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Nice visor you got there @KODAK 😉

The record distance for a rescue det when I was opso was from NPA to Marquette, Michigan. Very proud of that one, I hope that milestone still stands 😹😹😹

Mark Kelly is a Democrat senator. However you say that Republican senators are fed up with him. What gives? You realize Tuberville didn’t just decide to do this out of the blue? It takes two to tango…

**it is what it is

I can confirm that the projected timelines for NIFE and Primary are fairly close to what OP put forth. As always, things can happen to decrease that timeframe but apparently there are close to 800 studs awaiting class up in Pensacola right now

Impressive thread resurrection!

DM’s are open for anything you wanna know. I know a bit about tacamo…

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But seriously, congrats on finishing primary. Keep that same attitude through advanced and the frs and you will find success no matter where your career takes you

Tl;dr

Thanks man, hopefully the board sees it the same way. Hope -10 is going well for you...

HOD said that it won’t matter, detailer said it probably wouldn’t matter but recommended writing a letter to the board if I was worried about it. If I did write a letter, would it be perceived negatively by the board? As in, screw this guy, he wanted to get out, but now he wants to stay in?

Somewhat topical question. The reason I’m appealing to the AW masses is because I’ve asked this of my detailer and my HOD and I’ve received conflicting guidance. Quick background: I am IZ for O4 this year and up until recently I was planning on getting out. My letter of resignation was approved...

Who gives a f***? Just do the best you can and let the grades fall where they may

Not to stir things back up, but dude, you’re an NFO. Sit this one out

Hey man, I’m not the one here who started the insult train

Sweet man. If it’s JetBlue, that’s not a major

Lol, you don’t actually know anything about our mission if you don’t realize we fly 2/3s of our dets from coastal sites...

Seeing as you’re fts, I doubt you’ll be there in less time than my availability in 3 months, with multiple invites I might add, although I could be wrong. Still though, I’m sure they’ll be very impressed with all your time racked up in the starboard d. I guess I lack sufficient starboard d time...

meh, not everyone can be an almighty helo driver. The op was asking about what platforms would fit best for a family lifestyle. Big wing platforms would be the best bet. Sorry that I’ll be at the majors before you helo trash

Yeah, who in their right mind would want to fly the largest plane in the Navy’s inventory while in the process gaining heavy multi engine PIC? That’s not valuable on the outside is it? Air refueling is fun. Not deploying on a boat is fun. Per Diem is fun. Yeah, sounds really terrible

Important

Nope, definitely not

Don’t be an ass. He doesn’t owe anybody a damn thing, it’s his career and he needs to make the best decision for himself. Statements like yours exemplify why so many highly qualified aviators, like myself, are jumping ship left and right.

Say what now?

L O Fucking L

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there a milpersman concerning officer resignations that says as long as you’ve served 12 months on a conus based shore tour, you can resign so long as you’ve fulfilled your msr? I’m sure it’s dependent on your boat’s manning, but my community has had several...

No, it’s a totally made up bs job that should be done by the admin Ldo (if your squadron is fortunate to have the manning to support an admin ldo)

Even as a mid, I thought that the instructors at my unit worked pretty hard for a shore tour. Maybe it was just my unit, but I clearly remember the instructors at pt with us 3x per week at 0545, then teaching 2 or 3 classes throughout the day. When they weren’t teaching, they were generally...

So why would you have nice noise cancelling Bose headsets but only wear them on one ear? That seems Tacamo-level dumb...

Seconded

Wow, holy 10 year thread resurrection. Nicely done

Or tacamo. Good god, Let the kids’ dreams live for a little bit

For some reason I feel like I remember hearing that you had to qualify for at least 2 pipelines to not be npq’d. I’m not sure if that’s actually true or just SNA logic...

So I feel like I should know this as I’m basically an Air Force pilot that happens to wear gold wings, but are the AF’s gmt requirements, extra queep and ground jobs even comparable to what the typical Navy Jo has to contend with? I hear AF pilots complain about the above endlessly, so I’m...

E-6...twice the engines=twice the flight time. Or was I sold a bill of goods?

I have more big wing experience than you. Stick to vertrep bro

It’s only a rule if you’re a pussy. I file 1000 nm directs in the Merc routinely and atc lets me do what I want

Haha you and me both. Perks of being at 7 I suppose. I won't believe it until we are on deck with a beer cracked

Not going to oceana, but we're bringing the great white war pig for a static display at the Montrose, Colorado airshow. Any other aw's going to be there?

So let me get this straight; under perfect conditions, the test subjects were able to do it barely better than 50% of the time, knowing exactly what was going to happen? Yeah, Sully made the right call with the info he had at the time and not expecting it like the test pilots did. A 50% chance...

Ports of call from the VQ3 Tacamo perspective: 1. Offutt hooch 2. Tinker hooch Sometimes we'll get to go somewhere exotic like the Minot hooch:(

Or you could do what I did and basically have all the ass pain of being in the Air Force with none of the cool stuff, and at the same time, be a naval aviator in name only. In all seriousness, the Tacamo lifestyle isn't terrible and it's not the most well known community in naval aviation, so I...

That was my impression. Thanks for the insight!

I thought LT was another auto-promote, or close to it? Am I wrong? What's the saying? To make JG you need a pulse, to make LT you need to be conscious....

My thoughts exactly

Sorry for the revival/threadjack, but I didn't really want to start a new thread for this, tangentially related topic. I browse the website reddit.com sometimes, and they have a few subsections dedicated to flying and aviation in general. Well, there was a post of a dude wearing a flightsuit and...