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Not to dogpile or anything, but it's the same for EVERY job in the military. Infantry guys would rather do infantry shit than sit behind a desk in the rear, tankers would rather drive tanks, arty guys would rather wake me up on the damn weekend, etc... Saying you'd prefer to fly than do your...

Or really, pretty much any of these apply. I do find it interesting that most of the current crop of kids all want to go to college...but they don't want a "hard" major, so they pick something stupid that lets them go have fun. Then they graduate and are over-qualified to do anything blue...

Real talk!

I don't know the answer to your questions, so here's a funny comic. (Skids beat both)

http://www.g2mil.com/FY11%20%20Marine%20Aviation%20Plan.pdf This has no bearing on what you may or may not fly in the future... (Unless you had your heart set on Phrogs or CH-53D's)

Agree with Squeeze, and his post actually reminded me of all the hate and discontent that came with changing from tri-color patterns to MARPAT. It wasn't all "Hooray for new uniforms to look different from the other services," it was more like a lot of "F*** this I'm wearing the starched...

Hmmm, R-25...10?

Except all the Marines who got jet-drafted...sorry guys.

Just curious, are you saying they are issuing some hiking boots (which I read as civilian style), or the old school jungle boots?

I had good results with AT&T when I was there as a student

Hey man, the "What %" questions are generally frowned upon in this venue as they got repetitive and things change so rapidly there is no way to answer them. I would wager that the accurate answer is that some portion of every class go to the different pipelines, based on the needs of the...

Spekkio: Why does a requirement (real or perceived) to put creases in a uniform make it broken?

Red time is combat time for Marines. Night time doesn't have a color.

Some F-15s got a pair of air-to-air kills in 94...

Depending on where you go, you will get to the point where NOT flying in some sort of formation will feel strangely out of place.

CAS-tank-CAS, what is that, 30 minutes on station time? /sim smilies

Without a reference to cutting motherfuckers in half with a mini-gun, the video is worthless.

Looks familiar

Food for thought, the Marine Corps has the highest % of total pilots/total officers of all the services. I wouldn't get too wrapped around "gaming the game" as far as who has more aircraft. I would look at the jobs you could potentially wind up as if you DON'T get pilot, and I would look at...

Wonder what the NOHD and beam divergence for that thing is. I don't see how we would be blinding anyone with it unintentionally.

Or maybe one you do like

Finally a thread with the hard hitting questions and in-your-face answers that I frequent AirWarriors to read about! Sequestration talk and that dude with the crazy "what % get what after sequestration" or whatever graphs was getting lame.

Laser Pointer is good, but I think what you really want is LRP and Laser Spot Tracker (LST), especially if you are employing Hellfire (and APKWS?)

ADSB-IN will give you Sat WX in Conus Is JHMCS compatible with AN/AVS-9's?

Pfft, most helos can't even do barrel rolls or loops or anything cool. LLL CAS isn't nearly as sexy as Blue Angles going upsides-down!

He was getting 4's, but then he started putting North seeking arrows on the white board, and it pushed him over the edge.

We had a stop-loss/stop-move in the 2003 time frame, forget the exact dates. That was for a different reason though.

I currently use "shave secret" and no shaving cream at all. Might be a dumb question, but can you use shaving oils w/ a safety razor? Or is not using shaving soap/brush a major faux pas?

NVG Tubes with imagery projected on the visor. I believe there was also an option for binocular daytime imagery. I haven't used the old one, so I am unsure of all the specifics.

Have you talked to your OSO? He is the one who is going to be able to best guide you on that. I'd say that it is pretty competitive right now, so waivers for anything might be more difficult than usual - depending on how PLC works for you, the other option might be to get your grades up...

Just to clarify, the guy was a boot Lt, and I wasn't trying to diminish or talk shit about any communities, just saying that I don't think they prioritize threats and weapons the same way. They prioritize other stuff.

Shooting a PAR into Andalusia: Controller: "How will this approach terminate?" Me: "With me eating some ribs!"

Something that no one has mentioned is what your squadron culture "gives a shit" about. If you ask a skid guy about any weapon system we employ, you better grab a snickers bar, cuz you ain't going anywhere for awhile. On the other hand, I asked a guy from another Marine helo community about a...

I had a similar experience at Florala. We flew up from AMS, parked the -172 next to a Turbomentor, and went in for chow. I felt like a middle school kid showing up to a high school party going in there rocking my polo-shirt and jeans with all the guys in flight suits floating around.

I went through AMS in Milton. Can't speak to their rates, but I liked working with all the instructors I came into contact with. Fam flights will be due South along the beachline for the most part, and any cross-countries you do will probably be either to Andalusia or Florala, both of which...

My buddies regiment was gutted of officers to go serve on training teams. I'm betting that's a trend across the board. KBay: I agree with you, and I definitely get that it would fuck your career progression. I was just pointing out what I see as a pretty ridiculous situation that the system...

Not necessarily directed at you, but this line of thinking seems kind of ridiculous to me. You are now maintaining that the guy who went to Afghanistan and actively participated in the conduct of military operations in a tactical/hostile environment is less "tactical[ly] proficient in his...

Prior to becoming an endangered species, the phrog was once quite abundant before it's habitat was taken over by invasive critters known to the scientific world as plopterus nonexpeditious alwaysbrokenus. The invasive critter required all zones to be prepared extensively, thus driving the phrog...

http://terminallance.com/2012/05/15/terminal-lance-199-duty/

There are Marine Hueys there

Outstanding choice for a name. Much better than some of the others I have seen recently.

15m underwater off of a platform, 1mi timed, a bunch of tread and floats with different amounts of flight gear on.

That's too bad, the first time you stack up with loaded weapons and the guy behind is you actually firing a weapon right next to your face while you are all moving forward is a bit of an eye opener.

I like the guy with the Go-Pro mounted to his helmet. That must be a truly captivating stack walkthrough, gotta throw that junk up on the youtubes! Also, maybe this is nitpicky, but do they REALLY need bipod-broomhandles on their M4's? And while I'm at it, do they really not train to using...

I seem to remember us having pretty large manpower commitments around the globe in 2006 as well... If sequestration results in us taking some good hard looks at where we can trim the fat, I don't think it would be bad. Unfortunately all the people at the top are super-duper essential, so it...

The more things change...when I did API they were dropping Navy studs left and right, and Marines were being kept pretty much no matter what. (Yeah Yeah, the Marines in my class still had the highest test average, despite the Navy studs bitching non-stop about how they had to worry about NSS...

SATCOM antenna. The antenna just above the cockpit was the original SATCOM antenna, but it had problems due to the rotors spinning above it causing interference, so they re-engineered it (re-enginguessed it?) to have the "egg-beater" on top which is supposed to work better. As to the 4-blade...

Seriously?

Good call. Mandatory viewing of Chopper Reid videos IOT harden the fuck up.

Can there be a rule that you can't make a video unless it is like sensor footage of explosions, go-pro footage of guns being fired, or any footage of our nation's enemies being killed, and the only acceptable background music is most likely some form of heavy metal? I think that penance for...