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  1. skidkid

    That's flipping gay. We should get vertrep back! :p

    Think a hockey stop with a helicopter. Easily done with a tandem rotor helo less good for most with tail rotors.
  2. skidkid

    Survival Gear and Preparation...

    The problem with a drop holster is you need a belt to go with it, and it doesnt seem to fit with many cockpit seats certainly not the Cobra. I like the Galco shoulder holster, I wear it around the squadron spaces and under my body armor vest when flying (pistol and mag pouches out over the...
  3. skidkid

    Going to IOC before Flight School

    There are always Aviators at an Infantry battalion. In "peacetime" is ebbs to one AirO when not deployed or working up but within about 6 months of deploying 3 Aviators will show up. It is not for the sole purpose of deploying. Scheduling and executing CAS and Assault support training is much...
  4. skidkid

    Going to IOC before Flight School

    Another thing to consider is that most company commanders have completed resident PME (EWS or similar Army school). Their academic warfighting knowledge is somewhat ahead of an Aviator who did the box of books and stayed in the cockpit. At the Operational level the grunt is probably a little...
  5. skidkid

    Helicopter Wheels

    And he fixes his landing at the end of all that, most would have just lowered the nose shutdown and called it a day. Professionalism.
  6. skidkid

    The Calling

    They stole our movie announcer guy.
  7. skidkid

    Going to IOC before Flight School

    You can't outgrunt the Grunts so dont' try.
  8. skidkid

    Survival Gear and Preparation...

    And yet perfectly legal per OPNAV.
  9. skidkid

    Ugliest Aircraft Submissions....

    Boeing's JSF submission.
  10. skidkid

    Survival Gear and Preparation...

    Absolutely concur. If you use quick clot and get to the ER they have to decon you before they can work. If you have the ablity to self administer you are better off with a tourniquet. This has been beaten to death but you will rarely if ever find yourself on walk about long enough to need...
  11. skidkid

    Retard Ring Knocker Uniform Question

    Come on that MUC wasn't just for going to the Academy. It was for going to the Academy and not cheating stealing cars or peddling drugs for a whole year. Have some respect.
  12. skidkid

    British Royal Marine KIA saving reporter

    Isn't the demise of the print media good for the planet. Just a thought.
  13. skidkid

    AF Pisses On One Of Their Own

    If true this would be the very first time I have ever heard of a "false" positive on a urinalysis in over 13 years. Color me somewhat skeptical.
  14. skidkid

    Canucks to stage Mock IED Attack in DC

    Poles? They acquitted themselves quite well in Iraq.
  15. skidkid

    Canucks to stage Mock IED Attack in DC

    Do you have to post a link to every slightly bizarre news piece about the war that pops up regardless of source?
  16. skidkid

    Stupid questions about Naval Aviation (Pt 2)

    Same thing goes for USMC helos. It was interesting working with Navy helos at an AF base (require a DD175). The 60s would file and take off as "Navy blah blah blah" then clear tower and become JNAP.
  17. skidkid

    1 Airstrike = 90 dead in Afghanistan

    We are not going to second guess decisions made under fire based on a fucking CNN write up. If it was wrong it will come out from official channels. Any speculation made in a company office was just that and in no way intended to end up on the internet. Think sometimes people.
  18. skidkid

    Army M4 vs. Marine M16A4

    The article misses one important part of NPA.....close your eyes take a breath relax open your eyes if the sights are not on target adjust your body close your eyes etc etc until when you open your eyes youa re on target.
  19. skidkid

    Question about Officer Pay

    Nope. Out of height weight or even a fat picture is a show stopper.
  20. skidkid

    Conscientious objector pilot?

    Bevo you are seriously off base on the RPs. They are actually charged with carrying weapons to protect the chaplain who is forbidden to carry weapons by the Geneva Conventions on War. The only MOSs that are no kidding forbidden to carry arms are medical personnel wearing a red cross arm band...
  21. skidkid

    Leave while waiting for API, or at different points

    I believe he is asking about the Green side. My info is a little dated but leave was made available to us though there did seem to be some prerequisites.
  22. skidkid

    Here's proof that life as a SWO is all dependent on your CO...

    A letter of reprimand is better than no mail at all.
  23. skidkid

    some complaining and questions

    Get used to it. We are somewhere between broke and practicing to be broke. In the 90s PTAD with the OSO was unheard of it was "go get a job see you in 6 months Lieutenant". The only ones who might be able to work something are prior enlisted reservists with an established relationship at a...
  24. skidkid

    Helicopter Simulators

    The most glaring limitation on the sim beyond bad aero models, outdated graphics and lack of "feel" (and the Cobra sim has all of these) is that at the end of the day it is limited to single ship operations. Everything we do in all USMC communities is dependent on being in flights of 2 or more...
  25. skidkid

    64 Years Ago Today - BOCKSCAR

    Wx abort, no drop.
  26. skidkid

    Helo vs Airplane Mid-air NYC

    There is a vfr traffic advisory freq where all the various helos broadcast their intentions and positions, it isnt that bad. There are established reporting points and rules of the road for the Statue of Liberty, the Wallstreet helo pad etc.
  27. skidkid

    Top Gear rides the Dragon Lady

    They form a circle join hands and pray for the sun to return. At night they do the same for the moon.
  28. skidkid

    Hawkeyes!

