Think I FIFY...I guess the "training facilities" no longer exist. i.e. the ACRAC (Aviation Cadet Recreation and Athletic Club) at P'cola, the cadet club bar in the barracks at Saufley, and the cadet club next to the wave cave at Whiting. The MARCADs called em slop-chutes.
Brilliant coordinated off-target egress/flow tactics. Never met her, but I'm guessing (HOPING?) "Mrs. Psycho" remains a keeper….popping up a sacrifice-fly like that…bringing all the on-base runners home safe in the bottom of the ninth...“Psycho" kept directing his pregnant wife to flatten them every Friday evening in his F250 on the way out since she wasn't drinking. It gave the SP something to do and the rest of us slipped by while they were stopped.
SWFT LVL IV = Combat Division Lead
During your JO tour, the idea is to complete level 2-4, and go out the door as a division lead.
You must not be aware that said division lead comes with the emormous ass pain of several thousand hours of computer based training, 7400 signatures in your PQS, formal/graded briefs/debriefs and a ton of other stuff. Today's process is the other side of the pendulum swing.I think I like this, if it's true…but very different from my time. Back before the ice melted, Division Leads were solely the purview of the LCDRs and above…over little more than the COs signature. It was simply an experience/hours in type/Skipper's confidence thingie…precious little by way of a formal qualification process. Today is probably better… If today's JOs can make that wicket…shit hot.
Was not aware…but the qual seems to be worth it?You must not be aware that said division lead comes with the emormous ass pain of several thousand hours of computer based training, 7400 signatures in your PQS, formal/graded briefs/debriefs and a ton of other stuff. Today's process is the other side of the pendulum swing.
Not sure if your joking, but there is no such thing as PQS or CBTs in Hornet/Rhino land. The last signature I had to get for anything training related was at VT-86.You must not be aware that said division lead comes with the emormous ass pain of several thousand hours of computer based training, 7400 signatures in your PQS, formal/graded briefs/debriefs and a ton of other stuff. Today's process is the other side of the pendulum swing.
I think I'm officially in mourning…my wife and I both LOVED the Atsugi Club in our time…nowhere else to be on a Friday night with the bubbas and bubbettes.. Crap...Atsugi O'Club is now the 'Atsugi Convention Center'---I shit you not.