Summer Training

[Moc1Sig]

take a swing through one of the FRS's. Call or write the PAO beforehand so you've got someone to talk to, and you don't show up on a day when a change of command is going on or something.

Appreciate it, mainly wanted to see if someone had actually done this before. I plan to contact my OR and command far ahead of time and im not expecting anyone to play tour guide to me. Mainly, I have have spare time I'd enjoy watching navy aviation closer than 2 miles from a base or the t-45 or cobra that comes into the local field for fuel. hopefully, I will spend my last summer on the beach sipping landshark and not even realize where it went, but tossing around some ideas for a last job/school free summer.

 

[MasterBates]

Dude, take your BDCP money. Pay off bills and blow the rest on booze and cheap whores.

Hanging out at a squadron as a pre-OCS BDCPer is a waste your and the squadron's time.

 

[Moc1Sig]

enroute to do so at 1300 tomorrow for a week of boats, bars, beaches, broads...rinse and repeat.
Really you answered the question with that, waste of squadron time, so i doubt command would allow it.
Time to throw on the costas and drive south:icon_smil

 

[AE2(AW)]

I remember a couple nrotc guys came to my squadron in the summer for training. haha they gave them flight suits and patches. they should have told them to bring sodas or dip to the paraloft too because there are two nuggets out there now with some pubs in their patches inbetween the velcro and patch. now the guy from the academy was cool but thats mainly becuase he was some poor DCman who had enough and applied. mustangs ahhh...

 

[MIDNJAC]

I remember a couple nrotc guys came to my squadron in the summer for training. haha they gave them flight suits and patches. they should have told them to bring sodas or dip to the paraloft too because there are two nuggets out there now with some pubs in their patches inbetween the velcro and patch. now the guy from the academy was cool but thats mainly becuase he was some poor DCman who had enough and applied. mustangs ahhh...

For the most part, your post makes no sense. Are you saying that middies on aviation cruise (where they fly/ride along) shouldn't have bags? Or are you saying that only prior E's are "cool"? Not sure here....

 

[Lobster]

"Officer specific fun"


haha good way to put it, that gave me a laugh.

 

[BACONATOR]

Why the hell would you WANT to do summer training? That's like the moron at A pool who volunteers for a stash job, or the douchebag who actually ASKS to go to vance so he can fly the "sweet T-6". Quit being dumb and volunteering to work when you are getting the SWEETEST deal the Navy has to offer future officers.

And BDCP = OCS, NOT boot camp..... unless you suck and don't make it through OCS.

 

[navy09]

Why the hell would you WANT to do summer training?

Liberty in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney. Well that's just one reason

 

[MIDNJAC]

Why the hell would you WANT to do summer training?

As they say, don't knock it until you try it. Maybe the name is a bit of a misnomer.....perhaps it should be called "professional fun camp for middies" or "get paid to go do cool shit that motivates you to stick with the program". Seriously though, I had a blast on both of my middie cruises, and actually still keep in touch with many of the dudes I knew from them......for example a very large percentage of the group I did my 1/c aviation cruise with are now in jet school in Meridian, so knowing all of them was another bonus. Sorry if you didn't get the experience

 

[FMRAM]

If there is one single way that I am jealous of the Midshipmen it is the freaking Summer cruises. This is one of the few "good-deal" gigs in the Navy similar to port call.

 

[MIDNJAC]

If there is one single way that I am jealous of the Midshipmen it is the freaking Summer cruises. This is one of the few "good-deal" gigs in the Navy similar to port call.

Yeah, I know many of the STA-21's that I went through the program with felt the same way

 

[scoolbubba]

Why? Because I spent 3 weeks in So Cal on the navy's dime, made a port call in Hawaii for another 3 days, and then went to saipan and japan?

And got paid....

And met some friendly all american surfin' girls in san diego who didn't mind my company....

yea it wasn't a bad deal. AT ALL.

 

[MIDNJAC]

As otto nears his wings, I sense that bogey is trying to peek out again

 

[BACONATOR]

I don't think you guys get it. In BDCP, unlike ROTC or the Academy, we most likely wouldn't get to do all the high-speed shit you guys did on your summer cruises. We are "enlisted" but, for all intents and purposes, not in the Navy yet. We don't have flight physicals and likely wouldn't get to do more than touch a Navy aircraft, and most likely end up being some squadron bitch/gopher. It would be a no-cost type of thing and probably wouldn't get to do much (read: any) travel on the Navy's dime. Shit, I know ENS's who had 3 months in between primary and advanced who took NO COST orders to go do OHARP. You think they're going to pay for a BDCPer travel??

The Navy is already paying us a LOT of money for something that's not guaranteed to them yet. They wouldn't authorize us to do anything dangerous lest we NPQ before we start. So while your idea, in theory, sounds good, we're not NROTC. We'd just end up wasting our summers in what amounts to a lame stash job. If you want to do that for some "squadron experience" and a couple sea stories, then by all means, give it a go.

Personally, I recommend growing your hair long, getting your ears pierced, finding as much hookers and blow that you can and enjoy the freedoms that you enjoy as a civilian which you are soon giving up.

 

[pmasters]

I contacted my area's NROTC unit when I got picked up to see if I could PT with them every once in a while or at least just do Navy-related activities. They told me that for liability reasons thats not possible. You can however go chat with your NROTC folks, usually pretty good guys with good info. Other than that, I second what Otto said, although its a good idea to not get caught doing anything illegal. I hear they frown upon that these days.

Though for the record they can't drug test while you're in BDCP. I thought that was weird.