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I agree. But that's a training issue. We tend to overlook the attitudes part of the learning equation when we train UAV guys from day one. We are able to cut some knowledge, and a lot of skill training, but we have found that the shorter time to train means less touches with an instructor on...

I think it's an important step to begin to take for the Navy UAS communities- developing a separate, professional career field that can train and sustain itself. The Marine Corps has made the huge mistake of making it the B-Billet world for traditionally winged guys since it's inception in...

I wore mine all through flight school when it was cold enough to wear it (rarely in Kingsville, but you get the point). So did all of my friends. The guys who wouldn't wear it or thought they'd look stupid or that they didn't rate it were the ones who stood out as douchebags. Just don't wear...

Saw them takeoff from the base of the tower at KNKT. I'm impressed that they got the wing folds to work!

6 years ago.

I picked up my private glider rating at Coastal Soaring while waiting to start primary. It was an inexpensive way to do some really good and fun flying.

FWIW there is a Harrier dude from MAG-14 who was recently selected and headed that way. So guys are definitely still going that way from the gold wing world.

Isn't every waterboy's wet dream to get called into the big game to make the big play that wins the big game at the last second in overtime?

66K can't be a comfortable cat shot. Clown jet was fun, single centerline Hornet was noticeably less comfortable but still a lot of fun. But 60k+ has got to hurt a little bit.

Seriously? This is the same shit that was going 10... 15... 50... years ago.

This is a huge cultural difference, especially in the Marine Corps. If you fail out of a syllabus as a winged aviator, you're simply unfit to fly anything manned again. If you're winged, you get an adverse fitness report and are largely treated like a broken toy. It doesn't surprise me that an...

Post command tour got you down, missing your glory days as the finest rank in the military, and looking for a new job?! ?

I tend to avoid that thread if I can. But good looking out!

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/coast-guard-mass-killing-hit-list/index.html Two thoughts: One: a 49 year old Lt?! Living in JOPA forever. Two: At what point does this ever seem like a good idea??!!

I thought that too, but when I was in Kingsville, the dudes who tracked E2/C2 went to the boat right after intermediate, and they all did fine. What would have helped a ton in flight school advanced? A RADAR and other mission type systems. A few flights into the Hornet syllabus and I'm trying...

You will regret not going to flight school when you had the opportunity if you don't go. You will not regret not going to grad school.

Dude in my squadron waited about a year to put on Capt from the time he was selected. YMMV

Not the case anymore. While I was a 1st Lt 2 years to the date that I commissioned, and a Capt 4 years plus a couple weeks, these days, guys are spending almost 3 years as a 1st Lt before they put on Capt. It isn't unheard of for someone to hit 5 and a half years TIS before putting on O-3 in the...

Your OSO will answer all of these questions for you, you just have to ask them. Also- OCS is your first 10 weeks in the Marine Corps, but it isn't any type of indicator of what the Marine Corps is like. You don't decide at OCS that you don't want to be a Marine. If you quit, you're deciding...

Yeah, I'm a young guy who hadn't heard of him until this morning. That guy is legend.

Hey, Q-2 flew one on Thursday at KNKT!

There was also the Marine who picked up a hooker that turned out to be an undercover cop (and not a hot one, either). That must have been an awkward conversation with his wife. He was stuck in purgatory as the MOC Lt for a long while as he was awaiting his NJP.

My brother in law kindly referred to it as Hagartuckey, and couldn't get out of there fast enough. Damn. There are so many of us who have run into one another without knowing it. I'm not even angry, I'm actually impressed.

Dude was a straight-up psycho. The MATSG-21 CO couldn't take away his provisional commission fast enough and send his ass to the civilian court system.

Didn't Chris Rock have a song or stand up about that?

Late 2009 to early 2010. He also cut it in half and threw it in a dumpster. Around the same time as the dude who shot himself through the hand at a stoplight outside the front gate.

Just don't go hunting the wrong birds in the wrong place.

I guess time will tell. I wasn't so good behind the boat, which is why I ended up where I am now, and probably why I'm biased towards the machines. On a semi (but not really) related note- here is another I'm the Machine! story to lighten the mood!

Well, as long as the conditions are inside the parameters for the system, sure. A system like TALS will even exceed it's own advertised capabilities well beyond what anyone would expect. It is a true honey badger. The DGPS system for the RQ-21 is actually really good as well. It's the fact...

You would rather worry about the last dude in the cycle getting aboard?

CQing new KS-3 pilots will cost more than the entire MQ-25 program over each of their lifetimes. Optional manning doesn't buy much. The benefit of a UAS is that you don't have to put all of the human stuff in the airplane. I'm not saying that the Navy is right in relegating what should be a...

Saw this a while ago. There has to be more to the story.

You need a JOPA patch stat!

This XKCD comic is relevant here.

So are Air Force RPA/UAV/"Drone" guys.

They are in ground courses, and if you were going to a ground MOS you'd live by them. But you're in Aviation...

As the XO of the USMC UAV initial school and FRS, I can't stress this enough. 90% of our attrites studied by themselves. Also, don't get caught up on ELOs and TLOs. The way TECOM runs schools (like TBS) through MCTIMS vs how aviation schools are run is completely different. For API...

Wow. I uh. Wow.

If you are bored, Bird Island has awesome winter windsurfing and kite boarding (some of the best in the world). Go learn how to do it at a place called worldwinds. Also drink your face off, shirk all responsibility, and enjoy the gift you have been given. The rest of us would trade places with...

These guys can totally help you with your plan!

AirWarriors- Where O-5's feel like they are JO's again...

It started here, but in 3 years it will be everywhere.

It is true. And yes we did that. As well as read Shakespeare, and Beckett, and spent 5 years (because why finish in 4 what you can spend more time on and make it great?) asking ourselves- "But, what does it mean, this human condition??!!" I also was in the minority, being a straight male in a...

2.7 in theater and I've been around for 10 years, kinda like a bad penny.

You'd have to ask someone who is in a company ahead of you as this can change constantly.

Navy/Marine/Coast Guard dudes, "I enjoyed flight school. I'd go back in a heartbeat!" AF dudes, "I learned what I needed to, but that place sucked and I'd hate to go back."

Ugh. Every time something like this happens, I think it's the IWAGR guys trolling these parts. But then I realize that they have better stuff to do, and indeed this is life.

Touche salesman. But it helps that they can plan to precision mins every day of the week and twice on Sunday, too.