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!?! OOPS, I thought that was an AV-8B Harrier, my bad :icon_smil Now I can see it isn't though, stupid me.

Yeah, thanks for the info Michael, I was asking cuz my mother told me some guy she knew, his brother was a pilot in some branch of the service (I don't know which), but his eyesight decreased and he lossed his pilot seat. But that was a few years ago, and maybe his eyesight went down a lot or...

Jarhead is usually a derogatory term people will give to enlisted Marines sometimes, usually people who have never been in the military and are disrespectful.

I always loved what George C. Scott said in his speech at the beginning of the movie "Patton." "Now, an Army is a team. It eats, sleeps, breathes, fights, and dies as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bogus bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality, on a...

Speaking of eyesight, I have been wondering, but if you say are a pilot with 20/20 vision, say, flying like an F/A-18, and then after some years, your vision decreases a little bit, but can be corrected through eye surgery, are you removed from piloting immediately, or will they let you have the...

For one, I wouldn't put an OSO in the same leagues as a typical recruiter, if that is what you mean. An OSO won't try to get you to sign something right off the dot, like some recruiters might. Also, no, from what I have learnt, it shouldn't mean jack if you've had any prior flight time. The...

I C; thanx for info.

Wow, they sure are getting strict with that; maybe they have too many Air Contracts dropping out.

I C, well that is cool then.

I know guns aren't really aviation, but my question is since all Marines, regardless of MOS, must qualify on the rifle and the pistol, as an aviator, do you qualify only once and then that's it or do you have to show up every once in awhile to "re-qualify" in case the Corps needs you on the...

You guys are starting to make me scared to join the Marine Corps :eek: :D

Ahh, i c; yeah, my bad, it is the V-22 that is supposed to replace the Marine Corps Sea Knights I believe.

Hey, just wondering, but I read that the UH-60 Blackhawk and the MH-60S Knighthawk, which is to replace the Marine Corps Sea Knight helicopters, are made by Sikorsky. Isn't Sikorsky a Russian corporation? I am just wondering, because I mean why would the U.S. buy military equipment like...

Yeah, this hurt the Marines in the Special Operations community to cuz Marines like to consider all Marines as better than other combat arms and thus they didn't consider Force Recon a special operations force; thus, all the special stuff was goign to the Delta Force, Rangers, Navy SEALS...

From what I have read it is okay to drop an air contract at TBS, just don't do it in flight school; maybe they changed it though.

No one has perfect biomechanics, especially in the feet. The foot is a horribly designed thing for moving people around. I read an article about that. They say whoever designed the foot for humans didn't know what they were doing, because human feet are very badly engineered for running...

Thanks for the info muc and Michaels; I wanna be a 300 PFT stud though and I will become one at some time or another; that is a more long-term goal. I don't do weight training too much; mainly I just do running, and pullups, and the situps. I also am working towards pistols (one-legged...

So you mean the Corps is in a "everyone must be perfect" sort of mindset right now?

I am only pre-PLCS right now, but I would never want to fly for an airline. I would only want to fly military, in either helicopters or jets. I want something challenging and adventurous; after the military, if I still kept flying for a career, I would at most do Coast Guard, hopefully as a...

Hey MIchaels601, don't feel bad, I right now have about 70 situps, 10 pullups, and about a 24 or 23.5 minute 3 mile run, which is totally lammo, so I am continuing to bust my butt as much as possible. My first PFT will probably be within a couple weeks I guess, I don't exactly. My OSO told me he...

Yeah, but I mean, and even though I personally have no idea how good a flier I would be, I don't get why they'd pass bad pilots through.

When doing crunches on the PFT, are you allowed to stop for like a few seconds and then start up again, or do you keep going and if you burn out, that's it, they consider that as your max? Or is it you can rest as much as you want, just do at least 80 in 2 minutes?

Also, this is just my opinion, but if I were a pilot and had failed everything, I'd feel kind of nervous being given wings. You are gonna be called on to to defend lives and control a multi-million dollar aircraft, and Marine aircraft ahve to land on carriers, which is difficult.

I started reading the book "The Right Stuff" recently and its the same thing, lots of crashes with those old jet planes. And then the ejection seats. I knew ejection seats back then had like I think it was a 50/50 success rate, but they literally ejected the pilot by exploding a...

