Search results

CVW-14 swapped fighters with a group now in CVW-17 before the most recent cruise, then handed them off to CVW-11 after cruise. CVW-14 cruised with VFA-22, -25, -81, and -113 in 08 and Surge 09. First cruise with the new folks was RIMPAC '10.

I should have said Hornets/Rhinos, since that's what I was referring to. You've got me dead to rights on that one. For the (exhaustive) discussion of why a higher percentage of CAGs, pilot or NFO, come from TACAIR as opposed to E2/C2, Prowler/Growler, and Helos, see this thread. I'm not gonna...

It's irrelevant. Whether there's a Hawkeye draft or not, whether they're funneling everyone into Prowlers/Growlers or into TACAMO, IT DOESN'T MATTER. You're going to almost definitely love your platform whenever you find out what it is, with few exceptions. Each community has its goods and its...

I'd love to see someone come up with a good fart joke that can somehow relate to a tailhook. That would take some serious skill.

CAPT Joyner is on her way to being the first. Currently Deputy of CVW-3. http://www.public.navy.mil/AIRFOR/CVW3/Pages/deputybio.aspx

CVW-14's current (final?) CAG is an E-2 NFO and former skipper of -120. http://cvw-14.ahf.nmci.navy.mil/cag.htm

Did the Prowlers use to be numbered 604 up? What was the 500 series? I noticed there were two Prowlers on the model with side #s 604 605.

Disregard. National Naval Aviation Museum...in Pensacola. Brain fart complete.

Forgive the brain fart...NNAM?

Don't say that! It's disqualifying!!!

So there is still hope. We starry eyed folks don't have to hang up our cardboard-box spaceships just yet!!!

Quite so. My bust!

French?

The last submariner to be CNO was in charge when a little boondoggle in Vegas in '91 got feisty. ADM Frank Kelso was CNO from 1990 - 1994.

Ordered in February, arrived in May. I emailed TG explaining I was about to move so my patches were bumped up in the cycle...agree with the above, expect a wait on the order of months.

Probably is just a VMI thing. Aggie rings aren't replaceable if you lose it, but you can do pretty much anything else through Balfour like resizing or refinishing, or even remaking it if its too worn down. I think the other SMAs and USNA all get theirs through Balfour too? If its through another...

Copy. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Did NAPs wear silver pilot wings or were theirs gold too? I remember seeing gold wings on their rank/rating badges at the museum in P'cola, but I don't recall what color their metal wings were...probably gold too, just looking for an affirm.

No, they really are. Someone in the Navy told me. :)

Unfortunate that they don't (or can't?) do the medical-caliber BMI as part of an entry examination (Do I hear long-form flight physical, anyone???) but you're right, it would probably be too time-intensive or not cost-effective. I wonder, though, how many of the skinny-fat guys (myself probably...

The short answer is no, being located near NASNI or MCAS Miramar will not help you get accepted into aviation anymore than going to school at Harvard will. Your chance of getting aviation is as good or bad as your academic and military performance, nothing more. You can put a preference for...

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=58910 Looks like Fleet Forces is going to censure two Captains and two Admirals, and non-punitive letters to two more Admirals. I'm not sure how to react to this news, apart from the fact that I think it's a shame that it snowballed into this.

Sounds like someone wants your job, Web-san. :)

If you didn't include anything about having the resolve of an aircraft carrier, you're pretty much sunk.

Captain Eric Moody and its British Airways flight 009. The only quintuple engine failure in aviation history. (#2 failed twice.) The plane flew through the ash cloud of a volcano. When I was in high school I did a project on volcanoes and their effects on us, and I used this incident as an...

Three guesses who wrote that letter... ;) I agree with the sentiments though, this is a textbook case where nothing is gained and something is lost by being politically correct.

Diggin' the dark gray paint job on that bird. Looks kinda menacing.

I tried searching Lycos Images and Excite Images...no such luck. On the other hand, the stuff I got from Excite Images I can't post here. Probably a mistake to search there.

Ordered mine a few days ago. Now to sit on my hands for a few while I wait for them to show up! I've been told enough times its worth the wait to be ok with that though.

Let me know how that goes for you. :)

I heard that the MiG-28 can't do a negative-g pushover. Also heard that there was some pilot (and his RIO) who witnessed one doing a 4g negative dive. Also heard that's it's classified. Oops.

I did surface cruises every year and it made not a bit of difference. Gave me some excellent reasons not to become a Shoe though. If anything, a 1/C surface cruise should reinforce a decision NOT to go SWO. It did for me!

That's why we old Ags still dog on Sq. 18. They produce high-quality tools. Meanwhile those of us who didn't buy into the BS and shot for bigger, better things are out here...and people like them are still piss-drunk at the Chicken playing grabass with freshmen.

Two things. One, take this argument to texags.com where it belongs. Sq. 18 is exactly as applicable to the real military as the rest of the Corps...as in, it ain't very much at all. Take what leadership skills you can, as well as an ability to work under pressure, leave the rest in College...

Ask these guys. You'll fit in well there. www.sailorbob.com

Clearly you've chosen to continue being a troll. That's a pretty good career move.

Clearly you do. I've been sitting this one out hoping you actually turn your mouth off and start opening your ears, but clearly you aren't listening to what people are telling you. It's clear to everyone that you have only your self-professed stellar academic credentials to hang your hat on, and...

Oh...FOS = Full of...something. It was bad gouge, I apologize. I didn't know the rules allowed above 75%. Now I do. The 'etc' calculator I was referring to was the one on the OSD website, which is linked to that military.com article you posted. Calculated on that, and it topped out at 100 for...

OK, OK, it was bad gouge. Absolutely no need to stomp on my nuts. Sheesh. If it matters, the 'etc' calculator I was thinking of was the one on the OSD website. It is also 100% @ 40 years. I was wrong, sorry all. Not sure I wanna know what FOS means either.

Really? Guess I better stay in longer then. :)

True statement. None of the calculators (staynavy, etc) go higher than 75, and isn't the only way you can retire with higher than 75% is to have five stars on your collar or a MoH around your neck (under the 10% increase in retired pay rule)? EDIT: Just remembered that five-stars technically...

So if i've been living in Norfolk since March and I promoted two weeks ago (haven't pinned on yet) do I get the higher or the lower rate? It's going down significantly ($126!!!) for O-2 with dependents.

No, it was. But a good-natured one. While I enjoy the schadenfreude of it all, I do actually feel bad about the season. What I'm really going to be doing is distributing candy to trick-or-treaters, as I drew the short straw in my house this year. So I'll most likely be wearing normal stuff.

I'll be putting on my very finest Dallas Cowboys garb and going out as a colossal failure. :)

Annnnnnd my brain hurts. But my guess is that the printed Koran would be kosher. Or....halal.....whatever. It's good to go.

Oh dear. You've just gone and done the dumbest thing of your life!

I'd love to see the Koran in Wingdings.

Phrog brings up a good point. Texas A&M, for all the brouhaha we Aggies try to stir up about it, it still a state school. Like many state schools, you're not going to get a lot of name recognition outside your state. If you want to go (back) to Texas after you're done with the military, you'll...

I think the high standards will absolutely be maintained, we will just see more actions deserving of the Medal recognized of soldiers, sailors and Marines who lived to tell the tale. You can't bullshit heroism. People see it a mile away.