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Dude, get your ass to flight school and don't look back. For a microsecond everyone thinks about dropping their air contract at TBS. Those that do say to every pilot, "Yeah man, I had an air contract at TBS, but I dropped it." They all regret it. You won't find a single pilot who regrets not...

Don't read this one. Or maybe... read this one. Make sure you show up to primary and tell your onwing that you read the book, so you're good.

So... What's the book? What's it about? Why is it so good? Can we at least get a description rather than a link to a book site that looks like some Harvard professor makes his students read buy to supplement his income??!! I dunno, maybe follow the format of the last 26 pages of forum...

So what's your plan B? Remember that loan doesn't go away if you attrite from OCS. Time to show some of that initiative that a young wannabe officer says they have in their essay: read over the SCRA. It is the law that protects someone like yourself dealing with the financial stress that you...

Dude- just realize that no one really cares about your prior time. Own it, because it's who you are, but don't think that it makes you better than anyone else. Remember that you're only as good as your last flight, and you're only as good as the dudes who will have you. Everyone fails a...

Of course. Blood is compulsory though. It may not be what the people want, but it's what I do!

Wow, a UAV being called nothing more than a helicopter or airplane in the news media. That's almost as big of a deal as the fact that we're going to fly and land multiple times off the surface of another planet! Sweet!

Haha. Impressive, not everyone is a knuckle dragging math guy. As far as absurdist existentialism theater goes, I am more of a Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead fan. But I'm a giant nerd.

True. Though that doesn't mean I don't have friends that I talk to on a regular basis who are still in that world. Me: "Hey dude, Sidney Crosby is a douchebag and the Pens suck! ... oh, and are dudes in Miramar getting 25 hours?" Buddy: "A- go fuck yourself, you guys got lucky, and B- uh, no...

Indeed I am/was! I always get the, "Dude, how the hell did you get into the military, much less flight school with a theater degree?!!"

ROTC would not have allowed me to study what I wanted to study (technical theater/design and production- lighting and sound type stuff). Seems like everyone in ROTC has some type of STEM degree. My Theater degree did me well enough to get me jobs that enabled me to both pay for college and pay...

Meh, I paid for college without taking loans. To each their own. FWIW I didn't want to join the military in college. Nor for some time after. And I didn't need a uniform to get chicks. :D:)

Yeah... But then you have to be in ROTC...

Maybe on UDP if they included the TRANSPAC. Don't think for one minute that those aren't cherry picked numbers. Hornet bubbas are not getting 25 hours a month at home- unless one guy who was the sole section/division lead/NSI/LATTI was abused and flown every day he could be... That MAG CO wants...

A lot of Ps were passed out on the O-4 board last year for the Prowler pilots who did everything right to get promoted. Those guys are pretty much left holding the bag as they watch everyone kind of cast them off. From what I hear the F-35 doesn't need more O-4s transitioning in, they're really...

No change. All FAC tours from MAG-14 are PCAs to Lejeune - unless someone scores a Hawaii gig- but those seem to be rare.

It's VMFA or VMFA(AW) for Marine squadrons. The (AW- for All Weather) means it is a D (two seat) squadron, no (AW) means either an A+/A++ or a C (single seat) squadron. V(M)FA isn't a thing.

Those dudes are/were some happy mother F'ers. I met a couple of them on the flight line at Oceana (as a RAG stud). I wandered over to their part of the ramp and introduced myself- curious about the program. They didn't say much, but they were dudes with long hair wearing flight suits with a...

Oh jeez. Can't. Stop. Laughing... It hurts to breath.. hahahahah.

Just live in Hunter's Cove or Hawk's Landing like everyone else. Why would you buy a house in a place you'll live in for about a year?

I guess the next step would be the general hate and discontent for UAS. It's fairly tough and demoralizing to think that a machine can do something better than what a human can, especially when that human takes a lot of pride in and defines himself by the the years of hard work that it took to...

Well, I mean... isn't that the question?

