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I voted yes because I have done my IA so all you suckers can do one as well.:D But seriously, the Navy has a lot of folks deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. And, we are doing missions that are Navy specific or that we have more people with the required skill set. Examples are SeaBees, Riverine...

More info here: http://www.ar15.com/lite/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=583615 Apparantly, she was in VAQ-131.:confused:

PM me your email and I will send you some gouge I got. Are you heading down there soon? I am doing the 24 July class enroute to TACRON. I am sure it will be painful, it is AF after all.

Or you could start in a Zulu squadron out of the RAG and then go to a Whiskey squadron as a super JO or DH. Nothing is certain except uncertainty.

I am heading to TACRON at Little Creek. Just closed on a 1500 sqft condo in Cypress Gardens (Weslyan and Diamond Springs Rd). Close to Little Creek and I can easily take follow on orders at NOB, Dam Neck, or Oceana. Built 2001. 3 bedroom, master bath w/ shower and garden tub, hardwood floors...

First one is July 4, 2006, Al Asad Iraq. Smoking cigars and if you look closely, still packing heat. Second one is a visit to Al Taqqadam later.

Forget that Chrysler POS, here is a real muscle car: 2009 Camaro Convertible, 400 HP 6.0L LS2, 6 speed stick, 21" rims on the front, 22" rims on the back.:D LS motors love mods. Drop a Magnacharger on that bad boy and get an easy 600 HP.

Forget that German stuff. Wait a year and get this: 2009 Camaro Convertible, 400 HP 6.0L LS2, 6 speed stick, 21" rims on the front, 22" rims on the back.

Goober, I am done flying. 3x FOS for O-5. After a year IA in Al Asad with the Marines, I am on my way to TACRON to go play with more Marines.:D Retire 01 Aug 2010, not that I am counting or anything. Anyway, are you out at Chambers? I get to Little Creek in August. A beer meet may be...

Bit of a threadjack here: One day at Whidbey, the fog rolled in. Due to a sister squadron aircraft taking a field arrestment, we had to hold overhead till it they cleared the runway. Just for some background info: Bingo to McChord AFB (primary divert) was 3.3. Bingo to Comox CAFB (secondary...

OK, no offense taken. Heck, my girlfriend is an ex-SH60 pilot and she calls me "self-loading baggage". As for NFO, remember, the communities vary a lot. E-2 and P-3 guys tend to back in the tube working systems. EA-6B and F/A-18F guys are more tactically involved crew members. We talk on...

The military will move your stuff so don't worry about that. My daily driver for 8 years was a 1975 Corvette convertible. Save your $$$ and wait to buy a new car. Go on deployment, get mucho tax free $$$ and buy from the Exchange Overseas Buying Program and save even more.

I agree. What these kids don't realize is that you are an officer first and aviator, NFO, SEAL, EOD, SWO, etc second. The challenge is in being a leader and taking care of your sailors, not in the technical skills to do your job.

Why not NFO? Not good enough for you? We aren't second class citizens you know. :icon_rage

Oh, and here is the only photo I could find of a Lancaster dropping a Grand Slam:

Oh, there was a bigger version of the Grand Slam but it was never used in combat, the T-12. http://www.answers.com/topic/t12

Bring back the P-51. Actually, the Piper PA-48 Enforcer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-48_Enforcer http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=614 http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p51_14.html

No shots. Not an anniversary that I think of much till I got the PM. Another little note on this mishap. We were in aircraft 161682. The other crew was is 164385, the last A-6 Intruder ever built.

Here is a nice little marshall stack story: Of course, when operating in the Gulf, everyone is in an envelope.:eek:

I was one of the B/N's in the midair as others have surmised. I have sent xnvyfler a PM about the incident and also some corrected info to Mike so he can correct the website. I also have a copy of the JAG investigation at home so I may need to dig it out and read it again. Actually, writing...

Two reasons: 1) As an NFO, I knew that WSO's are 3rd class (at best) citizens in the AF. 2) Singapore...enuff said.

Having the best fighter doesn't count if you can't get to the fight. 4-1/2 acres of sovereign US territory floating 12 miles off the coast is a lot better than trying to negotiate fly-over rights for a bunch of fighters and tankers.

Not sure if that picture is from the April since the hook is down. Here is a pic from April: The reason we can't launch the Super Etendard is that they use the old bridal system which US carriers are no longer are equipped for:

:icon_zbee Nice one Brett. Like I said, the unclass site has the unclass info, everything else is on SIPRNET. This is an important fight and we are not giving the info away to the bad guys.

CREW = Counter RCIED Electronic Warfare RCIED = Radio Controlled Improved Explosive Device Official Unclass Website: http://www.nrotc.umn.edu/JCCS-1/ This is what I did for 11 months. Part of the IED fight, not disposal.

