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seriously... who the f*** is this guy?

Maybe... SAC/TAC integrated into ACC in 1992, so maybe those 3 and 4 stars were around. I'm willing to bet the 1 stars and 2 stars were senior Lts and Capts. :icon_wink Not to defend the USAF but there are plenty of good officers who have the right idea about how to fight the good fight and...

Added a couple years ago. Basically we go tour an LHA/LHD in Norfolk as well as an LSD or other amphib in Little Creek, and we get some familiarization time with LCACs and LCUs and what not at LC. We call it chow fex as we seem to eat a lot...

Holy sh*t... I just realized that we (my TBS company was doing AMFEX this week) saw them take off head out to the boat as we were leaving Little Creek... Not to thread jack but that just gave me some serious chills...

You might get in, you might not. Put your package in and see what happens.

....Charlie delt with a lot of games. If this is the case, stand by. My SPC and Co Commander are picking up with Bravo once we (Delta) graduate Nov 5.

We were just briefed from MATSG-21 that SNFO to SNA transitions are not going to happen. There isn't a shortage of SNAs and a surplus of qualled SNFOs to pull from. You get what you signed for.

Still just a week of training.

We did the same in Delta back in May...

It does...

In the future realize who you are talking to. You came here looking for advice and some winged aviators gave you their 2 cents. It's not your place to lecture these guys because you didn't like what they said....

NFOs are subject to those anthro measurements too...

Wasn't it Blizzard Bravo who snapped-in for grass week with 6 inches of snow on the ground? Only to get rained on for their entire week at FEX2 and 3? Gotta be honest, we have had pretty awesome weather here in Delicate Delta.

Devil Dog... Are you REALLY trying to explain how the Corps works to a bunch of guys who have had a whole lot more than your time at OCS and the one MCDP-1 discussion group and some MCfu at TBS that you have? Seriously now, you know better than that. :banghead_

I'll tell that to my SNFO roommate here at TBS, and the SNFO I know in Fox Company... You've got bad gouge. Just because your OSO doesn't have any SNFO slots doesn't mean the pipeline is closed. We are still flying the Prowler and D model Hornet, and those squadrons are going to need new NFOs....

It is. Guys are going to OCS with the hope that when they graduate/commission they will have their medical stuff done. Otherwise it's ground or out...

It's about the Americans who broke the law and went to fly for the RAF during the Battle of Britain.

Doesn't the Osprey carry like 15k lbs? Doesn't the COD only carry 10k, of which 25% is taken up by that cage in the back? :confused:

They had IOC slots open and Aviators had the time to do it.

But it is... The military integrated long before the rest of society did. Women worked factory jobs to support the military before it was widely acceptable for women to work. The military is an avenue of social change. It provides the most unbiased look (as compared to the alternatives) at how...

This is awesome, and now my new sig... To the OP: Seriously dude, sac up! If you want to be a Marine then be a Marine. At the end of your life you only have to answer about what you did in your life to yourself and your God. Don't be like the guy in my platoon who let his family convince him...

It used to be back in the 90s when classes were small. IOC is huge now, as we are chewing through infantry types. They are actually trying to get Air contracts to drop and go ground(with a huge emphasis that you would probably go infantry). So no, it's not an opportunity now. And like Cummins...

This is bullshit. Crossfit is a high intensity program that has you doing many exercises you probably haven't done before. If you don't do them properly, or if you over do it (which can happen very easily) you will injure yourself. Crossfit doesn't need a spokesman. Perhaps you should check...

A good friend of mine is a prior nuke turned E-2 NFO. She spent pretty much all of her enlisted time as an instructor, teaching how to run the back half of a sub. She seemed to think that she could handle herself with the guys just fine. Do we really need separate berthings and heads?! How...

Just don't break yourself before you get there. I didn't do much crossfit prior to showing up for OCS. Just running, pushups, pullups, abs/core work and making sure to have lots of recovery time. I did fine. A lot of people got dropped around week 6 because they overtrained and OCS literally...

