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Confessions of an A-6 Driver

ChuckMK23

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Great piece. Paco was a fellow Midshipman (a year behind me) at NROTC Boston University. We produced some amazing leaders from my unit during my time there -a Navy surgeon who reinvented battlefield trauma surgery, a woman Rear Admiral helo pilot who transformed Navy rotary wing and drove the transformation from legacy helos, and one of the most decorated Marine infantry General Officers. An amazing group of humans that I enjoyed watching come of age.

Our small urban (and urbane) NROTC unit in the heart of Boston in the 80's - when we were in an environment that still was uncomfortable with our uniforms - but our unit was tops - as good as Purdue's or Notre Dame's or Villanova's - the Navy ROTC powerhouses at the time.


https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27604/confessions-of-an-a-6-intruder-pilot
 

Gatordev

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So who was the Rear Admiral helo pilot that transformed Navy rotary wing and drove the transformation from legacy helos? #transissohotrightnow
 

Gatordev

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Her name (and bio) sounds familiar. But curious, given your lamentations of HSC (and rotary wing, en masse), and the general lamentations of much of the HSC community, how did she transform legacy helos?
 

ChuckMK23

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Her name (and bio) sounds familiar. But curious, given your lamentations of HSC (and rotary wing, en masse), and the general lamentations of much of the HSC community, how did she transform legacy helos?
She was a big leader in getting the MH-60S stood up and accelerating the demise of H-3's and '46's in HC when it was still all conceptual. Nothing to do with my personal and professional feeling about the community. She had her time in the sun to move things along. In any case I was more looking back on folks who did cool/big stuff who I knew as beer drinking youngsters. Paco's article on Tylers Blog triggered the reminiscence :) We all had to start somewhere.
 

BarryD

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Fun read.

Allegedly an A-6 episode of the Fighter Pilot Podcast with Stephen Coontz is coming up too.

(as RLSO pointed out in the what are you listening to thread, the name is pretty cheesy but the podcast is good and has actually grown to cover a lot of cool aspects of military aviation- would recommend to other wannabes out there)
 

Gatordev

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She was a big leader in getting the MH-60S stood up and accelerating the demise of H-3's and '46's in HC when it was still all conceptual. Nothing to do with my personal and professional feeling about the community. She had her time in the sun to move things along. In any case I was more looking back on folks who did cool/big stuff who I knew as beer drinking youngsters. Paco's article on Tylers Blog triggered the reminiscence :) We all had to start somewhere.

Gotcha. And she no doubt was hampered by the Common Cockpit debacle while trying to get Sierra up. At least the software turned out GREAT! Said no one ever.
 
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