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Flight helmet designs
- Thread starter DeltaKilo
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The contract price for the F-35 helmet (aka HMDS) is something like $300-400K USD! That was a fun time!!!! Python was an awesome host!
I did some custom "Red Five" appliqués in the front of my helmet over a weekend during my HSC fleet tour. Took me a few hours, but turned out nice. Put it back in my locker. Go to fly a few days later and it was gone. 🤨
Our salty PR2 who was running the shop said matter of factly, "The only person who can approve helmet stickers is her or the CO". Given the fact I was an H2P and she had a penchant for disassembling working helmets to cannalbalize headphone amps or "lose" drysuits, I didn't fight it. Dysfunctional in retrospect.
Yeah that tracks. Only the CO and some random 2nd Class have this magnificent power.
hlg6016
A/C Wings Here
That's the look I get when I am told not to touch a thing!
I am having flashbacks to a bunch of us JOs trying to work MS Paint and Powerpoint in order to crank out storyboard slides for the Admiral so she could brief SACEUR/COMEUCOM, CJCS, and SECDEF on the happenings within COMSIXTHFLT AOR. I really don't know what they got out of those because we had very little artistic talent and even those who did didn't have the proper tools.
She effectively staged a coup of the PR1 (who admittedly wasn't awesome) to make herself LPO. Our incompetent MO, who let the MMCPO run the department, allowed it and rewarded her with a recommendation to CAP to 1st. JOPA found out at awards quarters and only then aired the laundry to the CO, who didn't know any of it. Why be a PR if you hate helo pilots and aircrew? Oh wait, I know, she wanted to go back to VFA with "Real pilots" 🤬
Holy shit.
Holy Navy acronym hell.
Let me translate:
The Airman didn’t see enough elbow pointing around the squadron spaces, and promptly wished to be sent to a squadron where pilots would “step to the jet” (the “jet” in this case is a C-130).
The best part is the old embossing tape gun…what a find!
That's incredible to me, and I've never met a PR who wished to go back to VFA. Unreal. I'd be livid too. I haven't always had the most talented or hard working PRs, but the majority really have been salt of the earth people I have enjoyed working with and our current crop is pretty good.
It was a weird time with the budget issues and I was too new to understand what was happening. I have a lot less respect for the MO at the time.