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Redacted investigation is out... be reverent, and learn from this. https://news.usni.org/2018/04/16/findings-command-investigation-fatal-october-t-45c-goshawk-crash

So Ray and I get on the elevator ALONE on the way to the PAC one day at the Pentagon in 2012... that one moment you know that no one else is there, no one else is listening... you've got the boss's boss's boss's boss trapped! During this time he is full bore pushing the operational energy...

The bads... Black Assed Night traps in marginally up jets. Stripped wires. Maintenance department that cares more about sorties than safety. Bouncing wheels off scuppers at night. Fitrep 500 induced back stabbing. Boats that can't get deck ops satisfactory on cruise, .5 late launches on...

I wonder... Any thoughts on modifying a 737 to serve as a CVN "organic" tanker? Having Omega follow us around is nice and all, but I see 75K#+? of fuel in this one, and I think mission and recovery tanker 'round the world... without having our tankers pulled at zoomie whim to get skin in the...

Perhaps this SECNAV needs a new pet rock after NDAA16 effectively torpedoed his biofuel push. Trying to move more mountains without a fiscal shovel? http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/03/10-objectives-for-the-fy-2016-national-defense-authorization-act

Some of my students from Meridian are starting to screen for command, time for me to go! Congrats, DFIU!

Straight from the Performance Information Memorandum signed for every Navy Grad. The Advanced Joint Professional Military Education course rigorously prepares selected Reserve Component (RC) officers for duty on joint, multinational, or interagency staffs. The course consists of a total of 40...

Sorry, I asked CNRFC N-7 about the "do it on personal time and dime for points", no go. Interesting stuff going on... AJPME mets the academic requirement for JQO Level III, it is "equivelent" due to Title 10 wording. New NDAA is taking away the 10 week/in-residence at JFSC requirement for...

I guess it will be difficult to find the answer here, since most of the old heads stayed their 20+ years, but I'd like to hear (in A4s sassy fashion) what Big Navy did in the past during the previous periods airlines were the perceived land of milk and honey. Is this time really any different...

I did no cost TAD back to my alma mater to do NROTC orientation speeches after getting wings and prior to getting orders/cranking up at VF-101. It was a very fun few months... on a big ten campus with O-2 pay, living with the girlfriend and free from Meridian's drudgery. I think I'd make sure...

Threadjack... It was tough to get going fast enough from ~23K to 10K to actually get above ~.94 in Meridian... by the time you got fast, it was time to pull up... On the umpteen A-Pros done, I don't remember the nose pitching up so much as losing aileron effectiveness.... "screaming" (with that...

I'll get a hold of them tomorrow and I'll "ask" the no cost TAD question... I'll try to get back here, if you hear nothing, PM me.

Yeah, that. 20K jet... getting my Tomcat numbers mixed up with my Scooter numbers! I never thought it would happen, guess I'm getting old too. A beer on me if we meet for the correction. Thanks!

No kidding... I made the mistake of taking a TA-4J with almost 20K of fuel off of runway 28 at KNMM (6400ft) on my first solo... the trees seemed VERY, VERY close to the wheels as they came up... live and learn... doh!

There is a move to change the legislation.... they are allowing satellite programs on a case by case basis... NCR? Perhaps the reality that technology can close the transactional distance students experience will allow folks stuck on brick and mortar education to expand their horizons. I've...

Hey, apologies it took so long to get back here... The other services have a board to get in, the Navy doesn't (I did not get boarded to come into the course). Adds and drops come through CNRFC N7, I am pretty sure they run the funding line, not a unit. We need all the Sea Service...

http://us.shop.ecco.com/ECCO-Atlanta-Tie/610114,default,pd.html?dwvar_610114_color=11014#cgid=men-bestsellers I guess the regs say something like "brown leather oxfords"... I bought these, wore them everyday for my time at the Pentagon and elsewhere... super comfy, no issues, and you can/would...

Unfortunately, I concur... I think a serious problem develops when people start believing the words on their FITREPs, selection and screen board outcomes, etc. When a gonna be SES chastised me for not taking my rank and accomplishments seriously, I had to inform him that I am the Navy's...

Apply now csandor, we had LTs go through the course two classes ago! JO perspective is much appreciated.

I'll look into it, appreciate the vector. I'm trying to get OCNR involved in spreading the word, any other websites (like AW) I should post to?

Hey folks, I teach the AJPME Hybrid Course out of Joint Forces Staff College, which provides the academic requirement (fulfills the same active duty academics) to get JQO Level 3. We need more Sea Service participation. This site usually has more junior folks on it, who think they will fly...

F14D dudes went to be FRS instructors with 650ish hours in the Tomcat, SWATSLANT guys too... VF2 guys would get their SFWT level 3 stuff signed off for both the pilot and RIO when they flew together, one would do the brief, fly together, the other would do the debrief... just wasn't enough D...

Didn't see this posted after a quick first pass... makes me want to vomit... in a bad way. Per the IG report below, I can imagine myself doing and saying many of the things the RADM said and did, I wasn't there, but I have worked for some collosal no talent obtuse a$$holes (and I have been...

The Marine TBS instructor and I had an interesting conversation with the AF O-3 Security Forces guy on my Vulnerability Assessment team in CENTCOM when he tried to say that "he earned his 3 Meritorious Service Medals!" for "leading" his ~20 observers, citers and harrassers as they ensured all...

