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If the military had professional administrators filling administrative roles so that its pilots could do nothing but mission plan, fly, and debrief to be tactical savages - and let people not have to move every 2-3 years - it would go a long way towards fixing things. Leadership is right when...

If the T&R for a TMS requires WTIs to evaluate certain T&R codes and give quals, and if a AirO does not have a need for a WTI in a TMS, then it would make sense from a practical perspective to not send WTIs to be an AirO if you need WTIs to be in the fleet giving codes. Same thing for the MATSG...

If your end goal is airlines and the Navy or another service won’t let you be a pilot you should do everything you can to get out of your contract w/o it coming across negatively - ie do something else honorably for the min amount of time rather than 7 years as a NFO Get out ASAP, use your GI...

Definitely NOT the USMC

Sheesh. I can understand mostly red and some yellow for certain squadrons in certain phases, but that should never be the standard across a MAG/CVW. The difference between having >30 in the last 30, 15 in the last 30, and less than 10 in the last 30 is so noticeable between all three. >30 -...

What does red and yellow correspond to?

This - real talk. How competently do you think we can fight a war with China if we can’t figure things out in peace time.

Was looking at LAX or ONT. I didn’t have a specific company in mind yet. I needed to start researching differences. Is there a place where all the things mentioned as variables for each company are located and easily comparable?

Question for anyone at THE SHOW regarding short call reserve. I currently live approximately 2.5 to 3.5 hours away from a major domicile. If go the airline route I'd like to do everything possible to keep my current home and not move. I'm not opposed to being flexible - i.e. prepositioning...

You have an idealistic view. We’d sooner lose a war than fix problems, even if we saw the loss coming decades in advance. No incentive to solve problems that take decades when people are only in jobs 9-24 months. Don’t have enough bodies for DHs? Someone’s gonna get dual hatted, a JO is...

I was about to add 2P'd Captains and Majors continuing to fly in the fleet, or having aircrew be professional aircrew do nothing but fly a la commonwealth countries. Visiting foreign countries and watching them operate the same equipment we do, only better, is always depressing.

No. USMC generally views ROI on a CAT-1 (new pilot) as better than converting a Legacy platform pilot. If we could evolve past the up and out manpower system and wrap our minds around the notion that post-DH hinges can only be a non-flying staff officer or a CO, that’d probably change, we’d...

For the life of me I don't understand why they don't approach it as a retention issue and fix the personnel system. Every dude you keep on AD saves you years of training someone new. How much $$ and time does it take to make someone that can MC a RED FLAG.. and we just let them walk.

Yeah rog, life sucks for everyone. Saying suck it up and color is very Marine Corps, but doesn't increase capability. There's probably a better way to do things.

I didn't mean to convey an assumption that it would be different for a RW platform. I mentioned FW only because that's my background.

Flying a complex weapons system like the F-35 that has USAF and USN backing is a huge benefit, if not a necessity. IMO, the USMC doesn't have the ability to manage every aspect of a program like that to fully take advantage of its capabilities, from requirements, acquisition, test, TAC D&E...

So, again, what are those plenty of other platforms? And what do you think Marine TACAIR should be doing? And against what threat country? And on what day of the war? If the plenty of other platforms you are talking about is USAF/USN, and USMC gets out of TACAIR completely, then OK I agree...

Oh man I wanna hear more about how VMFA is tainted and if Fat Amy isn't the platform of the future then what is. It's either buy Fat Amy, Rhinos, or get out of the TACAIR business. The only thing flying with the USAF tainted me with is the realization that the business model of a 200+ person...

The real foolish thing to do would be to slow down pilot production and waste money so that people could do something they’ll likely never have to do in the fleet. Pilot manning crisis with a near/peer threat and funding/budget issues. Gotta be smarter than that.

I doubt you're going to find many people that will make the argument that the government's response was effective, consistent, and clearly articulated as it was being executed. Re: Trump and vaccines - IIRC, an issue some had was that they believed it took a significant amount of time for...

Agree with all that. The issue is is when what is right for the whole may not be right for every individual that makes up that whole. The public discourse has left no room for nuance. It shouldn't be the never ending drum beat from our elected and non-elected officials saying, "get...

I’ve listened to pretty much every podcast going back many years. My impression is that he is not anti-vaccine. My impression is that he believes everyone should make a risk based decision based on their personal health situation and beliefs, and that the right answer for one person may not be...

I agree with all that except I don’t know if I would call him flat out dumb. Dude probably isn’t going to be designing space ships soon but I think he has some accurate thoughts on cultural issues, specifically the benefits and importance of long-form conversations vs traditional TV dialogue...

