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Tango, do me a HUGE favor. While I do somewhat enjoy trying to decode your posts, I find that it is terribly difficult to understand your point when you write like an eighth grader! Please reread your posts and spell check them. I don't expect perfect grammar/spelling from anyone here...

Yeah, i'd say that was a pretty effective method of dealing with a few ill tempered sea bass. Too bad they had to waste a good subaru in the process! The Mussad is zero-one every effective and definitely a no BS organization. They're also damn scary. I guess it would weaken our moral high...

Boilersmack what are you going to fly if you're flying the T-1 at Vance? I've not met anyone who flew the T-1 (that was in the Navy) - is this for the E-6? I thought just their primary was supposed to be bad, but you're saying that advanced is just as bad?

"I got sick at first and found that flat gingerale and animal crackers (dont laugh) helped and were much better than not eating eventually you get over it." I can vouch for the animal crackers, they're life savers. do NOT eat any of the VT-2's retired senior chief's polish dogs (thursdays...

"That, and being single engine at 300 feet above the water without ejection seats....yikes!" even with ejection seats, that'd be no fun. Of course, it would be marginally better with ejection seats.

boy, i'd not want to shut down an engine on station, even if they are super reliable. maybe if you were hard decked at 1000' or so. i wouldn't imagien there'll be much need to get that low anyhow with the new bouys and whatnot that would be used when that plane takes over. i'm thinking the...

there's trying to take a piss in the back, by far worse! there is also being the IFT, that seat just SUCKS

well, having suffered through many of my early FAMS as i did due to the wonderful effects of air sickness, i can give you some good gouge. I don't get sick on rollercoasters, in cars, or on passenger planes. I get sick on the open ocean and used to when i flew. You may not get sick on a...

well this certainly fires me up! I keep hearing that deployments are lots of work but also lots of fun. knowing you won't be landing on a boat has really gotta improve things. you know, i never experienced the plane being COLDER than the outside, but our AC worked only so-so in Jax...

Now we just need a day in the life of a P-3er. I don't deploy for a while yet and i'd like to know what i'm in for. Any help on this Webmaster? I suspect it isn't quite as painful! Friends don't let friends go SWO

Dave, If you can sorta swim, you'll do fine at the swim test. I don't remember the exact swim requirements, but they were not hard. If you cannot pass the swim, you will be pulled from your OCS class and put into remedial swim, which sucks, but they WILL teach you how to swim and you will...

Zab, the party line is that the days of minutiae are over. However, is suspect that this isn't so outside of the FRS. I've been told to forget certain numbers, e.g. the pressure to blow out those pressure relief doors just behind the wing leading edge (5-10psi, i remember it because i was told...

I heard a nasty rumor a bit over a year ago that Boeing boasted that they could have a fully functional MMA within 6 months of the green light. As they already have the 737 line going i could believe this, were it not for the radical airframe changes dictated by the MMA requirements. I...

I'm definitely excited about the new plane. I too will miss the FE's and their...unique view of things (and the occasional, "its mon DC cur..."). Inflight refueling is a BAD idea though, i'd say they need to take that out. On the other hand, it looks as if we'll have a real head, that'll...

thou art wise! this is a much better method, i shall, from this day forth, use this method! wait, i've not done pushups since i left OCS.....

I don't think they'll let you get away with knuckle pushups. Like several others have said, don't be different (unless you want to be an individual, and you don't want to be), be a lemming, follow the leader. If your section leader jumped off a bridge, would you join him (the answer is yes...

the first one is at least 1200, the second one was more like 600. females get a bit more since they've got to buy a bunch of crap we don't

Can any major do BDCP? How many credits do you have to have to do it? If ROTC isn't available near your school, can you do BDCP from your first year? I wish i'd known about BDCP while i was in college. I was one of the folks who had a negative leave balance after OCS. As is, I’ve slowly...

Navy carrier pilots to Air Force pilots: Flaring is like squatting to pee.

the pillow is only if you're really, really naughty... Of course, they like the strong guys there.

BLAME CANADA!

After the beatings with switches the first week, things really aren't that bad. or maybe the pain is just dulled.

Yeah, call it a "crow" when they ask you some time, that'll go over real well.

of course, how else would they keep out lawyers?

