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Albatrosses do it. But calm air days = sled rides in sailplanes. Even then the warmer air rises over the cooler air it's converging with like it's going over a ridge, so it's not really still. In NW Florida, If you could get high and stay high early enough in the spring on a rare early hot...

Apparent wind is a cool thing; and it's what makes planing windsports so much fun.

As the Marine Corps wants to get into the MQ-9 world, I don't think anyone wearing an EGA has a true appreciation or understanding (I sure didn't until I got to where I am now) of just how HUGE this program is. The amount of tail and associated support units and equipment goes on for days and...

This is my argument for everyone coming to the UAV/RPA world to go to API and Pilot primary, then split off to RPA/UAV intermediate/advanced. Everyone should start at the same place in what really is the beginning of an Aircraft Commander syllabus. I wouldn't make it a selection point after...

I was a Marine UAV Officer who left and joined the ANG. I have a lot of opinions on your question- but it will really come down to the leadership in the airwing. If CAG and the Squadron Commanders are on board, everyone else will follow. Those who are selected to be the first MQ-25 pilots...

I agree completely. I also know that taking care of the people doing the job and carving out a legitimate naval career path (whether that is RL or URL) is going to lag well behind the equipment. The Navy is going to have a lot of well trained, very skilled folks that the Navy hasn't thought...

I think it's a crap shoot joining a newly forming community. You might ride a promotion and billet wave through your career and retire, or you might be stuck in a spot where the powers that be really don't know what to do with you, so you either find a new job or simply go away. From some of...

A good portion of the people who didn't make it in aviation failed themselves because they didn't know when to shut the fuck up and listen to what the people who know were telling them.

I'd say this is the biggest culture shock thus far going from AD USMC to the ANG. There is something to be said when a unit will cancel because the living accommodations, or the flight schedule, or the support, or any other of the list of things the USMC just "deals with" aren't up to what is...

I think it's cute that you think you actually have a choice in your selection.

There is always the plopter or the VMU...

The AF even went as far as to demo that the LRIP F-22 could drop JDAM, or be a bomb truck for a buddy lase, and briefly gave it an F/A-22 naming convention to try to pull the wool over everyone's eyes as the first ones were being delivered.

There is a war college paper written by an F-22 guy on the acquisitions process the F-22 followed. It's interesting that by cutting the program every couple of months by 5 airplanes at a time, until the end strength of 187 was set in stone, cost us a shit ton of money. If we committed to the...

420, 69. Lied about drug use. Definitely a typo. Maybe that is what was wrong with his application! He mistyped his birthday. :D

You say that... But then your only profile info here is Birthday Apr 20, 1969 (Age: 51) You might think it's funny- but no one else does. And then you throw in that you lied about narcotics use. So I don't think you get it. There is a lot you can come back from, but dishonesty isn't one of...

You're entering a game designed for an 18 year old at 30. There are ways to do that which won't make your life absolutely suck for the next few years. You won't be able to hang out with the other sailors your age because they'll all be well outside of your peer group, and that's fraternization...

Enlist at 30? Oh boy.

Cool. What's your price point?

The PC terms, according to Duke University, are now occupied and unoccupied. Come on, get with the culture shift! ;)???

I suppose for some reason the powers that be want more USNA grads to be eligible to go to flight school. Or they want to marry up with the lower scores needed for USMC?

It's not a problem of people coming in. There is no shortage of people who want to be pilots in the military. There is a shortage of experienced pilots and flight leadership who want to stay being pilots in the military. The point of using contractors in the training squadrons is to free up the...

And here I thought you were going to share about your time in Prona.

I'm going to go full nerd here, but Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is one of my top three favorite scripts.

You got 1 out of 2! "Who's there?" Is the opening line of Hamlet. (I also have a degree in theater. But I did lighting and sound design).

Remo. But with a BFA in theatre (with the -re, not the er) performance, he's more likely to know, "Who's there?" and “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”

Waving the bullshit flag on this one. We were encouraged to get regular COVID tests, as much as one weekly, out in town while I was on AD orders at March ARB. California has free drive through testing through Curative. Tests aren't rare, and if the military really wanted to take things...

