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You mean instead of what...whitewashing the rocks outside of base HQ?

Hey... the Surface Warfare Community DOES NOT SUCK!!! Do your time...be a fuckin' warfighter...then go to Medical School or whatever floats your boat. Do NOT listen to the old retired guy talking in your ear. We are legion...and quite often out of touch (as I've been told many times...)...

Jeez, man...you're RUINING it! WTF?!?

Because a pilot is just a pilot. An NFO is something else...

It would be a gift from God if "what y'all think" (meaning those of us on AW)...meant two shits. Good luck to you and with the medical types.

Good luck to you all.

Just...apply. You'll never know unless you apply. There may be follow-on work depending on the response. I'm surprised the bar is so high for SNA/SNFO...we're all dumb shits,..

I fuckin' love Dunkin...Casey Affleck Dunkin'

The living still hold a "Last Crusader Ball" every year. There are more than you'd think.

Nope...wish I did.

GURL = General Un-Restricted Line.

Damp-Rid your safe ROUTINELY.

I didn't miss the point at all. I'm just telling you how my spouse, and many others, reacted.

This is evidence of "a kindler, gentler nation".

Fuck it. Go Finance/High Finance and frigging Entrepreneurship. You obviously don't feel Naval Aviation in your gut. Go with whatever you feel in your gut.

Worked for me...

Is this an autobiographical query?

I kinda like this.

You get no points for being "super nervous". Relax and take what you qualify for.

OAR = Officer Aptitude Rating. Maybe you're not quite yet what the Navy's looking for, all of your academic credentials notwithstanding? File this under "tough love". Or disregard...

I'm probably an outlier...the funny fat kid who wore glasses all through elementary and high school. Loved aviation...built all the model airplanes; watched all the movies; read all the books and comic books. Then...one magical day in 1970...ran into a couple of Navy recruiters in my college...

They want to be able to get a full 30-year career out of you...if you and the Navy agree on that.

Slapshot's a good guy. I think we want good folks in those positions. Go Buckeyes. Except when they play Notre Dame, of course.

You can...because this is America (last time I checked). The question is why would you want to? Nothing is guaranteed.

You chose well, Weedhopper...

If you've got a fat wallet, Brooks Brothers in NY will take care of you. Get a nice suit while you're at it...you won't regret it.

Thanks for the recommendation. Reading it now, and very much enjoying it.

After a bit of summer reading...some P.T. Deutermann novels...the latest of which was "Pacific Glory"...focusing mainly on the destroyer actions during the battle off Samar, I kind of got a bug in my ass about small-boy actions in WWII. Currently binge-watching the best movies that I know...

But you may be the only one who plays KOTOR II...just sayin'.

"Knowledge Is Good." ~Emil Faber (Our Founder)

Welcome aboard.

Semper Fi!

Feasible. You have to want it. Then do the hoops/hurdles.

I guess "more guns" is good...but there's an argument to be made for common ammunition with what they already might have. Full disclosure: I have no idea what may already have.

Dear OP: As you've read above, here is no "specific rule". That said...pinks are bad, for whatever reason. Much else depends... He's your kid...I get it. But it's his life...and his hurdle to overcome right now. Lay off the mixed drinks. They won't help anything. Thanks for being a great...

Link apparently takes you to a video of the ceremony: Royce Williams NAVY CROSS CEREMONY

Captain Royce Williams was decorated with the Navy Cross yesterday (20 Jan) in San Diego by SECNAV: https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-gun-shot-down-4-170646332.html

F that. What are they going to do...throw it away?

The Jeppesen JP-5 never let me down...

Dude...tell us about THAT WATCH! Inquiring minds want to know...

If you're talking about VS-33 (IIRC) and CVW-11...yes, the whole shooting' match went east for two deployments on AMERICA.

Like when the Army went from horses to tanks.

You can sleep when you're dead. Don't be late for the brief.

Yes. OODs know how to do this. If there is no natural wind, "Winds are axial" (e.g., "Do some of that pilot shit."). If there is enough natural wind, ship's heading can create "wind down the angle", or some subset thereof...it still requires some of that pilot shit.

If you're REALLY talking about the formal dress thingie shown below, go to Brooks Brothers or some other long-standing purveyor of dress military uniforms.

So cool that ADM Slew McCain adopted it for his "war hat".

Sometimes, I'm kind of a "tough love" kind of guy. If "culture differences" is your biggest concern, maybe you should look at career opportunities outside of the military. At our baselines, we all pretty much come down the same way...

Just curious...what's the degree in?

Um...could this be the reason?