Mark Hamilton
Pro-rec NFO
Okay awesome! Thats good to know. Not trying to turn pro, just enjoy swimming, biking, running and competing. I usually do like 3-4 tris per year.
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Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation (Part 3)
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Is the back seat of a Rhino set up for JHMCS?
Short answer is Yes.
On the other side of the argument, when you're IN flight school there are two extremes: 1) sitting on your ass for months on end waiting to start training. 2) push, push, push to get done. During the former, you'll proly have enough free time to become an olympic athlete. During the latter, you wont even have time to get a decent workout in. But of course, YMMV so take it as it comes, but I wouldn't go and sell off your bikes if I was you.
Mark Hamilton
Pro-rec NFO
For people who get the E-6B Mercury, do they still have the whole 3-year/2-year/3-year setup for their initial service obligation, or would it be different since they don't really do a sea tour in the same way that tailhook aircraft do?
There is no difference in commitment and initial sea tour structure regardless of community. You can expect a 3 year JO sea tour (+/- months depending on your timing and community needs) and a 3 year shore tour initially. Just because you're not going to "sea" in the E-6 doesn't mean it isn't your sea tour.
Which is why it (and P3s) ain't such a bad deal.
And is there similarly a disassociated tour after the shore tour?
Yeah, just because we're not on a boat doesn't make it shore duty. Kind of a misnomer I guess. I've been gone about 370 days out of the last two years. I understand fully that my being gone is not the same as being gone on a ship or someplace sandy, but I would still bet that's more deployed time than your average shore duty guy...
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Yeah I've heard that deployments are something like two weeks on, two weeks off. Where do you guys go when you deploy? I know all the VQ's are based at Tinker, do you fly to other AFB's in CONUS, or do you go international?
It depends, but what I've noticed over the years of reading threads like this is that pilots from communities across the Navy tend to have roughly the same amount of Total Time (barring an IA or whatever). No doubt crew concept, SORTS, SHARP, T&R, etc all have something to do with that. It also seems like groups of people (squadrons or CSGs) tend to deploy on similar timelines for a given time period. So when 6 month cruises were the norm, most communities seemed to have a 18-ish/out 36-ish month ITEMPO. When deployments longer than that are normal (like now), that goes up.
That said, I get you guys det all the time, so you may end up having a little more, but overall, I'm guessing it's not that far enough...in large part because the bean counters actually track your ITEMPO.
Flew the Scooter for 15 years & never laid eyes on a contraption like that. There was a standard 'boarding ladder' for the A-4 (shipboard & ashore). The top boarding platform plugged into a hole in the fuselage, port side just below the canopy rail. It was in no way, an integral part of the airframe.
*The 3rd thumbnail is a special boarding ladder mfg. for the "Blues" A-4s & stowed internally for use @ non-military airports.
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