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I haven't been there in a long time admittedly, but I can tell you that back in 2019/2020 I literally watched the MATSG XO pulling up the completers and racking and stacking them on the basis of grades. If #1 wanted jets and #2 wanted herks, 1 and 2 got herks regardless of whether they were...

edit: removed comment since someone else commented above and got a fair response. my bad.

looks more like a high aspect snapshot to me :p

I winged at 29 and did just fine.

honestly, i completely agree. if you live in a stable, developed nation, you aren't really gaining anything tangible imo.

i also have experience. i personally find it just a ridiculous overreach of a supposedly liberty-loving nation free from excessive governmental interference, but reasonable people can and will disagree about this. naturally, none of that changes the fact he's providing training to people that...

its probably for more practical reasons. if you live abroad, you still have to file a us tax return etc and it gets a bit complicated with tax treaties etc etc. the US is more or less the only country that expects a tax return and potential tax payment from citizens living and working abroad...

go fly dude. the only truly trash navy station for pilots is Lemoore, but the upside of that is that you get to fly a super hornet. go fly. idk why people think norfolk is bad. its not san diego, but it beats the shit out of the some of the "beautiful" places my beloved Marine Corps will send...

to be fair to them, it comes on down from the IPs and culture

the booster landed me in hospital actually. the second one also hit me hard. not keen to repeat if im being honest

hard to believe dudes/dudettes, but make the most of it. you will never again get paid to sit on your ass and do absolutely nothing once you have wings. take up a hobby, do an online course, get f**king jacked. have fun.

in all fairness, I look back now on my T-6 solo and am amazed it went as smoothly as it did. at that point in time with my total lack of experience, I would have seriously struggled to know what to do if any serious friction came up

it could be the number specified by CNAF providing at least the opportunity for 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. i understand the desire and need to dig deep in the fight sometimes, but statistics and history have shown us that if one pushes too far in aviation, you end up with crashed planes and...

also, to give a more recent report on TW2 and TW4, as well as a fleet marine corps sqdn... TW4 - sort of a bar that only IPs used in VT-27. maybe similar deal in VT-28. studs basically did not partake. can't speak for VT-31 or -35. TW2 - both VT-21 and VT-22 had 'heritage rooms' that were...

VMFA 232 has a fire truck with hornet split tails welded on VMFA 225 has a hearse but it seems to be of dubious provenance since it says 'Death dealers' but the squadron is the Vikings...

personally, i'd rather the pendulum swung in the direction of more crew rest than in the direction of maxing crew day and minimizing rest. but that's just my lowly $0.02

haha you make a fair point ? although ironically i think TW4 started doing dets out to ... Roswell ... because the weather was better. not to mention TW1 and TW2 basically cannot maintain production without multiple dets per year to El Centro. I had my fun in Corpus, but it would seemingly have...

probably also doesn't help that they have elected to place the two main training bases for primarily VFR flying in places with notoriously bad weather throughout a good portion of the year

probably exceeds BAH for O-1s and O-2s, but hot damn ... I lived in Lost Key and absolutely loved it. amazing spot.

pretty sure NAS Beeville now houses a large Texas prison. T6's still fly there all the time

if not the cloud card too. the competition is fierce these days, from what I hear from folks

for some time now.

I'm not so sure, tbh. out of sight is out of mind for the average person

surprised there isn't greater enthusiasm for realpolitik, considering that that seems to be what a large portion of the population express a desire for

Good old Chase field. flew many a PEL there in the T6. Now houses a very large prison. Kind of a shame they didnt keep beeville and can kingsville. Beeville was a mere hour away from San Antonio. And no nasty arachnids like Kingsville.

if the T45 has anything other than VOR/TACAN and ILS/LOC, that would be news to me. As of 2021 it had no RNAV capability, although you could (not legally) navigate to hand-jammed GPS waypoints. It was difficult to well which of the VOR/TACAN or GPS was less reliable than the other.

Had one P-3 and a C-130 IP doing T-45, but keep in mind if this is something you are interested in ... as a big wing guy, you are for the most part going to get stuck with the introductory level flying. If I recall they were making the big wing guys also get form qual'd as I was walking out the...

