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  1. BarrettRC8

    COVID-19

    Is your issue with the test simply that it wasn't fair?
  2. BarrettRC8

    COVID-19

    Flexibility, agility, strength, and stamina? Those are all key aspects of a healthy individual. Its not wrong to recognize people who are fit and healthy, especially in an age where that is increasingly rare. It was pretty easy to get a top score by just playing on a soccer team when I was...
  3. BarrettRC8

    COVID-19

    During PE we would practice some of the events at times - Granted this was 25+ years ago in San Diego. Regardless, should schools prepare you for everything? Parental and personal responsibility has nothing to do with it?
  4. BarrettRC8

    COVID-19

    Did we get rid of the Presidential Fitness Award for kids in school? My daughter is only two so I guess I haven't thought about it in a long time but if so we need to bring that back. Getting those blue patches were awesome. Although today it'd probably make some fat kid feel bad and not making...
  5. BarrettRC8

    Elite Fighter Squadrons?

    I don't know anything about helicopters.
  6. BarrettRC8

    Elite Fighter Squadrons?

    No, but one difference between a FAC and a JTAC is a set of gold wings.
  7. BarrettRC8

    Elite Fighter Squadrons?

    We do?
  8. BarrettRC8

    Presented Without Comment

    The light gray Eagle community is the closest that I have found to the USMC Hornet community. You're going to have outliers, and I've never met this dude, but you can't say there aren't dudes in the USN/USMC Hornet community you don't despise...
  9. BarrettRC8

    Quarantine Activities

    Just don't lift in the corners...
  10. BarrettRC8

    Quarantine Activities

    Finished the interior on my previously race-prep'd 1972 911. Got it out for body and paint work Saturday. Considering building a Olympic platform for my Rogue rack now that the car is off my hands.
  11. BarrettRC8

    COVID-19

    Maybe now is the time for me to get back in the game!
  12. BarrettRC8

    COVID-19

    Bruin, Middle of February my two year old was admitted to the ER after my wife and I noticed a high heart and respiratory rate. We spent about 36 hours at the hospital. She tested positive for “a” Coronavirus and had pneumonia-like symptoms confirmed with X-Rays. Oxygen and IV administered and...
  13. BarrettRC8

    USMC to ANG

    Reach out to the unit(s) you're interested in then go hang out on their drill weekends when you can. Bring a small decent bottle of booze, have fun, and be a good dude and you'll probably be successful when they have a rated board. I visited a couple units and received a job offer from one...
  14. BarrettRC8

    USN Junk in NATOPS

    Pretty sure I read something in the Hornet NATOPS that said, "Avoid selecting afterburner when you're dumping fuel to avoid setting yourself on fire."
  15. BarrettRC8

    Status of IRR Correspondence Courses? Anyone left?

    I recently knocked out Air C&S through Blackboard/Canvas in 7 months start to finish. Total of like 60+ points. Shoot me a message if you're interested in the details.
  16. BarrettRC8

    Correspondence Course Review

    Copy. Thanks for the head's up. I actually received the list from Manpower about two months ago of the currently approved courses. Guess I'll have to just wait and see what is available when that time comes.
  17. BarrettRC8

    Correspondence Course Review

    I'm obviously on the Marine Corps side of the house, but transitioned to the Reserves last year and am actively drilling. I wasn't planning on doing any PME but my 15C sim job is super lax and I've essentially completed USAF Command & Staff in four months. Anyone know if I can drop into the IRR...
  18. BarrettRC8

    Crossing the finish line... running, walking or crawling... (Reserve Retirement Process)

    I'm obviously on the Marine Corps side of the house, but transitioned to the Reserves last year and am actively drilling. I wasn't planning on doing any PME but my 15C sim job is super lax and I've essentially completed USAF Command & Staff in four months. Anyone know if I can drop into the IRR...
  19. BarrettRC8

    GOUGE Legacy Hornet - stick/grip (F-18C)

    It is not in the F-15C. The Hornet and Eagle have the same stick, and very similar throttles. The HOTAS buttons and switches do not function in the same manner however.
  20. BarrettRC8

