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Choose your rate choose your fate works both ways. If the Navy wants to offer up gems of duty stations like Iwakuni or Lemoore then they can expect to continue to have manning issues. Guess what, this isn't the 1950s. Women have advanced degrees these days and don't want to waste all of...

I'll summarize the one problem: The Navy will go out of its way to NOT take care of its own people. Here is an example: I quit the Navy because of one specific civilian who screwed me over time and time again. It seems if there is ever a decision to make in the Navy civilian world between...

Interesting...

We received one extra point for each time we employed on a mission. I'm not trying to minimize what this dude did, just not going to call him an Ace. And if this was me on the other end I wouldn't expect to be called an Ace either. Imagine meeting an actual Ace, lets say from Vietnam, and...

I did shoot down a drone with an AIM-7. I guess that counts.

Easy there pumpkin, you'll give yourself a stroke with that kind of energy. If a Raptor dude shoots down 5 "weather" balloons are they an Ace? Shooting something out of the sky that can't shoot back or do you harm? That's called target practice. Same way you don't get anything special...

Is it though?

Shit, we have dudes balling up Rhinos because they forget a switch going on to be Skippers. I don't think it's a deal breaker for those staying in either. Not as long as guys keep running to the airlines and the pool of those left behind gets thinner and thinner.

I didn't misspeak. On GW he was able to get away with it on the old server. Once RRN came over he was caught by the new network. And from what I heard this wasn't just "here is the folder where the porn is kept on the network" but was him, going out and finding new porn somehow. I don't do...

What always shocked me was it's always people who absolutely know better who do these things. Like, did you just not download enough prior to deployment? The ADP O was the kind of guy who wouldn't give you what you needed to do your jobs while on det but yet his IT3s had full on gaming setups...

We had a shitty CAG ADP O who was fired for going to porn sites on his SIPR machine. Apparently he could get away with it on one ship but when we moved to a different one the new server caught him. Fucking clown. He sucked at life but I was mostly surprised that this sort of thing was even...

It's hard to blame it on someone else when you are the only one in the room I don't think I ever passed a room inspection, not once.

How often is 3710 violated for things that actually matter? Crew rest: Crew rest includes free time for meals, transportation, rest and shall include an opportunity for eight hours of uninterrupted sleep for every 24-hour period. Ever been on a boat? I can count on zero fingers the...

If there were jets turning near me I would wear my gloves on the flightdeck, and then take them off in the aircraft. If starts weren't called away then gloves were in my helmet bag. I never had the same dexterity while wearing gloves, even the fingerless ones. Something kind of important when...

It's been a thing in some airwings since around 2015-2016. I think some of it does come from the same group of guys at the wing that bitch about corrosion on a bunch of airplanes that operate around and over salt water all the time, and yet wont give us a bird bath to drive our airplanes...

Since it appears color on airplanes doesn't help people see your aircraft better then does this mean that the CAG birds can be painted in full color again without having to go to gray for deployment?

Someone please put a muzzle on this asshole. It's like you just aren't happy with life Please don't worry about the grouchy pricks around here. We don't send our brightest to be recruiters. You will be able to take leave in between commands though you won't have that many leave days built...

Only a dick CO wouldn't allow one of their Sailors ship off to OCS. And no one is that important in a squadron that a CO couldn't live without them. No one.

Couple of years ago an XO at the time asked the question to the Flags at Hook. "We'll look into it." Right My favorite was spending some time at J-bad and BAF and realizing everyone else supporting the war was getting per diem, free food, and even a take what you want mini-mart while our dumb...

It's paying to go on deployment that really hurts. What a shit show

I would be one to disagree with you on this. If you get rid of the SHB then you should also get rid of grades for grove length, or interval. If time pointed the wrong way doesn't matter anymore, then fine, but if it does, the SHB is a tool used to shorten that time. If it's just admin then...

It's pretty amazing how well an APG-79 will pick up a child's mylar balloon floating through the airspace. I've had several instances off of Japan where the radar would show me a contact, and I would fly to that spot several times and not see anything, only to eventually merge with some kid's...

You mostly missed my point. I, and others like me, failed the DP test at MEPS for whatever reason, were able to get past that, and then have successful 20 year careers. Obviously the ophthalmologist was correct that my eyes are fine and wouldn't be an issue flying for the Navy, even landing on...