It's only anecdotal ... but 9/10 of the E2/C2 guys I flew with in Kingsville were awesome. Professionals but relaxed and not all about the dick measuring contest like some VFA/VMFA/VMA guys ... Honestly, seems like a cool platform. Multi-engine time while also getting to fly T45s and land on...

Couldn't tell you about the # of slots, but anecdotally I feel like I know a fair number of people that ended up going UAS after washing out of flight school. The VMU FRD is also transitioning to becoming VMUT-2 and will be switching from teaching people to operate the RQ-21 to operating the...

is this the famous Monsieur B that Navy cats always talked about? Kit was a huge douchebag as well.

haha was that the group that got wasted and had a big fight or something at seaworld and fucked their shit up? ah boy. the United States Marine Corps. what a storied organization.

hmmm the group of lances that hospitalized each other in a brawl at the el centro bricks suggests the capacity for stupid behavior exists regardless of where we are haha

I'm very jealous. In hindsight, as an older, single man, I really should have listened to my brother (USAF) and thought more about quality of life and where you could end up stationed ... instead I bought into the propaganda hook, line, and sinker. I'd do lewd and lascivious things to get to fly...

A couple of years. I bounced around a bit after my Master's degree (post JD/LLB) ... had some unusual life circumstances that prevented me taking an exciting NGO opportunity in the middle east ... the result was that, for me at least, I sort of ended up torpedoing my legal career. Its a very...

and here's me wanting to go back into education eventually : )

a beach is still a beach! corpus has improved drastically in recent times in any case. a fair number of trendy restaurants and bars and stuff there now. still kind of a grimy shithole, but I genuinely didn't mind it. I had a blast with my mates in VT-27 and VT-28 (i too was a boomer ... boom...

as someone who changed careers from being a (very) bored lawyer to flying pointy grey jets. i say go join the Navy man. As much as I hate to admit it (because active duty seriously fucks me off sometimes), joining the military was probably the single best decision I have made in my adult life...

what happened to ya? the only time they ever made a decision on the basis of factors external to grade was if two people had the same NSS. hopefully they didn't start doing quality spreads etc ... under previous COs, explicit policy was that #1 gets what they want and that it is then ordered...

just do your best and pray. luck plays a role but you can minimize the size of that role by being as highly-ranked as you can be, thus meaning you're more likely to get what you want.

i doubt that's a policy. can't seem to imagine why it would be. knew plenty of married guys that got sent to corpus. as Swanee says though. you'll have fun no matter what. I've been to both Corpus and Whiting (TW4 for training, did some PTAD stuff at TW5) and there are upsides and downsides to...

unless they have radically changed it, primary selection is 99% rack and stack. i've literally seen the spreadsheets multiple times at MATSG-22.

like all things in the Marine Corps (knowing well the position of my friend who is a MV-22 guy), do well and you will likely get what you want. However, BPT to get a bad deal due to quality spread etc. the good news is that the overwhelming chances are that you end up W coast or asia. potential...

gorgeous pictures. looks like a blast.

my suspicion is someone saw a quick (and arguably foolish) way to 'save time' in training (we're talking about a few weeks, which is ridiculous when you consider how much time is wasted sitting around idly between TBS and winging) and hasn't thought through the implications

I mean, at this point I don't give much of a care about the solo time because I'm in a single seat jet now, but I do lament having not gotten to do arrested landings on the boat. would have been a blast and a real aviation accomplishment imo. but hey, HQMC/TECOM gonna do what it does.

yeah, i've heard that as well but it's nowhere near as much solo time ... the only solo flight in the flights discussed is the RR solo. As a Marine, I am very salty about us having not been allowed to go to the boat. That was something of a lifelong aviation ambition and it was very frustrating...

IDK why they take SLL and RR and pop flights from the Navy ... road recce is a good partial task trainer (in addition to being damn fun), SLL were just badass and sort of accurately model what a section attack would look like, and the Navy does pops too ... so idk why they take alot of the fun...

for what it's worth i wasn't complaining. i was just curious. PA to your heart's content. they're badass.

You did PAs on your solos? unless the rules have changed, I'm pretty sure this wasn't allowed except for a real emergency lol...

live somewhere fun and have fun. i strongly recommend perdido key just because its so damn beautiful. does moving twice in 6-12 months suck? yes, maybe, but so is living somewhere dull and boring for what should be a seriously fun 6-12 months of your life.