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And it's only getting worse from there.

Wait- people died? What were they doing to PT them and who were these candidates/where did the come from? Mom's couch? "Hey man, bring some PT gear and running shoes at our next meeting; we're going to go for a run, and do some pullups (or pushups) and crunches." At mile .5 when they can't...

A lot can change in 2 months....

Did you re ...Wait... what part of that post suggests anyone to take it seriously?! I'm a UAV guy who didn't get himself killed in the legacy Hornet FRS syllabus. And apparently I tried twice at the boat. You should take anything I say about the fighter community as seriously as one would...

Here's what I learned about going to the merge and/or having to VID as a young CONE in the FRS- Someone is going to die. It might be your lead- hopefully it wasn't from your missile. But you're -2 and the other guy has a -2 and now it's a fight for your life. Don't run out of gas. Don't hit the...

Not good. News is also reporting minor injuries on the ground...

Anything from Anthony Bourdain will cure xenophobia. I've said it before, but he's a great story teller, and he really speaks well to how food is a primary link to what is the human condition.

The first two seasons are good. The third season slows down quite a bit.

I agree with you.

I stand corrected. I don't know man, I know some dudes who wear CARs because they were in the chow hall when the other side of the FOB took a mortar. The only danger they were in was choking on their food, or developing hypertension from the amount of salt needed to make it taste good. But...

So the Army version of a CAR (Combat Action Ribbon). As with all awards, depending on who awarded it, it could be legit; or he could have been at the right place at the right time.

I'm pretty sure all off the B's and D's went to -101. The rear cockpit was configured as pilot trainers, and while you can convert them back and forth, I'm not sure that would make sense. They'll do the same thing the ECMOs are doing as their airplane has gone away...

How long did the ARB process take you?

Ladies in sundresses get first in line privileges to ride the KingCat! At least, I still hope they do...

For a while now that's how big touring rock shows got the important backline stuff from huge City A to huge City B then off to City C in Europe. It's cheaper to rent local if you can, and load the high end gear that can't be procured locally onto the airplane than it is to truck your own stuff...

No Naval Aviatior has ever said, "Man, I had the opportunity to work for x company, but I turned it down for this and I regret it everyday." But plenty of folks see a military airplane and imagine, "what if?!"

And yet folks who want to continue to serve and have not committed a felony are passed over. Yeah, the system is broken. News at 11...

Best part? We learned a good amount and we didn't lose a pilot/aircrew. This is the reason we have big wing, expensive and very capable UAVs/RPAs/Drones/whatever.

There was nothing else. No ARI, ULQ, NJP, nothing. My section I comments essentially say, "Good guy, good officer, had trouble at the boat" As effed up as it is, having your flight status revoked in an FPPB/FSSB for failing at any point in the FRS or the fleet is a DC Adverse FITREP per the...

This is the thing. We begin to teach our young aviators from the beginning to compartmentalize their emotions. But we don't teach them how to go back and deal with those same emotions after it's over and safe to do so. They stay locked up, many times forever. I use my experience because I...

That's a very specific example that does not apply to many of treatable and curable mental health diseases. There are many that should be disqualifying, as there is no cure for things like bipolar disorder. However, we shouldn't lump them all together.

I'm the guy who was forced through a CAT1 Hornet syllabus 2 months after his wife was released from an inpatient mental hospital for attempting suicide. That was her second time in a year. We lived apart for 4 months because that's what was best for my flight school career. Both times she was...

The B can't land like a C.

Go talk to them. Get your hat in the ring for a damn good deal that most of us would kill for.

Dude. Plenty of their pilot slots come from within. Seriously. Go talk to them, bring a bottle of whiskey and a good attitude.

Air National Guard. Run, don't walk, to your nearest fighter unit.

So who's selling them? I want to buy 10. 9 for my friends and 1 to go next to my death of naval aviation patch.

I could never get the new masks to fit my (once broken and hence crooked) nose without wrenching down uncomfortably on the straps. Even then, it was a crapshoot as to whether it would leak or not. I had an old one for a while, but the PRs at 106 took it from me and said I couldn't use it as it...

Hey, my brother appreciates that you guys keep the PAR/ASR going at Tinker whenever the AF wants to get rid of it- if for nothing else than his own personal ability to see the sheer look of terror on the face of one of his studs/new aircraft commanders when he tells them to fly one. Handling a...

I think it's confined to the Hornet community right now, I haven't seen anything about it circulating around Cherry Point/MAG-14.

AF E-3 dudes get 707 type ratings. Why would the Navy not do the same?

That stuff is... Nasty...

You know who doesn't have a pretty decent life? A Marine Officer in the 2nd MARDIV.

You better go back 6 years and read every post by every Marine on this board. You never answered my question: why do you want to be a Marine?

Why do you want to be a Marine?

Hear hear!

And if you fly the Hornet they are all multi-engine jet PIC time- which the airlines like to see. Or so I've been told.

Because only the Marine Corps restricts you from driving into Mexico...

Shack.

Right now, the USMC says that MUX (a concept that only exists on paper right now) will be the AEW platform for the MAGTF. It will also be all weather, instrument capable, be both a shooter and an ISR platform, have EA capability, be a tiltrotor that will keep with the F-35, all while making...

At least on the 7315 side of the house we've heard rumblings about this coming down the pipe for a bit. It really doesn't help that every company grade officer in one squadron submitted IST packages. We are looking at losing an entire year group. But hey, let's not fix things, let's just make...

There are days that I regret my performance at the boat in the FRS. But then I read stuff like this, talk to my buddies still riding the dragon, and realize that I left the community at the right time.

This is also such a counterintuitive part of Marine Corps officer manpower. We desperately need experienced aviators to promote to O-4 and beyond, but we won't change our metrics of promotion. If only there were provisions in Title 10 that covered what was really required to promote an...

Yeah. Though, there is a waiver for that in the ANG. You just have to be willing to wait for the paperwork to come back. And of course, every dude who dropped an IST will get 2P'd, as the fact that tried to leave is a matter of record. You can't leave, but we won't promote you as punishment...

So everyone will simply resign, execute their EAS and then join the AF effective the next day. Really all this does is take away the ability to threaten an IST package to the monitor if they don't give you the orders you want. If your commitment to the Marine Corps is up, they can't make you...

78% of the like 6 dudes in every TMS who were eligible.

This is the part that is falling out of our current skills based training model. When we reduce the skill (and RQ-21 is a great example of the keyboard/mouse click control interface) required to fly the airplane, we shorten the training timeline. However, what is learned in 2 years of flight...

The Air Force fucked it away when they drafted guys into Predators with the promise of their #1 choice of airplane after a 2 year tour, and then didn't deliver, leaving dudes stuck in a 10 year winging commitment in a 12 on 12 off 6 days a week schedule in Creech with no real ability to earn...

You're preaching to the choir man. Yes, we've had some solid CO's, and I worked for the one of which you speak. But the guy who followed him was a DASC turned UAV guy, and now a Prowler guy. That's tough for continuity, and each squadron may do things drastically differently. Is it getting...