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Ah, since I retired before their was an LAA (low altitude aviation? / aptitude? / attitude? /appendectomy?) program I guess I'm lucky we never planted a jet huh?

Yea, that's weird but as you say a ride's a ride. We routinely did LL's with middies at 200' in the front seat.

Why was that? Route structure?

Glad you got a little time in the old fighting drumstick. Would certainly give a Harrier guy a different perspective on crew coordination.

Good stuff and likely the target. That being said, I see tactics like mandatory registration, background checks and such and and associated cost with them being challangable as an unreasonable infringment on a right akin to a poll tax. If you make it too expensive for the average person to...

Someone at NAVAIR dropped the ball when they didn't come up with a suitable acronym spelling FEZ for that antenna.

Ah, I had assume it was done by folks with mil flght time. :(

I'll weigh in as a guy who didn't have an opportunity for IFS and who went through a very different syllabus in 1987/88. While I had about 25 hours of civilian time in ye-old Piper Traumahawk, it would have been very useful for me to have spent a little time in the cockpit with a military...

Got a medal out of it so had to have been a qual. :D:p . Those .22 Hornet/.410 survival guns are pretty collectable these days. The only Hornet I own is a Ruger #1 and I love. it.

Was a great party. Wish you were there. :D .

Yep- was done a lot by both USN/USAF when the Phantom had no internal gun. No idea of good it was.

Same in 86. We did get to pistol qual using 5 or 6" .38 revolvers but it wasn't an in-depth qual and if I recall correctly it was that week prior to going on land survival. Since I started two weeks prior to Thanksgiving we got the "pleasure" of being candy O's for two weeks. Going through AOCS...

I'll correct myself here. VA-36 and 65 were 10 plane squadrons with all bombers vice 16.

And back in the late 80's through mid 90's with the Super Airwing Prowlers were 620-624. CVW-8 at the time was 2x16 plane A-6E squadrons with all bombers, 2x F/18A-C, 2x Tomcat, 5 E-2's, 5 Prowlers and 10 S-3's. We could move some ordnance. If the Tomcats had been bomb carriers would have...

Where were the 209 birds? We didn't often fly with four drops.

Seriously???? Ok, I will tell you the #1 way to find jobs. Personal networking. I have interviewed people who came to me from Airwarriors, I got my first job post-USN talking to a guy at the gym, I got my second (and current job of now 13 years) from a guy who I worked with on another project...

If not a degree then have to be close enough to have a date for it before they'll consider it. It's the nature of the quasi-academic-centric research work that they insist on it. Happy to talk to her when she gets closer.

Don't blame you. Got anything for me outside Md? ;)

As a guy who got out as an 8 year Lt in 95 in DC that number was $52K so I guess you guys have done real well on AD. :confused: Happy to discuss post career options for people. You have a technical degree and a clearance I have multiple openings and can beat that.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/battle-of-midway-hero-jim-muri-dies-at/article_bdecae62-e0d2-58aa-a719-e3d9f804476c.html You're a rare guy that flew B-26's at Midway and survived.

One of those truly amazing jets that was way ahead of it's time but obsolete by the time it saw service. Low the Av phys comments at the end. Pretty sure I never suffered any psychotic affects from low-level flying. :confused:

The problem (and I think you know it and your other examples illustrate it well) is that we gathered metrics and wrote reports and pointed out efficiencies that could be gained and, at least in my experience, it never resulted in change just additions. I cannot think of a single report I wrote...

Look at the budget and the stuff that isn't being used to create, deploy, or utilize warheads on foreheads is a growing component of the budget and since removal will gore some congresscritters oxen it stays and becomes "critical to defense"...

True on the SAMS and we now have the weapons to stay above the AAA and still get good hits. Also a lot more serious about EW. SAC leadership should have been crucified for the mandated tactics and I believe they were not allowed to use the "A game" WARM EW they had so they didn't give away...

Ugly does note begin to cover this. Dear Navy Leaguers, I received the following information from the CNO regarding the impact of funding issue on Naval operations. It is very sobering. Please excuse some of the acronyms but I wanted to forward this message precisely as it was received...

I'd already been accepted for AOCS when it came out. Flight of the Intruder (the book) came out about then too and it was a far greater influence I wasn't one of those guys who were fighting for a RIO slot. :D . Winging day came, #1 got Intruders east the whole rest of us got sent to Prowlers...

