Well, i'll try to answer some of them. I'm only at the RAG though. We learn both the front and back seats at the RAG. In the fleet you'll alternate between the front and back. We do radar and comm jamming and electronic surveillance in the back seat and do HARM, comm jamming, nav, and copilot duties in the front seat. The overall attitude right now is that we know our plane is not the fastest or coolest looking, but most of us understand that our mission is very important and look forward to doing it in the fleet. Of course the big plus is that the ECMOs are the ones that run the mission. We''re not self loading luggage or do tasks that the pilot could easily do. It is really good that ECMOS are the majority also, I can see that already. I also like the four-man crew.
On another note, a lot of the stuff we do in the backseat is classified. Most people don't understand it anyway. So that can be a pro or a con, whichever way you look at it.
And from what i can tell so far, the pilots are happy here too. Of course, they know they were handpicked for the platform because of their boat skills so i'm sure that helps. And the Navy guys have the EA-18G to look forward to as well.
Hope this helps a little...