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If you are working ahead of your career timetable, you will have no problem getting a FAC tour. Some FAC tours are more infantry than others; you'll have many years to figure all that out, especially if you're a fixed wing guy. Some FAC tours like with ANGLICO allow a mid our senior captain to...

DirecTV was always leading the way in HD programming until Dish bought out the HD only sat company VOOM. Today, technically Dish (w/ HD and VOOM pkg) has more HD channels, but Direct has ESPN2HD and Universal HD plus over 100 NFL games per year in HD if you elect to purchase Sunday Tick. Note...

Man, didn't think we'd stir this much emotion from this thread and the previous thread. . good stuff. I think we can definitely save the facts and figures for a less-open forum (multi-platform exercises, schools, the "quiet mumblings" in the back of the O club). . . . The concept that a few...

Wow. . Good times good times. :icon_trou Pilot_man: how about dropping us a brief bio so we don't make any rash judgements about your capabilities, attitude, and background. :icon_lol:

Of course having an airborne radar w/ CIT can give you all the TCAS info on other birds without giving your info to the network. For the curious: http://www.fas.org/irp/program/security/_work/kiv-6.html

Phase array radar? I can't even get an APG-73. Any strike-fighter guy in a CVW will tell you (as they continue to tell me) the importance of BFM. No, we haven't had much of an air to air tally sheet since Vietnam. I'm not going to preach the threats out there and what they are . . we can all...

and really .. . it was really never about the platforms (Okay, well gotta defend the JV commentary); more about the attitudes. I was curious to see some of the takes from Rhino guys about their F-14 brothers.

When your SPC asks, "If the Corps didn't have aviation, would you be here?" Try to have something more clever in mind than, "I doubt it." That and putting 0302 last on my virtual selection sheet got all the Infantry SPCs all excited. We never really got along after that. . . . . .

I can't really help you if you don't get it. It's that the Tomcat crew went from a formidable A/A platform. A few of them are bitter--deer in the headlights in a debrief when the "JV guys" kill remove them after 180 degrees of turn. . . .Wait a minute. Wasn't this platform suppose to be an...

Tali's getting married? Craziness. Welcome to SD. La Mirage is nice enough--couple pilots have had a few mngmt hassles (they can be a little unorganized), but nothing major. I for one like PB, but then I drink a lot more than you (and your quiet married life)--and as it's been said maybe a...

More importantly, the Sigma Nu Alpha House 1/2 mile south of there. . .Good Times.

i think the biggest problems you will have in your flight training involve the time off. Time off for a new platform (first couple months of primary, advanced, or FRS) may be like a week. After a couple hundred hours in a fleet squadron maybe it's a bit more. .Not flying for three weeks or so in...

Are you kidding me? An F-18F with a fair fuel load and no ordnance will get spanked hard by an F-18C with -402s. This is not debateable. It is fact. I've seen the "airshows" where the Rhinos go 10 miles behind the ship at 20k and try to go supersonic and miss. Pretty ridiculous.

I guess the Marines take Independence Day. . . .

The hardest thing about getting into the FBI post 9-11 is luck and timing. For example, unless you are a language specialist, the most competitive applicant is an intel weenie. An intel background can get you short listed; even then, the time from initial application to your time at the FBI...

You ever met a Tomcat -> Rhino pilot that wasn't bitter about something? Guess they didn't realize they were no longer gonna be going supersonic or flying BFM. I'm ready for the hate. . . . . .

Aww come on. That would take all the fun out of ensuring a jet candidate outscored his rotor peers. . .

I'm certainly not in the loop, but I've never heard of a contact lens waiver. I've never strapped an ejection seat on without contacts. Just need your CO to sign off on them. As far as NAMI, you still need the uncorrected standard, last I checked it was 20/40 correctable with glasses or contacts...

UINavy hit the nail. For landing gives a great graphical VSI --that's about it. VV is a good piece of gear and every a/c you can select has got one save a few prowlers. It isn't that you can't fly without it, you just get used to using it. That's why you'll never launch off the boat and never...

lol. . no worries.

There is no API cutoff that I've ever heard of. It is 27.5 when you get commissioned. Yeah, the Marine Col I spoke with told me about a study the Corps did about attrition rates and age, family all kinds of stuff. It was ugly for us old guys. Can't argue facts .. I guess.

What he means is "start the brainwashing"

In the past, the Navy has always been more strict on age. But, with prior military service they will give a waiver; I think it's 24 or 36 months worth. It's in the past couple weeks somewhere on this site. Surely you can find a way to get graduated a little earlier? 19 credits? summer school?

chuckle. . yeah tactics .. and the 'naughty' systems. . .I certainly don't 'study' capacitance-type fuel indicators! Just a EE with a passing interest in gen av.. considered getting my A&P, but then I punched myself in the gut and cracked open a Tacman and a Schlitz.

Man I think you're in big trouble. Can you do summer school? I know the Marines have gotten real strict on age for aviators. I'm not for certain. .but . . if there's anyway your expected date can be prior to 27.5 ? Your OSO might know more. I didn't see an official Maradmin or anything like that...

You were easy on me. .lol. Okay well that explanation works but it's really permittivity and not resistance. But for all practical purposes the analogy works.. Oh and just two tubes. . . . Incidentally many low power circuits have plenty of AC crap on them. Like any IR remote control (and...

yeah good point. . the fuel indicating system is completely 28 VDC. .hmmm. . Obviously you can't send DC through a capacitor (you get an open circuit). . so not sure how it measures the capacitance from the changing fuel/air dielectric without some sort of AC signal. . We're talking about a very...