It really is too bad that the Flight Engineer will be eliminated under the Boeing proposal. I like those guys, they make me laugh. They are some crusty fellows!

some of the pilots who took the Boeing demonstrator on a test drive said the 1, yes ONE, eneing climbe rate was greater than the FOUR engine climb rate of the P-3. It stopped in less than 2000' too. Pretty spiffy if you ask me.

The plan i heard - which, like everything else, is a rumor - is that by 2013ish we should be up and running, maybe get the initial planes by 2008 or earlier. P-3ers would transition, just as F-14D guys are moving to F/A-18F's. Boeing has claimed that they can have the first P-7 off the...

The decision will come this September (so they say) on which plane will be the new MMA (Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft). The decision has been pushed back several times. Boeing sent a plane out last year to all the P-3 bases to show off the capabilities of a near stock 737. All the pilots I...

I heard a nasty rumor today about possible P-3 squadron closures. The rumor was that one squadron per base would be eliminated. Now, like every other thing I've heard in the Navy, I take this with a grain of salt. however, i was wondering if anyone else had heard something to that end...

Hey TurnandBurn55, do you all do cross countries in the T-6 NFO pipeline? Do your pilot instructor pilots want to be there? Do the instructors take you out and do some whoop-dee-doos in the plane before you're exiled to the back seat? Propstop

I discovered this page today and thought i'd share it with all y'all. I haven't read the whole thing yet, it is simply too long. Enjoy! http://www.daileyint.com/flying/flying2.htm

don't buy that depth perception crap. i failed it twice. some tests are very poorly designed and i know MANY people who fail them, as did my recruiter (she had to bully mepts to keep my pilot slot). Ask for a retest from an independent source, i had mine done at Walmart two hours after...

As i've said in other threads, a day flying a t-34, with a mean ol' instructor so far up your ass he tickles the back of your throat, is FAR, FAR better than ANY day on a boat (unless you have the potential to be flying off said boat). I've got friends who are SWOs and SubNuc, anybody who...

vance...you poor, lost soul...

I just hate it when the IP started crying on me... "Why god, did you let him through API? Why is he MY onwing? I don't wana die!"

I had a friend who really wanted jets, he got helos. He then went out and drank, got a DUI, and he is now out of the Navy. Getting a DUI isn't funny. Getting Helos vs. jets, that's the needs of the Navy. Be prepared to fly whatever Uncle Sam gives you the keys for. At the end of the day...

In retrospect, late would have been a MUCH better option for me. we had someone show up at 2000, that was pretty funny.

not only must you be able to consume a boxed lunch quickly to be in P-3s, you must learn to pee into that tube while some jackass up front is having fun with the rudder. If you manage to pee on yourself, you're out. It's all about using that handle, placing your head against the wall, hold on...

Real Personal Training, actually

also, no-doze, or something like that. maybe redbull or lots of coffee/mountain dew. If you do not show up prepared with these tools you will surely flunk out!

Cold Fingers!!!!!

nah, you're an ossifer, use your sword! that's what we did. my DI thought it was mighty funny

There are some places around miltion that having a sidearm would be handy if you had to bail out..."Damn gubberment bird man come droppin' on my trailer to take my guns!" I liked having the knife in my survival vest in case my IP got mad at me.

We had a girl DOR because she didn't want to get her hair cut! It was too bad too, she was really cute...

This game is stupid, but strangely it draws me.... it won't let go!!!!

do NOT!!!! check in wearing anything military related, or anything that says Old Navy. I'd suggest a simple polo shirt and dockers, something like that. Jeans are okay too. Wear your running shoes. boxers or briefs, i don't think that mattered too much, but i can't remember what i was...

you'll be buying extra stuff at the NEX, not far from OCS. Get that stuff ahead of time and keep it in your personal bag, you won't need it right away, but it is handy to have. I liked having LOTS of socks too. You can never have enough socks, treat your feet well. if you do start to get...

anodized gold tips. you'll also want a nice supply of belt buckles, those tend to not do so well. be thankful they don't issue buckles with quartermaster anymore!

my question is, who'd want to be nuke? all i've heard from you guys is how hard you work, how little you sleep! Besides, who joins the navy wanting to go on boats? :)

For those of you looking for an economic reason to go to the moon, to Mars, and beyond i have but one word - Asteroids (no, not the game!). One asteroid could provide more metal ore than many years of mining here on earth, and it would not need to be refined as much. Someone else mentioned the...