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My eyes were a bit worse (pre-PRK). The Navy will teach you to fly. So before you starting throwing down loads on avgas, don't be afraid to pay a bit for some quality eye lazing. Best $3400 I ever spent. And even when it comes to medical stuff, until you have like several typed letters from...

Thanks, tho apparently their powers don't work in Norfolk. When I asked for the keys, they just laughed and handed me a thicker NATOPS. Someone up there has a sense of humor.

I've met Pete Lee. I thought he was hilarious. Just sayin', NROTC puts out some good talent, and if you check the trunks of their cars, you probably won't find a crowbar or some birdshot.

Well the ROTC tree produces more hilarious apples. I still miss Peter Lee.

Academy, ROTC, OCS, Danish... or should I even ask?

"beating them off with sticks" has been frowned upon since around the 1950's. Nowadays we just delete their facebook friend requests.

wet: adj. present tense. covered with liquid. "I'm at the wet down, where the hell are you!?" wetting: verb. past tense. to cover with liquid. "he did thoroughly enjoy the wetting down" If I were an English major, which I'm not, I'd say the Marines have it grammatically...

most definitely wouldn't want to be in the same squadron. bein' on the same the little league team was fun enough. i'm thinkin' i want Guam, so sister squadrons would be outta question there. but crusin on the same boat or drinkin' in Australia someday would be legit.

actually i think they're working on it, yeah, right after they open one in Lemmore. Shared a pint and a pizza with Cory there just the other week. it was awesome. the girls say hi and you're receipt is still on the wall.

thanks for the replies gents. lots of good stuff. i'll definitely give the front office a heads up. it'd be pretty sweet to be co-stationed sometime in the future. but for now i'm looking forward to having some beers with him at hopjacks in a few weeks.

I'm a few weeks out from winging in Helos, and just found out my lil' brother is comin' to Pensacola to be an aircrewman. Pretty cool. We'll have a lot of shop to talk about at the Utah family reunions. Without looking, I'm guessing there's a rule against aviator/aircrew brothers in the same...

Have you asked a recruiter? Seems like they'd be the proverbial horse's mouth to hear answers from.

Ahh sweet. I never knew. I check into VT-28 tomorrow. This is the best early X-mas gift ever. also, physic =/= physique. I can spel.

Second that. Running is just plain bad for you. All that shock on the femur, and for what? A Gandhi-like physic and a few less toenails. No thank you. Besides, i could definitely max the PRT if only I could find command who'll let me swim it.

i was also thinking i'd get someone to yell at me and smack me with a kneeboard while reeking of booze to simulate an IP... hmmm suppose i could just pay a hooker to do that.:D

ahh sweet. now my chair flying will be that much more realistic. Thank you Checkert.

The links in the old thread no longer go anywhere, and I've had no luck in x-plane forums, so I figured there's bound to be a fellow x-plane flyer on the Airwarrior interweb who's already got what I'm looking for. If that's you, please hook me up. Any T-34 will do, though I'm somewhat partial...

The rumors are true. I was in 4608, the first class of the FY and therefore the first class to get denied.

New Room Available after Oct 12. I'm leaving for Corpus, but my roommates, 2 FOs in primary, and one pilot in a-pool, really would like to keep the rent low. Split four ways it's still about $600/mo (including utilities). Granted it's a 25min ride to base, but considering it's right next to...

while we're at it, let's add SNA/FOs who wear their covers "at the dip" to the "kicked in the jimmy list," ... academy/kids with pedigrees I'm looking in your direction. Anyways, a word to the wise, with the start of the new fiscal year the SWO quotas will be low and that they might be...

Now it looks like Ike is on his way to do what Gustav should've done... mess with Texas! :D sorry uncle fester, guess i need to be original

While cruising through the NOMI website I came across a section about the dangers of tonic water (I never knew). With all the gin & tonic aficionados on here, I thought this would make for a nice little cautionary thread...

