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This. Navs get a grand total of 7 flights before they graduate. I wouldn't say there's a problem with the quality of the instruction at 30. I just think there needs to be more of it. I understand the airframe limitations, but we could definitely improve as a community With regards to that...

I obviously can't speak to the pilot side, but on the nfo side I think they could absolutely lengthen the syllabus. It's only 7 months now and since we come in unwinged, you could do a lot more teaching. Hell, teach up through the tacco systems syllabus! Moot for me in 9 months anyway. I'll...

Or the Band of Brothers series?

My legal-o friends say the thing that really sucks is the unpredictable nature of your work. If you're in maintenance, for example, you know when inspections, imc, etc is coming. You never know when AN schmuckatelli is going to get drunk and punch a cop. Sent from my Eris using Tapatalk

The occasional weird uniform use is awesome. If I ever make command my wardroom will have an event in sdb yankee. Sent from my Eris using Tapatalk

The only thing I could see that the company could get slammed with is that they say he wasn't being safe since he wasn't wearing a seatbelt on the forklift when other employees routinely weren't doing so either.

Nope, he's younger than that.

Huh, a dude in my squadron got his degree from Kettering. Didn't realize that's where it evolved.

Oh I don't disagree that command climate is a big part of it. There are absolutely miserable aviation commands out there, and some happy SWO ones too. If every SWO command climates were crappy everywhere then no one would make a career out of it. That being said, the numbers of happy JO...

I signed up as a mid when I wasn't entirely sure I wanted to go aviation. I post and they know I'm a token brownshoe. As said, sometimes a lot of good discussion, despite the aviator haterade that's put out. Honestly, I don't hate SWOs. I really just pity them. All my SWO friends are...

Except now with PTS if you're in an overmanned rate and go to mast, you're basically done. Good luck trying to reenlist.

Do other ROTC units treat NFO like a consolation prize? Mine definitely didn't (at least while I was there) and the people I was with chose NFO because they wanted to do it. I personally can't see for crap so I'm not even qualified for pilot, but even if I had been, I still would have chosen...

Huh, I really couldn't eat much. I had the boxed lunch they gave us on the bus ride back and it took me the entire 2 hour ride to eat it, while some people devoured it. That night I had 2 pieces of pizza and couldn't stomach anything else.

Threadjack, how do you boat going types deal with HS scenarios? Since the weapon is not secure at that point, it would seem to me that doing a not so soft landing on the carrier would be a bad move.

I'm impressed with the ordies' skills on this. Making a rack, fins, and fuze that actually function is not an easy feat. The fact that it actually launched and didn't result in a hung store or something is ridiculous.

Our squadron has made unique PPC/TACCO patches in the event Big Navy decides that's what this reg entails. Otherwise, we're going to do what we want until told otherwise. No one said the positional patches had to be uniform throughout the entire Navy....

Ya, fart jokes are still told, and if you met me you would see that I really don't care about that. I was just surprised by how few female aviators there are. I've never really looked at statistics on the numbers we make up, but only 800 some surprised me. Doing the math, my squadron holds 1%...

Ha I totally forgot about that one! Every time we did an eastbound route in primary we made sure to hit that point.

There are some great intersection names out there. I know near Pcola there was a BUGLE, OBOES, and TOOTS all along the same route. Also one of the approaches going to the Cape Canaveral facility has an IAF or FAF (can't remember off the top of my head) labeled SHUTL.

Again, know your command before you tell jokes like this. I actually was in the squadron about 4 or 5 months by the time I told this, so given the environment at the time I knew I could get away with it.

It's a long one. So there's this family, a mother and a father and their four year old son. One day the parents get in this ridiculous fight and are screaming "You bitch!" and "You bastard!" at each other. At dinner that night the son asks, "What do bitch and bastard mean?" So the parents...

I'm a dead baby joke fan, but again, discretion is always appropriate. My joke involved me saying the word cunt 4 times before 10 in the morning. As people who have met me know, I kinda lack a filter. If you could do dead baby jokes, this is my favorite: What's funnier than a dead baby? A...

I was a sophomore in high school, during my US history class, found out over announcement from my school's headmistress. Like Flylaxbro, being from Baltimore, we thought it was the WTC in the Inner Harbor, but then we turned on the TV and saw it was in NYC.

