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I am surprised that no-one has mentioned the simplest solution.....one of each. Both are paid off. I have had the Corvette for 17 years ( and spent a lot over the years) and a year tax free in Iraq helped pay of the Avalanche.

Here is the thread on that: http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=146577 One guy got the waiver, one didn't. Not great odds. Also, they were talking about a matter of months. OPS is talking about 3 years.

First of all, the only reference I would use from online is the official Navy Recruiting Command directives: http://www.cnrc.navy.mil/publications/directives.htm CNRCINST 1131.2D w/CH-1 is the Navy Officer Recruiting Manual. http://www.cnrc.navy.mil/publications/1131.2D.htm That...

Search function is not working. I tried looking for one of my old posts from last week and only got 8 hits, nothing earlier than 2006.

You will have no time to deal with contacs, cleaning, etc. Easier just to wear the glasses for 14 weeks (or whatever it is now).

Simple and easy one: - Sunny summer day at Whidbey - 6 "blue death" on the mighty Intruder - VR1350 A Entry to Boardman and VR1355 home. 1+30 flight time, 1+15 of it at 200 feet, 420+ knots.

My ID card and DD-214 for AOCS said AOC/E-5. Which explains why the lowest ranking drill instructors were SSgts (E-6).

How about the new Air Force dress uniform? Is that gay enough or do I need to find the picture of the AF guy with messed up shoulder boards on the network news?

4 RAG instructors in jet. Take the runway and realize that ejection seats aren't armed. Back to hold short to redo the takeoff checklist from the beginning.

What is old is new. Back in 1993 (when we copied the flight schedule on mimeograph machines and CAS consisted on 9-lines and 6 minute hacks), the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN and CVW-11 was sent to hang out off the Mog (as in Mogadishu, Somali) after the Blackhawks were shot down in the Task Force...

Navy Pier.....

In fact, not all a Mishap Investigation itself is privileged any more (due to the blow up after Hultgreen's VF-213 mshap). Anything that is public domain information is releasable (i.e training records, maintenance records, weather information, etc). What is not releasable are the interviews...

Of course, it is called Vulture's Row because all the vultures are just waiting for....

That was going to be my nomination:

Well, if you only have a 20 min attention span studying NATOPS is going to be very painful. Flight students need a little initiative, we don't spoon feed you in VT's or at the RAG. It took me exactly 3 minutes to check the chapters till I found awards and found the relevant section. The...

So, four years at Canoe U and you never heard of Navy Uniform Regulations? This: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&fkt=1015&fsdt=6544&q=navy+uniform+regulations&aq=0&oq=navy+unifo&aqi=g10 Got me this: http://www.npc.navy.mil/CommandSupport/USNavyUniforms/UniformRegulations/

:confused: Seats are still in the jet and ladders are down. :banghead_ B/N jettisoned the canopy. Knocked a silversuit off the turtleback where he was trying to open the canopy manually (disconnect from hydraulic ram). Crew climbed out. B/N flew the next day, pilot day after.

Not a flight deck fire, but the tailpipe came apart while in tension on Cat 3.

Naval Officer FIRST, aviator second. If you want to go back to the cockpit, you may have to suck up that staff or disassociated sea tour. I had an unusual career: VT-10/86 VA-128 A-6 RAG VA-95 A-6 fleet JO tour VAQ-129 EA-6B transistion syllabus VAQ-138 JO tour VAQ-129 RAG...

How about two US Navy jet powered seaplanes? Martin P6M Seamaster (circa 1959) Convair Sea Dart (cirac 1957) Brits also had the Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 (1947-1951):

Well, the Mars Hawaii has been working the San Bernardino fire. Seems the BC gov't is not interested in hiring them this year so they are working down in CA. http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_cariboo/100milefreepress/news/56672767.html

I had a buddy back in A-6 land who wore the gas mask inserts eye glasses with a strap around the head. No painful parts squeezed between your temple and helmet plus safer if you have to eject as well. They are in the Navy system as MCU-2P (Mask Compatible, Combat Spectacle, Mag-1)...

The Navy can help pay for college via TA (Tuition Assistance) but you won't be able to go to school full time and it will take a lot longer than 4 years to get a degree. There are programs for enlisted sailors to go to college and then get commissioned but there are lots of applications for...

The Navy can help pay for college via TA (Tuition Assistance) but you won't be able to go to school full time and it will take a lot longer than 4 years to get a degree. There are programs for enlisted sailors to go to college and then get commissioned but there are lots of applications for...

Here is the race I would have liked to have seen: From the related article: http://www.hotrod.com/whereitbegan/hrdp_0702_1980_swamp_rat_aircraft_carrier_burnout/index.html Note that the race at Pax River in '75 was using the land based catapult to launch the Tomcat. A current Top...

Nope, real photo. Pax River has been doing IFR development with the E-2C since 2004. Get ready for those really long missions..... http://www.dcmilitary.com/stories/061109/tester_28168.shtml

Jim, I don't think this pic is real but it sure is funny.