By about 8 miles in this case http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/2013/01/digital-map-error-may-have-led-to-minesweeper-grounding/ :(

And at the end of the war they could make it but we were so busy dismantling bridges and railways day andf night that they couldn't distribute it. No doubt Bomber Harris was still a little irked over the blitz! http://bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900 and vowed to a bit of a scorched earth...

Note that is different than what I took away from that study. Now, it's been more than a decade since I read it but the Germans were producing more oil at the end of the war than the beginning and by adapting to distributed manufacturing they had no shortage of aircraft but pilots indeed were in...

Their bravery was never in doubt but post war Strategic Bombing report was pretty clear about high level daylight bombing and it's ineffectiveness. Low level medium bombing was pretty effective but the losses were incredible as well. My grandfather was 2 weeks from going to the ETO as a ball...

The heck with magazine restrictions. This CT lawmaker thinks we should only have single shot firearms. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/TOB/S/2013SB-00122-R00-SB.htm :confused:

Clearly in non-compliance to the Supreme Court's Heller decision of "in common use for legal purposes" So it will be challenged and found unconstiituional. It will take a couple years and the lawyers will get rich and the state will spend tax dollars defending stupidity for laws that will not...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/423719 1+30 long but well worth watching. Some of the most honorable men in the sea services history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Franklin_(CV-13)

http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/1680683/ Lost in Greenland in 1942 while attempting to rescue a downed B-17 crew

Don't feel too badly. You could have been a SPAD driver on a SIOP mission. Pretty much a guarantee you were going to see a portable sun up close. :D

I don't know the delivery method but back in the day if you were running the range at NFL around the B-16 complex nuke target it was not unusual to see parachutes from shapes on the target that were dropped by the A-6's doing their NWTPI flights.

Balls - big ones. So wanted Intruders - last class of FY-88 - Top guy A-6's East - yea, the rest of you (13 of us) ? You're all going Prowlers we gotta fill a RAG class. :(

In the 80's and early 90's the VAQ community was big on BFM and spent many many hours on it as well as used up wing life that later we wished we had back. Getting a DEFTAC qual was a big deal for crews even though the it was a one trick pony of oppose the nose go nose low and extend. Certainly...

How many have you met, worked with or know of in this category? My experience, and clearly some others here, do not find your post to be accurate.

I did. I enjoyed it. May do it again. ;) Nope in no way, unless it's that I waved the BS flag occasionaly What experience do you have with the situation you describe? I served with Mark Kirk both CONUS and overseas and I don't think there was a sir in sight. He did his job as our spy and...

I think I just heard a flopper hit the front door. :D

I'm a big fan of Graf and Sons http://www.grafs.com

Easy to order on line at the purveyor of your choice. Keep in mind that modern smokeless powder is not even classified as an explosive but a class B propellent so there is a hazardous materials charge. Ordering is most efficient if you can find a buddy and get a big order since it's a fee based...

Brass life can be an issue and stretching can be an issue for all rifles not just rimmed cartridges it has more to do with the slanting shoulder (the .22 Hornet faces this too) . There's a couple ways to approach it. The first is to ensure that the brass is used just in that rifle and thus you...

If you're going to reload one of the very first things you should buy after the basics is a chronograph. They're very reasonably priced http://www.midwayusa.com/product/244882/shooting-chrony-beta-master-chronograph You will soon find that the book loads are the place to start but you will...

As someone who worked both for DoD as both a reservist and in a for profit contractor then later (and now) for a non-profit FFRDC with my primary customer at the same time with the DoD I'm pretty much sure you just said I'm not ethical enough to separate my two lives and do the right thing for...

There appears to be some interest so I thought I’d start an ammunition reloading thread here in the firearms section and I’m sure if it’s active it will get stickied. My thoughts on it include a clearing house for FAQ and how to get started followed up, I suspect, by more detailed questions. I...

Hit up E-Bay or your other favorite site. Used reloading equipment can be had very reasonable and this stuff never wears out. I've been using the same Lyman Orange Crush for 20 years and thousands of rounds. Like most hobbies it's easy to get started and the variety is endless. I'd be happy to...