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Try reading "Command at Sea". It is Lehman's own book about his time as SECNAV.

"On Yankee Station" - Barrett Tillman , good intro to Naval Air in Vietnam, easy read "Punk's War", "Punk's Wing", "Punk's Fight" - Ward Carroll, bit over the top but good insight into the JO culture (author is a former RIO) "The First and the Last" - Adolf Galland, good insight into the...

That is no big deal. Everytime we pulled the carrier into Alameda (my first two cruises), the helos flew under the Golden Gate all the time. I love the story about the A-6 that lost the top 8" of the tail to a logging cable in the PI. Uncharted cables, gotta love 'em.

Flash from the top rope. Yeah Flash, I agree. One major thing we need is more refineries (US has half the refineries it had in the 70's) and less of those ridiculous regional blended gas that are produced in low quantities, driving price up.

Drill in ANWR.

TPS guys from all communities, even NFO. You maybe eligible after your first tour but since that is 4-5 years away, why sweat it now.

Speaking of Whales. Twice, I have been sitting at the O-Club the Friday before the Whidbey Airshow when a big old Whale comes thundering into the break. One of the Raytheon birds from Long Beach. What a great big beast.

Only a 4-plane? Remember Intruder division breaks every day? I did four cruises out of Whidbey and got one fly-by: 1993 - Section approach due to Wx. High light was our lead dumping to max trap (A-6E) on downwind to 13. :eek: 1995 - 19 plane flyby - 1 EA-6B, 2 A-6 vic leading a 4x4...

EU regulation - enough said.

Should have stayed away from expeditionary. 138 = All balls.

About a $1 a gallon, so at 6.5 lbs per/gal figure just under $3000. Didn't do the big dumps too often but since our max trap was low, you usually saved that last 1000 lbs to dump on downwind (or at about 4 miles at night). Tankers had to hold at least 2k (day) or 4k (night) so that got dumped...

Yeah, I am just waiting for that 5 wet Rhino to launch off the Alert 5 on the last night recovery for the guy who boltered three times and there is no gas airborne. Did that once in a maxi A-6 (26k of gas) for a Hornet who promptly trapped right behind us. The S-3 had no gas left (bad night)...

A-12 Avenger II was being built by McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics. Guess that "bad blood" didn't hurt McDonnell Douglas and their Hornet pipeline too badly. And Admiral Gillcrest is eminently suited to tell the Tomcat story but note this quote from a review of the book: "The book...

What you young guys don't know of is a little trick called hose multiplying. You have a 18 plane strike going to China Lake off the boat in SoCal (W-291). About a 2+30 hop. Every jet needs 3k on the front and 2k on the back side. You have a KC-10 with 90K to give but cycling everyone through...

Heck, just like tanking off the Intruder with a centerline buddy store. The S-3's hated hitting us for gas because their tail was too tall. It would stick up into the exhaust and the rudder would get batted around.

OK, here is my dip story (actually not mine but a guy in my first squadron). A-6 Intruder midair. Persian Gulf. 8 Sep 1993. Everyone ejected OK. B/N of the second aircraft ejects at about 12k'. Gets a good chute. Does his IROK procedures (for you young pups, that is Inflate LPU, Release...

Best thing I did for my health was roll out of my last tour. The Yellowjackets (VAQ-138) were old school. We did a lot of drinking and smoking. May have helped that we were one of the few Prowler squadrons that had an "all-balls" ready room.

Time to chime in. (Back for the bar with a big margarita in me, TAD to Norfolk). Anyway, lets see if I can catch up. A4S FOREVER: Would that be a picture of A-6's at Cubi? I can wish but never made it there. Shah wanted Phoenix because of the Russian MiG-25R overflights. Lots of stuff...

Yeah, I'm looking at myself in a mirror in Newport. Not a bad place if you like sailing. Did get to spend a couple of weeks of San Diego last month working with C3F though. I did 11 years total at Whidbey (VA-128 (stud), VA-95, VAQ-129 (stud), VAQ-138, VAQ-129 (inst), a year off at War...

Traffic accident?? The only one I can think of on the 1355 is the idiot who ran off the road by Snoqualmie Pass while watching the Prowler fly up the lake next to the road at 200'. Don't know if that one was Jelly or not. Heck, I used to navigate flights right up that lake all the time until the...

Brett, We'll just feed him to "Otis" Mueller or "Jelly" Gamache. Should be fun to watch the blood fly.

Not true. OK, some (not all) Marine Squadrons have F/A-18A's. On my 2003 cruise, VMFA-314 had the latest and greatest Block 18 Hornets while the Navy guys had a mix of Blocks 11/14/15. When the Block 89A Prowler came along, the Marines got to replace all their old Block 82's before the...

The official Marine line is an EW variant of the JSF. Of course, since the Navy will be giving the Marines the EA-6B's as we IOC the EA-18G, they should have enough jets to last till 2040 or so. Jarhead, With all the D's going reserves so the Corp can put more C's on the boat, I...