I just finished a 20 year flying career for the Navy. Failed the DP test at MEPS because I didn't know what I was looking for, being it was the first time taking that specific test. Went to an actual ophthalmologist instead of a HM3 and he said I had no issues. Time and time again the Navy...

DoS has a fairly good idea of the number of AMCITs, TCNs, and those who would be eligible for evacuation in a situation like this. They have a better idea than 200 or 20,000 but do build in slop since there are those that slip through the cracks. Any American, no matter why they are there, are...

I saw the conflict in your post and I don't agree that what we are seeing now had to be the outcome. Yes, we had to leave but not how we did it. So no, it didn't need to be done, this way. Which was my point in the first place.

Not like this it wasn't. The deadline and ROE in place has put Americans at risk, and lots of them.

The best thing this change will bring us is hopefully more Pri-A CAT 1s, which we need desperately.

What about the girls vs. boys ratio? I've had medical professionals tell me this is a real thing but haven't seen any actual research on it of course.

There are also different types of TOPGUN grads. While many at VFC-12 have a fighter patch there are also many that have an adversary patch.

Several of these HAZREPs seem familiar to an experience I had, but off the coast of Japan. Something on radar at a pretty good range. Can't see anything when I get close to it. I come back for another look and have the same radar contact again, but this time I merge with a small, kid's...

As much as I hated DTS previously I got pretty good at it in my last job, I would love to be able to use it now during my 9 month PCS with i-stops. Since I can’t use it I’ll be hoping PSD doesn’t screw me over. What are the odds???‍♂️

I don't know what dual entry is but I wish this wasn't a thing. If you have or will have a 4 year degree, and are eligible to be an officer, then I wish enlisted recruiters weren't allowed to work with you. Not at least until you've exhausted all options as an officer. Be very careful with...

Do you want to go to TPS? That is really the only reason I can think of where having the advanced degree, now, would be useful. There will be opportunities later down the road if that is not the case.

The process is governed by 4790, a CO could ignore the process and would only have to answer to his CoC, be that CAG or the wing.

Could a CO designate a sailor as a plane captain even if they don’t meet the requirements? Sure, but there would be repercussions. Even the Airboss could designate Ivanka as a Naval Aviator, though he would have someone to answer to, POTUS however does not. That's how a chain of command works...

Agree to disagree.

The same way it is a deliberate, conscious choice to put video of bodies being blown to shit in a cruise video. It isn't our duty to do that but every squadron that spends time in 5th fleet does it. They show that actual moments people are dying. I am by no means taking a stance on this...

Glover, Weisman and Dominick (still an Astronaut candidate). Again, all great dudes.

I worked with 2 of them and know a 3rd. They are just like the rest of us but are all test pilot dudes. Obviously great Americans though.

Your choices in life are: a. Be a dick b. Don’t be a dick You really need to stop being a fucking dick all of the time. You aren’t funny, you’re just a dick.

Yeah, sorry, I was speaking from a VFA standpoint. I would say you are more likely to be flying for your disassociated sea tour in VFA than in other places (SFTI, CAG paddles...)

To add, there are combat quals (CVW Strike lead) that you generally can't get until you are a department head. A DH is also usually coming off of some sort of flying tour, unlike the front office, which may have just been sitting at a desk for the last 22 months and a day, wasting their life...

My point is that we practice killing every single day, most of the time it's just practice. Unless you happened to be the one dude over Syria

Naw bro, I don’t need to know someone to read the words that they write. And when their unsolicited feedback questions someone else’s professional qualifications then I will call them out. You see, I don’t know about you, but I live in a world where killing bad guys is our job. We practice...

This post makes me wonder if you're in the right job. We are all in the field of taking another human beings life, whether directly with a pickle button, or through support of the dude/dudette with the pickle button. It's called the military. No one in this thread said they wanted to kill...

So much wow to this post. I wonder why so many seemingly exceptional VFA pilots have been leaving in droves recently then. Why we can't meet our quotas and put butts in seats. Must have been that they weren't happy with the divergence 6 months into their careers.

Hah, or you can just freeze the water in that shape and spend the $700 you save on a couple of 17 year Japanese whiskeys.

You don't need sugar / simple syrup because you are putting a fucking fruit cocktail in the bottom of your glass.

That part is easy, get close enough and if you’re late, select Max AB and if you’re early, boards out and fly around at 30ish alpha for a bit.