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My thoughts for the VFA community come down to a combination of the following: poor locations (especially F-35), lack of manning, golden path, and OPTEMPO. Lemoore is absolute trash and everyone knows that. When I was a first tour JO I was basically out of town every weekend. I don’t want to...

A few posts have discussed previous backups and how they were dealt with… my YG was the ROTC to IRR class. Commissioned May 2011 and didn’t start AD until October 2011 when I reported to Pensacola. (Couple this with transitions to different TMS, getting pulled up YGs, etc and it can start to...

They are, but not as well as you would think at low level and on deck. F-35 and Rhino aren’t bad but the Charlie ECS is awful. Waiting to launch in the summer on a carrier deck or in Fallon/Lemoore (or really anywhere) will make you sweat your ass off, and flying at altitude breathing O2 dries...

I’ll take a stand for the WSOs here… the ATFLIR is not the best piece of kit and the tumble was the most accurate part of the movie.

Lost access to PNA... request access to that and War Zone if able. Thanks!

Landing is the same. The taxi is a different story though. The F-35 (maybe just the C model but not sure) bounces way worse than a rhino with carrier pressurized tires. So much so that you cannot type anything into the touch screen without hitting the wrong option on taxi. I can’t remember if...

One of my friends from my previous airwing liked to play a little game called “Lemoore or Iraq?” and would show someone a picture from overhead Lemoore and ask the question. Almost everyone, myself included, got it wrong...

We had a helo girl in the airwing complain about a callsign on one of our jets to her front office, and they brought it to our Skipper. It literally had nothing to do with her interpretation of it, and was completely innocent. Needless to say, it was removed from the jet the next day. Standard.

Not as rare in VFA these days as you would think.

...and absolutely crushes a blue-on-blue. Still haven’t seen that keg.

I fully realize a reserve Captain does not have the ability to change anything. The capacity for change lies far beyond that rank, as others on this board have said. As for responses: 1. It's not a "question" as in a JO gripe, as you state. It's a legitimate question. How can we be combat...

Oh, 100%. There were no illusions about that seminar. I simply used that story as an example of the nebulous "senior leadership doesn't care" concept that some people don't seem to hear over the sound of their silver oak leaves and eagles.

Totally understand that it's not just a VFA issue. Nobody these days arrives at their fleet squadron thinking they're going to get 40-hour months for three years. But to echo what @Python1287 and @wlawr005 have said, I can add a couple thoughts on VFA retention based on what I've seen. At...

@Python1287 I had about the same flight time as you. I did 1.5 deployments (both OIR) and a full set of work ups and left my JO tour with ~770 total FA-18 hours. We were clearly the have-nots as we transitioned from legacy Hornets to... legacy Super Hornets. Around 180 of those hours are...

Some days are less than stellar.

PLM is not quite "Jesus take the wheel" yet, but Path is pretty damn close. Eventually, manual/auto will be deemed a circus pass, like standby/no HUD are now.

Request NA wings, and access to private forums.... 13 DEC out of Meridian. Thank you!

Checked in to TW-4 this week, and STUCON said that we are not getting the rumored per diem. We will all receive around $1000-$1500. Last week, someone complained about some BS like getting $4000 instead of $5000. STUCON looked into it, and found an accounting mistake. Turns out we are not...

I heard that Marines are no longer being sent to Vance. Class 12-19 had two Marines selected for it, but they were switched to other destinations in the middle of API. Also, the Navy will stop sending SNAs to Vance soon but until then, they still draw 1 or 2 names out of a hat every week (no...

I had good results by using some of Stew Smith's workouts. I've never seen the Armstrong program, but it seems to have a lot of the same principles, such as using max sets, changing the grip on different sets, and using the pyramid. IMO, you may not want to do some of those workouts every...

Odd Choice for Ship Name http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/18/congressman-blasts-navy-naming-ship-cesar-chavez/ USNS Cesar Chavez? Really? Along with the suggestion of Sgt Peralta in the article, I feel like there are better suggestions for the name of this ship. This reminds me of...

I'm not an engineering student here, but a friend of mine who has been working on this project for the last couple years let me take a look at it yesterday. It's pretty cool considering the whole rig weighs only 100 pounds. The pilot is not an engineer; they just sent an email to the cycling...

Recent Developments Just got our IRR brief this morning along with "The List." I (1390) will be on IRR until 1 OCT. I'm personally OK with this, and I knew this would probably happen. On the bright side, I don't have to be stashed at my unit in DC, and I get one more summer break...

Might be a repost, but... I was outside of the stadium looking in the same direction as the video when this happened, and remember thinking holy s***! Couldn't see the plane as it went out of view into the stadium.

A few things I remember from my 2/c MIDN cruise... As others have said, Lanikai and Kailua are great because they are beautiful, less-crowded beaches. Also, you can kayak to the "The Mokes," or the twin islands off the beach at Kailua. Huge sea turtles out there. I only surfed once, and it...

My Experience I went through the waiver process for asthma to get into NROTC. I'm assuming you will go through OCS? Yes, the cutoff age is 13. If you had no symptoms at or past age 13, then you are good to go. If symptoms have occured past 13, no matter how small, this is considered...

Interesting Video The whole thing is pretty good... I thought the part with the convicted felons was interesting. We talk about this in my Crim classes.

What is T1/T2? (Thanks to all for answering the noob question)

Out of Primary, what are ALL of the current choices (for Navy SNA's)? How are they grouped? For example, is jets/E2/C2 in one group since they are all tailhook, and then split up later? Or is jets a single group, and E2/C2 another different pipeline? Helos? P3? (Or P8 I guess)

Redux, you said the guy has another one? Where exactly in Maryland?

vulcanx: Well that's good news! It's good to know somebody else is familiar with the near-impossible task that is the Methacholine Challenge test. I passed, but not with a lot of room. I really don't want to take that again. Schnugg: You have no idea how fun that test is. Breathing...

I've searched on here and other places, but I can't seem to find an answer. My NROTC scholarship was denied at first because of a history of asthma. I took a Methacholine Challenge Test and I passed, so now I am on scholarship. My question is, do I have to take this test again for my flight...

your pregnant wife wants to go to the range? haha you're a lucky man

Funny British FITREPs So today in my Leadership and Management class for NROTC, the unit XO was lecturing us on not cutting corners when writing FITREPs for our sailors in The Fleet. He brought up some REAL examples of funny comments from British FITREPs, and so I had to google the rest...

I swim fairly regularly, and sometimes with a 1/C who wants to go SEALs/EOD, and an OC who was a rescue swimmer. Some things to keep in mind: -2 hours is pretty long in the pool, especially for people who do not swim often -warm-up is KEY; swimming is definitely one of those things where a...

Thanks for all the replies everybody! I'm pretty new to this website, but I love how people answer quickly and how professional this website is. Thanks for helping out a midshipman lol

thanks for replying yes I am on scholarship (MIDN 3/C) I know I have a lot of time, I just want to see what other people who have been through this think about the whole thing there are 25 mids in my class, and 13 want aviation 1390 or 1370, including me I just don't know how many slots...

I am NOT a worry wart about GPA and stuff like that... Having said that, I still keep my grades up so I can hopefully get 1390 and I just have a couple questions... I realize that pilot needs in the Navy fluctuate constantly... however, does anybody know the approximate number of pilot slots...

I wish I could post this as a sub-forum or something because it applies to all commissioning paths, but I'll just put it here because I am in NROTC (at U of Maryland) Go Terps!!! Anyway, so during my senior year of high school I was accepted for a 4-year NROTC scholarship, but shortly...