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The only real input I can give you is this. Have a whiny six year old read your essay out loud to you. That's what I heard in my head when I read it. If you had lead with, "I want to be in the Navy" my voice boomed across the open field, then I would have heard James Earl Jones the entire...

The official answer:

Probably not.

No. Straight from the order:

The way you write this, it sounds like OSOs turn away anyone with a tattoo, which is not the case. Yes, some otherwise qualified people have disqualifying tattoos, but you can replace "tattoos" with "medical problems" or "financial responsibility issues" or whatever else you can think of...

Hence? Hence? Eh, whatever. This topic comes up about thrice quarterly. Every other fortnight or so. Edit: Yes, I'm just screwing with you.

If he sticks around long enough he may be one of the last Marine NFOs, but he won't be one of the last to become a Marine NFO.

See this post. It's the friendly/short version of this post. Not assuming. You posted your thoughts. Thoughts like these: "Haha get up play a steroid, government funded version of X-box for 10 hours in some country 2,000 miles away". Also, just for your edification, most AF UAVs operate...

Whether you think it's cool or not, UAV operators are making a contribution to the war effort in two theaters. According to your profile, you are in high school. Until you've done something with your life, feel free to stop mocking the service members who do jobs that you think are beneath...

I assume your basis of comparison is Trainwreck? He set the bar HIGH. On a serious note from me, like I said, if I get the chance to get promoted I'll stick around for a few extra years, but honestly, all the moving and stuff has gotten old. The novelty of living in a new place every few...

RUDY CAN SUCK IT! Also, he didn't tell you about the trip home. That was completely different from the trip over. Anyhow, if I find myself eligible for promotion between now and retirement, I'll stick it out. Chances of that are pretty slim. If the trend continues, I'll come in zone about...

Lots of enlisted time.

If AW had a motto, I think it would be this.

One thing we don't tolerate around here is posers. Good luck making your demands elsewhere.

I googled your username and found your site, your blog, and your picture, and you still want to say that's not you? I also looked at your email address and strangely it matches everything else I found. You aren't anonymous, you aren't fooling anybody, and you aren't going to be a member of...

Knowledges will get you far in life. Superior knowledges will get you even farther.

Unfortunately, some people, in the name of doing what they believe is right, are either wrong or go about it all wrong and make the rest of us look like assholes. My last day of API, some other 2ndLt tried to correct me for something he thought was wrong with my uniform. He opened the...

How did you not see this coming?

Do well-adjusted Marines everywhere a favor and don't make an ass of yourself. If somebody's really screwing something up, an NCO will "square you away" while an officer will point out what is wrong without causing a scene. Trying to square away your peers, even if you are right, might end...

Amen. I got airlifted all over hell and Iraq one night by a 352 crew who treated me like family from the second I introduced myself. I forget exactly how many squadron patches I gave away that night, but it was my entire stash.

Scroll all the way down to the bottom of this page. Is that what you're looking for?

Until you have orders in your possession telling you to report to Q-4, expect to go to 129. Based on Q-4's deployment cycle and current transition plan, I doubt that's the case.

There are two different timelines. One when things are supposed to happen (later this year), and one when things will probably happen (later than later this year). If you've already selected Prowlers, you'll be needing one of these:

At the top of the NFO forum?

FY09: Total applications: 331 Total eligible: 299 Number selected: 150 Number of alternates: 0 % Selected: 50 FY08: Total applications: 254 Total eligible: 246 Number selected: 160 Number of alternates: 10 % Selected: 65 FY07: Total applications: 248 Total eligible...

MECEP selection rates have been at or above 50% for several years. Give it a shot, the worst that can happen is you won't get in. FY09 MECEP Stats from MCRC

Sorry, I resized mine. The black blips in the bottom right corner of my picture are orcas. Also taken on a whale watching trip out of Anacortes a couple of years ago. Nice pictures, they never got that close to the boat for us.