Yeah, I had a legit question. People started running their suck when they didn't know what they were talking about. Otto, you have missed the mark and as a result embarrassed yourself. Mike, Bird et all. Thanks for the replies gents! S/F

My SPC (as well as our Co CO) has been really pushing we air contracts to be something called a leads platoon commander when we get into A-Pool. The thing is, they really haven't told us much about it and I can't seem to find any info on it anywhere. I guess my google-fu is weak. Can anyone shed...

Quick-clot also has a tendency to send small clots to the heart... not a good day. You are also only supposed to use it on extremities. The general consensus wrt quick clot at TBS is that it is a useful last resort tool that has a few limited applications; it isn't the wonderful thing that it...

Excuse my JO naivete but if that is the case why not change the way we employ them?! We don't have to do it because the AF does it...

I "Hear" that you have to get your gray belt, get an up chit, and take a couple of EWS correspondence classes before you can take any leave. At least that's the gouge that was passed to me. My roommate has a buddy who is checking in on Oct 1. We're going to get the latest from him. I'll probably...

Yeah, bold move for the jr Company on deck to steal our cleaning supplies. That was definitely not cool.

You DOR'ed. That's it, you had your chance.

There was something in the new MCTimes about how other countries are using marpat to the point where the EGA is still in the pattern. Whatever, wearing the pattern doesn't make you a Marine...

When you are resting, have that good bone support and aren't breathing the rifle is going to be aiming at a certain point. every time there-after that you pull the trigger, you get that recoil and the weapon settles it will settle back on your natural point of aim.

I'd rather learn/train to employ an "advanced" weapon system to kill my enemies before my enemy kills me than not train on/learn on one simply due to pride. Yes, iron sights are great, but RCOs increase lethality and increase effective point target range... I'll take the glass all day long, as...

You're pretty much dicked if your RCO breaks as you take the rear sights/carrying handle off of the M16A4 to mount the RCO on the rail... Just hope you have your pec15 mounted and that you can see the laser.

Table 4?! We did some shooting at Crazy Ivan targets during the day. perhaps that was part of it. Though at TBS the syllabus is still to qual with iron sights your first time.

Table 2 has moving targets, and you shoot with an RCO, you also do double taps as well... Table 3 is the night time fire with the pec-15s.

It's like they are saying "Sure I support the military, but I don't want to see them near me." My little bro lived in Hartford for a while. He remembers A-10s from Bradley flying overheard on a semi regular basis...

Good gouge. PTAD isn't happening. Odd that this guy is getting pushed back. The CO of Mike Company told me a couple weeks ago that Golf is probably only going to pick up with about 260 LTs, rather than the 300 that has been the norm for the past couple years because the need isn't there...

I don't have much experience with the M4. Some guys around here have prior experience with them. All the Guardian Angels are issued them. A4 with my RCO is accurate to about 800 meters (or so I am told). Good for long distance but you don't need that kind of range while clearing a building. We...

There are 2 competitive air slots in my company. One for the top 1/3 and one for the middle 1/3... It's a tough way to go if you really want to fly.

It's the 14 leadership traits that are in the kool-aide around here...

Not unless you really like the cold and snow. Watertown is in the snowbelt, lots and lots of lake effect.

I know we have daily Kool-Aide drinking sessions here but damn, you seem to have really bought into it. :eek:

You will be able to take leave, and most everybody's out of bounds chits get approved. It's TBS, not prison. (Though you still do live in a concrete room with 5 other dudes)

Not going to happen.

Heh, yeah. I had a box in TA-16 on Thursday that was surrounded by really thick veg. Freaking pine trees and thorn bushes everywhere... Gotta love land nav.

Just trade the Quigley for Beaver Dam Creek while doing night land nav in December. You will get wet. It will suck. Who cares?!