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Why? There are members of this site who retired from a career in naval aviation 25+ years before you were born. It would not surprise me if @webmaster came out one day and said that we collectively have more than 1000 years of military aviation posted on this website. Go back to the old days...

Take a breath. This isn't a big deal. You only have one option- to be honest. You have to play the hand you're dealt, without cheating. Everyone here wearing wings is willing to share a cockpit or fly on the wing with a subpar pilot, or NFO, or officer. They are not willing to share the...

That doesn't work for many/most mental health disorders. You can't stop taking psychotropic drugs and expect to not revert to a previous state. Mood disorders are (most times) permanent chemical changes in the brain. Bipolar disorder does not go into remission, severe depression doesn't go into...

Holy shit, this is not something to worry about. Just show up, study with a group, ask questions when you don't understand, press the "I Believe" button when your instructor tells you to, and move the fuck on.

Just continue to work to max both. You may not know what you'll have to do until the morning of. Put yourself in the best place to be able perform no matter what task you're told to do.

Every unit in the DoD is suffering from the COVID meltdown. Every civilian sector job out there is suffering from the COVID meltdown. The population is burned out. My counselor has seen a giant uptake in clients in the last year. You probably didn't have the same flight school/FRS experience...

Right, because no one over the age of 35 came up with the quote about wrestling with a pig...

In 333 pages has anyone changed their views on this topic at all? This thing belongs afire in the dumpster next to the warzone politics thread...

I think there is a strong correlation between those who were fortunate enough to learn comfort in the water and swimming as a life skill from their parents growing up and passing the swim phys stuff at both TBS and API. If you grew up swimming it was just some fun stuff to do in the water.

Yawn. The harder part was already done 6 years ago. This isn't impressive.

Retention? Yes. Training new guys? There are still more than enough new folks who want to be pilots. What the Navy and Marine Corps needs are mid career division leads to stick around. In the Navy you're an O-4 with no quals competing for department head and CO. In the ANG you might be a...

Why not go to the ANG, pick a fighter unit, and apply to SpaceX or Blue Origin, or Scaled Composites, or Orbital, or Virgin Galactic? You may have to fund your own test pilot school thing, but there has to be a civilian school offering a degree for it so you can use the post 9/11 GI bill.

The man will spend his (what seems like endless) money on very cool stuff.

I spent high school living in Yorktown and later went to CNU. The Yorktown Battlefields are a pretty cool place. And it's worth it to take the drive along the Colonial Parkway from Yorktown to Williamsburg on a nice day. Williamsburg has better food/beer than Yorktown by far. The Mariner's...

I feel like a broken record right now- The knowledge and skill may come quicker, but we've yet to find a faster way to train an aviator to the proper attitude to be ready to fly an airplane in the fleet.

If you're too cool for school, then why go back? You asked the Marine Corps to be an SNA, not the other way around.

Sure thing. I think I have an email that explains some of the specifics from someone at the Guard Bureau. I'll try to pm it to you.

There is a waiver for everything in the Guard.

The tough part is that you've expired. I was able to have a current Navy flight physical pushed through, though they needed some additional stuff- my Navy flight doc and knock it out, with the help of Google for a few things (for instance, PULHES- you are a 1 across the board if you're fit for...

My experiences, for better or worse, have led to me where I am, and I'm grateful for them. The Marine Corps is a good place to be from. The Marines who I developed relationships with (largely on the manned side, but the unmanned as well) and some hard work got me to where I am now- and it's a...

Seems like they all went to Southwest. So not a bad gig at all.

And soon enough, multiengine jet PIC won't exist in the USMC.

I'm saying that if your ultimate goal is the airlines it's shortsighted to put that goal on hold for AD military flying- especially USMC Aviation. If the airlines are just a job opportunity in your post USMC life, then so be it. But joining the USMC to further a goal of flying for the airlines...

After seeing the QOL and bank account of guys who joined the Guard and airlines at 25 vs the retired guys around here who joined the airlines at 45, I've come to realize that there is indeed a smart and dumb choice, especially if you're presented with those options before joining.