Yeah, I hope that I didn't give the impression that one will have a cushy desk job at the location of their choosing and never deploy. EFMP just ensures that your non-deployed location will have the types of doctors available for you. If BFE Nebraska doesn't have the pediatric surgical...

That's also a good point. I knew a couple others who were earlier on, but none earlier than advanced.

If you have care of him, get him registered in DEERS. Then get registered in the Exceptional Family Member Program. EFMP is one of the few programs that the DoD as a whole has knocked out of the park. They protect your family members interests- as well as yours- with their care, and they...

So what is your drift then? That we can't afford anything, so we just need to fold our hand, pack up what we have left, and stop playing?

It's not like guys live in the same place as their squadron. Lessening the cost burden to the Navy (Or AF, or Marine Corps) by creating/moving existing Guard/Reserve units to where it makes sense to centralize those facilities, and everyone who uses those facilities pays into the funds to build...

Sure. But all three services are flying the F-35 now. Perhaps it's doable with some joint effort of all parties who have skin in the game. Could an AFRES guy do a workup and deploy from a boat without much effort? I think that based on what everyone says about that airplane the pilot skill...

But if you needed them to, you could throw an ANG unit into a workup period and they could do it. History has shown just that. F-16s from Syracuse (NYANG) and McEntire (SCANG); A-10s from New Orleans (LAANG), RF-4s from Birmingham (ALANG) and Reno (NVANG) and a bunch of tanker squadrons, all...

Interesting. I was under the impression that the NGB actively put a stop to this. Historically units composed of primarily patch wearers have had higher mishap rates when compared to other squadrons with a more diverse makeup. It was also a catalyst for ANG units to have their own seats at the...

Can confirm. Having GCS's is also scalable, which gives some pressure relief to not only the AD guys but the other guard units as well. The community has the flexibility to interchange "deployed" units into the various AORs without much hassle. I can imagine the ass pain that would be involved...

This is essentially what some ANG units are now. For example, the Va ANG unit got rid of their F-16s when they moved away from Richmond. They're now an associate unit with the 1FW at Langley. They don't own any airplanes, but the pilots fill out the flight schedule for the F-22 squadrons, and...

Aviation is a weirdly expensive, rank heavy, concept for what a frontline warfighter is when compared to the rest of the frontline jobs in the military. I've had this conversation many times with other non-aviation types, and they just don't get it. An officer doesn't really fight, they just...

Slow internet, incredibly limited storage, and computers that barely meet the min specs for anything when they're bought yet are expected to last 3-5 years.

It's kind of like that single VOR intersection holding hazex we all had to do in the T-34 sim. What would anyone ever do that to themselves?

You might have to make a clean break from the USMC and then go into the Navy. A little over a year ago MR&A wasn't releasing anyone from the IRR nor would they entertain signing a DD-368. On the flip side, there is now an FL ANG unit flying the CV-22. They support the SOF guys, but it's still...

NATOPS brief? They all boil down to the following "Big 5" (that has become 6, or 8 depending on how you count): Fuel, nav, weather, comm, contigencies/emergencies, ORM/CRM. Add in some TACADMIN and the mission overview and we're out in 30 minutes. And there is nothing wrong with "per SOP". We're...

Happiest terminal Capt dude I ever met was the API sked writer. 2 hours of work every week on the sked, teach two classes, then beach. They always wanted him to fly with the VTs on Pcola. He said no. FWIW he's a doctor now.

It's also why 69, .69, 6-9... is in every damn pub. We even have 6.9ms delay fuzing for certain weapons an option instead of 7ms.

It's also interesting to get into the right spaces to read and discuss who is using our satellites for what and why. If you're going to turn the lights off in a room before a fight, you better have the ability to see in the dark.

You sure are spare parts, aren't ya bud?

Something similar happened to a buddy of mine- couldn't hover a Harrier to save his life. Prowler CO of MAG-14 tried to work some magic so he could go the Prowler community. It would have been fairly easy, he would have stayed in the MAG. But this is when Dog Davis was the DC(A) and to him any...

Hey wannabe- maybe you should recognize your place and STFU.

I'd want it in my medical records for disability reasons, as well as if any issues come up later.

https://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmotc/nami/arwg/Documents/WaiverGuide/12_Ophthalmology.pdf The answer to your question lies within that document.