Nostalgia. The resurrection of the S-3, the OV-10, and the F-14 are all ideas from Naval Aviation's 'Member Berries.

There is a solid 40 years between them...

It's the nature of the job. You'll go to the pistol range when you have to. When do you, your first thought will be, "Fuck me, didn't I just do this (1,2,3 years ago)? Why do I have to go again? This is a complete waste of my time." Your weapon is your airplane. Don't worry, Pensacola will...

Is this the preferred T-6 method for getting stuck in Key West?

Understatement of the century. A VMU dirt det went forward to CENTCOM- CoC up to MAW was more concerned that these guys shoot every possible direct small/medium fire weapon in the USMC inventory than be really proficient at flying the robot/doing the recce mission. "Sorry, we can't fly this...

This. We're still constantly fighting over who is going to pay for this stuff. Everyone wants it, but everyone points their fingers at the other guys when ti comes to paying for it.

Well... Damn. Not good.

No USMC RWSO's (or IWSO's for that matter) at 106. Can't speak to 122/125 though- but I doubt it there as well.

Did the Navy even buy the ability to missionize the rear cockpit? At -106 all of the D's were pilot trainers.

That was a thing. Though the cigar was tough to light. I remember flying around Daphne with the canopy open thinking I was a badass on my aerobatic solo.

Here here brother. We've proven that we're "good enough" to take up arms when needed. If we have to go provisional we'll be able to manage- but we shouldn't train for a tertiary COA at the expense of our primary warfighting functions and duties. At the end of the day the Marine Corps needs up...

There are a couple of A++ squadrons.

I mean, if they are already in DEERS I can't imagine you'd need to bring any of that kind of crap. Is the Navy not giving you TAD orders to OCS?

Are you talking about a notarized marriage certificate and/or kids birth certificates?

Same. except sub Orbital Dynamics for high school physics....

http://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/1402324/implementation-of-the-revised-battle-skills-test-program/ It's like TBS/MCT over again...

Please realize that you have an outside view into communities that purposefully do not share mishap info to the public. Everyone has skeletons in their closets... Rightfully so, we don't share that info outside of those who need to know.

True enough that guys are being passed over twice and then told that they have to deny a 3 year continuation. This is the Marine Corps saying," we're not going to promote you but we want you to stick around for another 3 years."

Brother is also an AF pilot- but an E-3 guy. He seems to think most of the problem is that the current leadership is a product of the culture that values a master's degree and/or awards from planning the squadron christmas parties over flight leadership and stick skills. Too many yes men were...

Say what now? You do realize that AFPC came out and said that they will have a 100% promotion rate to O-4 for the very long foreseeable future, right? Meanwhile the Navy and Marine Corps are passing pilots over left and right....

So I'm not the only one who thought that looked like a circus operation? Pretty sure a dude almost got crushed by the Huey...

Wow, that's going to be an expensive endeavor.

And complain that you can't unload your 300K dollars worth of bitcoin because you can't show who you received the money from, and that no one can agree on how it should be taxed...

This is very true. He's really busy, but he loves it. It helps that they don't stay in shitty places when they're on the road or deployed, and they're considered low density/high demand so they get $$ for pretty much anything they need and/or want.

My brother is a USAF E-3 AWACS pilot who flies his ass off and is regularly nabbing 400 hours a year, all over the world, and loves it. If you want flight hours that's the place to go.

It also funded the study that lead to things like changing BASH procedures. Case in point, when I was in Kingsville, the BASH procedures were changed, as the existing ones actually put us into the thick of the threat from migratory birds. The birdstrike HAZREP and Class D/C/B SIRs had an impact...

This last O-4 board was brutal to anyone connected to the prowler world. Most of those guys were drafted into a dying community, and are now the example that the needs of the service (or lack thereof) trumps all else. Proof positive that you can do everything right, but you'll never have a...

It's only a lot of reading if you do it!! I did it through the blended seminar program. Talk about a good deal all around.