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VP NATOPS tests are an exercise in analness. We do so much to make our lives miserable, but I think this is one of the most miserable things we do. One day it will all be done on computer though...or at least that's what they keep telling us....

Kadena AFB, Japan. Hands down, a sh!thole.

Things have been implemented to make things better with regards to hours. It is harder to make O-4, which is good. For several years if you could fog a mirror you WOULD make O-4 (this directly from an O-4 who made it that way). Because of this we've got some really crappy O-4's. Recently it...

Back to several threads ago when I said P-3's need guns... Mavs just aren't good for little boats like that (nor are they as much fun). I guess cluster bombs would work though...bit over kill however.

damn...

Being a P-3 Pilot. Or being completely bad-ass with legos...

Man, this couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

I bet it took a week to get the seat cushion out of the pilots ass after that takeoff!

Wow, that man is a lego GOD! I used legos in primary to help relax me. spend a few minutes building something out of legos to find my Happy place. it's a Zen thing.

2013 I think is the target date to have a squadron fully up and online. BTW, Whidbey ROCKS!!!

Only in America Before deploying from Savannah, Georgia to Iraq by a chartered airliner; the troops of the 48th Brigade Combat Team, a National Guard unit, had to go through the same security checks that civilian passengers are required to follow prior to boarding the aircraft. Lt/Col John...

If it is I'll quit life.

hmm...FRANCE SUCKS!!! Got that out of my system, sorry for the outburst...

They're not that civilized!

So for us P-3 bubbas that insist on standing SDO in service khakis (because khakis are so awesome), do we get to switch to these? Or do we keep service khakis (no would be the best answer)?

Well, this is likely the first cool thing to come to Dubai.

yeah, once through OCS was quite enough for me. There is no school i've done in the Navy that I wouldn't want to do again before doing OCS for a second time. But hey, i'm only half way through my first sea tour, many more schools to go...

Depends entirely on your performance in OCS. If you didn't go to OCS, you can't get them.

I bet i could make it there:icon_zbee ...but wait, don't you live in whidbey?

All i want is P-3s with friggen laser beams!

I hope to see some of you dude's at RIMPAC '06. I hear the aussies put on the best parties, something about a C-130 with aussie beer and steaks....

Change "helicopter" to "P-3" and you'll also have a truism.

man, i showed up with long hair, a goatee, a Pink Floyd t-shirt (greatest band, ever), shorts and beat to death running shoes. of course that was a different time. When i joined all you had to have was a pulse and a greater than 2.5 gpa in ANYTHING. But don’t follow my example - dress up...

Re: Guy getting sucked into A-6 engine. How on earth could that guy make it through the engine and live? Or did he not make it all the way through and was pulled out from inside?

It sounds great. I really would like to fly more often, but for shorter periods of time (P-3 missions tend to be LOOOOONG) and doing more interesting things. Now if I can just convince them to take fixed wing aviators... Thanks a lot Sardaddy!

All of that, the whole Enchilada so to speak :) I know where the sites are, i'd like to stay in the NW.

Would any of you Coastie pilot types be willing to share what it's like in that branch of the service, as a pilot? I'm very interested in transfering to the CG when my contract is up (not for a while yet), specifically to fly helos, though I wouldn't mind C-130's either. Thanks in advance!

I've almost landed at the wrong airport before. Anyone ever flown to Fairchild AFB in Spokane, WA? Well, for those of you who haven't, there are two airports there, one being Fairchild and the other being Spokane Intl. They are just a few miles apart and have almost identically aligned...

If you're relatively new (say less than 6mo or even a year) don't punk out on wardroom activities during normal working hours. It is understandable (and many JO's will b!tch about it) to be pissed at having a wardroom function on what would normally be "your" time - e.g. the weekends. But if a...

Anyone know if you can deduct the cost of wardroom dues? I'm fairly certain you can

when you get to your squadron, don't talk, like at all. nobody wants to hear you share your views on, well, anything. if you can't be funny, don't be new. Seriously, this is important.

I second the call for higher BAH in Oak Harbor, this place is far too expensive for the BAH you get.

micro cracks...

http://www.evergreenaviation.com/supertanker/

Hey A-4's, not being a jet guy I'm a bit confused about how the whole thrust reverser thing works (at least in terms of figuring your ground roll distance). How do you stop the plane if you're not using thrust reverse? Do you use the brakes at high speed or do you use aerodynamic braking? I...

Wrong, honor class determins if you get jets. :icon_tong

I am a meat popsicle. Sometimes refered to as a JG

Animal Farm is great. Read one "Punk" book, back in primary, it was a fun read, but nothing when compared to a literary work like Animal Farm.

USAA = Awesome NFCU = SUCKS Now NFCU did have a nice $18K loan that I took, no question that was a good deal. I still have my primary checking through them (though that's changing soon) but their customer service SUUUUCKS. When you go into their branches you feel like cattle. They never have...

I'd like to see figures for a P-3 deployment; I bet they'd go something like this: Personnel: Over 2400 travel claims processed Over $4.8million paid in per diem Over 9000 hours of head to head Halo 2 played 40,000 CEU (Can Equivalent Units) of beer consumed Over 1500 bottles of hard...

2nd that. I've used it quite a few times. It's way cheaper and pretty good most of the time. i have had some bad downloads but they didn't cost me very much at all, so it was no big deal. They have a very good selection of songs (not as good as ITunes i imagine, but as I'm still not in the...

yeah man, 14 days is a bit excessive to figure it out. over 1400 cars burned! They need the national guard to go in and set things right.

wonder what kind of punishment the gov't could level at him... could it be slander agaisnt the marines? i'd like to meet this guy - and strangle the crap out of him..

Holy crap, i finally read the entire article (before i just read the funny parts about the rioting). I didn't realize that this whole unrest started when two dumbasses were electrocuted climbing an electric fence RUNNING FROM THE COPS! At least with the Rodney King thing those protesting could...

Our squadron is somewhat big into the callsign thing. Everybody is given one but I'd say the majority don't stick. Mine, however, sticks well because it's a play on my name... and my entry into the wardroom was a touch bumpy. There are a few guys who have names that stick as well as mine has...

i snorted water all over my keyboard i'll have you know.... I ought to give you negative rep points for it! :D

Problem is as soon as the UN troops were challenged they'd simply surrender, or run away.

seems like a lot of Muslims don't actually READ the Koran, more that they look for the cool passages - kinda like when a 15 year old kid reads a romance novel and skips from sex scene to sex scene.