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Yeah, he is former Army helo driver. Haven't seen him since to tell him I saw his tat online on a forum...because that would sound weird as hell. Unknown if he has any DaVinci-inspired tats, besides the ANA one. I'll ask, Flash.

Small world-turns out I work with this gent on a couple of projects, as I saw him in the gym sans shirt.

Yes. The Coast Guard is getting C-27Js (got the first one at the end of last year), and stood up a unit last June to begin receiving the planes and coordinate training, aircraft configuration, qualifications, and manuals.

I've known quite a few DCAs who made the switch, but it was dependent on the needs of the fixed-wing community. There might be a fixed wing transition board (though I haven't seen anything on the message board) with the C-27Js coming on line.

I haven't been on a board, but your experience straddling the two communities puts you in a great spot, depending on the needs of the service. I think your hours and experience look solid-I'd put a package in as soon as you can, and roll the dice.

Sorry to hear you were on the Binnacle List - hope you have a quick recovery and are back to posting soon. Get off any pain meds and switch to expensive Scotch as soon as you can.

I wasn't talking about visible tattoos; nor was the OP - I was just talking about tattoos in general. I've seen senior government executive types (two SES's, in fact) at the gym with tattoos on their biceps, thighs, and back of the shoulder. My first tour of HQ from '90 to '94 I saw none of...

Tattoos are a pretty generational thing. I didn't see a tattoo on an officer until 1996 - the previous 8 years in the service I had only seen two officers with tattoos and they both came from the enlisted ranks. After that, the number of Academy grads with tattoos slowly increased, as tattoos...

For the record: I think longer hair looks ok on the military's female leadership.

Lessee - we've touched on: the lack of equality in standards between the sexes in today's military, Religion, Separation of Church and State, the mention of God in a Code of Conduct, and still had time for a pissing contest between two members. *sniff* This thread reminds me of the olden days on...

Yeah, it's the best when a couple of guys in Hatteras boats doing some weekend fishing are shootin' the shit while I'm trying to talk to a vessel in distress. Sometimes they will try to speak in short sentences, because then no one will notice we're on a distress frequency. So sneaky.

My daughter was born in my last week of API - it makes things suck in that your significant other has to pick up a lot of slack, and there will be lots of sleepless nights, but you'll get through it. I wouldn't want the geo-bachelor thang...I could only spend an hour a day really involved with...

I agree with Flash...it isn't a cut, and you have to parse it to make it a cut, but, really, I think that is getting involved in semantics. My main concern would be that the senior leadership before Congress isn't pushing back on smaller raises. The main things I want from senior leadership...

What a fantastic career and life BlkPny had/led. Wrote some of the best posts on this or any other forum I frequent; always funny, self-effacing, well-written and worth a read. What a great example of a Naval Aviator.

I've heard a minority of folks question his decision to land there - what's the conventional wisdom in the P-3 community? As for throwing an anonymous memo out where it will get scrutinized and torn apart during a campaign...that is cray cray, as my teen daughter sez.

Congrats - hope you are somewhere on the East Coast you like (I'd love to be in Boston, myself...the base is a short walk to great restaurants/short stumble to great bars). Hopefully someone with more current time will chime in, but my classmates from OCS (this was 15 years ago, YMMV), who...

Congratulations - that is a very dynamic spot and a great place to do some exciting missions (flying around DC comes to mind). Wish I could help you on housing, but I don't know anyone there right now. Good luck!

http://wtop.com/289/3564731/US-Navy-ready-to-deploy-laser-for-1st-time Just another example of the prescience of "Real Genius".

The 6 pilots I've known that have flown the Commandant's plane(s) have all been fixed wing - four went their second flying tour and the other two went their third flying tour. It is based on luck, timing and solid performance. A pilot I knew from my Sacramento was just picked up...dunno if he...

I have not heard of the Coast Guard buying out a ROTC contract; it is very difficult to get into OCS right now, and guessing it would be cheaper to get a college educated guy off the street and train him for 17 weeks, vice getting you. I understand you want to fly SAR - admirable, but we DO use...

The author doesn't cover that the $30K bonus will get you 40% of base pay, vice 50%, and makes it seem like the 1% COLA adjustment is the only thing affected by accepting the $30K.

If you are going into the USMC, the civilian requirement during the warmer months is jorts and a woven belt, during summer, Levi's and a woven belt, both with a collared shirt tucked in neatly.

Doubt you'll succeed in that, when so many folks now want to get into cocktail culture and decorate their house in Mid-Century Modern style, because of this: (Full disclosure...never seen the show)

I'm in the DC area now, living 7 mins from Ft Myer; gas is 20-30 cents cheaper than in town, booze and beer are cheaper, the commissary saves us money on staples (we skip most of the produce and meat, as others have said), and the MCX at Henderson Hall has some of the nicest stuff I've ever seen...

