he'll do fine when he gets past them, but they've killed...
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    Does the college matter?

    Kbay, sorry if that came across wrong. If somebody has "it" but thinks government is more interesting, that's fine by me. When I say they didn't want to bother, that's not accurate, as I know they simply weren't interested in doing problem sets every semester...but fine with pages and pages of...
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    Does the college matter?

    Since when were they forcing people to go nuke? Anyway, I'm just saying that some aviation principles come straight out of engineering concepts, an engineer who "got it" legitimately and understood it is probably not going to be suffering. With a history major, he might do well, but he could...
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    Does the college matter?

    Anybody who passes through an MIT or other top notch engineering program, even if they just BARELY eke through, is clearly "smart." The kids I knew who got in there were just natural whiz kids who really loved that stuff...I had to force myself to buckle down and study the crap that didn't...
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    "Clashing Military Cultures"

    The JORN radar set right? Old physics prof used to be loosely affiliated with the project or something. That was an interesting discussion... But the thing is freaking HUGE, and there's only that and the French version in the entire world, for now... And I'm pretty sure LMT jumped on with...
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    Need Help with running

    Yeah I went on a 3 mile run in the old $hitty shoes. Went into a New Balance store the same morning, salesman tells me i pronate, gives me a new pair, and I'm in heaven. It's seriously amazing how much of a difference shoes can make.
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    Achieving maxes

    Any suggestions for somebody who sucks at running? I've got 85 P/U and 79 S/U but the 1.5mi has broken the 12 minute marker exactly ONCE...at 11:58. I can do 3-5 miles no problem, just not at any kind of speed. I think one of the problems might be that we do S/U right before the...
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    Ok what is wrong with this picture?

    So...retaliation for the Call on Me video?
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    Cortramid

    Highlights of last year: Don't WHORE yourself out to the desperately lonely sub crew-yes money was exchanged. Don't sleep in with the person you hooked up with, which you shouldn't do anyway, thus getting caught when you miss muster, leaving you looking like a moron. Lock your door when you...
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    Cortramid

    There's the good, the bad, and the ugly. Good being something like a T-34 ride. Bad being screwed out of T-34 ride because they're running out of gas...or sitting around waiting all day. The ugly being along the lines of "things that'll get you kicked out of the Navy." It varies from...
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    TSA Headed for Extinction?

    I know El Al(the Israelis) had a policy of "aggressive" flying and cockpit security even before 9/11...seems to have worked for them so far. Any comments on them? I'm sure you must've run into them a few times in your career...
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    Pilot slot after college

    If you look for posts by bobbybrock(Army WO) on this site you'll find rather informative comments on Army aviation...I think that was his userID.
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    Body Armor

    Reminds me of the bulletproof cup from Super Troopers...
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    How many 5-year-olds can you take out?

    It'd be SO much easier with a baseball bat... But 5yr old kids? Come on, they're tiny. It'd be like practicing being a kicker. Punt, punt, punt. Bonus points if you combo the punts.
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    For you console gamers out there...

    The second article had good stuff too...supposedly the new processor increases the odds of processor differences(non-identical chips) which could lead to problems. Which means I wouldn't buy a brand new PS3...like I wouldn't buy anything Sony that's brand new. PS 1 and 2 both had a fair...
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    MCMAP Mandatory Training Mega Thread

    One potential benefit(and downside) of mando martial arts...I know personally I enjoy beating things a lot more than running around a track-I was always more likely to go work a bag for a while compared to going out and running on my own(until as pags brings up...you get used to how good it...
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    GPA and your school

    Most schools have it around somewhere...just gotta look around.
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    Change to the age 60 rule?

    Naked and screaming?
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    Pope John Paul II has died

    Nothing other than I like to believe he's gone to a better place...
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    Anybody see this?

    HOLY CRAP that sucked! Personally I like the badger video, i think it's pretty funny. Something about badgers doing that little dance...
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    GPA and your school

    Like the man said... At my particular university, we have about 5-6 different colleges. Mine happens to have an avg GPA of about 2.8. The other schools are around 3.4 or so. Hmmm....I'd get shafted pretty bad then. On the other hand...I realize there is a definite HUGE disparity...
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    Battleships

    And for the more immediate future: http://www.uniteddefense.com/prod/ags.htm Projected to have two per DDX...
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    JFK replacing Kitty Hawk in Yokosuka

    So that's what the dirty bastards were calling me? I thought they were talking about the DOG drumstick! :icon_smil What's sad about the Rape of Nanking is that of the people who actually DO know about it a lot think that was an isolated incident(comparing it to My Lai for example), when it...
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    JFK replacing Kitty Hawk in Yokosuka

    Perhaps somebody should start a Japanese War Atrocities Museum...hell, you figure the entire East Asian seaboard would have something of that nature already.
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