Well, by "trick" I meant it is something that they make it harder for you to see, as half the people in the military are probably unaware of the IRR even.

Thanx; treading water is no problem for me; my problem is I don't know how to do the side stroke or breat stroke, etc....I guess the Marines can teach me, but sitll, I need some help. However, I still have like 4 years until I graduate college, so I have 4 years at least to become a good swimmer...

Not sure if this is true or not, but I think I had read that when the Harrier originally was in development, it was too heavy to be a full VTOL aircraft as well, and was too heavy; but they fixed it. Actually, I think it was expected that the JSF would be too heavy right now for its current...

ACtually, I never talked like that too much on the net, and never on anything professional or in real-life, so don't worry about that; on the internet though, sometimes the kid in me comes out and for some reason I do that stupid teen talk sometimes, so I will watch for that moreso.

That poltical party stuff sounds like an interesting idea too, I'll have to check out the local parties.

Yeah, I guess I can talk to the professors, research is out of the question though as I am an undergrad in beginning courses; also, the computer science professors are, well, dickheads a lot of them, and I would despise working with those particular professors in anything. But yeah, if you...

What exactly do the "test and the physical" consist of??

Yeah, that is true.

Ahhhh shut up Squeeze, I'm new to these boards :icon_tong

Just wondering, and this is probably one of those posts where no one really knows the full answer, but like if one does aviation, what is the actual chance of them actually getting to fly jets (like fighters)? I was reading that like Air Force aviation classes at flight school are like 24...

Yeah that's why I sai it is sort of a "trick" they use.

I don't think you can serve less than 4 years duty in any branch of the military; they sort of have a trick called like "inactive service" or something which you have to serve like 4 years of when you get out of the military (I think; I may be dead wrong on this). But I think that is so they...

I never found my OSO, he found me lol. I just went to www.marines.com, the Marine Corps official website, selected the "Officer" section, then selected the "Request More Information" thing. Then I got e-mailed some days later by an OSO. I kept in touch with him, and he said I should arrange a...

Sometimes I wonder what makes the OSO's become OSO's; I know I sure wouldn't want that, especially after all that training. My own OSO told me he asked for that job personally, to be closer to his wife since he was otherwise stuck in California (don't know what his original MOS was).

Hey just wondering, but I am prepping to apply to PLC; but I ahve no good references really. Is there anything I can do about that???

http://www.f-16.net/humor_article5.html The above link says "humor," and the article appears to be a joke, but I don't see how it is humorous. Just my opinion though.

Well a shortage of pilots is good for would-be aviators :) Just wondering, but does one get to decide if they go to jets or helicopters of props and then which jet or helo or prop you fly is decided by grades and Marine Corps needs, or is everything decided by grades and Marine needs, and...

By the way, how does one "find another OSO" if such a need ever did arise; aren't you stuck with the one who is in your area??

Yeah; I need to seriously up these pullups. I will apply as many times as I have to; no matter what, I am gonna be a Marine officer.

What is the "aviation swim test?" Cuz if I get thrown into the water, I won't drown, but I can't swim for crap right now. I am just dead slow.

People here with air slots, just wondering if you could share what kind of gpa's you had when you got into PLC-Aviation??

Yeah, guys like that are dufuses.

The Joint Strike Fighter is supposed to be coming out around 2010 I think, too (I may be wrong on this though).

He might also be referring to the Harrier jet; that is an old plane, been in the fleet since the late 70s. It can take off and land vertically, but is supposed to be replaced by a VTOL (Vertical Take-Off & Landing) version of the Joint Strike Fighter eventually.

Hey, when I originally meant with my Marine OSO, he asked me if I had any interest in becoming a pilot. I told him I wasn't sure, but that I was leaning more towards infantry and probably would do that (i.e. ground option). However, after some weeks of serious thinking, I've decided to go air...

Was just talking to my dad about this, he says I should go with the aviation option. I am thinking I will do that, cuz I could do like rappelling and skydiving and such without having to join the infantry. My dad was saying, "Yeah, you get your ass shot at, that is not adventurous; flying high...