    Way too early FY20 O4 Board results

    SOS took me two months at a leisurely pace, so I wouldn't sweat it too hard. I actually just enrolled in Air C&S College two weeks ago and am about finished with the second of eight modules so I can keep USMC C&S Distance Learning on the table for retirement points to get "good years" while in...
  21. BarrettRC8

    USMCR Aviator Policy Change

    Easy doesn’t mean better. I’m aware. And they should. You’re choosing to work with a guy for a long time.
  22. BarrettRC8

    USMCR Aviator Policy Change

    Why anyone would want to fly in the MC as a Reservist when AFR and ANG opportunities are so abundant is beyond me.
  23. BarrettRC8

    USN USNTPS or VAQ Transition?

    I'm glad someone picked up on that. Bottom line is that if you have the chance to go VFA, like the others have stated, do it. Yes some times are rough, but I don't ever think you'll hear anyone say "I wish I hadn't become a fighter pilot."
  24. BarrettRC8

    Rand study on USAF pilot retention

    That wasn't the Commander I was referring to. And like all things, probably very few people know the whole story.
  25. BarrettRC8

    Rand study on USAF pilot retention

    The Guard is much more flexible in those regards so for any 2P'd dudes who want to keep flying tactically I'd focus on that avenue. I was invited to a hiring board in Fresno and I brought up the fact that I had been 2P'd in front of the board because I didn't do EWS, though I had completed USAF...
  26. BarrettRC8

    Marine Pilot VS Navy Pilot

    Also, refer to my comment "I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who is a pilot..." From my experience, WSOs focused far more on ground duties than any of the pilots cared to. So that doesn't surprise me. Different priorities perhaps.
  27. BarrettRC8

    Marine Pilot VS Navy Pilot

    You got to the fleet when? 200 hours was two years of flying for dudes who showed up to Marine Hornet fleet sqdns in 2012/2013. Its worse now. I'd gladly have given up my first tour Airframes OIC ground job for an additional 50 hours of flight time. Concur.
  28. BarrettRC8

    Marine Pilot VS Navy Pilot

    It's more meaningful to you because you're not an aviator, as your username states. Most of us who are, want to be great at our primary duty, which is to employ our aircraft. Those other tasks take away from that. I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who is a pilot and values their...
  29. BarrettRC8

    Q'ns about retired airframe

    There's a video of a legacy Hornet where a hand, with a lit cigarette between two fingers, manipulates the pushbuttons on the R DDI during an intercept. Showed up 20 years too late to the party.
  30. BarrettRC8

    Navy legacy Hornets to Marines...

    All USMC WSOs go through 101. Can't imagine getting beat up legacy Hornets that are due to be struck from the inventory is going to really help all that much. If it does, there won't be that many dudes around to fly them regardless.
  31. BarrettRC8

    USMC Too many aircraft in the Marine Corps?

    Advanced Super Hornets would have been a great balance between managing future threats and maintaining our capabilities in the current fight. As it is, TacAir has been so mismanaged that it doesn't matter - Dudes are leaving faster than our broken airplanes can get fixed. 30% of an "advanced"...
  32. BarrettRC8

    USMC Too many aircraft in the Marine Corps?

    If he had asked, every person in that room would have told him the bigger problems facing the Marine Corps TACAIR community and why manning at the O-3 level is at or below 50%, the reason you can't get anyone to go back to the fleet forces, and why you have every guy who has wanted to do this...
  33. BarrettRC8

    USMC Too many aircraft in the Marine Corps?

    Without going into details, it was a completely absurd statement based on a single capability showing the individual had no idea what he was talking about, likely indicating he was only reciting a useless bullet point he had seen to a room full of aviators who have spent countless hours and...
  34. BarrettRC8

    USMC Too many aircraft in the Marine Corps?