    I could see that argument for the CODs perhaps but the P-3s are in theater. P-3s along with the E-2s have the very real future possibility to be operating in a somewhat contested area where low vis would be a real benefit to survivability. Any experts out there?
  29. skidkid

    Transition from FW to RW and RW to FW

    NEEDS OF THE CORPS, all opportunities will be based upon the previous statement. Everything changes every year.
  30. skidkid

    Return of Turboprops to CAS role?

    Too bad the many instances of fratricide leave them far from the first choice of those on the ground.
  31. skidkid

    New Lieutenant with a few burning questions

    So I suppose that assessment is coming from years and years of Fleet experience? I can only assume that you are a salty Fleet Accession SNA with at least 2 or 3 years in an Infantry Battalion (command of a Rifle platoon, Weapons platoon and Company XO at the very least). This solid analytical...
  32. skidkid

    New Lieutenant with a few burning questions

    Waits for TBS are a fact of life and get worse with declining defense budgets. You will only be paid for time on AD whether that is PTAD or upon reporting to TBS. Other than that you are on your own, most end up having to get a job of some kind I worked at a golf course). Work out regularly...
  33. skidkid

    USMC OCS vs Navy OCS

    Well there is capitalization, then there is different uniforms, then there is TBS, then there are duty stations and on and on and on.
  34. skidkid

    usmc aviation vision requirements

    The requirements are the same regardless of platform. There is not a direct corelation between FAA class physicals and NAMI physicals. There is plenty of information here, search around and see what you can learn. You probably wasted some $ on the ebook. You can learn about all you need to...
  35. skidkid

    Multi-Vitamins

    Isn't "it used to be" like a year ago? That is some serious degeneration, must be all that clean living.
  36. skidkid

    Marine "A"C-130s AKA "Harvest Hawk"

    Most was good natured community smutting but as always there is truth in jest. It gets tiresome listening to the "our system can put the nose wheel within inches of a grid" chest thumping when the same guy wants illum an izlid and a talk on to make the zone. Besides if you average the ingress...
  37. skidkid

    Marine "A"C-130s AKA "Harvest Hawk"

    You already seem to be overwhelmed finding an LZ do you really think you could find a target?
  38. skidkid

    Callsign etiquette

    We use callsigns on the interflight freq. If there are multiple seperate flights from the same squadron it will be the squadron callsign to outside agencies boat, DASC FAC etc and inside it will be callsigns. FACs use their personal callsigns and these show up on the ATO and ACEOIs. Example...
  39. skidkid

    Honduran Democracy -- Central American style ...

    Does the Honduran military have an express constitutional responsibility to step in like the Turkish military does? -Too lazy to look it up and I dont habla.
  40. skidkid

    Honduran Democracy -- Central American style ...

    Well you can see how this is going to go, Venezuela threatening military action and the US calling the action unlawful. I think president Zelaya will have a long and unlimited career in public office ala Chavez. I wouldnt want to be a Honduran supreme court justice about now.
  41. skidkid

    Honduran Democracy -- Central American style ...

    It is curious that we (as a nation I suppose) were so quick to condemn a Honduran Supreme court sanctioned coup-type action (no deaths yet) but yet were so very slow to condemn the crackdown on protest in Iran (death toll rising). I realize that South and Central American politics are corrupt on...
  42. skidkid

    Stupid questions about Naval Aviation (Pt 2)

    West Coast grunts were all doing Helo dunker in 03. And since Helo dunker had Helo in the title the Air Shops got to coordinate it. No dunker no Helo ride on the boat.
  43. skidkid

    Quonset Point RI Airshow

    And an A-6?
  44. skidkid

    P-3C Tour of Lake Chelan, WA

    That video is the best illustration that ORM off duty, de-glamorization of alcohol, consideration of others, liberty campaign plan and organic soy milk in the Iraq DFACs has worked better than the perpetrators could eve have imagined. Didnt the P-3 do 200 AGL wrap it up kill the sub shit at...
  45. skidkid

    Yet Another Thread on Watches - Not about brand

    The bezel whiz wheel is good for liberty port currency conversion though.
  46. skidkid

    Continental Pilot Dies in-flight; Plane SOD in Newark

    So at what point did the First O start logging PIC time? -I dont use smiles.
  47. skidkid

    Protests in Iran

    No, it was an Iraqi Mirage F-1 firing an exocet.
  48. skidkid

    Protests in Iran

    I really don't want to wade into the swamp that is politics on the internet but I think the gallup poll is perhaps a little suspect. The closest the two graphs come to meeting are the age groups that would have been subject to the draft and therefore more representative of society as a whole...
  49. skidkid

    Afgan Stalemate

    Read Lester Grau's The Bear Went Over the Mountain. The Russians had much success using their BMPs and BTRs in a support by fire role with the infantry in a separate maneuver element so there is some precedent and the Russian CAS wasn't as good: quote from a Russian company commander -"The...
  50. skidkid

    Miserable Stash Jobs

    Reality check: Dont take career advice if it includes cartoons. To the OP: I am sure you have pissed away any benefit from the "connections" with your shitty attitude and your post. Are you sleeping on a boat, in a can, under a HUMVEE? Getting shot at? Eating MREs? If not STFU, the country...
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