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    E2 Question

    I don't know, but I can ask around. I've heard the name but never flew with him. Even though I was around for the sundown, I'm kind of removed from flying and the squadrons these days. No direct replacement. That part of the syllabus is just going away. Once the Multi Crew Simulator (MCS)...
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    E2 Question

    The sundown ceremony was nicely done. There was some good T-39 division footage shown at the museum. Four current or former VT-4 COs in the flyover. Lots of great Americans at the club that night.
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    E2 Question

    VT-4 was reactivated last summer and took over T-39 flying from -10. VT-86 has already done their last T-39 flight. VT-4 will do their last T-39 flight in September, and that will be it. VT-4 should be starting its first MCS class shortly thereafter. Everything else is fuzzy and constantly...
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    E2 Question

    For any SNFOs reading this, VT-4 is all NFOs right now, and they represent every Navy community except P-8s and Prowlers/Growlers. There's even a couple of Marine ECMOs over there. If you want to talk to one of them about a certain platform/community, let your class advisor know and they will...
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    Exchange Tours?

    There is a Marine exchange program but it's Prowlers to EC-130s. The Marine Corps picked a guy last year and he's supposed to move out to DM this summer. No idea what the Air Force has done on their end. If you know anybody out there it may be worth asking. I honestly don't know how much...
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    MAWTS-1/WTI

    WTI is a 7 week, 6 days a week, 12 hours a day face raping that gets you a patch, an MOS (7577), and supposedly makes you more valuable to your community and the Marine Corps in general. What squeeze said. It's been three years since I went, so details on some things are fuzzy. There is...
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    funny things you've heard on the radio

    I had posted this before (in 2006 apparently) but it took a minute to find it: I heard this in Orlando's class B: Cessna: Approach, Cessna 123 is doing aerial photography, and we'd like to start with area number two. Approach: You want to start with area number two, then what would you like to...
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    Prior enlisted to NROTC. anyone else in my shoes?

    I would say to go to college with an open mind. Before I started MECEP, I my overall expectation of Mids was pretty low. It didn't take long to realize that wasn't the case. Of course there were a handful of true screwups but overall the Mids I went to school with did their best to be...
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    The basics of API

    I'm a little removed from that place so I'm not up on all the stories.
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    The basics of API

    I can assure you that your post(s) have not gotten me excited. If you really think I stress over what somebody says online you are sadly mistaken.
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    The basics of API

    That there's some pretty astute powers of observation seeing as this thread has been on the site longer than either of you have. Maybe I should just change my username to my college and graduation year? Seems to work for some people. Not going to do it, but if you're going to call me a...
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    MECEP: Aviation Guarantee prior to TBS

    I don't remember anybody ever being promised the chance to apply for a commissioning program. I'm not saying that we won't have some good Marines who are no longer eligible. What I am saying is that until selection rates hit 100%, MCRC can still be selective, which is all they're doing...
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    MECEP: Aviation Guarantee prior to TBS

    I don't know. Looking at last year's stats, 262 of the 345 applicants (76%) were Sergeants or above. As far as selection, 91 out of 100 (you do the math) selected were Sergeants or above. MCRC doesn't publish on their site stats for number of applicants/selectees with college credit or for...
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    MECEP FAQs

    I got an email a while back from someone who had sat on the last two MECEP selection boards. I finally got in touch with him and got his approval to post it here. Hopefully it will help somebody out. _____________________________________________ Leaders, Just spent two weeks at Harry...
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    MECEP Aviation?

    Even if you've finished a significant amount of college, your age will probably be the limiting factor. Remember that if you get selected this year you won't start college full time until August/September 2011. Do you have much college credit now? As far as how hard it is to get there...
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    MECEP Applicant

    The number of applicants and slots changes year to year. While nobody can tell you beforehand what your chances are, here are some stats for the last few years to keep you busy: FY10 Total applications: 420 Total eligible: 345 Number selected: 100 Number of alternates: 0 %...
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    NROTC Rankings

    This is copied from a post I made a few months back:
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    Choice of Commission in the Naval Academy?

    Interesting. On your profile you list a birthdate in 1973. If that's the case you certainly won't be going to the academy. Yet when I searched your email, I found it registered on some car forums, using a girl's name, with an age of 24. Furthermore, you claim to be a doctor and in the top 5%...
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    Padre Island room avail for Corpus Stud

    Duplicate.
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    Honesty Appreciated

    Once is enough.
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    So who can tell me....about OCS, TBS and tattoos?

    Aviation Supply=Somebody has to do it. Lots of paperwork and budgets and "I know we have aircraft that need to launch, but the NIINs don't cross so we can't issue this part" crap. Communications=interesting but not necessarily exciting. C3=parked in front of a monitor the majority of the...
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    So who can tell me....about OCS, TBS and tattoos?

