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The answer: 24 hrs.

Stupid question. How long are you down after using muscle relaxants?

Thanks for the insights. I managed to talk to a couple of folks who had knowledge of the NPS EMBA - sounded interesting, but I've done something like it already as part of the USN TPS / NPS Systems Engineering Coop program. I'd rather spend the time to network at a higher tier school if I elect...

Anyone with current experience with the Executive MBA through Naval Postgrad, I'd like to hear your thoughts. Thanks.

You clearly know more about it than I do. All I know is that it worked fine in the L-39 which is all I’ve ever used it for. For $20+shipping you could find out.

Selling one of these: See link: https://www.pilot-usa.com/adapters/gopro-hero3-recorder-adapter-heli.html Selling mine for $20 + shipping. Let me know if you're interested. Worked great in an L-39...

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Anyone have a recommendation for a leather jacket tailor in the Northern Virginia (NoVA) or DC Metro area? Thanks.

Nice place in the 'burbs is fine for me - I have a family with a 4 year old boy and a baby on the way in February so I don't care much about nightlife. I'd prefer a house but a well designed townhouse would be fine too if it had a garage but I can get over that. I can deal with a 30 min commute...

I recently received verbals to Northern VA (Chantilly) in the spring of 2017 and wanted to see if anyone here has insight into the area with regards to rentals. Looks like traffic is the real deal there. Trulia has a commute time heat map that's been invaluable to narrow my focus. So far it...

No worries - was just curious. I don't think you can mix the two - oil and water and all that.

Is this still up to date WRT Private Forums? Been a while since I tried to do much with the User Control Panel and it's different than I remember. Mostly curious if there's a Private P-8 forum since I've got one foot on the dark side now.

Veering a little off the Amex, anyone used the Barclay's Arrival+ card? Looked like a good point program for domestic travel but I don't have any secondhand information on that.

Awesome. Did a little more reading which matches up with what you've already said WRT the highest balance becoming the effective credit limit for the credit agencies. One site mentioned that cancelling a charge card, provided credit was good (mine is) would result in a a small ding at worst...

So the nuclear option of cancelling the card would not negatively affect my credit score too severely? Not very familiar with charge cards.

I'm really considering getting the Amex Platinum, but am concerned about a couple of things. First, eating the annual fee once I get off active duty is off-putting, and I'm not one to close cards once I open them. Is this thing good enough to hang onto after you get out? Alternatively, is it...

My landlord in Monterey has been the best I've ever had, so I thought I'd give him a shout out on here. He hasn't advertised this anywhere except for the fliers I've put up at NPS (and attached here with pictures). The house has it all - easy walking distance to NPS, 4 blocks from the beach, and...

My two cents as I'm about to depart NPS. Most of the guys in my cohort lived in PG and biked to school every day. One lived just west of campus and could make it from his couch to class in about five minutes. His place was pretty cheap but was very small. I lived in Del Monte Beach and loved it...

Anyone got a recommendation for a place around Monterey that can put my Tipsy Gypsy patch on my new leather jacket and not f it up?

I took a great psych course in college, and we discussed psych drugs and how the vast majority of people who take them don't need them at all, and in some cases were less effective than a placebo. The professor who taught the course was doing research on alternative treatments for mild...

I was worried about this during my commissioning physical and had my mind put to rest when an old Army flight doc told me that the only time flat feet have ever been an issue (since Vietnam, anyway) was if you have a rigid flat foot (i.e., your foot doesn't relax into an arched shape when...

^ I did my cool missions at the beginning of the deployment, from what I can gather. The food isn't too bad out here, honestly--what I don't like is the fact there are hours to the chow hall in the first place.

Nah, just curious. Like a cat.

And who are these guys going to fly the T-1? P-3 bubbas?

The basic idea behind per diem is to provide money to pay for food and/or lodging due to being stationed someplace that doesn't have government lodging or chow halls. You get more per diem in places where the cost of living is very high, and very little in places where it isn't. For example, you...

What your IPs were probably talking about was stuff that they did a few years ago. The missions are NOT as cool anymore. Yes, you can get a ton of hours, but as my PPC said the other day, there is a gigantic difference between turning dinosaurs into noise at altitude burning circles in the sky...