    Kind of goes along the lines of a brief that a large USMC Hornet ready room received where a general with a helo background was heard to say "the AMRAAM is the biggest problem facing Marine TACAIR."
  35. BarrettRC8

    Involuntary extensions

    When we're working 11-12 hours a day M-F and occasionally on Saturdays, when else are guys going to do it? I'd like to spend at least a couple hours with my wife during the week. That being said, if I flew that much I'd have had no issues finding the time. Glad you got to fly a lot. My buddy...
  36. BarrettRC8

    Involuntary extensions

    It was PME, no other issues. That being said I have a Master’s degree and completed AF PME last Winter. I’m not spending two years of my weekends doing EWS that has nothing to do with my job when I only get to fly five or six sorties a month.
  37. BarrettRC8

    Involuntary extensions

    I interviewed with an Eagle squadron I'm interested in but couldn't meet their availability. I informed them that I'd likely be twiced passed and the CO said, "Your first day here we'll hand you the keys to one of those Eagles and give you a blue hat with a gold oak leaf too." Of course that was...
  38. BarrettRC8

    Involuntary extensions

    101 and 112 are the only squadrons I'd be interested in. Not that it's not a great deal, I'm just not interested in flying T-45s or anything else.
  39. BarrettRC8

    Involuntary extensions

    I have an rATP with 737 Type and just over 1,000 total time, 1,250(ish) with a .3 multiplier, ASO, PMCF, IP, Division Lead, etc... It seems like ISR provides more stability with two on, two off and sounds a lot more fun than sitting reserves and/or commuting with a regional. My current...
  40. BarrettRC8

    Involuntary extensions

    I am at 101. I'm short of the magic 1,500 hours like nearly all Hornet dudes who joined the fleet in 2012 and after. I don't have a problem with leaving if required, figure I can do contract ISR for 6-12 months, bank another 1,000 hours and be highly competitive for the legacies. And yes, you...
  41. BarrettRC8

    Involuntary extensions

    Changing the subject slightly to "voluntary" extensions. Anyone have or know where to look regarding information on the rules and requirements of the coming 100% continuation of twice passed Captains? Specifically, I know you can... 1) Sign the page 11 declining continuation, separate, and...
  42. BarrettRC8

    USAF Enlisted Pilots, The Right Stuff, Stolen Bikes, AIC, and SWO pipe dreams.

    The Marine Corps already is, and has been for years, at the point you describe.
  43. BarrettRC8

    USMC USMC FY18 Aviation Bonus

    Apparently the AF is short 1,920 pilots, which equates to a loss of $10 billion. So by my simple math, that equates to roughly $5 million per aviator. Doesn't a bonus of $100,000 a year make more sense and still allows the AF to get off at a rate of $1 million vs $5 million if qualified dudes...
  44. BarrettRC8

    USMC USMC FY18 Aviation Bonus

    That guy won't be taking the bonus because he is tired of working his ass off for 5 or 6 sorties a month.
  45. BarrettRC8

    If you knew what you do now, what would you tell your pre-flight school school self?

    Disagree. If someone wants to fly jets or helicopters, why should they lie? Be honest, don't be a dicks about it and let your performance determine the IPs opinion of you. That being said, still fill in empty space with appropriate questions about their experiences in the fleet, but don't be shy...
  46. BarrettRC8

    If you knew what you do now, what would you tell your pre-flight school school self?

    Keep a civilian log book. You may think you want to fly fighters forever, but you never know when things could change.
  47. BarrettRC8

    F-35 Conversion Board 2017

    Rumor has it the majority of selectees were Prowler dudes and only one Hornet guy was picked. That'll be interesting... Ready Room talk said it's because O-3 Hornet Manning is currently at 46%.
  48. BarrettRC8

    USN Splash one SU-22 (merged threads)

    We give dudes awards routinely for simply doing their job, why would we not give someone an award for shooting down an enemy aircraft?
  49. BarrettRC8

    Marine Pilot VS Navy Pilot

    In the Marine Corps, air is just a very small portion of the overall organization. It is treated as such. If I could go back, as a Hornet pilot, I'd go Navy.
  50. BarrettRC8

    Why are you Leaving?

    Sounds like you and I received the same brief from the same individual.
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