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We do it, but not often depending on what you're hoping to fly in. For us it's a matter of all the stars lining up. Flight physical, physiology, finding an open seat, the right kind of flight, approval message from MAW or HQMC, etc etc. We can't do incentive flights at night, over water, or...

Siege of Firebase Gloria?

The S-3 decommissioning has been planned for years. Reserve squadrons are being shut down and their assets distributed to active duty squadrons. These things were all decided when gas was "cheap".

So why, in another thread, are you telling people what scores they need to be competitive and talking about how fuel prices are affecting the number of flight slots?

Quite a few people here have seen it. It inspired several threads, including the original and the follow up.

^When we were taking them, I had never heard of any side effects and nobody I worked with ever mentioned anything unusual. We stopped taking them when a batch got recalled, and none of us got malaria. We did have somebody from another shop come down with "Mystery Ailment" and get quarantined...

I took them before going to Africa and while we had evacuees onboard. No problems from the pills. Edit: This was several years ago, I guess it's the same thing you would get now.

Merged.

I read those both and thought they were great.

Eat shit. I'm spending the night with three chicks tonight. Something you would know nothing about.

It probably has "Sooner" in it.

I took this one earlier this year. No, that's not a shock wave. It's a water spot on the canopy.

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For the fine upstanding officers reading this thread who are thinking about lying, just know that anybody can search the FAA database and find out if you have any kind of pilot certificate. Special what and confidence?

I was wondering about this the other day. I've had run ins with the following AW celebrity hoodlums: Brett327 KBayDog nittany03 I've also crossed paths with several other people, but most of them I haven't seen in a while. Some people I know from TBS like reapergm and whalebite aren't...

"MoMo" took this one with a disposable camera. Italian student over Tampa Bay:

^I don't have a picture of the driver's side which has the tap. (Maybe somebody should add "Free Candy" in spray paint for good measure.) We have a JOPA mobile thread? Where was I when this happened?

Welcome home to Q-4, who just got back from Al Asad.

Got winged at 30, and wasn't the oldest, Navy or Marine, in the squadron. I posted some T-2 pictures earlier but they didn't look right. If I have time I'll see if I can fix them and put them back up.

I read it this week. Once I got past the "I'm a SEAL, bow down before me" crap the story was actually pretty good. Like you said, very casually worded, but a good story.

Read this.

Not quite. Each unit does an interview board for its applicants but does not rank them, only makes recommendations: Recommended with enthusiasm Recommended Recommended with reservation Not recommended Typically the CO goes with what the board says. There's no limit to the number of...

1) The rank requirement was dropped a few years ago. The problem is that as a new Marine, still bouncing from duty station to duty station, it's going to be hard to put an application together and find somebody to write a good enough recommendation to help you get in. Not saying it can't be...

New thread started for 737driver's question.

I lived out the Pensacola back gate and gave myself 2 hours to get to Destin. With traffic it typically took about 1:40 each way.

We've had multiple threads come up on this. The webmaster has made it clear to the mods that he doesn't want any speculation about the incident made on the site, which is understandable especially since it's his community. I removed the link and closed the thread.

I'm guessing that a PRT is not high priority right now. Everybody trying to help you is talking about how the Navy does it. Obviously for us you have to have at least a first class PFT to be eligible for OCS, so the PFT timing might be a little different.

At least the image at the bottom of that page is more of less accurate, at least for the moment: Typical timeline when I went through: Primary 3 months Intermediate 3 months Advanced 6 months (9 months for Hornets/Super Hornets) Any 86ers here who will be doing T-45s instead of T-2s?

For my last move, I mailed everything to Albany.

As in too lazy to type out "probably"?

The way I read this post, it implies that every single enlisted person is trying to get commissioned. Some aren't eligible (tattoos, citizenship, etc) and some just aren't interested. Enlisting is not designed to be a stepping stone to being an officer, but sometimes it happens that way...

I know (at least I've been told) that's how the Navy does it, and I just don't want there to be any confusion. Marines do not wear ribbons like that. When we wear medals, ribbons over the right pocket are still in 'normal' precedence, right to left, top to bottom. It's on page 5-15 (para...

When I saw the title "Question about Marines/blues" I thought you meant the uniform, so I edited the title. If that makes you feel all sad inside, let me know and I'll change it back. Never wanted to be a Blue Angel, don't know the answer.

I told someone a while back I would type up something like this, and well, why not just do it all now? As promised... I'll start with what most people want to know. Instead of forcing people to do higher math I'll just refer to the month I checked into Whidbey and started AVEWS as "Month...

If you just selected, T-2 EPs will keep you busy for a while. VT-86 is still flying T-2s, right? Once the time draws closer, somebody can get you a copy of the Prowler EPs. They aren't too complex. I'll post more on an ECMO's take on 129 later.

Nobody's jumping on you for a repost, just giving you links to the other threads so you can see what people have already said. As mentioned above, this one is worth a watch from time to time. "I tell you what I'd do, man. I'd be a Naval Flight Officer."

Squeeze, I'm sure at least one O'Bannonite, maybe a Gravesie or two, have already used a government issued ink pen to document the hours to fitrep marking scale in the back of a green notebook.

It goes on your fitrep, right? 0-59 hours/week=B for Performance 60-64 hours/week=C 65-69 hours/week=D 70-74 hours/week=E 75-79 hours/week=F 80+ hours/week=G

Who Wants to be an NFO? NFO-The Million Dollar Job

I lived in the wing nearest the classrooms, so my drinks/snacks and head calls all happened in my room. It was still faster than standing in line. For us that was Fox Company. Our company staff loved them. I don't think Fox Company was mentioned unless it was followed by, "That bunch of...

SeaRey kits are cheaper. You can find some already built or almost complete. They don't look as polished as the one above, though. Now if I can just afford the gas and insurance...

If your son graduates in August, he still as ~6 weeks of OCS left, right? In that case, no, OCS won't be worried about giving him all the details of TBS right now, but will be focused on his performance at OCS. At graduation gets closer, he will get more information. Like everybody has said...

So have you done any paperwork to get your PLC application started? Like everybody has said, enlistment is not required to get commissioned. What rank is your recruiter? Is he a canvassing recruiter or does he work for an OSO? Recruiting is a hard job. Some just honestly don't know...

The sad truth is that every unit, every rank, every MOS in the Marine Corps has at least a couple of turds lurking around in it. Luckily these turds are far less common than the good guys out there. Just because you have a bad OIC/SNCOIC now doesn't mean you always will. The opposite also...

If what you say is really true, I hear IOC could use a few more steely eyed killers. Better Marines and better pilots than you have been "stuck" with 46s and Prowlers and have made actual contributions to the war effort. It's fine to have your preferences but you don't know enough to make...

Do you always blame your failure on inanimate objects?

IT'S OKAY. I speak Navy.

We're sanctioned now? I knew about the MECEP Mafia, but this other one is news to me.

The AIC-14, picture courtesy of VetteMuscle, is pretty common. We use it, Hawkeyes use it apparently, and most of our helos use it. The skids used to have some weird looking but similarly functioning ICS/radio controller, the C-6533. I used to work on all of this crap but it's been a few...