Where would we be without our plane captains?

I'll see your whales and raise you Mount Baker... Just as a note to everybody, unless I specificially say otherwise in the post, I have taken all the pictures I posted in this thread.

I don't hate the top flipper just because it's new/different. I hate it because it sucks. The Prowler one does anyway. Like I said, what was one page had a couple of steps added and is now four pages. Now available: READER'S DIGEST LARGE PRINT VERSION PCL

We've made the switch from 89A to ICAP II NATOPS and PCLs. The PCL is the top flip variety instead of the "old" Prowler PCL. Where the 89A PCLs had Before T/O, T/O, Climb, Descent, and Landing checks all on one page, now they take up four pages. The one page EP index now takes six or eight...

Enough talk, here's another picture...

Apparently I'm not doing a good job of articulating what I'm thinking. Before I go on, there are three common kinds of MAGTFs, the smallest and most common being a MEU. A MEU has a Colonel commanding it and the ACE, GCE, and MSSG each have a LtCol commanding them. In a MEU the ACE is the...

I didn't know the intricacies of how the Navy does business, but my educated guess was along these lines. Since the MAGTF is in theory very flexible, it can be tailored to exactly what is needed. The typical MEU ACE is a complete HMM plus dets from HMH, HMLA, VMA, MACG, etc etc, but there have...

You may already know this but I'm sure somebody out there doesn't. When a MEU goes composite, it typically has 46s (Ospreys in some cases), 53s, Hueys, Cobras, and Harriers. They all administratively become part of one big happy HMM (or VMM) family until the deployment is over.

Foxbat in Iraq.

What can I say? Some people just bring out the best in me.

Businesses in business to make money? Well I never! Stupid finance degree didn't teach me anything. Give me a break. Do you really think I don't know all this? Sorry I don't live up to your exacting standards but I've done pretty good so far without your "help".

I need to stop being lazy and post some of my pictures. Starting...now. Small version, taken over the Olympics:

By you? I'm sure there are SNFOs out there who just want to cruise through the program with minimal effort and get to wear that coveted flight suit during API. I'll let you in on a little secret. There are also SNAs out there with the same attitude. I'll let you in on another little...

I haven't heard the term used at all in years. Marine Corps League/VFW guys might like to throw it around, but I'm talking about Marines on active duty. If you hear it regularly it might be a community specific thing because I don't. And for one more record, people who call themselves...

DWELL time. Say it with me. DWELL time. I have heard no such rumors, but anything is possible.

I know the thread is already locked, and I'm not trying to bash you and get the last word in, but I wanted to clear this up. While part of what you say is correct, it doesn't tell the entire story. It's true that Marines don't have to worry about a P-3 or E-2 draft, but when they do select...

Not trying to take anything away from WSOs, but some people will read that post as saying that only the best become WSOs, while the rest of the fleet is just TW-6's table scraps. When pilots talk about selection/assignment, the key phrases are NEEDS OF THE NAVY/MARINE CORPS and TIMING IS...

Cherry Point to Wilmington daily probably isn't feasible. I used to do New River to Wilmington every day and it took 40-50 minutes one way. That was from the northern end of Wilmington (Gordon Road) to the southern end of Jacksonville. Expect Wilmington to New Bern or Morehead...

Phrog hit it already. There are two ways to answer this question. If you're asking, "What's the plan for the future?" the answer is to let the JSF do pretty much everything. If you're asking, "Why do it that way?" I just don't have the answer to that.

Varies field to field. Prowler doesn't, we need electrical power and a huffer. Oh, sorry. You said "modern".

Yes, the NAVY will sundown training, not Marines. I've said it before and I'll say it again. We are on track to start getting ICAP III jets this year. I would be shocked if we flew them for ten years (ref: AVPLAN with an NFO put out to pasture date of FY19) and parked them. It may happen...

I think so. I've never heard it used in that context.