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Cheers is good. Sometimes I think it can come off as too "bro-ey".

The civ world desperately needs something easy and universal like V/r, Everything else seems so overly formal or passive aggressive. Like "Best, " for example. Hard to say out loud without sounding like a little shit. Only thing that ever feels right is a good Thanks, or Thank You, if you...

Professionally, it shouldn't matter. Culturally, I think we're still growing. However, any snide remarks or eye rolls you might encounter within the wardroom are probably from the minority of backwards troglodytes or insecure schmuckatellis. You should, and will be more concerned with landing...

You know why most book to movie movies suck? Because the movie makers can't prioritize what content to keep and what content to ditch. Similar for any other movie. Top Gun 2 worked so well because they kept technobabble and exposition to a minimum, (most people don't give a shit about EW for...

Also, newly commissioned OCS ensigns are the definition of motivated. They'll do anything. Navy: "Hey do you want to go sleep on an aircraft carrier and have an overweight SESL yell at you to pick up trash at 0600?" OCS Ensign: Can I polish my black boots and hold DIVO quarters?" Navy: "You...

Like half of disassociated sea tour jobs and every duty section can easily be done by a ensign. Also, they're probably more in the know on DC stuff coming right from OCS.

Well then you can forget my application to OCS!

You can also drive your cool tacoma on the beach in corpus

I feel like the difference in call sign culture would probably speak a lot to the broader cultural differences. But at the end of the day, I don't know many AF dudes. One time I saw a post of an acquaintance on social media praising a recent weapon school (or whatever they call it in the AF)...

"Missile lock? These old planes don't have missiles!"

Watch Iron Eagle. Watch both Top Guns. Drink like 12 beers, then decide.

I don't think enough people phrase the problem in terms of pure economic costs. This isn't an existential crisis so much as the destruction of the planet, but what the fuck do we do when we have a billion climate refugees in 30-50 years from now?

I totally didn't think about the paint color differences, makes sense!

You're telling us Seahawk pilots don't know the pain of flying low altitude without AC?

Does the busy, stressed out with a myriad of issues on his plate CO see the ass kissing of a DH in the same clarity as the rest of the wardroom? I'm not really arguing here, just pointing out that all ass kissing might not be caught by your filter.

Hondo clearly was a representation of every support role rolled into one character.

It would clearly have been Cyclone and Warlock.... they would have rolled out to the waist in their khakis and no ear pro just to kick out the weak HSC pilots from their seats.

I feel the worst for the poor HAC or OIC who had that Romeo parked there.

Yea I thought the Massif Two-piece was super uncomfortable with the only benefit of being able to de-blouse when necessary.

Got tired of the airwing circulating pics of your shit sleeves?

They also aren't being sent to stand in the lobby with a radio and greet everyone who comes in.

"I turned down an aviation slot because I didn't get tactical asymmetric warfare training at SERE. And now I'm sleeping in the mud!"

The average person probably didn't know it was Navy. "Coast guard looks pretty chill..."

Honestly, how hard would it have been to have added a 3-5 second shot of TR's EOD kitted out and pretending to be SEALs loaded in the back of some Sierras on the waist when someone asks "should we launch the search and rescue helicopter?" before Mr. Hamm denies the request. Probably because...

I bet those interactions go something like this:

She owns the bar. Maybe thats her dream job following getting burned out from a highly lucrative, yet exhausting career in I-banking.

Why can't we assume that Penny is independently wealthy from her own successful unnamed career?

Why?

I think he was getting at that he can serve 10 years and still have PLENTY of time to pursue his civilian career passion.

Go see Top Gun 2 and then decide with a clear head. /s Fear of failure and rejection is probably one of the top limiting factors when people are considering applying. Humans don't like to take those rejection risks, especially when there's inherent risks of life disruption such as moving...

Are we cleared hot on spoilers yet?

Final Countdown remake: the whole time travel thing, yada yada... but the Ford is out to sea without its airwing when it time warps. Shows up in Hawaii on Dec 4, 1941. Since nothing works on it and there's no air wing, they're feeling a little more spicy about intervening in history. "Come on...

I agree, thanks for sharing your thoughts!

What's your alternative asset class? Do you keep a solid chunk of cash as a hedge? Or are you echoing Randy's real estate hedges?

Noted. My skepticism and doubt was founded by the starting salary statistics of top MBA programs. I didn't consider the raw salary power of super niche programming skills in certain pockets of tech.

Anyone else calling bullshit on this? Making 400k at 25 is extremely abnormal in ANY field. More so for someone who thinks $400k/year x 10 years = $4 million in a bank account (or $3 million after taxes) I feel like the OP is genuine, but younger than what he claims and being really liberal...

There's a shot of Rooster in the backseat of a Tomcat as a 5th gen bad guy (SU-57?) falls away behind them. Not too far of a leap to guess Mav and Rooster both get shot down, and find an old bad guy F-14. "you know how to fly this old man?" They get in, kick ass, but then get another...

You scared me for a second. Metal is not a "phase". IT IS A WAY OF LIFE ??

You gave up metal???

Isn't the conventional wisdom that it can just easily lead to bad habits or a false sense of security leading to early complacency/overconfidence such that when compared with the costs it should only be done out of pure passion and/or as part of formal education program ala embry riddle?

"The plan is to use a spread focus laser generator, and to heat our personnel's resiliency, until the point of fracture."

Then they had some asshole in a tacoma cut them off in a parking lot and it was a done story.

Why don't they ask "how many times have you driven drunk?" or "how many times have you betrayed someone who trusted you?" Both seem like they would be more relevant questions that are just as difficult to verify.

Tips to success from someone who used to be in your shoes: 1.) Don't fear rejection 2.) Research the ins and outs of this site and others in your free time (search function), no one is going to spoon feed you answers. Your desire for professional knowledge should borderline consume you. 3.)...

No, its a disclaimer for the whole catalog... this isn't hard, people

Most cvn HSC squadrons have two HMs that get their utility (crew chief) qual and some level of tactical qual.

Optimist in me says they are thinking they created something really special, and its fully worth the costs of continued delays. They've been doing a pretty good job of keeping lots of details about the movie on lockdown. The two trailers have a lot of commonality and don't give away too much...

I usually hate fan service, but I feel like this movie is a unique case.

From the first 10 minutes of the movie they showed at cinemacon, everyone is saying the movie opens in similar fashion to the original with slow motion flight deck ops set to the top gun anthem followed by a transition to kenny loggins and cyclic flight ops

I don't see that as excluding other systems. Just that our system is a little fucked up. As much as I hate mediocrity, I also hate American exceptionalism. I don't know why we can't look at our country like a mission, and treat any criticism like we would in a debrief.