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I had a broken wrist, not a huge issue. Make sure your recruiter knows, as it will probably delay you getting to MEPS and passing. They'll want to see that it's fully healed and you're 100%.

If you shut the eff up and put out 110%, the suck goes away quickly.

Run up and down a stairwell with 50 of your best friends and leave the windows closed.

If one had boat, is the lake fun?

Actually looking back it was later in OC phase. Like week 7ish. So yeah, rested. CandiO? Not so much. Bed around 1am, up at 4.

It's in PNA

Youll understand more later, but you WANT to run/do stuff outside. Doing indoor PT there blows.

And Son # 2 is in PCola too...

They'll be able to tell when you're truly gassed and might switch you to a different exercise (if it's an RPT session). If you're doing pushups and maxed out, you can stay in the up position while your arms shake. Seen this happen when class was being instructed and someone started nodding...

V --> Volare?

Good thing SecDef bought more Rhinos...

Kinda my thoughts as well when I look at it from an engineering perspective. They cant be the first people to think about transferring the recoil energy down the Z Axis (up and down). I just imagine anything beyond a three-ish round burst being sprayed all over the place. Now, obviously it's...

I had the same thing at Newport. I failed the initial screening eye test, but policy then was to bring you back when you were in CandiO phase when you were better rested and try again. I got 20/30ish the second time around and passed. Did they not do that for you? And have you not done the...

There was a boatload of people that got pushed out of YG10 into YG11 this last year. Talk to your recruiter, but if BUPERS just gave you a paid vacation, enjoy it. I also hear painters/contractors pay cash and probably like military folks. Not that I'd do anything like that...

So in my quick research about PIRAZ, the Destroyers/Cruisers seemed to be doing what a Hawkeye does now for the battle group. Why were these surface assets used as opposed to an E-1/E-2 on station? Did the early radar on the E-1/E-2 just not have the ability to track and coordinate at that level?

MB: What do you wear that's so verboten? And 99 all, are there really black shoe CMCs in an aviation squadron/command? Whats the logic there?

Common questions to ask that are all UNCLASS: What was your primary squadron? Who was your primary owning? What was your Advanced squadron? I'd be very skeptical of someone claiming to be a USN/USMC Aviator who didn't know these right off hand.

Good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIRAZ

I always thought takeout was considered "Stop of conviencece". Granted, that's in the land of orange and white... Either way, unless this means we can wear bags in town....why?

I'm pretty sure you weren't trying to play it down, but being on a DD/DE during WWII was a no shitter. Picket ship duty in WestPac, Convoy escort in the North Atlantic, beach bombardment for amphibious landings, etc. Those babies went into the line of fire and took the fight to the enemy, and...

FWIW, I've played with russian Gen2 stuff and US Gen3 back to back. Literally night and day. Go with Gen3 if you can afford it.

Can we add always leave a spare garrison cover/phone/keys on your desk during the day?

I remember the contractors coming in once or twice a week and disinfecting. And Candios blowing off sweepers!?!? Thats gotta be some kind of integrity violation! Straight to OPS!

The Prowler command eject is a sequence right? One person can punch the whole 'tron team?

^^ Stuff like the above is why I love this place.

I guess that depends if you're one of the "The journey is more important than the goal folks"...

What. The. Fvck.?

Thirded. It was easier to keep a page on that chat while checking the forum in other tabs. Cometchat didn't seem to work that well and if you left it for a few minutes, it went TU. </peanut gallery>

Nice job man. I too worked for a few years before doing the Navy thing. Don't let them talk you into NUPOC if you want aviation though. Your stats are good. Rock the ASTB and you'll be off in a good direction. There's tons of good info on what to expect at OCS on this site, as well as the Navy...

I remember reading/hearing something about the Mud Hens being so laden down with ordnance/LGBs that the tires had issues. Could be BS, but who knows. I was in Kindergarden when it went down. Sorry old timers.

What I was trying to say is that the GPA the Navy cares about, the one on your 4 year B.A./B.S. College transcripts, will be largely (if not all) based on the grades you accumulated at that university. It's that way for primarily two reasons: They want you to pay them for credits and they don't...

Good point. Each institution will have different rules I'm sure. My university had a guide and most transfer credits from other universities were counted as Pass/Fail and not included in GPA. Probably a good thing to take into account when picking your University.

As long as the final piece of paper comes from a 4 Year Accredited University, you're fine. However, take into account your GPA will only be from the classes at the 4 year university. There's less room for error in those 2 years/4 semesters with respect to your GPA. Good luck.

Let the record state that was his last flight.

:bigmouth_:bigmouth_:bigmouth_:bigmouth_ ^^^^ "Oh really? I'll play yo game..."

You know the best thing about liberty (besides getting off base and beer)? Rustling out of bed at 10am and hearing a class being beat in Sniper Alley, shooting the shit with your boys in the p-way, grabbing some lunch chow, and then knocking another day off the "How many till I get the f out of...

Look like Rhinos. The Packers post which squadron is doing it on their website, guess Chicago's too cool for that. A few weeks ago some VMFA Hornets from Miramar did the flyover at Lambeau and they had maintainers from Wisconsin that came along and got in at field level. Good stuff.

I'm not following. Would you land conventional or vertical to someplace other than home field?

You won't have to buddy/fireman's carry someone at Navy OCS. Ditto for a pack march. That being said, there are some physically demanding exercises you'll have to do. Get in shape now.

There's min and max weight tables available online. You need to meet the Navy standards at checkin

Senior O-3+ would be good. Someone with a fleet tour under their belt is considered a legitimate source for an interview. O-1/O-2, even winged, will get you laughed out of the room.

And until the P-8 gets here, we can continue to upgrade the P-3C: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/asd/2011/01/14/04.xml

I dont' know about you dudes, but flight pay was a nice perk I found out about. How else can I afford hookers and blow, whilst still making the SWOs jealous? But in seriousness, when I started looking into going from the civilian business world to a more meaningful career, the lifestyle and...

Much of a requirement difference between trash hauling and people hauling qualifications?

The lot you leave your POV in is pretty far removed from most stuff. I wouldn't worry about it.

Noticed the same thing and wondered what it was about. In any event, awesome response.

Looks like a Sky Pig is making it into retro paint after all. White/Gray paint scheme from the 70s/80s. Check out CNAF's Facebook page for pics.

Whatever the word is now, it will probably change. Focus on OCS, don't worry about shit in PCola just yet. Way too many things can happen between now and then man. When you're getting close to being done in Newps, start chekcing out the stuff here on where to live in PCola (if single SNA...

My only comment, and ironically something that's never been said to me: "Looks really big..."

Dude...it's called crew rest...