The AF has a weird "everything is CAS" mentality, especially with AI from RPAs. There are some cultural reasons for this, largely stemming from the lack of enabling flight leadership to make decisions, or from so many high value targets that required Combatant Commander or higher approval...

So within one week you changed from military pilot and airline pilot to Marine? You do realize that the airlines are all about seniority and not getting your foot in the door as soon as possible is pissing away money? This is a far cry from your first post. What changed?

So is your to be a Marine, or is it to be a military and airline pilot?

So he published a book about DoD policies without submitting it for review, AND he's going on a roadshow to promote said book? While on Title10 orders, and using his LtCol and command billet status to further his cause? Yeah, he should have known what was coming next. This doesn't have...

This is still the best one...

Say 7 Saint Mattis's and buy the first round of Irish Wakes for your buddies this weekend and you are forgiven.

BJJ is just like crossfit. It's something you like to do then do it. But it's not a magic bullet, and it doesn't make warriors, and everyone who does it sounds like a complete douchenozzle to everyone who doesn't. (Come to think of it, TBS is like that too) Why? Because they won't shut the fuck...

Holy crap dude, are you reading what you're saying? Next you're going to tell people that you want to go HMLA because, "they're the grunts of the sky."

Yep. There's that green Kool-Aide again. It's completely stupid to put yourself in a situation where you're depending upon someone else to not go full baboon on you to avoid getting hurt. For some reason, Marines like to get sweaty and roll around on a mat with each other. They think it...

Sure they can. Though a lot of units like to see some civilian time. Also, the ANG does a lot of hiring from within, so enlisting and hoping for a pilot slot isn't as much of a lost cause as it is on the AD side. there are folks did that enlisted while going to college and got picked up when...

Don't listen to this guy about pilot career advice. He's still drowning in the green OCS/TBS Kool-Aid, and his goals are not aligned with yours in the slightest. Listen to what the guys who have done what your goals are-military pilot and airlines. There is a place where you can do both at the...

If you want to be a military and airline pilot go to the ANG. Take the first pilot slot offered to you and don't look back. Getting dropped from OCC or PLC may have been a blessing in disguise.

Don't try to bullshit us. That's not something you forget. Be honest, be truthful, and MAYBE the folks around here will want to help you.

Kegs and plastic cups vs a shit ton of aluminum bottles. I wonder which is better.

Im all about deposits if they make sense and are a true deposit. CA fucked that away. Michigan isn't much better.

1. That you know of- curbside recycling in this country is a sham, and most of it is sent to other countries where they dump it in the ocean. 2. I agree with you, this is a production problem. A packaging problem. 3. I like electric cars, and lithium batteries are cool. But I understand that...

The SMOG in LA and Phoenix....

So why isn't the argument to fix the localized air pollution in those places? What if we can fix the smog issues in LA for 200,000,000? Is that worth it? Why is everyone acting like it has to be all or nothing? I think we're on the same page here. By net zero waste I mean let's not send it...

Perhaps it starts there- we become a net zero waste country. We take care of our own, safely, and we ensure it doesn't end up in the Pacific garbage patch, or the Great Lakes, or the James River.

So why do historical trend analysis if we aren't going to use it? We're well outside of the normal cycle, and we can correlate that to certain things that have happened, and continue to happen, that we can control if we really wanted to. It's easy to be lazy. So we do that. It's like when we...

We're making a bet that we're not hurting the next generations because the science isn't 100%? Remember when smoking was healthy for expectant mothers to lower their blood pressure? How well did that turn out? We seem to be pumping a lot of stuff into the atmosphere that we don't want to...

Let's start here? We're a major consumer in the world (as the 3rd largest country by population) and while we don't have the numbers that India and China do, we'll have a better impact that Norway and Sweden.

I have no doubt it was rooted in a good idea. But again, we've gone too far.

Arrogance has nothing to do with it. Yes, we can do things to Earth that would rival extinction level events. And inhabitable is a low bar. You can live in squalor, with a short life span because you're malnourished and sick. I'd rather thrive. I don't understand why anyone can't see that...