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    Tips on Navy OCS???

    Do the DIs still jam all your belt buckles in your mouth and bang your head repeatedly against the bunk rail during inspections while you are trying to quote the General Orders of the Sentry while they scream that you are a "goddam lying four-eyed maggoty bag of s***!"?
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    Piper Crash

    I, too, have one more takeoff than landings. Get back on the horse!
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    Marriage

    The top two guys in my AOCS class (snowflakes) dropped out of flight training because their wives began giving them so much grief about the "danger" and "time away from home." I suggest you and your girl discuss this in depth. Your mileage may vary.
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    STUPID questions about life as a Naval Flight Officer (NFO)

    p.s. I'm impressed that the Navy would consider someone with 24 years in for NFO training. One of the new Warrant Officer flying slots?
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    STUPID questions about life as a Naval Flight Officer (NFO)

    It's a good life As a retired P-3 PPMC, I still say the best part of P-3s was the navigation. I joined my first squadron in December and five weeks later I was navigating my P-3A from NAS Whidbey to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. We had only one NFO per crew, so the NFO was both Nav and Tacco. I LOVED...
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    Prior Flighttime

    It can hurt I had my private pilot's license when I went in. In preflight, I screwed-up several navigation exams because the Navy does nav one way and I had learned another. Your experience may vary.
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    Sidearms

    about time We were prohibited from carrying pistols or any defensive weapons when we flew our missions in Vietnam. It was thought our being armed would be "too provocative" and might "hinder the peace process." Be very glad you are flying now and not then.
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    Wall Street Journal Article on Army Boot Camp Changes...

    Pitiful. When these darlings come under fire I guess they'll start crying.
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    Waaaahoo!

    Congratulations from Class 20-68. Keep the faith.
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    NFOs Phasing out?

    No, it's true. NFO's as we know them are going away. By 2014, all NFO's will be forced to transition to SWO. No, but the Navy does plan to have at least 1/3 of its aircraft UAVs by 2011. Pilots will have to transition to BM.
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    Ground Jobs

    Say "Needs of the service" 500 times. When I reported to my first squadron I was assigned the following: 1. Ground Support Branch Officer 2. Crew One Patrol Plane Navigator (PPRN) 3. Coffee Mess Officer 4. Morale Officer 5. Condom Contol Officer (that's a story in itself) Your...
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    ASTB timing/medical issues

    Find an FAA certified aviation medical examiner and go take a physical. As a result you will learn if you have any conditions that might be disqualifying for flying. A Navy FP is closer to the FAA's First Class medical, but you can take the Third Class exam just for your info. Worth the $75 or...
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    Flight Physical

    Bp The Navy flight physical sets the standard for counterproductivity. If your blood pressure is above 140/90, you are immediately grounded. If it stays above that, you lose your wings. Of course, they tell you that when you show up to take your FP. I fought this miserable battle every year...
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    FITREP Code Words

    http://vp1pops.com/hot_duty.html
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    proper dress to meet a recruiter?

    Wear... a ... suit! You want to be an officer? Look the part!
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    Swimming req’s / Learning to swim

    You have to be kidding Can you swim 50 yards using the crawl, breast, side, and back strokes? Can you remain afloat for 5 minutes (prone position) without submerging or grabbing the side of the pool? Can you jump from a 12-ft platform into a body of water? Can you tread water? This has to...
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    Any old NAO's out there?

    Almost... I was in VT-10 when the Navy adopted the NFO wings. But I'm old enough to have had my first training flights in the "SNJ" UC-45J. There was nothing like sweating in the right/nav seat of an SNJ on a 100 degree Pensacola day while the Marine pilot screamed at you and hit you repeatedly...
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    New member and thank you

    Be afraid - be very afraid. As for misogyny, I couldn't disagree more. I don't hate women (misogyny defined) - far from it. I'm just against them ruining people's dreams by pressuring their males into bad decisions like premature marriage. I've been very consistent on that issue and only...
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    The NFO -> Pilot contract switch

    I'm an ATP/CFI with 4,900 pilot hours. I'm also a retired NFO with 2,900 FO hours in P-3s. Being an NFO was more fun than being a pilot. Your results may vary.
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    Finally...final select!

    Congratulations. Persistence pays off.
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    Budget Cuts

    The services are cutting as much money from manned aircraft progarms as possible and redirecting it into UAVs/UCAVs. That's the future.
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    Jets make you poo

    Pluses: great view of the scenery; goes fast; you'll look cool walking to the flight line in all that tacair jet flight gear crap; usually short flights; if you like Gs and aerobatics, you'll definitely get the blond surfer girls/dudes; it's cool; get to drop weapons and blow-up stuff; get...
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    downside to jets

    Pluses: great view of the scenery; goes fast; you'll look cool walking to the flight line in all that tacair jet flight gear crap; usually short flights; if you like Gs and aerobatics, you'll definitely get the blond surfer girls/dudes; it's cool; get to drop weapons and blow-up stuff; get...
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    Sleep

    we called it "the nods" It's 0235, over a moonless, flat sea, dark as the inside of a cow, 13 1/2 hours into a 16 hour mission... no contacts the entire mission... the four T56s drone on...cabin is dark except for station lights...your eyes have actually swollen shut and feel like two balls of...
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    Need the help of some aviation guys in unions

    Talk to any unemployed union pilot. It's likely he's unemployed because he was in a union that busted the airline's bankroll.
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    Naval aircraft inventory

    p.s. That's why the six remaining reserve P-3 squadrons are being decommissioned. All flyable P-3s are needed on active duty. There's more bad news. The USAF has announced that its next bomber will be a UCAV, as are all likely future ISR aircraft. The days of the manned military aircraft are...
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    Naval aircraft inventory