I wonder how many people who are critical of Joe Rogan have actually listened to multiple podcasts from start to finish. Dude comes across as open minded and just wants to know the truth.

Just wondering if there are any reserve aviators I could shoot a DM with some questions. Thank you.

China is laughing at us

Don't worry about it, homie, none of the TMS out there require the ability to do 23 pull-ups, whatever the ungodly amount of ammo can lifts is, or run 3 miles as fast as a Kenyan. Look on the bright side... with all the time you are going to save not doing ammo can lifts and getting haircuts...

I use the standard 9G kneeboard with Velcro on it that I put on myself. I put Velcro on the back of the tablet. Never had the tablet become loose or unstable. Only costs like $5 to set up. Works great with iPad mini for ForeFlight and whatever Samsung we use for Kilswitch and AeroApp. Only...

Probably WSO to pilot transition then F-35B followed by a life of DBFM/being silhouetted by BATR.

Almost as good of a question as asking why do two-seat Hornets exist?

Dude, don’t get emotional or personal about this. It is a business. You are just a cell on a spreadsheet the Marine Corps is trying to turn green. Same thing for the other services. That doesn’t change before, during, or after OCS. You’re a statistic to the system, and the mammoth ship that...

When I saw the NVG triangle one I immediately thought someone needed to turn their pos lights down.

I'm doing my due diligence on the VA's website, but was wondering if there was any gouge out there on using your GI Bill for an ATP through a program like Delta ATP-CTP. I paid into the Montgomery GI Bill so have both that or the post-9/11 GI Bill as an option. Quick search turned up no...

Not every flight hour is equal. A BFM sortie where you are in the area shortly after takeoff can be as quick as a 0.6 and will make you a better pilot than a 4.0 spent tanking and hanging on the blades. Total # of reps matter just like flight hours. I'd take three 0.6s in a day doing BFM in a...

I was going to mention earlier that collateral duty requirements/responsibility differences can lead to them. Example - every commander is going to have CCIRs with associated timelines for getting the information reported. The need for approval by a decision maker before the reporting of a...

Can't remember the last time, if ever, I've heard of someone falling out of an event for crew rest being busted. With flight time and quals as hard to come by as they are these days, who is going to cnx? Also, if you cnx, there will be a perception that you can't control your life and aren't...

Next step - bring basic standards down to marginal performance. Already happening.

I’ve set up training with guard units a couple time. We had to phase the training, crawl walk run style. Verbatim quote “we have guys that will be showing up after a layover with Delta, we need to work them up.” No doubt the thousands of hours of experience they had are worth the couple of...

Something else to think about - have our practices in personnel and assignments kept up with what we expect of our pilots compared to the 20th century? Also, has the structure of squadrons evolved to support increased expectations from pilots? I ask the above based off an assumption I'm making...

FWIW, some other perspective, I didn’t have my mind made up until I got orders and had my mind made up for me. I didn’t take the bonus, and am staying past MSR. Taking the bonus would have made me fodder to get sent to an undesirable billet or location. Depending on the length, it also would...

I cannot believe the amount of time and money that gets poured into making a patch only to have them go do something else shortly after they graduate from school. Dudes are peaking and becoming IPs, division leads, and patch wearers towards the end of that 36 months. Maybe a 12 month...

How do you run an A/A timeline without a radar? (I fly the Hornet should know this - usually clean) Do you just “do the moves” TAC form style?

Lost access to PNA. Thanks for the help.

What are you guys doing or what have you seen others do for second, third squadron patches on leather jackets, weapons school patches, 1K hour patches, etc? Getting subsequent squadron patches sewn over previous squadron patches on the chest seems pretty standard, but I don't see a lot of...

Put simply/bluntly - it means you’re going to have to do your own admin and have significant collateral duties in addition to flying. USMC squadrons are generally structured similar to Navy squadrons. USMC and Navy have different structures than USAF. A USMC and USN squadron will be...

Just imagine if the logic was hostile = shoot and somehow the all friendlies get dec’d hostile in a shooting platform. Interpretation of sensors is not always right, be it eye balls or electronic means.

Wasn’t tracking that MCO. Thanks.

AWers - would appreciate some insight into how this works. My ADSC ends next year, roughly coincident with my current orders. I am going to meet with my monitor prior to the end of the year. I know what I will be requesting to do next, and if that’s not what is in the cards for me then I will...

Nittany how was the tech boot camp experience? Strongly considering getting out and was considering going to a coding boot camp. Any benefits coming from a military / aviation background?

I did 100% online EWS. Worth it to get promoted? Probably. Worth it to make you a better thinker or officer? Absolute waste of time when you don’t have any to waste.