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The vast, vast majority of coaches at USNA are civilian. They are employed by the Naval Academy Athletic Association (NAAA) which is a non-governmental organization that runs the Division 1 sports program at the Academy. They receive a small amount of funds from the government but the vast...

Request NFO wings; Out of VT-86 in January.

You will be in the front seat for a total of 5 flights. After your contact checkride you will be in the backseat for the remainder of flight school. Your IP may let you fly from the backseat on occasion but that won't likely amount to any significant amount of time in the long run.

From talking to a Marine in my class in NFO Advanced it doesn't appear like there is any standardized path that they are giving WSOs, at least not that they have told him about. Unfortunately he has a weird eye issue that is a DQ for SNA otherwise he would have switched a long time ago. I...

Thanks. It had just seemed like most of the Lemoore IPs I had talked to had only done WESTPACs so I was curious if getting stationed there effectively limited you to those types of deployments. I've only been in advanced a few weeks and probably didn't have a big enough sample size. I would...

To what extent does the coast a squadron is on determine their deployment location? For example, would a west coast squadron exclusively deploy to 7th fleet? Are all the 5th fleet deployments nowadays going to east coast squadrons?

For the NFO side of the house STUCON will generally have a pretty decent idea of what's going to be available for your class if you ask him. It probably has to do with the fact that there is only one NFO primary squadron vice 5 for pilots, which makes things easier to predict from a numbers...

So what you're seeing is only for Midshipman that have already been told that they're gonna be SWOs. They go up by order of class rank and pick the ship that they want to go to off the board. Some of the different colors correspond to special types of SWO where you do one tour and then get a...

VT-4 doesn't fly the T-6... or anything at all for that matter. It's a simulator only squadron for training P-8/E-6/E-2/EP-3 NFOs. The USAF does fly T-6s out of NASP along with VT-10. Actually sir, to be totally correct, the night contact is flown with the SNFO in the back seat, so there...

Is the plan still to replace it with the MQ-4? Or did they decide that they still need a manned platform for the mission?

I went to the VT-4/VT-86 Winging last Friday and one of the new NFOs from that class was selected to go EP-3Es. I was under the impression that that platform was slated to retire in 2019, so this was surprising. When I asked one of my instructors, he said that they were in fact still allowing...

I just finished IFS at Skywarrior, and all of my flights were in Cessna 172s, all of which were probably 20+ years old. All had carburetors and steam gauges. Some flight schools use Pipers from what I hear though. All but two of the instructors at Skywarrior were young guys trying to build...

Yes, they send around 15 to EOD every year. SEALs get 35. They do a screener, and those that pass that are sent on a 4 week long cruise where they are further evaluated. I'm told that ROTC also gets around 15 slots for EOD. I do know that ROTC candidates are sent to USNA twice a year to...

I was visiting HSM-48 today and one of the LTs that showed us around was wearing a two piece flight suit. I have never seen that before and did not know that that was something that was made. Can anybody just buy them, or to you have to have a reason for wearing one?

I was under the impression that most of the "what are my chances" threads are for getting an OCS package/ROTC scholarship, or getting into USNA, and not about people at USNA asking how to get Aviation, but I'll concede I haven't been a member of these forums for nearly as long as you have. The...

I can attest that there are quite a few mouth-breathers that manage to get aviation out of USNA. It's hard to get into USNA, but once you're there, if your PQ then it really isn't that difficult to get a pilot slot. All you need to do is get the minimums on the ASTB and generally be in the...

I'm currently spending a month at Quantico doing a program that Academy mids do if they want to commission into the USMC after graduation. Unfortunately, its more TBS-lite than it is the operational Marine Corps, so I don't really think I'm getting the best look at what life would actually be...

I once spoke to a P3 pilot CDR who had managed to stay in Hawaii for 10 years without PCSing. This surprised me as I know the Navy usually tries to move people around after every tour. Is this still possible? I imagine that some platforms are more conducive to staying in one place than...

I appreciate the input from you all. It's clear USMC NFO would not be a particularly wise career move. Looks like I'll be deciding between Marine Ground and Navy Air.

There are two USMC NFOs at USNA that I am aware of, a Lieutenant Colonel and a Colonel, who happens to be the Senior Marine. Given their rank I was told to ask up the chain before talking to them vice walking into their office directly/sending an email. When finals are over after this week I...

I've been lurking on this forum pretty heavily for the past month or so and I was wondering if I could get some input from some of the more experienced posters. Some Background: I'm a soon to be 1/C at the Naval Academy and am rapidly approaching the time when I need to put in my preferences...