    Here is one answer.
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    So who can tell me....about OCS, TBS and tattoos?

    Just so GeorgiaMarine doesn't get confused, these answers apply to Navy OCS, not Marine OCS.
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    Law after NFO?

    Even if you do work with his monitor, you don't have first hand information of what life is like. You can look at numbers all you like but they don't tell the full story. Like I said earlier, I don't have first hand information, but I trust the guy feeding me information and it sounds like...
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    Law after NFO?

    My response is "Stop being an idiot." He's a lawyer. He's talked to his monitor. Make sense?
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    Law after NFO?

    It's an annual board. It will still happen even when things aren't perfect in the field. HQMC will just adjust the number of people selected to what it thinks is appropriate.
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    Law after NFO?

    Both emails dated 28 September.
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    Law after NFO?

    I heard something completely different. Not too long ago a Marine came to me and asked me for advice on getting commissioned and becoming a lawyer. I asked one of my buddies, a Marine officer and a lawyer, who had the following to say: "My OSO told me that he needed so few lawyers that he...
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    Help

    I've told people before that yes it's a pain to learn the T-1 for what, eight flights? But it's a good transition. Once you move on you'll be learning radar procedures and other crap so this is your chance to start working with/as a crew. A recommendation...it's great that you did some...
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    Help

    The radios are harder to program? Step 1: Type in freq Step 2: Push soft key You don't even have to write that shit down! It's right there on the scratchpad for you. Anyway, what do you mean you keep getting corrected?
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    Help

    That was common when I went through, I even caught myself saying it a few times. Not what you want to hear, but it doesn't get any easier after you finish T-1s. At any rate, what specifically are you having trouble with? Bogged down in checklists? Get lost and fly all over creation during...
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    Going to IOC before Flight School

    Funny, the aviators I know who did IOC are the same ones who run like hell any time "FAC tour" is mentioned.
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    REQUEST: Good aviation/military books

    I went on a reading spurt a while back. No real literary masterpieces in here, but I found them interesting: "One Square Mile of Hell" John Wukovits "Utmost Savagery" Joseph Alexander "Da Nang Diary" Tom Yarborough "West Dickens Avenue" John Corbett "Sunrise at Midnight"...
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    Want to fly USMC, but need waiver (loonnnggg story with OSO and MEPS)

    You sure do have the world by the tail to be in high school.
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    Hello Just wated to introduce myself

    Your name and email show up on various online spam lists. Nice meeting you. No thanks.
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    The Russians are keeping a lid on the Arctic Sea "investigation"

    Deleted due to gross copyright violation.
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    Mecep and Career Help

    You got spunk, Wolfhouse, I'll give you that. My question was a legitimate one and you answered it. Still, if I were you, I'd hold off on giving advice on one program over the other until you have a little more "street cred". As a separate question, are active duty Marines eligible for...
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    Mecep and Career Help

    What exactly is this supposed to accomplish? So how do you know which program is supposedly better? I know you want to help but it's not working.
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    Mecep and Career Help

    You're messing with all of us, right? I suggested you educate yourself on the program you're interested in which you clearly have not done. How smart do you have to be in order to be a fighter pilot, you ask? Smart enough to read simple messages (MARADMINs for example) and understand them...
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    Mecep and Career Help

    Because the order was written 15 years ago and never updated. Each year's MARADMIN should say something to the effect of: Seriously, read the order once, then read the latest MARADMIN a few times and go with what the MARADMIN says. Your chain of command should be helping you out with this.
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    Mecep and Career Help

    Take as many college classes as you can between now and then. It's no guarantee but it reduces the amount of time you'll be spending in college if selected. If you have a good service record, and it sounds like you do, more college credit will make you more attractive to the selection board...
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    Mecep and Career Help

    To who? MCRC's MECEP page might be a good place to start looking for information. The status page reflects the same deadline, which has passed. Anybody who is letting you submit an application now is in someway grossly misinformed, either entirely too late for this year or entirely too...
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    The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery

    If I take enough pictures, some of them turn out good. I tried to get similar pictures with a Huey but apparently kept moving and screwing up the shot.
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    The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery

    I'm a little behind on these. Cherry Point Airshow:
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    USMC OCS vs Navy OCS

    Nice posting history. This is about the fourth version of the same question.
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    NROTC and USNA

    Any NROTC unit will provide you the opportunity to earn a commission. Picking a school based on the perceived reputation of its current NROTC program might seem like a good idea, but as with everything else, luck and timing will come into play. A new MOI or AMOI can come in and turn a 'bad'...
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    World's Most Difficult Approach

    Busted spammer.
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