I think so. . I little dry, but it makes sense to me. . . capacitance type meaning an AC signal is sent from one "plate" to another usually cocentric metal tubes in a probe. The "dielctric" is the fuel, or more accurate the fuel / air mixture (as fuel is burned becomes more air). Basic...

because the fast movers stay straight and level . never pull g's down low and certainly never perform in the cover of darkness. lol . hey nobody said flying assualt missions was a piece of cake. . but this IS the jet forum ;) unfortunately, as you know, mishaps have been cause by both...

and the winner is. .. (user must wear flight suit with wings, 1-2 squadron patches and be present at the Mirimar O Club during the airshow) "hi" I found anything more than this distracts the young groupies and will cut into one's interval time to the next engagement.

Counselor, "extremely unlikely". . sounds a lot like reasonable doubt. I could also "guess" that he is not under arms and is covered indoors and that his skivvy drawers aren't labeled. I liked ThisGuy's enlisted explanation. . Hence, therefore, consequently, without futher ado.. . ...

I'm not an expert on Israel, but I definitely agree with Patmack. Anybody read Zinni's book on his efforts there and Carter's several attempts and dozens of think tanks. . Arafat is an evil terrorist. It would appear that the latest (non-arab) opinion is to wait for Arafat to die. There are...

hey GM how's the lawyering going? my bust. . completely forgot about AWGs. .Thought they went by the wayside like Marine Dress Whites . . AWGs are a nice lookin setup. . for me the less I have to own . the better.

they mean that the new uniform if/when approved will be worn in lieu of the aviation green uniform worn by plane captains and others. That's the theory anyways. Rest assured there aren't any proposals on the table for aircrew flight suits.

I tried to wash all the hepatitis off my hands (actually that was before the FOD walkdown -- thank you o club hotties). had a couple thousand hands out there . . didn't take too long.

Jane's Memorizing Telephoto Lens Camera Toting. . Actual conversation next to "soviet" painted F/A 18C: "Where did you find this one?" "In the hangar" "What country" "in the US. Right there <i point>" "Does it fly?" "yes." "What is it used for" "adversarial...

I guess that's partly the point why service seven different working uniforms: "The Navy Working Uniform is being designed to take the place of utilities, wash khaki, coveralls, woodland green, aviation green, winter working blue and tropical working uniforms. The normal wear life is designed...

Squeeze, I guess that's you in his misc pic#8. The blues made a helluva splash in Miramar this weekend. Good times.

They do seem quite bada$$. I sat in one on Friday and I have a question for a tall Cobra bubba. I was told that front seat doesn't adjust and well I sit rather (ahem) erect. .. do tall dudes have any trouble with the canopy or vis? It would seem you're canted back a bit, so maybe that helps...

I think we're all in agreement then. . fixed wing not "jet". Sure you have the freak platform transitions (cobra to hornet) and Osprey for a couple jet guys. . As far as selections and NSSs. It all varies. We've all seen the guy with a 54 who really really really wants to fly helos and is...

This one gets debated every couple months. I wouldn't save your money. I'd get a bunch of hours if you can afford it. .It's a good time and it can't hurt you. I agree with bunk. I'd say there for every guy with a ton of hours that bit the program there are a hudred that used the experience to...

I think the point was the "jet" comment. The odds of a helo guy flying a tactical jet in the military are very low. The odds of a jet guy flying a helo are also low, but possible. You would know better than me 46D, but aren't they taking a couple jets guys per year for Osprey Transistions? I...

Yeah, that's what I remember--they counted. I can't think of very many of the test acers that sucked in the plane. VERY prepared usually meant at least average in the plane. all you can do is study, use gouge to test thyself (gouge 22% of the time is the actual test) [poll not scientific]...

Hey it goes in your nifty training folder and possibly on your love me wall. You can even work it onto your admin fitrep in some cases. Academics always counted for something for NSS. . but this has fluctuated.

Why do you say that? Aren't they called up when needed? Isnt' that what we're doing? I emphathize with the situation and hope to see it get restructured and worked out. . but where does it say "large scale conventional war" . .nobody said that. Hasn't it always been, "the needs of the President...

stock is stock. .what ya gonna do. i had the same problem exchanging a sword @ Marine Shop. promised dates pass. . finally shipped it to me in Florida six months later. I've used both . . no real problems either way.

Yes, the sh.it that went on was wrong. No question about that. but who are we kidding? PLENTY of physcological and physical "abuse" has gone on by the US in the form of interrogating. Remember we decided to do away with the seven or twelve forms of interrogation at Abu Gharaib like putting...

USAA is a great company. No worries. They aren't military only but "folks that serve" which includes police / FBI / and others. Be careful with the motorcycle coverage. .or more accurately be careful about making any claims if your pricing on the R1 is a really good deal. My roommate crashed...

word. As far as T45 and hornet landings (less than 15 knots) you don't even align to the runway. Just crab it all the way to touchdown (makes the LSO shack a little nervous sometimes). . .lol Go get your hours and work your arse off. . s/f

A lot of the aircrew exchanges are ongoing and will be there for a while. Here are some that I'm learned about in the last year (all 3 year exchanges). . .There is a hornet to strike eagle exch that is a pretty good deal. There is a harrier to British Tornado exchange. USAF (variety of...