We'll see. One Curriculum, three delivery methods..... Cost-wise Professional Military Education, 24/7. All modes have merit, some are cheaper, some provide more face to face acculturation, some cater to CCDR acute needs. Things might change, when, if, I donno... but it makes perfect sense to...

The Reserve ONLY thing is being worked on (I'll keep folks posted, understand the 10weeks in residence thing)... makes very little sense labeling it JPMEII "like": JQO Level 3 results after AJPME and requisite experience (so its the "same" as far as the academic requirement goes). Unlike the...

Anybody interested in JPMEII/Advanced JPME hybrid through Joint Forces Staff College PM me. We've had LTs go through recently. Here are some links for info: http://www.jfsc.ndu.edu/schools_programs/ajpme/welcome.asp

Yes........ Flew with 106 on Friday night, suggested we could "debrief" over a beer at the club at 7pm... nearly wept when the guy I flew with asked, and got a sub-conian negative reply to the question if the club was even open on FRIDAYS? My Vietnam SWO father keeps asking me what I have done...

This may have been mentioned, but what OPLAN requires this platform (don't answer that here, just think about it)? While the Aerostats in Afghanistan are pretty effective, and the AT-6 would be a great platform for this waning stability ops fight, don't we need to procure forward for the next...

I got through the first third of it... interesting, BUT the analysis is so fundumentally flawed I could go no further... there is no possible way to examine promotion, retention and performance evaluation as independent variables, they are dependent on one another, and on external factors (the...

The Naval Aviation Simulator Master Plan is alive and well, and caving to the forces of the Fleet Synthetic Training gods. The agreement to trade flight hours for sim dollars/hours was made a few year back (for some platforms)... There were the charts showing the quick ROI if you considered sim...

With respect, I think you grossly over estimate the amount of "love" any of the juniors have for their seniors these days... I would be very suprised if anyone but the RDML's chosen golden children/sea spawn are probably 'rocked' by this relieving. I met him in the Five Sided House of...

Defenders of FFSFBC will tout the number of Flags who came from their "proud" institution, but when you analyze it, you realize promotion rates are not an independent variable.... much depends on the folks pressing the buttons percieving you as a younger version of themselves... a dependednt...

In crisis action budgetary times, it is difficult to put a dollar figure on the worth of Freddie's Finishing School for Boat Chugs when OCS and ROTC grads can't possibly be proven less capable officers and aviators for 1/10th the price. Although directly equating the caliber of today's folks...

Clearly, the answer is 3.

I started to type a simple No while giggling to myself. I'll stand back and watch.

Thanks Steve, JAGMAN is very enlightening. Sounds like they did all the could.. misdiagnosis or not, jet was going down it seems. This is a good read and lesson for the youngsters -- any given day it could be you. I took off the same runway in '99 with 4 total F-14A hours (300ish TT) (not a...

Ok, so let me understand this... the Hornette can't fly away single engine at mil??? Does "AB failed to light" often result in a Class-A mishap? How would anyone ever land a Hornette single engine on the boat? (You'd have to be in full grunt dirty the whole time!)... Fuel ingestion, how...

This is good advice... This one time at band camp..... Best of luck, enjoy the coolest ride one could ever ask for! C420's comments ring true (flying takes art and science), booted a Aero masters MIT grad-he was looking for a solution on 5th order diff eq on ball flying, couldn't get...

Quit now then, you WILL (if you make the cut).

Bunk (et al), I'll take all that as a compliment... thanks bro, I call em like I see em (just like that grumpy bastard who's views I agreed with 90some percent of the time). Just like a lot of 'good ideas' we'll wait, watch, and in the end someone will get proved right, or maybe not. The...

Cammo ain't a plain "color". Its been a few years, I don't think they take em to bare metal when then repaint though... a redo on a cammo paint job would require it, no? Outta my element, only turned the wrench as necessary to help with my overstress inspections and to get the OBOGS valve...

Having all the jets painted the same in 3 plane ACM forces the studs to talk and fly, describing which jet the bandit is in a very dynamic environment... what kind of bullshit alibi would it be when one of the few camo bandit dedicated jets goes down and the bandit is now in an orange and white...

Uncle Ray has charged full bore, at the behest of his boss, almost religiously, along with the peak oil production hypothesis while first order warfighting capability goes underfunded. This lack of perspective is having clear ill effect on the service in his charge. The breathalyzing sex...

RAG mate of mine, great dude. The screen boards get something right every once in a while... although his path to screen was a bit contrived.

I'll go out on a limb and say that our CO's weren't and aren't the zenith/oracles of TACTICAL EXCELLENCE and SUPERIOR leadership. Many, Many, Many GOOD guys get out, we are left with the Navy's version of the "best" of whats left... Don't ever start believing the absolute BS you artistically...

"The loss of Command and At Sea bonuses is not taken lightly by the NAE leadership and will continue to be an important topic for retention of our best and brightest aviators. We must maintain our current levels of tactical excellence and superior leadership, and can only do so by retaining our...

It’s a good week at the Five Side House of Assclownery... got another gem delivered this morning in my inbox. Enjoy the pure awesomeness of this now T-6 student and future RAPTOR driver... I witnessed what these guys turn into while I attended Air Command and Staff College, they don't change...

A Tosh.O web redemption is in order.

"redacted" version... MODS, delete the whole thread if there is a LEGIT threat it will go down the "romo's bitch" road!