The Naples incident/how to ruin your career before it's started/make others suffer

Wouldn't disagree there. Just sayin I don't think Mike is totally off base saying that A-pool brings this sort of stuff out of the bad apples (even if it would have come out anyway at some point).

Friday is a work day?

According to Statesman it is, crucifictions are done on Mondays.....hence the phrase "sounds like a case of the Mundays"

Friday is the day that you show up at 7:15 for a uniform inspection, IN BLACK SHOES!

Wait, thats every weekday from now on.

Being active duty doesn't solve the problem of acting like idiots.

I was on active duty all four years at USNA (at least that's what my ID said). I'm pretty sure the other academies do it the same way.

It would considerably shrink the A-pool though and save all that O-1 salary money for better uses, like new new uniforms!

Seems like a rather expensive integrity check to me!

Got a couple of USAF kids that I study with in API who went to the academy and they said they didn't get paid until they actually started doing their job. The Navy is the only service that keeps their people active. Correct me if I'm wrong, but at least for my Marine option friends from ROTC, unless they actively chose to be stashed, they didn't get paid until they reported to TBS.

Yeah, the whole "active duty" thing for us didn't extend to pay either...only a couple hundred a month till we got commissioned, so we definitely weren't pulling down any active duty pay at USNA. Not really sure what the thought process behind having us be considered active is. Regardless, active or not, there are idiots everywhere, unluckily enough for USNA it was academy guys this time.

Well, see - the fun thing about it is that it doesn't matter if they're AD or not. If someone's bounced from an initial-training program, skipper has the option to send them home. So what difference would it make if they had "USNR" after their name?

Man... Some things never change. The Kitty Hawk sailors were well known for their shenanigans, even when I was in Yoko for my two deployments many moons ago.

You may have been considered active duty while at USNA, but it does not count toward time in service. You are not a commisssioned officer with 4 years, you are commisssioned with no years in.

General Hospital started in 1963.
T-2 enter service in 1959.
VT-1 decommed in 1976.
Tactics 2 however was first published in 1958 by Avalon Hill.
My roll of the dice would have A4's as a 1965 wingee+/1 a year.
We will say he winged at age 23 or 24.
That would be a 1941 or so birthday.
Making A4's about 68.
Sorry A4's for saying you were 80 something

Exxxxcellent... (pulling handle bar mustache). Now I have to find out where exactly Flash works and my AW gumshoeing is complete.

Except it was only in the last couple of years that he retired from his airline, and that was before the age 65 rule came into effect. So he's probably in his early 60s.

They forgot about re-runs...

I recommend following their public crucifixions they are sent to the front lines in Afghanistan as army privates for a year.

Thats a fact, and its the part of naval aviation(and the navy in general) that i hate with a passion.

I've never heard of this Tatics II game. What is that, Atari 5200? ColecoVision? The allegedly portable Apple IIC??

HEY! I still have one of those!

PumaNet V2.0 = IIC+

Well, if the Puma's portable then I guess it stands to reason that everything in it is also. Maybe I've been excessively harsh on Apple all these years.

Hey I started off on a Mac LC3. Then I went to the evil empire because the games were better.