Good news. The DoD already their best guy working on these ideas.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/hurricane_bound_for_texas_slowed this is good news for me :D. I just dodged Vance and picked up Corpus (knock on wood).

Nah just come on down and help us rebuild.

Oct 14, 2004 Piper Archer N964WC... before the solo I did two landings while my instructor endorsed my logbook. He said something like, "I know you're ready so I'm not even gonna look up." Then he stepped out. I can still picture my first solo TO and hear myself saying "F#$% Yeah!" a few...

Room for rent at approx. $600/mo. Only a 30min drive to NAS Pensacola and a 3mi bike ride to Flounder's. The room has a private bath, and is furnished w/ dresser, bed and large closet. There's a fair amount of storage space available, and our garage fits four cars. 2 roommates are FOs in...

that sucks. nothing worse than having to spend 6hrs in SLC.:D Wonder if my brother was at that call. but yeah, once did a roundtrip from SLC to Colorado Springs (12hr one way). never again. got the last seat, make that 1/2 seat, next to a very large individual. Luckily though, I traveled...

not gonna lie, I really like watching the private space industry grow. Especially since NASA doesn't like my BS in Flight Ops.

I did the aviation degree thing. It was fun flying x-countries to vegas while regular college kids were writing their thesis. But did it help me get a flight spot? No. To be honest I kinda wish I did physics or engineering, cuz all my degree taught me is that I don't want to fly for the airlines.

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb224/dbarsne/BabeTedcopynewwrap.jpg All I know is: batting .406 + Naval Aviator during WWII = BADASSMofo!

I was curious about this once, before I decided I wanted nothing to do with the airlines. But I found that Qantas Airlines would tack on turbine-helo time to your total time as long as you had a base of about 250hrs of fixed-wing. Pretty sure this is fairly helo-friendly compared to most...

If you go see a Shakespearian play performed by a good production company with well trained actors (not some high school or local community college production) you will find that Shakespeare is in fact fairly easy to comprehend. I aint never gonna see me's any shakespear till theys goes in...

Weren't both the characters played by Gary Coleman? Or am I now gonna get called a racist... cuz really I'm anything but that.

The Coherent Police might think he meant to say, "Awwwww Grammar Smackdown 2008!"

indubatebly... indubitebly....... indeed.

Old Fashion, "Prolly" is my bread and butter. It comes from writing the way I talk. Also, do you mean "old fashioned?" Seriously, enough of the grammar police. Can't we just have the Coherent Police? v/r, JU

I'll take sparse Floridians over a plethora of Utah girls.... although... after Cap'n Fun's I might eat my words.

I'm not comfortable with 13 year old girls driving anything. But yes, to an extent.

Fair enough. But when "literate people" decide not to strictly adhere to convention, then convention evolves. This happens for many reasons, but prolly because people are lazy. Look how much English has evolved from Shakespeare until now. English used to have formal pronouns for chrissake...

Beans, I think you missed my point. It was that spelling is arbitrary. Head is "head" instead of "hed" only because Webster said so (no not the one from different strokes). What you talkin' 'bout Beans is jargon. In which case it is important to be on the same page, to use the same...

I dunno. I'm gonna side with Mark Twain on the this one, in that an intelligent person is capable of spelling any word at least two ways. That said, when writing for the Navy, I proof read and spell check like a mofo. But what's a matter with writing like the way you'd normally talk, at least...

Don't you mean Canyonero?

^thanks again for the t-shirt

that sandwiched car looks strangely like the one i pass in my garage each morning. (this gives me an idea)

now here's a news organization who can talk seriously about this matter. http://www.theonion.com/content/video/gays_too_precious_to_risk_in

eh. kinda takes the fun out of it. guess i'll stick to G&Ts and the slip-n-slide i've got at home.

Just arrived on July 2nd. Didn't have any trouble getting the non-availability stamp.

Platt.

yes