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So, in the somewhat un-likely event I get E-6's, I will be hating life more than usual during advanced?
Yes. Vance is pure hell.
Hey Guys. Long time reader, first time poster-selecting this week. No real need to get so wound up about the situation, but I'll be sure to let the concerned know if the "P3 draft" is still going on Thursday. Sorry to hear things didn't go as you had hoped sheldator.
Fight all you want brother, it won't help. Embrace what you got and realize that flying is a lot better than driving a ship. Lifestyle is different in every community but it's also a lot of what you make of it.
Good luck.
Shitty draw man. The way things have been going the past few weeks make me a bit worried that I'll get caught up in a P-3 draft myself. However, we all knew what we were getting into when we signed up for this. It sucks, but I've made my peace with flying whatever the Navy decides to give me,
Make sure you let all your instructors in advanced know that you had jet grades but got screwed by the Man. Then, if you make it through, be sure to tell everybody in your community that you had jet grades and shouldn't be stuck there. Having said that: if you think my response makes me sound like a dick, imagine what you sound like. Learn this now because it will be useful your entire career: the Navy owes you nothing - whether you worked hard for it or not.
So, in all seriousness, shut your hole and be grateful - being a whining tool now can follow you all the way to the Rag and your first tour.
EDIT - By the way, I do know that comes off as harsh, but he needs to get over it before he damages his reputation in his new community. Students sometimes don't realize that instructors talk to each other across the pipeline, but they do.
Fight for it? Haha...good one. Last I heard the only option was to either accept what you are gonna be doing, or:
Dee! Don't want to be here!!!
Oh! Oh MY Lord!!
Are! Retreat!!!!!!!!
Dee! Don't want to be here!!!
Oh! Oh MY Lord!!
Are! Retreat!!!!!!!!
You want a rep REAL QUICK, go ahead and try to "fight it." I distinctly remember some assclown who selected Prowlers out of VT-9 a month or so ahead of me. Student rumor mill put out that he broke down in tears, ripped the Prowler patch off his flight suit and put the T-45 one back on. He was lucky to be serving under one of the coolest COs ever to wear a command pin in that he didn't get reamed. One of the guys in the next class wanted Prowlers, and a slot magically appeared for him as the whiner went off to Hornet land. Dunno who decided what to make that happen. Yeah, he got what he wanted but he lost all respect from anybody who heard the story in order to get it. Suck it up and deal.
This actually happened while I was in Meridian to a guy who had been in my Primary Squadron. He had already started T-44's when he was offered the opportunity to switch to jets, which he took. Of course he had a 67 out of Primary, there was a jet draft going on, and daddy was an O-6 F-14 driver. (He also managed to Class Alpha a T-45, but he's out flying Hornets now.)
Unless you've got the perfect storm going on for you, nothing is going to change. I know it sucks to not get what you were hoping for, but be happy to be flying (there are those of us who would kill to be flying anything).
Can you expand this policy to the entire TRACOM instead of just AW? My "Urge To Facepunch" meter would be pegged a lot less frequently if you did
So, what your saying is.......No really means yes. All one has to do is act like a 2 yo and anything is possible.
You want a rep REAL QUICK, go ahead and try to "fight it." I distinctly remember some assclown who selected Prowlers out of VT-9 a month or so ahead of me. Student rumor mill put out that he broke down in tears, ripped the Prowler patch off his flight suit and put the T-45 one back on. He was lucky to be serving under one of the coolest COs ever to wear a command pin in that he didn't get reamed. One of the guys in the next class wanted Prowlers, and a slot magically appeared for him as the whiner went off to Hornet land. Dunno who decided what to make that happen. Yeah, he got what he wanted but he lost all respect from anybody who heard the story in order to get it. Suck it up and deal.
My CO told me he would send me to AF UAV school via T-6's then T-38's then UAV's...