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Different dude then

Can’t remember if he went MQ-9 or not, but VP NFO originally. I would be kinda shocked if you knew him given our YG gap.

@Waveoff if you’re open to drones that’s also a possibility. An NFO from my JO tour did a transfer to the AF and is doing drone shit now.

Don’t be jealous of my boat dodging skills! They got me back with my last choice on my post DH slate anyways.

Hey now those shooter billets ain’t going to fill themselves! Oh and fun fact, across all platforms O-5 sea duty for us dirtbag non command screened types is now 30 months vs 24 months. Because retention.

Ah I love me some passive aggressive ASAPs…..

She was my skipper, damn fine American.

Good FP article on the subject https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/04/china-war-military-taiwan-us-asia-xi-escalation-crisis/

I still hate all of you equally regardless of your views if that still means anything here

That only applies if the school he’s attending has a crosstown arrangement with the NROTC unit. The NROTC website has a list of approved schools for that. https://www.netc.navy.mil/Commands/Naval-Service-Training-Command/NROTC/Navy-ROTC-Schools/#

In MPRA the front offices get to weigh in on their opinions of where they think you should go. Their input goes on the form that gets submitted for the JOs.

A JO during my DH tour got a billet in the UK, so not out of the possible, but you would have to get lucky. Most of your overseas options in MPRA are going to be CTF billets. Can’t speak to the lifestyles of the JOs at 57/67, but for the 72 guys most had lots of opportunities to travel for work...

In 2011 on my last P-3 home cycle the Navy was trying to dispose of the VLADs quickly. Had a couple CTFs where our gunner loaded us full up with them and told us not to bring any home.

This is probably the only thing they’re good for now. I never went full send on patching mine up, but probably will now as I’m on the back end of my career just for nostalgia. Honestly haven’t worn it since 2012 when I managed to swing a fleece, and haven’t worn the fleece since 2018 when I...

There is, but it’s a very small footprint that basically keeps the lights on.

Some shore duty options at PACFLT and INDOPACOM, but for JOs they are few and far between. More options for senior officers.

I’m on the Pol Mil scholarship right now and it’s awesome. All of these type programs do have a bit of luck, timing, and skill to get if you want. Just like anything in the Navy.

Eh there’s a guy in our community that had an oopsie with a P-3 and he made major command.

Fuuuuuccccck you can already see the corrosion

On the FAO education piece really intrigued how the Navy does it compared to the Army. From what y’all are saying sounds like we kinda suck. Only reason I’m curious is because here on my pol mil scholarship at SAIS I can’t swing a dead cat without hitting several Army FAOs in the face.

You‘re going to owe a sea tour regardless and what that looks like depends on your community. My last tour after DH was sea and got downgraded to non post DH and was filled by an O4 who was up for sea duty and had declined DH. So basically could be a lot of random shit, maybe a good deal, maybe...

Not true in VP unfortunately. SMTI generally a good thing for skipper nowadays, VPU/NDD guys have had some but limited success and require significant help to make it over the hump, and FSU is the kiss of death for skipper. Only one FSU guy has ever made skipper and he’s a retired O-6, now GS-15...

No

I don’t let the idiots bother me on that kind of shit any more.

Also fact. Basic multiplication, fractions, and the three minute rule are the only math skills you really need as a P-8 NFO in the plane.

Every Navy scholarship mid every where has to take calc….

I’ve accepted that the rest of my time in the Navy is probably just going to be pain, but getting to play civilian for this year is pretty damn awesome.

Wait there are other uses of flight gloves besides oven mitts?

There is one sub turned MPRA NFO who has had a very successful career already.

If you go MPRA you could end up at TOC Kadena for shore duty.

Only way I could see cycling back talent in would be to send guys there for dissociated tours that still have hope of picking up DH. That way if they get OP-T they get cycled back in the community. I don’t know of a single JO who has gone there who has screened for DH. I don’t know enough...

When I was in Djibouti in 2010 we just signed in at the galley for each meal. Except they definitely weren’t checking that list against anything. My 6’6” IFT who worked out twice a day and had the most ridiculous metabolism ever was eating 4-5 meals a day and never got caught. He was actually...

Zippy, your story is clearly from P3 days in the height of the “let’s show how we’re relevant in the desert!” and not the case any more. I will agree true back then, but in the last 10 years the focus has gone back to the ASW game. Yes, competing mission sets and future growth technologies are...

On the female observer side of the house, only time I’ve ever had it enforced on me was when I had to check into the TPU for 2 weeks before meeting my new squadron on deployment. Given that’s where they have the legal holds as well, I can understand why they were sticklers. The MA who observed...

17 year old thread resurrection, this might be the new record!

I’ll bite. OP, take the chip off your shoulder and listen to what’s been told to you thus far. If you take stuff so personally during a civil discussion on the internet, you will struggle with the frank and not kid glove handling way the military does business. Is sexual assault an issue? Of...

Most of the topics we have collectively for GMT aren’t bad and actually needed. Much as we like to disparage them, it’s more that we collectively suck at delivering said training or we fail to update the material rather than having to repeat and reinforce the material. I’m looking at you ATFP...

Where did you find that gif of me doing the tower jump?

You don’t still call it surfing the World Wide Web?

I could understand a low average triggering automatic counseling session with a tone of “hey bro, you’ve been barely making it by, let’s dive into your study habits, etc, before you fuck it away in primary.”

Think it has more to do with not making the students buy a bunch of shirts for a couple months then change colors when they get to their squadrons.

Your soon to be XO is good people, and so is the current XO. They know this isn’t ideal for anyone, so kick ass, take advantage of every opportunity you get, and support your fellow JOs as you all make the best of it while getting to say you were the last of your kind .

Negative rep as I had a stroke trying to read this

I may hate myself, but not enough to wear khakis voluntarily!

It’s not necessarily. There are COs that have EFMs. Just for the love of god and all that is holy be honest about what your family needs. I’m overseas right now and routinely people get sent back early because they played down their needs and then got out here and discovered that they couldn’t...

That’s impressively dumb. If you’re going to be dumb enough to make a threat, it would be a good idea not to waive your 5th amendment rights and simultaneously try to delete the evidence.

Good work. And continue to recognize that you will always be dumb, just dumb about different things. I’m a LCDR soon to be CDR and I’m still a damn idiot. Then again just being a LCDR makes me dumb regardless.

Worst case if it’s only a couple days take them on the weekends to at least guarantee that you won’t get stuck on duty or something.

I would also caveat that it’s going to depend on the mission. Sometimes both TACCO and COTAC need to be focused 100% of the time on the flight without taking eyes off the screen except for piss breaks. Other times you’ll have periods where if one of you needs to catch a quick nap the other one...