Sky-Pig, I need to update my profile more often--I checked into 46 in May, so if I shift everything to the left about five months, I see what you're coming from. Of course, that shift doesn't help me in this specific case... I'm picking up what you're putting down with regards to the...

Yep, a couple of the IPs I knew at 30 were part of the FIT team. I don't know all the details, but I believe they were starting to learn how to fly a 737 in some capacity (I know they had a few 737s there in Jax; not sure if it was the FIT flying them, or if they were going to send the FIT...

I'm just a 3P, so take this all for what it's worth. When I was going through Primary, most of the P-3 IPs I met were pretty cool, and had good things to say about the community despite having gotten shafted by the advent of HONA (Health of Naval Aviation, which puts a restriction of the...

I think any of the moderators can add wings.

If I was going to do it again, I'd live on the island, especially with that new HEB getting built between base and Padre. There's a complex out there past the Islander that a few of my friends lived at--can't remember the name but it's referenced here that I'd probably look at. If you want to...

I'm imagining the closet that is my current home here in darkest Africa while looking at those pics and kinda wishing I'm back in Whidbey right now...

Crossfit.com has been periodically adding videos on good rowing form on their website--might give that a shot. I messed my ankle up my freshman year of college and had to start swimming with no high school background whatsoever. I got a book called Fitness Swimming, and later, one called Total...

That sure sounds right, based on my very limited experience with the AF at VT-35, and every story my AF friends told me, though they blamed the Navy for some kind of oil system problem that made the oil press light come on doing PAs. Are they beefing up the tires? Kept hearing stories about...

API: NAS Pensacola Primary: NAS Whiting Field, FL or NAS Corpus Christi, TX Helo Advanced: NAS Whiting Field Jet Advanced: NAS Meridian / NAS Kingsville Maritime Advanced: NAS Corpus Christi There are a few who go to more than one place (E2/C2 hits both VT-31 in Corpus and Kingsville...

I thought the Chair Force was considering picking up the tab on that since they liked how studs performed out of -35. Guess not--sucks, since I honestly think they should just renegotiate the contract and make them ALL C-12s instead of -44s. Just me. I heard something about an earlier arrival...

Glad to help; hope you get into VT-35. It's only a little like the dark side.

Sure you don't want to live it and have an awesome story of your own? I'd buy you a cigar to hear it once you got back--if you come back... :D

Perfect; thanks.

After talking to him again, I guess what I'm trying to figure out is who he should talk to if he wants to have the car shipped for free as part of the gov't move. Is that something that just gets figured out when he shows up in Orlando, or is Matson who he should just talk to now? Thanks for...

I think Web-san's point was that the infrastructure they do have set up to help people should at the very least treat us like human beings, not like a POS. I don't think he meant to say we should be given pedicures on check-in at the Q or whatever the AF gets up to these days.

/minor threadjack My roommate just completed the CAT I syllabus at VP-30 and is going to VP-4 at K-Bay. He's asked a lot of people about how moving his car works, and hasn't gotten many answers; I ran a search to help him out and this is the best I've found. All he knows is that he has to...

I'm coordinating with my roommate right now--he's got a house in on the island and I think he's losing his tenants soon. I'll send you a PM once I know more.

While I don't ever want to live in Pensacola again, and I'd only consider Corpus if I get an instructor job there, I don't really like either location that well. I will say that Corpus seems to have more to offer, like people have said, and it's close to some cool towns (San Antonio, Austin...

It's funny you bring this up, because I was just thinking about this the other day. I'm the type of person who needs to be just a little on edge or I don't do well, be it something as mundane as driving or as complex as flying a P-3 with (simulated) emergencies (no real real emergencies yet...

I'm heading that way too--good to hear you're heading away from the Shining City by the Sea...

I live on Gate Pwky on the opposite side of Southside as Esplanade. Seemed like an okay place; never been in there.

Me too. Glad to know they're all right.

Seconded. Check this out for more info. I'd also recommend staying away from the vets at NAS Jax; they may be cheap, but their customer service blows (it took my roommate three weeks to set up an appointment, and they didn't even tell him all the correct steps he had to follow in the link...