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Movie is a lie The whistle has already been blown on this movie. It's an anti-military pack of lies from our friends in Hollywood. Sorry.

The simple truth is that motion sickness has a number of variables: flight time, type of flight, turbulence, personal physiology, training. Everyone will get air sick under the wrong circumstances. We had 5,000 hour mission commanders get sick after eight hours of low-level bouncing around in a...

The French Navy has just commissioned the Beau Geste. It has six reverse speeds...

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cvx-gallery.htm

Jets have the highest cutoff, then E-2/C-2, then helo and P-3 are open to anyone. <P> Ironic that it's just the reverse for NFOs...

Anthropology. Came in handy the time the Philippine Tree Shrews attacked the BOQ...

Final note... The two top guys in my AOCS class (both "snowflakes") dropped out of flight training half way through because their wives were giving them so much crap. Now, 35-odd years later, my shipmates and I who won our wings have too many great memories and stories to tell in a month. The...

In VT-10 we flew the T-1A, the Navy's version of the T-33. It was fun but it showed me enough of tacair to help me decide to go VP when my VAH slot was taken away.

T-1a In VT-10 we flew the T-1A, the Navy's version of the T-33. It was fun but it showed me enough of tacair to help me decide to go VP when my VAH slot was taken away.

OCS went downhill when they disestablished AOCS and didn't let the DIs give you "vigorous, close-up, personal attention" or "Marine Corps Vocabulary Expansion" anymore. I didn't know they abandoned the O-Course. With what was it replaced?

Yes, he is. Navy people far outshine the civilian world in open-mindedness. I found Navy and Marine Corps people to the the best, most decent, most accepting people of all. Oh, yes. When I told my mother I wanted to fly in the Navy she was very apprehensive (this was duting Vietnam) but...

Sunscreen. Lots and lots of sunscreen. SPF 90 or so. And reptile anti-venom. And Gold Bond Anti-Itch Extra Strength. A good dustbuster to keep the sand in your quarters below ankle level. LOTS of socks. And gin. Lots of gin. And this will help: Have fun!

Subject: FW: Just jump in and Go, no Preflight done This is tough to watch. An excellent reminder that there really are good reasons to do a thorough preflight and to make sure the controls are free. This happened just north of Winnipeg, and the aircraft was the first version with...

Hot Duty In 1970, my VP squadron deployed to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, in support of Operation Market Time with the 7th Fleet. Iwakuni is cold in the spring, with morning temperatures typically near freezing. At that time, the duty office was a small, wood-framed building sitting on a slight rise...

"... We also noticed that most of the new pilots had large, complicated wrist watches. We assumed they had penises to match." -- Ernest K. Gann, "Fate is the Hunter"

I got this book out of curiosity and it is a real page-turner. Written by a retired aviator CAPT, it is the true story of a runaway prop, inflight fire, and ditching of a P-3C off Adak in 1978. Hair-raising stuff. Not just for the VP community, either. It details the before, during, and after of...

The steel toe is to protect you when you drop a weapon on your foot while loading it. In the P-3, specifically, to protect you from getting your foot squashed when you are loading officer and AOAA Shmedrick drops the Mk 46 torp he is trying to load into the bomb bay...

It's a rush, no doubt about it. But very tiring. Besides flying a full schedule, you'll also be a branch/division officer, coffee mess officer the first six months in your squadron, morale officer, and whatever else you're assigned. The flying is very technical in the buttonology involved plus...

No... ... I'm being precise. He said "it is a MUCH better life as a pilot." It's not. It's the same life. Now, if he had said, "I liked being an pilot more than being an NFO," that would simply be his opinion. (BTW, I'm also an ATP/CFI)

'Cause you can't get that Air Force smell out of them...

How badly do you want it?

People that washed out of AOCS were killed and eaten by the DIs. (we always wondered why their personal effects were never sent home...)