Their primary rating is Aviation Electronics Technician (all the electrical stuff on aircraft); once they get past basic aircrew and then radio operator, they go to nav training where they learn stuff like plotting courses, basic approach stuff, reading the search radar, entering navaids into...

Nope, the Coast Guard has enlisted navigators (wearing Naval Aircrew wings, of course), on our older C-130s.

They shot down a Boeing Insitu ScanEagle; not sure of total costs for one (this article only has costs for a complete system), but I'll bet it's < $1mil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Insitu_ScanEagle

I would probably vote in the "It will help, not hurt" side of things. It is only a two year tour, so you would be starting flight school at 4 years of service, vice 2. That isn't very long, and if you do well at being a skipper it will be a plus in your record AND you will have had command AND...

Wait, that Archer commercial was tongue-in-cheek toward the movie, not toward the Navy or aviators or whatever. Did anyone seriously think it was making fun of Naval Aviators?

Small UAS are coming the CG's way very soon, and was reading a brief about our need to expand the program. In the power point it said something to the affect of "The 20th Century was about manned flight; this century is the age of unmanned flight". Slow down, tiger; we are only 12.5 years...

I haven't heard of any rumblings of desperate need for a particular airframe; it looks pretty likely that we might (could? will?) get the C-27J aircraft, so who knows. Look for no short-term C-27J billets, as they would stand up an Asset Project Office of aviators to put together manuals, tech...

Not just other countries; finding cities whose congressman won't raise a hue and cry is nearly impossible.

I'm trying to take this seriously. You think he can just do this on his own, with little oversight. Seriously? Where would he put the prisoners? In the White House basement. As the kids say: ROTFLMAO.

Where would the prisoners go? Where would the $ come from to move and house them? What states would accept them? What other countries would accept them? Closing a prison costs dollars-who would cover that? This ain't him delaying something (which incurs no add'l funding), this is something that...

Love it. "Mr President, we in congress will not allow you to close Gitmo...and it's your fault since the buck stops with you." Great stuff. How would he have closed it with Congress blocking it? Waved a magic wand? Flown Air Force One into Gitmo and spirited the prisoners out? I'm interested...

Defining taxes going toward social programs as "wealth redistribution" is meaningless. It's simply a way to re-frame the argument "I work hard and shouldn't pay taxes". Are you saying we shouldn't have social programs? Or we shouldn't have taxes? Wait, Congress blocks closing Gitmo 6 times...

You mean like the elderly and the poor? Do you want to make them pay taxes? So you're unhappy that more people aren't paying taxes? I figured you'd be against grandma paying taxes. Or are you talking about the taxes that pay for my paycheck and flight pay? 'Cuz plenty of taxes go to defense...

Are we talking slavery, the rights of women and minorities to vote, or some other thing that was "right for the country for generations"? ;) Plenty of "bumpkin republicans" have voted for personal interests-unless you are saying their "taxes enough already" is somehow altruistic in nature.

You actually believe that taxes are "wealth redistribution"? Seriously? Oh, and I'm sure you're aware that the prez wants to close Gitmo, but congress has blocked funding for it many times.

The rich make more, so they carry more of a burden. If you want less of a deficit, you need more revenue...pretty simple. And the deficit has decreased under Obama as well. And those at the 100 K mark have seen very little increase in their taxes under our current administration. Lessee... he's...

Defunding a war vice defunding a law that passed that a minority wants changed (not stopped), are two very different things. And the GOP shutting down the government (costing this country millions per day), since they don't have the votes to use the legislative process is idiotic, at best. The...

Like through (Bush) tax cuts for the wealthy? Wait, the rich have some of the lowest taxes in generations You mean end wars, right? ;)

Exit polls showed voters rated the economy above healthcare. That is why they voted a certain way in the mid-terms. This article might help you understand it as well: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/six_nuggets_from_the_2010_exit.php?nomobile=1 I think you might be confused. The GOP is not...

He ran on healthcare, among many other things. You're earlier assertion (which I noticed, you avoided providing info to back up), was strangely specific. And I've seen nothing that supported it. You assert that GOP gained seats because of ACA-when shown you're incorrect, you're response is...

He won both times because he ran a better campaign and more people wanted him in office. Unless you have something that shows differently, I'll take your point as pure conjecture, pulled out of your nether regions. So far, anecdotally, I've seen plenty of folks who will benefit from their...

The time to "oppose it" has passed. Facts are that the ACA is law. It was passed by one branch, signed by another and found Constitutional by a third. The prez ran on it twice, and easily won both times. You have an issue with a law, use the legislative process, don't cause heartache for Federal...

My first thought, too.

FYI-We've had Cal-Maritime juniors working summers at Sacramento-all were good guys and will be great members of a wardroom.

Us, too. There was that time I lost an access panel from the left side in the armpit area, flying over Eureka, CA.

Agree-I was there last weekend and felt strong emotions when seeing the Apollo 11 capsule. Took kids all around-they thought Naval Aviation section was old and boring.