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I agree with you. Cherry Point shuts down, yet the F-15E dudes from SJ are still getting to do their stuff out in the whiskey areas, as well as have no problems getting into the -5306 ranges (as well as the Dare ranges). On those days they'll do a PAR for fun into Cherry Point on their way...

There's a lot of interest in the UAS world, especially if having it would enable us to fly in the NAS a bit easier than now. But having the ability to turn it off when needed is also necessary.

No one cares about your excuses. Tell "your friend" to do his own research, and talk to the professional Officer Recruiter who can give him the real answer.

There is for the Marine Corps. Our legal O brought it up at an AOM after a half dozen or so of our Marines were following their play book, step by step, of our to get out of the Marine Corps early.

No more line shacks?!

Maybe- The 2nd Lts from VT-3 grilling outside of their line shack, selling stuff for cash... I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.

Sounds like a standard MWR sham. And every club is damn slow. You need an hour and a half for lunch here on Cherry Point. Does anyone know if VT-3 still has the Air Force grill going? 4 bucks for whatever they were cooking (burgers, dogs, brauts...) along with chips and a drink definitely...

The "New" O Club was near the approach end of 14 at South Field. It was a brand new building, with a pool and the whole 9 yards. I don't know the real story, but I remember the rumors were that the building was built too tall and the FAA said that it violated the laws about runway encroachment...

The Whiting BOQ had them as recently as 2010! But they probably went away when they tore the brand new oclub down...

A significant number of those "recon planes" are UAVs. Be careful what you wish for.

Just watched this. Definitely worth it. Thanks for the recommendation!

As far as a foreign military film- how does it rate vs Das Boot?

Except for the RPA program, where they get 40-50 hours. They have everything they need for a PPL except the night time.

It's IFS- don't nuke it. Show up sober and enjoy it.

Everyone who made it through OCS and TBS showed up to day one of flight school.

I did just what your OSO is trying to get you to do back in 2008/2009. I had a tight turn between getting my flight physical in December and then showing up to OCC in January. So I went to Quantico on a ground contract that was updated to an air contract as soon as the flight physical paperwork...

Marines did Secret clearance stuff in TBS. Didn't do TS/SCI until jet advanced in Kingsville. YMMV.

Huh. I hadn't thought about the FCLP part. Perhaps there is a way to crack that egg on the backside of another flight? Have an LSO grade each pass at the field like an FCLP? Maybe save gas for two, or at most three passes? (That's what, one less look at the merge on an ACM/BFM?) But they're...

Because general aviation is being regulated into extinction. This is a way to undo that.

Maybe. But when was the last time a WSO/ECMO/RIO was attrited from the FRS because their pilot couldn't land so well on the boat? "Call the ball- get the qual" was the patch the WSO's in my RAG class wanted to make. The idea was shot down, as our class RWSOs were already in trouble for...

Where does one acquire a piece of a wire? Inquiring minds... PNA or PM if necessary. Cheers!

Cannonball run is, IMHO, a timeless partyy classic- along with such movies as Animal House, Slapshot, The Blues Brothers, Back to School and Major League.

Why did you join the Navy If you want to go on a B billet with the ground side? The Navy drives boats, the Marine Corps has the battalions...

Some new guidance came out about the "R" device within the last few days from SECDEF. It's only an impact award for someone who directly controls a weapons system or "other military activity" that has immediate and direct impact on a combat operation, but that person was outside of the enemy...

Nah, he's a nobody and doesn't deserve a callsign- but if we HAD to give him one, I'd vote for Judy.

I'm not normally one for the old ways, but, can we get a gag order on this dude?

Dude, stop posting. At this point you're embarrassing yourself.

184,000 AD Marines vs 476,000 Army. Marine Corps doesn't have many high dollar programs that the Army has (medical programs, flight school, TRANSCOM, Corps of Engineers, a service academy, etc..) so we don't need the money. 6x the money for a 3x bigger service that has to support itself. (Add in...

Dude- take your Army circle jerk to an Army wannabe website. It doesn't belong here and no one is buying it. It sounds like your information was gathered by listening to a few Lance Corporals. Officers are talking now, and they're telling you how it is. This community is a lot smaller...

Ugh- Dude, control the things that you can control and don't worry about the rest. Selection, timing, NSS, needs of the Navy, what IP you pull, where you go to primary- these are the things you can't control. So don't worry about them. Study, be a good dude, know the FTI, chair fly- these...

I'm pretty sure you just keep going until you pass. TBH, I've never heard of someone failing out of TBS for not finding the red boxes.

PM me.

Damn, where did they put everyone?

Hmm. That doesn't seem like a lot of money but it keeps the ball rolling! So where do we put an additional 4 airplane squadron/det, to include all of the associated people and gear, on a boat that is already packed to the gills?

Not daddy, older brother. But yes. Nepotism at it's worst.

There is a waiver for everything in the Guard.

Good to know, I'll be moving through that line in a couple of hours

Corpus has awesome windsurfing, kiteboarding and sailing, all year round. So there's that...

Officer Like Qualities?

How much of this do you think stems from the fact that the MPTS program is in origin an AF program? In the AF, there are airplanes/places that you can send a well below average student where they won't ever had to do anything other than the airline pilot type flying. My brother talks about guys...

Probably a long term FEMA shelter? FWIW we've done this in the past. Camp Talega on the north end of Camp Pendleton was used to house all of the refugees fleeing the Vietnam war before they went elsewhere.

Ebbs and flows man, ebbs and flows. That's how the policy was for a lot of guys who are senior O-4s and O-5s. 8 years ago the Navy guys had an NSS cutoff at API that made it so you could only miss a handful of test questions at all. Guys with 95 averages were attrited. Careers are made and...

Are you guys not getting drunk while studying in the evening?

Wifey is working on her PhD in a sociology discipline- Me: "Wifey, is Peterson a good source?" Wifey: "Are you the type of person who would take advice from a TV/Hollywood doctor?" Me: "If I were to say yes..." Wifey: "He's about as good as Jenny McCarthy; and we're worried about smallpox...

I mean, I DQ'd at the boat twice. Big Marine Corps had no problems getting rid of me (or 6 other Marines either at the FRS, or within 6 months of joining the fleet). We all were shuffled into the UAV world. HMLA had an even worse rate.

But at some level each Officer is responsible for maintaining/setting/holding their Sailors/Marines to a standard. Whether that person is a 2ndLt Platoon Commander, an Ens DivO, a Capt or Lt flight lead/aircraft commander, an Lt/LCDR Boat Skipper, (and so on and so forth) they all have a...

Every single one of them, from the O-1 to the CNO. DivOs, DHs, XOs and COs, FOGOs, all of them had to accept a lower standard. When was the last time the surface folks were good at driving ships and when did the wheels fall off the bus?

Why is that? Why were so many commanders willing to accept such a low standard for such a long time?

Base ops is more than just a repository for links to BASH and MSHARP?