    P-3C 228 No. The Navy, as of the end of 2005, had 99 operational P-3Cs with another 52 in various stages of maintenance or re-winging. In 2003 the Navy had 288 P-3Cs. The P-3 fleet is used up, and with the P-8 unlikely to be built in any significant numbers, the future of Navy patrol...
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    Warrant officers

    I believe warrant officers have warrants, not commissions -- a technical detail. Commissioned officers are technically Officers of the United States. CWOs hold a "warrant," a left-over from the 17th and 18th centuries when the Royal Navy issued warrants to sailors that specified their soecidic...
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    E-2 Hawkeye/C-2 Greyhound

    The E-2D is coming with a refueling probe. So get ready to take a leak and/or a crap in your seat in the next version. At least in the P-3 we had a bucket.
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    A/C Navigation

    So here's a question for others. How far have you gone w/out comms from Mom or anyone else. It was 130 miles in a helo for me, and that's not the most comforting feeling. Around the world, actually, using a sextant, driftmeter, and DR. :)
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    Search continues for missing Navy aircraft, 4 aviators

    Very difficult to understand how a military aircraft this size could vanish over land.
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    Anyone know anything about this "Annapolis" movie...

    Who knows? "Top Gun" showed an F-14 RIO's job to be one of sitting in the rear cockpit, holding on to the bar, watching the enemy on their six, and screaming in fear as the pilot cooly did all the work and fired all the weapons. The movie spiked applications to join naval air. "An Officer and...
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    separation/attrition from SNA/SNFO/SWO pipelines

    I will add caution to the wind. Just be careful what you do. They are starting to send some attrites/DOR's/whatever to fill Army dude's billets in the sandbox. It happened to a dude that I started flight school with, it can happen to you. I doubt it. Change of service is complicated and, as...
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    Bye bye P-cola OCS

    AOCS has always been in Pensacola. You're thinking of the movie "Officer and a Gentleman" which depicted AOCS up in a no longer used Navy facility in Port Townsend, WA (across the sound from NAS Whidbey Island). AOCS was never at Port Townsend, nor would it particularly make sense to move it...
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    NFOs life on a Super Hornet

    If you want to be so busy in the air you need three hands AND you want to work cool systems AND you want to drop ordnance AND you want to travel like no one else AND you want to sleep with fewer than three other guys, there's only one choice: VP. Good luck.
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    Female Jet Pilot

    Motivation and a refusal to quit is the single most powerful tool you have regarding the Navy. Go for it!
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    OCS questions

    When did this start? We brought nothing and were issued what we needed.
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    No Naval Aviation for me...my sad story

    That is truly tough luck and I feel for you. Nonetheless, congrats on getting your stripe. Frankly, Navy medicine was and is a continuing clusterf**k. I had to apply to the Navy three times just to get in to AOCS because my 20/100 vision was beyond the max of 20/50. Finally got the waiver...
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    VP Reserves to be Disestablished in FY07

    By 2013, at best, look for 4 VP squadrons flying the P-8A (8 aircraft each), two squadrons at JAX, two at WHIDBEY. VP-30 will get perhaps 12 P-8s. I suggest that's the high side overall. I don't see how there will be any P-3Cs flying by 2013. What a difference time makes. When I was flying P-3s...
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    TWO ITEMS .... MMA in Mugu and carrier in Hawaii ???

    I doubt the P-8A will be built in any significant numbers. There is no money for it. Look for ASW to transfer to HS, the LCS, and UAVs.
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    VP Reserves to be Disestablished in FY07

    CNO has announced that the last three Reserve VP squadrons -- VP-64, VP-69, and VP-92, are to be decommissioned in 2007. The P-3C is falling apart so fast that all are required by active forces, and Reserve aircraft have the lowest airframe time. <P> I have serious doubt that the P-8A will be...
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    Had my first solo today in the C-152

    Congratulations. I've instructed in just about every GA airplane and the 150/172 is still my favorite for teaching right.
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    What is life on an aircraft carrier like?

    Carrier? What's a carrier? (And you get to stay in town at the Sheraton, too... 8*)
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    Hatr

    A female Gao'uld. Got toasted by O'Neill.
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    What is it like to be an NFO?

    Yeah, I was gonna say. Brief at 0900 for the first go? More like brief at 0500 for a 0700 launch. Anyone who says JO ground jobs (Maint. DIVO, AOPS, Training O) aren't demanding probably isn't doing them correctly. I guess that that's just a window into the life of a JO whose platform has no...
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    Swim quals for SNA's

    ?? What happened to the one mile swim in full flight gear we had to do?
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    Forum logo

    Don't forget Lighter-than-Air Flight Surgeon Wings:
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    Another Iraqi vet liar unmasked

    Why did the press swallow Massey's stories? By Ron Harris POST-DISPATCH WASHINGTON BUREAU 11/05/2005 WASHINGTON Media outlets throughout the world have reported Jimmy Massey's claims of war crimes, frequently without ever seeking to verify them. For instance, no one ever called...
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    Another Iraqi vet liar unmasked

    Is Jimmy Massey telling the truth about Iraq? By Ron Harris POST-DISPATCH WASHINGTON BUREAU 11/05/2005 Jimmy Massey former marine staff sergeant says Marines intentionally are killing innocent Iraqi civilians. WASHINGTON For more than a year, former Marine Staff Sgt...
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    French unrest

    This "unrest" is being called the beginning of the Islamic revolt in Europe. That the French -- who blocked us at every turn in fighting the War in Iraq and called the Muslim terrorists "freedom fighters" -- are being burned is a delicious slice of poetic justice.
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