Actually, the reason the Tomcat did not go A-G initially is that the VF community did not want continue doing that after their experience bomb-dropping in Vietnam. Grumman had already developed racks and everything (even an A-G mode of the AWG-9). The VF bubbas were more than happy to go MiG...

VFA-115 flew about 40% tanker sorties last cruise. Tanking is a primary role. They had 4 or 5 jets on the roof permantly configured as "5 wet" which means 4 x 480 gal drops and a 300 gal buddy store. Of the cat with 28,000 lbs of gas which compares well with the A-6 which had 26,000. I love...

Jarhead, Don't worry about it. Marines aren't buying Super Hornets.

Answer to that is a relief tube from rack to sink (fortunately, he was not my roommate). Point nosed guys are allowed a piddle pack. :icon_smil

Separate.

How do you think Cajun got his name? I also remember taking the ill-tempered C-Bass out there when he was a RAG student on det with 138 prior to cruise.

That a file that big, I recommend burning CD's if someone is willing to do it. Example, someone sends you a blank CD. Burn them a copy but they have to promise to burn copies for the first five people that contact them. Geometric progression.

Check out this thread: http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9550 F/A-18F WSO's will act a lot like D's plus some stuff that Tomcats do. Hey Brett, Those Hoover guys always got more traps (yo-yo tankers) and dropped more bombs on cruise than us (edited to annote that I am...

Bird Farm = quarter craps Lovelock = TACAN or town? Le Nugget = downtown Fallon (is there really a downtown in Fallon?) Stockmans = pretty good steaks The Oh So Infamous Seeley Club = I personally preferred the Desert Club (especially getting your name on the ceiling) How about loading...

Vertical stabs can also be offset to counteract the propwash. The Bf-109 had this. Generally, rudder trim will depend on throttle setting. Also, do a little research on torque roll and high performance fighters such as F4U and F8F. It very possible for a ham fisted pilot to flip an aircraft...

My last cruise, the Marine had the newest C's (Block 18) while the Navy bubba's had 11's, 14's and 15's. Just luck of the draw.

Max for AOCS was 3:26. We had tighter standards than API. Good thing for me that 3:24 was a pass.

Oh, yee of little experience. The orginal "Pigs in Space" is Wednesday at The Depot in Fallon. Many of us have been there, though few will admit it. The version at the Mirage Club in Sweato is a cheaper south-of-the-border knock-off. Of course, if you enjoying dancing with your troopers...

Yup, 3 year orders to NWDC (Navy Warfare Development Command). I'll be here till Jul 2007.

Now that the paint is dry, try this.... http://temp.corvetteforum.net/c3/steveg75/vid_vx-9.wmv Recommend download for slow connections (11Mb). I'll leave it up as long as I can.

Haven't seen it online. Same with the Hook '91 "Right here, right now" war video. Probably need to get a video capture card and digitize some of those classic tapes.

Boat answers. 8 hours a day. Anything I get at night is gravy. If you sleep 12 hours a day, cruise is only 3 months long.

Filmed across the water from Whidbey in Port Townsend. And you don't really get to fight your DI in OCS. I actually preferred the old O-course (not done any more) down in P-Cola over what they showed in the movie. Three minutes of full throttle effort in the sand.

Still waiting for the P-3 version of "Magic Carpet Ride" (VR-1355 video). :icon_wink

Yeah, 314 had later blocks than 146/147/22 on my cruise. I want to say Block 17/18 versus 11. All I know is that the Marines had the newest toys with the most stuff.

For combat, I'll go with CAPT (then LCDR) Michael J. Estocin Rank and organization. Captain (then Lt. Cmdr.), U.S. Navy, Attack Squadron 192, USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14). Place and date: Haiphong, North Vietnam, 20 and 26 April 1967. Entered service at: Akron Ohio, 2() July 1954. Born: 27 April...

What Brett said, plus in the EA-18G, the pilot will end up doing some traditional NFO activities such as comms, nav, and radar work.

The new "I was alive in 2004" medal. PLus you get the old "I was alive" medal known as the NSDM. IMHO, the ones that really matter are personal awards such as NAMS, NCM, Air Medals, and of course the pain award (Sea Service Deployment).

Steve, good points. I was under the impression that his friend was trying to tell him how great SWO was compared to NFO. It is obviously hard to read all the subtle details sometimes. Let's see if I can anwesr some issues you raised: 20% of time for SWO-N is on a nuke. Sorry, doesn't...

Yeah, heard that too. Just got my hands on the Dec bubba list. Did I ever tell you how I did not get my DH ticket punched because we had too many hinges. Two of my competitors just got slid a year out of my selection group. :icon_rage Of course, I saw some of the guys ahead of me that failed...

Actually work with/for several SWO's. Great guys really but SB is so much fun to lurk on.

As a wise and handsome post-DH (the JO's will say there is no such person), I'll try to answer some of these. Only 20% of sea-going career on a Nuke platform So a SWO-N really doesn't go to sea much, is that your point? As an aviator, you can get through a CO tour (~18 years) and only have...