Actually, the E and the F have the same mission. It is not ATA It is not ATG. It is the dreaded 2Q6, SUPT MISC N-CMBT REFUEL. On cruise, expect to fly about 40% tanker sorties. That was the average for every other tanker platform out there. Note both E and F can function...

Sure that wasn't Harry Ferrier you are thinking of? He was our guest at the Battle of Midway dining-in that VAQ-129 had back in 1999 or 2000 when I was an instructor. That was an incredible night (on so many levels).

I kind of like the Army's car. 5000+ hp of nitromethane burning beast, 0-300+ mph in 4 seconds.

Why the frak are they sending a 1310 to fill what sounds like a SWO or chop billet? You are going to spend 6 months figuring out the job. I can't believe they will send you there but not fill an IA billet in Tampastan or Africacom. This is why the prospect of retirement is starting to scare me...

It was floated around about 6 years ago under the TACAIR INTERGRATION PLAN. Word I heard was shift some of the Delta's to the reserves and make more active Charlie squadrons. Probably gone by the wayside since the Delta's are earning their pay in MNF-W. From 2003...

As another Navy carrier guy who did an amphib float, couple of other points. 1. Big Navy was talking about 1 Marine F/A-18 squadron per carrier air wing. Right now there are 3 if I remember correctly. That means, living life just like a Navy guy. 2. Harriers have no gas when they come back...

EMCON for real or for training? Even if it was EMCON for real, safety of flight would have meant getting on the radio and calling in the blind for the TACAN to be turned on. If it was EMCON for training, it should have never gotten that far. Shoes love to take the training games to the point...

Meat's failsafe method of finding a carrier. 1. Turn on radar. 2. Look for biggest storm/rain shower. 3. Carrier will be directly under it. Why do shoes always steer for the worst weather in the area when aircraft are airborne?

Unfortunately, WWII time frame would mean wearing the SWO's new favorite uniform. Service Dress Khaki. I swear, every shoe I talk to gets a chubby thinking about that uniform.

Well, the timing kind of sucks. advance notice would have been nice. We may try to get over there tomorrow. Got errands to run today.

This struck me as really funny since we have two TACAMO pilots in my TACRON squadron. My assitant Training Officer is an outstanding laidback guy, prior enlisted, STA-21, awaiting his DH screen. My CO on the other hand is is a former TACAMO DH and if we had NATOPS, we would be having to memorize...

Both??? When I was a RAG instructor, we had separate manuals for Block 82/89 and Block 89A aircraft. Had to know both since the RAG had all 3 variants. Around 2003, they came out with one 82/89/89A NATOPS. That was more useful. I assume ea6bflyr is refering to a separate ICAP III NATOPS...

Did the helo dunker exactly once in 18 years, during AOCS. Whidbey never got one before I left in 2004 and all we had to do was one run (blindfolded) in the old Dilbert Dunker. Another reason to go Prowlers.

We had some folks from TACRON supporting UNITAS from onboard MESA VERDE. I'll have to ask them about the SINKEX.

For Mexican, I always try to hit Loma Bonita whenever I am in San Diego. 1155 Scott St (between Avenida De Portugal & Shelter Island Dr) one block off Rosecrans. I agree with the reviews here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/loma-bonita-mexican-food-san-diego It is Bucket List level. Huge burritos for...

Tomcat is not a Tomcat without a big puddle of hydraulic fluid under it. If it's not leaking, it's not full. :D

18-90. Drill Instructor was Gunnery Sergeant Woodring, United States Marine Corps, Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge Of Battalion II. I still of think of that title as all caps.:D My stepfather was 33-68. Batt III was up by the golf course across from where the BOQ is now.

Could not find any 75th anniversary paint schemes but how about some Bicentennial schemes from VX-4 and VX-5? http://www.chinalakealumni.org/IMAGES/1976/136782%20C-1A%2030OCT76%20VX-5%20C-Jansson.jpg http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/8/7/8/0702878.jpg...

Find some photos of the desert camo Boomer bird. I would guess that this is from Phase I of the experiment, whereas the green camo at sea was from Phase II. Looks like the line at Nellis: Inflight, you can see the fake canopy as well. BTW, Graham Gordon was the CO of VA-95 when I...

Nope, TACRON functions as the AREC (Air Resource Element Coordinator) for the PHIBRON. The only Navy assets are MH-60S on the big deck and SH-60B on the small boys. Everything else is green. UH/AH-1, CH-53E, CH-46/MV-22, and AV-8B. You will probably get a pax ride at some point but other than...

VA-72 had the classic Desert Storm color scheme: Here is a A-6A from the Tigers of VA-65, circa 1966. I have a magazine with another picture of this bird. How about the Blue Blasters (VA-34) commerating the 50th anniversary of D-Day, June 6 1994: Lots of great Intruder pics here...

I am 41 and wish I could go back to sea and fly for one last tour (TACRON on an LHA does not count). Retiring in 16 months (mandatory) and haven't flown in almost 5 years. :( Lance Armstrong: Well, I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't anything to regret for...