Memories (While running to the NAMI building) :"You better hope you fail this flight physical, Poopie, because if you don't, I'm gonna PT your d*ck into the dirt..." -- GYSGT Stowe, Day 2, Indoc Battalion (p.s. He did)

Guy in my class set the record at that time. Did 45 and had to stop because his hands started to bleed (not enough chalk).

Panel Nav? That's a strange name for it. I call it "real nav." Tacair nav involves keeping your position and that of your target while you look out the window. Real Nav (a la P-3s) involves keeping your position, your targets' positions (we had 73 on one flight), home plate position, ADIZ and...

B*llsh*t! I can tell you it is a MUCH better life as a pilot What unadulterated bull****! Aviators and NFOs lead exactly the same life in a squadron -- same flight time, same missions, same destinations, same ground jobs, same collaterals, same everything. They lead exactly the same life as...

Four words Needs of the Navy.

"Poopie, Poopie, don't be blue; Our recruiters screwed us too! Sound off -- Sound off -- Bring it on down -- One, two, one, two, one , two -- ONE TWO!" (Earned me a big laugh and 50 pushups from the DI)

I still have my Service Dress Khaki in case they come back...

My first jobs (held simultaneously) in my first squaron were: 1. NFO 2. Ground Support Branch Officer 3. Coffee Mess Officer 4. Morale Officer on Deployment 5. Condom Control Officer on Deployment (that's another story...)

When I went through they had a secret fondness for former/current enlisted. We had an MM1 in our class who was submarine qualified. They weren't quite as harsh on him though they did make fun of the "porpoise **** on his porpoises" and as an E-6 he was equivalent to the SSGT DIs. But that may...

Unless it's changed... You're E-2 seaman apprentices but paid as E-5.

Black Cats When I was in Vietnam with my P-3 squadron, we bunked with the Army's Black Cats. They were incredibly salty Army CWOs and NCOs who were flying ex-Navy, highly-modified AP-2Hs (an SP-2H variant loaded with guns and rockets). They flew spook missions at night and could drink any Navy...

All I get is a popup ad for some software...

Beards prevent a proper seal under O2 masks, thus, no beards.

I know a P-3 PPC O-3 who left the Navy, missed it, and found no Naval Reserve slots. So, he transferred to the Army as a W-1 and went through Army helo training and did 6 years as a helo pilot in the Guard.

Tell them You do not want to be almost through training and have some security clearance DIA inspector ask you why you hid the truth from your former employer.

I started out in AFROTC in college, with the goal of becoming a navigator. I worked hard and got "promoted" within ROTC. At the end of my freshman year I applied to take the nav aptitude test and was not allowed to because I wore glasses, despite that not being mentioned as a problem when I...

This guy broke his collar bone plus 23 other bones. Took a while to recover. http://www.navlog.org/crash_1.html

As stated, shouldn't be a problem. Therefore, his "secret orders" are indeed more likely to be the result of his cheating on a wife about which you know nothing. Sorry. Bummer. Fraternization is pretty well defined within the military. TV often gets it wrong. This season's "Stargate SG-1" has...

No one's that rich. Sorry.

Go for it!

You took a slot from someone else who wanted to go. You are obligated to serve.

Why not combine both? The NB-36H atomic powered airplane was tested after WWII... "Between 1946 and 1961, the Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission spent more than $7 billion trying to develop a nuclear-powered aircraft. Although no airplane ever flew under nuclear power, the Air...

<P> In VP, it's a combination of speed and both Q-effect and T-factor from the props. Note the distinctive over/under Bernouli effect.

Great CG rescue sequence in "The Perfect Storm."

What is the "ASTB"?

What is "SULE"?

Can't answer the part about flying in circles as I'm usually occupied while they're up front reading porn, but remember to keep the turns as flat as possible or expeditiously executed "Bat-turns" - you'll make friends w/ the NFO's if you do. <P> NFOs have the means to get even. In the P-3B...

$ 2,500 Fob <P> Was a total POS. Stopped running if it rained. Pieces fell off on the highway. Crank case cracked open. Electrical system caught fire three weeks after the warranty expired. Women were not impressed.