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If you don't fly P-3s you'll amount to nothing in the Navy and nothing in life. You will be a complete failure. Period. End of story.

And for their next pass the 3P will recite 13 useless minutia facts about the aircraft, while flying!

Totally unsat. This guy should be put behind bars forever!

Ha! well, i was thinking something a little more main stream... But the reserves is a good gig and they always seem to need people.

This is true - in our community, stick skills are secondary. There is value, I believe, in doing other things outside the plane. As much as I hated being sent to Japan, I did learn a lot about the big navy and my "expertise" in the plane was directly injected into the tactics developed for...

There's been suggestions in the past of beefing up the VP-30 syllabus so that pilots leave as fully qualified 2Ps - but it would take a lot longer. To a certain extent, you cannot have the rag teach people to be fully qualified aircraft commanders, there's just too much to learn and not enough...

I'm the kind of guy everybody wants around. Seriously though, that is a nice piece of steel.

Given the people my squadron sent, this is largely true. We sent three really, really, really shit hot guys who were not part of the club but they all rocked at their jobs and were not d-bags. As far as I know, they all hated 30...

I don't remember it being particularly systems intensive when I went through. but i suppose it ebbs and flows. We do like to pound our nuts flat...

Isn't more the point of the T-44 to teach two things: how to fly a plane with asymmetric thrust (due to engine failure), and how to fly instruments? That seemed to be the focus when I went through a while ago. Gucci cockpit them T44s have now!

Wow! The segway to the Irish was obvious (velcro gloves), but bringing in the Canadians? Well, I guess we were making fun of cultures...and there is none easier to make fun of! That being said, I'm going to return this thread to the OP. Iran sucks. 'nuff said.

That sucks man. I hate it when random things follow me home. So, since I'm such a good guy, I'll take it off your hands, give it a good home. Really this is a sweet deal for you. You are a busy person, about to go to the fight, you don't have time to care and feed for such a charge. Let me...

You'd find lots of virgin goats in Ireland. But is see what you're implying and I don't like it! Not one bit! Let's get pissed and fight! <--that's what my people do, so watch the f' out! Back to the OP - yeah, uh, should be about as impressive as their naval blockade of a US port.

I enjoy that you hold nothing back. I don't always agree with you, but there's never a doubt in my mind where you're coming from.

Maybe my Irish brothers can lend them some Velcro gloves. Do those work on goats?

In space, which direction do you pray? More than anything, I suspect finding an answer to that question is what's taking them so long to get into space. That and maybe finding pilots who don't suck.

Ah, but i'm one of the few who knows where he lives! Not that I up the street any more as did back in Whidbey, so I can't drop in on him. Hope the ol feller is alright though. Would be nice if he'd post a few more pics of -3.

I was never a fan of nat's assing the fuel planning. Sure, it's a good exercise to make sure you can run the numbers and understand the process - but I've never had a situation where I was sorry I had as much gas as I had. I don't know if the FE's in P-3 land still like to argue with their...

Ah yes, Japan commissaries, the ass end of the supply chain and they don't f'ing care. At which base are you stationed? you gotta be REALLY careful about "good deals" offered by the NEX. I've seen them sell computers and other electronics at full price when those items are last year's model...

And this uncertainty as to how good a deal you're getting is one of the things that pisses me off the most. You can never assume the NEX is giving you a good deal. Story time.... A few years ago I was browsing the laptop section of the Pear Harbor NEX (if you haven't been there, it's...

That is a good deal! Though I rarely see the booze there any cheaper at the NEX than Costco (two 1.5l bottles of Hornitos for $20, now that's a damn good deal!). As for the commissary, I buy a lot of cereals there and a few other odds and ends but Costco is usually cheaper on most things (due...

Completely agree. He declared war on the US. We smoked him. No reason to risk more US lives in getting him.

Big fish, little pond - was kinda fun! Especially when you had a second senior class on deck to shirk your candio responsibilities onto!

back to the OP... .44mag - the only handgun you'll ever need!

Sitting in a dentist chair at NAMI, day two of OCS, having just received what I thought was the worst news anyone could receive - that my eyes were not good enough to be a pilot (later circumvented). There is worse news. Did not see footage of the attack for three weeks.

most will advise you to use the search function as this question has been ask many, many, many times. However, I understand your enthusiasm and desire to get a directed answer to your question. So, I'll give you one! Don't discount a service academy - your grades are pretty good. Apply to...

300K is a pretty successful career of robbing used car lots - I'd say it's a bit high really, but not out of the earnings realm of possibility. Remember, this guy's family still has to buy booze and cigarettes (food is provided by food stamps) and he was the primary bread winner stealer and his...

wow. I'd really love to know how that lawyer pulled off even getting the case before the judge! Unreal man...unreal...

How'd the suit turn out? Or have you answered this elsewhere?

How'd this fall out in the end? Did you have any out of pocket costs (other than supreme irritation)?

I respect women of her...caliber.

HA!

Well, i guess my surprise is this: I was an EP out of my JO tour, but not a high one, I was a WTI as well, but got stuck with a hardfill which I left with an MP (b/c i left early, got the kiss goodbye 1/1 though), and now I'm in a joint staff tour, so I went shore-shore...but somehow I picked...

Size 13 boot, foul breath and red chest hair.

I'd heard that before, the favored sons part. yeah, I know that all too well. I guess am just completely surprised by the outcome of this selection board. Even though production was not considered super career enhancing (in MPA), it was not really a detriment to getting O4. From what I...

So, just to make sure I understand what you're saying - if you went to the FRS or SWTI school for your shore tour, selection rate was near 95% for 60 drivers. If you went V/HT for your first shore tour, it was 25%? WTF, over? Do you know anything about guys who sucked up hard fills or staff...

You haven't hit high year tenure for an O-3, right? Did they even offer you another set of orders or did they tell you to piss off?

This will be interesting. I made it and given my...curious...career path, I was kinda surprised. The real proof in the pudding will be next spring when the DH board is held. If I make that, well, then pretty much everything you've been told will be out the window... I surely do not...

I kinda thought that too... They've taken down everything on the BUPERS website. I'm real curious to see the stats!

It's pain man. Pure P-A-I-N! by which i mean i was hung over a lot.

Not on this AF base! Cannot wear them in PTU. Of course, I don't wear the PTU and nobody here knows what the Navy uniform regs are anyhow, so I don't think anyone would question me...

Man, good call on the towel! I also recommend good quality underwear and undershirts, don't skimp there. They'll get trashed like everything else, but little details like that make a nice difference when everything else is sucking.

What are some of these options? I took the bonus and have not opted out but I went to a second shore tour after my first JO shore tour (long story, no nefarious circumstances, just dumb luck), which is pretty much career suicide - probably even more so than opting out. I'm curious to know what...

What's duty? :)

Good stuff - best line, "Either McCormick and his crew are damned good, or they're so lucky they shit rainbows."

After that video, I dunno if i have much of a leg to stand on! if only i could turn back time...

Oh man, that's just... not going to help us get any respect!

Is there anyone who is on here who has flown both the P-3 and the C-130? I'd be curious to know the handling differences between the two when one or two engines are out. In the Warpig we practice two engine landings all the time (two to idle of course, not shut down). We also routinely shut...

8 shut downs in a P-3 in 800hrs... I'm bad luck.

When has Britannia ever needed MPA in her entire history? Oh right...