Meh, again, nothing new that hasn't been discussed here. While I think there has been too much infiltration of PC BS in the military as a whole, I don't fear for our culture. We can still have a ridiculously awesome time, get drunk, piss off SWOs, and do our thing. Articles like this have a...

If your CAIs were anything like ours in primary then if you click fast enough then you don't even have to do the little quiz thing at the end. I think my record for CAI completion was something around 7 seconds :D They were especially stupid for us as our ground school pubs were literally word...

If that story is true they went full retard from the time I went. Hell, I think if they only had a couple 6 packs on hand there would have been several times in my time in Pcola that I and those I was with could have cleaned them out singlehandedly.

Will also ditto on OCF. I went to the one out the back gate, PM me if you want details on the name of the couple who runs it. They're a great family and awesome how they open up their home.

Before I decided to become Catholic I had gone to the Methodist church downtown a couple times, it was pretty nice.

That girl is a future NFO.

Not if you can get him into the same food coma.

When my parents were still living in MD they would every so often go down to BWI for Operation Homecoming. Groups like that are awesome. If I were coming back to the US through an airport that wasn't my home base something like that would probably move me to tears. When I finally make it to...

As a single type all I really care is someone who realizes that I might just need a damn ride home. Last deployment my father surprised me in Jax which was awesome. I don't care if there are cookies, beer, anything, I just want a friendly face that will take me away from the people I just...

Ditto on there's no such thing as a "family friendly" community in aviation. While it's true that at the end of the day we in the P-3 community don't have to go to the boat for weeks at a time for quals (ie we can get home at night), it's not like you aren't going to work ridiculous hours...

Avondale is awesome, sad to move out next week (see the Houses for Rent section if you're interested in renting my landlord's house!), especially when you have an ass crack of dawn brief/flight. When I get back from next deployment I'm probably going to get an apartment in 5 Points in Riverside...

That too. The liner in the original shorts is uncomfortable for me, so I don't know how guys manage.

I have both the shorts and shirt from New Balance. They still aren't great compared to commercially available PT gear, but they are an improvement, even the shorts. Beware though buying them the shorts by NB are cut much smaller than the standard Navy ones. I have pairs of both, and my NB...

I do know the regular MX funds and aircrew flight gear funds are different pots of money, how that translates into getting gucci stuff like the goretex I don't know. It could just boil down to the motivation of your LSs.

This December/January we had a good number of days where it was in the 20s in the morning. Quite unpleasant. Though at the end of the day I'd say I need it less than, say, our FEs, who are out there in the rain and all kinds of nastiness, but they don't have cold/foul weather flight jackets...

How do the costs compare among them? I'm not looking to pinch pennies, but I don't feel like making it rain before I even get into the casino either. Mandalay does look pretty awesome, but I'm totally open at this point.

Winter weight jackets still exist, made out of a heavier nomex and a liner. I still do not have one, and am not holding out hope either.

Thread revival- looking like I'm doing a Vegas extravaganza for upcoming POM leave with some friends from college. Probably going to stay in one of the strip casino resorts. I've never been and looking for recommendations. How do the big name ones (ie Mandalay, Bellagio, MGM, Venetian, etc)...

Advanced standing is what college programmers apply for after their sophomore year to stay in NROTC. If granted, they stay in and can commission, otherwise, they're kicked out. From what's been said here recently advanced standing is hard to come by these days for anyone.

They definitely are cutting them smaller too. I can cinch the velcro on the ones I was issued in API all the way tight, but the ones I got a couple months ago are definitely smaller in the waist and chest. Cue fat jokes.

Probably goes in the stupid questions thread, but why do the EP-3 bubbas retain the old school 500 lb paint scheme after we went to the all gray on P-3s?

So....if you're no longer Master, what's your PC call sign? We all have giant ass eagles on our helmets in my squadron. That probably covers the 30 sq in allowed on the helmet, but if I'm wearing my helmet for real, it's a bad day.

Methinks multiple people have broken sarcasm detectors.

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My info's dated about 3 years, but when I was going through they randomly assigned people unless you had a good reason for wanting a specific location. When Destin was still open, for example, my roommate there was engaged to a guy who was in EOD school, so she requested (and they gave her)...