To add to what Brett says, I had AT&T when I was on Whidbey and also lost the signal around Deception Pass. I don't think any company has good coverage in that area due to the steep hills and winding roads.

I remember stopping by the El Centro NEX while on det and they had the khaki pith helmets for sale. We bought one and had the student SDO wear it. Made it real easy to identify who was watching the duty desk when everyone was in a bag and the SDO duty swapped 2-3 times daily.

Did an Intruder det to Masirah, Oman in 1995. We provided tanking quals and low level intercept for their Hawks. Nothing like doing a section low level at 200' (lowest we could go "legally" so I am sure that is as low as we went), look over and see a Hawk coming out of the dirt, low to high, on...

A few more.....because you can never have too many patches.

Courtesy of the YellowJackets. :) I hated that cruise. I actually skipped those and went for the Energizer Bunny patch (It keeps going and going and...). Wasn't that a Screwbird production? And thanks to google:

OK, I officially hate websites that have data transfer limits. So, I'll just add attachments. In order: 1) All-weather attack. 2) The oldtimers will remember the Medium Attack and Electronic Warfare Wing Pacific. 3) Dark, dark nights. 100 night traps and check out the BN's eyes. 4)...

Just a little historical background for the OP. NFO retreads use to return to the community they came from. Then there was a certain F-14 RIO who went back to the Tomcat community. After shelling out of one jet on cruise, he killed himself, his RIO and three people on the ground in Memphis...

The export versions of the Mi-24 are the Mi-25 and Mi-35, denoted as Hind D and Hind E respectively.

Maintenance $$$, parts $$$, training $$$, training maintainers $$$, etc $$$. Enough $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for you????

Spent all last summer on Al Asad with a couple of Army Blackhawk units. Never saw a UH-60 with the front doors removed.

Me-262 Schwalbe (Swallow) British Aerospace Buccaneer Pure old school. Albatross D.Va

Exactly, saw them flying every day in Al Asad while I was there. There was a pilot on our staff who would fly both 53D's and 53E's when he could.

Nice job. Made me miss the flying even more (3 years now and counting). Small question. Was the desert takeoff footage from Al Asad? After a year there, I was pretty sure that was it.

16 minutes in the water. Not bad or real close to the boat.....

CV 67 not CVN 67. The JFK is an oil burner, not a nuke. Too bad it has deteriorated almost as badly as Teddy.

IA = Individual Augmentation. Basically send some sailor to the sandbox for a year to fill a billet. For example, my IA job is technically EW. I am a Prowler NFO. I have a Prowler pilot and a CTR1 working for me. My replacment is a SWO. We have FC's, OS's, CTT's, CTR's, LDO's, AEDO's, NFO's...

Aarrggh, damn my usmc.mil firewall. If this guy is wearing ACU's, he is probably doing the same IA job I am (expect I am wearing Marine desert uniform). Basically, lots of NAvy guys over here unfucking an Army program. Started about a year ago and going for at least another year.

OK, here is a site I am using to look at houses in the Hampton Roads area. www.williamewood.com Their search engine is here: http://www.williamewood.com/reinftp/ Couple of things I like: - Lets you search the whole area. - Good search criteria so you can narrow down easily. - Mapped...

Tok me 6 weeks for my eyes to stabilize and get med up and back into the cockpit. I did mine back in Jan 2001 and still 20/15 on a good day. The first couple of days are really bad, first two weeks you will be very sensitive to bright lights. Just gets better after that. BTW, I had...

Guy has been out of the loop for almost two years. The media just found someone who would talk and are spinning it for all it's worth.

III MEF is in Okinawa keeping an eye on a little place called Korea. That is why the Marine rotation only included I MEF and 2 MEF.

Airbrushing can do wonders. Anyone remember the NFO who posed for Playboy about 8 years ago? She looked great in the layout but in real life..... BTW: The Navy was first with Playboy. We had a enlisted sailor first then then the LT NFO.

Yeah, this rule burns me up. :icon_rage They will pay to move an RV, a boat, motorcycles, jet skis, all of which are argueably toys, but I have to suck up the cost of moving my own 'toy car" even though it doesn't exceed my weight limit. I can move wheels, heads, intakes, exhaust, blocks, but...

WRONG! VA-128 was NEVER the "Flying Phoenix". VA-128 was the "Golden Intruders". I guess that name would not fly with the Prowler crowd though.:D

Ah, but there is a difference between Air Superiority and Air Supremacy. From JP 1-02: Some people are using the definition of air supremacy for air superiority. Air Superiority is limited per the definition.