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These guys were Coastal Riverine Squadron aka RIVRON, part of Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. SBT and SWCC are different and belong to NSW. I won't speculate as to what training they attend except to say it's probably different.

Burial at sea. Like a boss. Rest in peace BzB.

Hope our boys and gal stay frosty tonight. Using them as political pawns is awful.

Fair, but do the hulls they were doing it from being cut change the equation?

Edit: Just realized @Rugby_Guy is a Marine. My advice is Navy centric, but not sure if it makes much difference. My Marine bros from flight school seem to be gone just as much.

The question has been asked here a lot, but my .02 is that every community is going to have you gone from home a lot during sea duty. And, when you are home, you're going to be busy studying or preparing for your upgrading flights. Once you've got your quals, you'll be working in a harder...

My understanding is HSC(exp) was plussed up in size from HC to take on the OAMCM and ASU roles on the LCS as part of the "Helo Master Plan". Then LCS was late, now truncated, and the OAMCM kit is at least partially dead.

I'm pretty sure the last Sierra came off the line last year. Last I heard there were a dozen or so sitting in preservation in San Diego though. Or maybe you mean (smartly) making some squadrons smaller now that their mission doesn't exist?

@ChuckMK23 Yup, but it comes out of 7F, so outfitting an entire squadron is a big outlay. I've heard of groundswells to make it an issued item at the FRS since the fleet is getting the CMU-37/38s, but that would have to come from CNAF's money. I'm doubtful it will become a thing.

There's also the long tail of engineering resources at navair for what is/was a one off airframe in the -H. Not a reason that cannot be overcome, but something the Navy thinks about.

Back in 2010, they were offering to let anyone in A-Pool walk to the IRR, no questions asked, no payback for school if you were a Boat School or ROTC grad. I know a few that took it and ran, mostly of the Boat School type.

I do name tag and left arm flag. I don't know if any specific guidance for it though.

JFC. Dude, I appreciate you want to contribute here as an applicant, but that's not adding much. I work a couple hundred yards from HSC-84. I know what "the plan" is, but it still doesn't make any sense.

I read that article three times and still don't understand WTF is actually going on.

I can't imagine VQ being that different from helos or VP. You're not going to get "good" orders (community jobs, flying job, good deal disassociated job) that keep you in the community if you're doing the ROTC gig. It's an unofficial kiss of death, and no hardship boat tour is going to "get you...

It's been awhile since you've been underway, eh? We equally suck. I think I saw dog a dozen times in a nine month deployment. Hard pack was a bi-weekly welcome sight but went quickly.

To my mind, we if we want US presence operations off a neutral to friendly nation, that's a great mission for a JHSV with a single helicopter. Show the flag, do some partner ops and training, no worries. I still can't figure out what LCS is for. It's not a ASW Frigate ala the OHP Class...

Amazing what can happen when smart people get together. Oh, and NAVAIR isn't in the way.

I heard those are -F airframes that get taken down to the bare airframe and rebuilt. Their cockpit and avionics are awesome, similar to the -M.

You get a gig with MD State Police? If so, care to share about it?

Too many syllables. And not that funny of a joke.

Fleet Scholars Education Program (FSEP) is the newest one that CNP is trialing. Full time grad school in residence, at any school, fully covered, while you make your regular pay. A good deal, but extremely limited quotas. All of Naval Aviation got 7 spots this year, and you require Typewing...

I don't believe they're posted anywhere officially anymore. When you get to your fleet squadron, your XO can ask the detailer for the list of upcoming PEP tours (they should be listed with a fill date to line up with your PRD), and can word the request so as to hide you from the detailer. As...

Arguing about which part of the Federal Budget we think is less deserving than our benefits is probably the least productive thing we can do here. Politicians did what they always do when it's budget crunch time, look for an area they can trim for the least amount of political pain. People are...

Am I the only one here who thinks its not fair to the people with zero hours to *not* put someone with previous flight time in an accelerated syllabus?

It's cool to see that we can cut benefits because they're getting expensive, since no one besides MOAA will really complain to the people making the decisions. But if a gold plated acquisition program goes over, we can throw money at that!

Yikes.

I believe Jet Blue counts helo time towards total time, but you still need FW Turbine mins to play. Might be some others. There's some interesting info on Airline Pilots Centeal forum on the topic. C-12s Pax is the only CONUS gig I know of, and they're tied to the Station SAR guys if I'm not...

You know what this forum needs? More political discussions!

Russian news, brought to you by comrade Jublov. Why am I not surprised you posted this?

It's weird that different people came to a similar conclusion on your broad generalization of European immigration policies. :rolleyes: Again, I think you're being overly simplistic. Just because a strategy of securing your personal compound against Islam makes sense, doesn't mean it coorelates...

Do you mean French borders, EU borders, or what? The people of the EU were resoundly for the Schengen Area being made. Putting up an angry fence with guards and land mines is what North Korea does. I'd argue "Screw them, keep em out" is a overly simplistic view. You don't get the economic...

Same here. Although I've never used the PP Lounges, only Sky Clubs and Centurion Lounges. Always wondered if the ones CONUS worked when you were flying, say, Delta, and wanted into the Luftansa Lounge somewhere.

You mean give away or deep six most of it the last few days underway you have?

I thought you could just use a lightning to USB (female) connector and plug in your Card Reader, then hit up OWA. No?

Sounds familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

To echo what others have said, no one expects you to disown friends from before you were in just because they're enlisted. There are tons of prior enlisted officers who balance that. The roommates thing, that's a bad idea.

Life in Newport without a car sucks. Especially in the winter.

This. All Graduate degrees are not created equal.

I'll plug National Auto Transport that was recommended here. I bought a car in IL and had it shipped to VA for cheaper than the dealer could do it for me. They beat the dealer by a few hundred AND did it about a week quicker.

Check FlyerTalk. With some airlines you have to break it up into $50 or $100 increments.

Check out the Flyertalk Forums. They have threads to find hot links. It's where I found my 50k Gold offer a few months ago.

I have little to add besides I just want that Tiger Stripe flight suit.

What Pickle said. If you're married before OCS you'll get BAH while you're there, plus guaranteed follow on orders to Whiting. Oh, and if something bad happens, she'll be at least partially cared for. The Navy gives zero fucks about girlfriends. You don't have to tell family.

My roommate from Corpus got sent TAD to Whiting for his -57 portion, god damn per diem and all. Great drug deal, so of course they turned it off. This was ~2010 timeframe.

If you have a choice, don't live in Norfolk unless there's something significant pulling you here (local family or something). Rental prices are still high (O-3 BAH is 1900ish) and cost of living is also high, for no reason. Cost of buying a house isn't much of a factor if you're here on...

Uh, generally, Osprey isn't touching any deck a -53 can't land on. So you're talking CVN and L-Class ships primarily. Granted, more than the COD can do now, and it'll eliminate that "COD this dude to the carrier and then Helo him to the Gator". That's also going to take a slight mindset...

From the Hook brief on from OPNAV, regarding the Navy CODsprey: -Bigger tanks for 1150nm unrefueled range -RORO Cargo System for Palletized Cargo -MWS -Enhanced BLOS Comms -Training w/ USMC -Deliveries in 2020 -3 Bird Dets Also, and you knew this was coming, they have it listed as multimission...

42-63k/year, to be effectively "deployed" the entire fire season? Yeah, how about f*<£ and no. At least CalFire flies 60s.