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  1. PropStop

    Navy Attack Helos?

    While we can carry a lot, nobody likes to let the fat kid have the fun toys. We're lucky to get smoke flares and a SLAM CATM (training device) on any given mission. I have dropped a few 1000lb shapes though using our bomb sight (something marginally more advanced than the Nordon bomb sight...
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    Navy Attack Helos?

    We don't need gunship helos, we need a P-3 with a belly turret equipped with two mini-guns and wings filled with a sh!t ton of mavs. Hell, i'd settle for fake guns if it made us look tough! really, i just want something to make this pig at least kinda cool. To quote someone in my squadron...
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    star rating

    Can i get more stars for being totally cool?
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    Ribbon Bothering Me

    no, that just means you give good....er, fitreps...
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    what do intel guys do?

    "so what is it you would say you do around here anyhow?"
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    OCS Changes

    When i went through OCS, just a scant four years ago, you had to put forth a real effort to get booted. I had guys roll into my class with FOUR CONSECUTIVE RLP failures! I absolutely hated one of the guys, he was not at all locked on. He caused us pain (as did my complete inability to march...
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    T-34 (and others) goof-ups

    In line with the forgetting your SV-2. This one time, on a Tac-REpo, i walked up to the flight station (after waking up from a coma) and asked the PPC, "Yo, Boss, you ready for me to get in?" He says, "Nah, kick the 3P out, I'll stay in." so that's what we did. I sat down, started buckling...
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    Iwo Jima WW2

    I don't at all agree with what you've stated. Germany had a unit that did experiments on Jews just as Japan did on its POW's. Germany did things that were easily as horrible as Japan, but Japan did those things to Americans. I don't at all believe that Hollywood is run by Jews. What...
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    Helo lands on Everest

    if a helo can hover that high, could they land it? Seems like they could - Helo bubbas, wana chime in? i've only seen a few pics of the summit of mt everest and i don't think you could land a helo there (small as the AS350 is).
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    good Ball stories?

    NAS P-cola throws a great ball at the Naval Aviation Museum
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    Helo lands on Everest

    agree 100%. on the subject of fixed wing though, i think french planes blow.
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    New Navy Ad...(well done!)

    Maybe the minivan line was a pitch for us P-3 guys....
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    Helo lands on Everest

    Those french do know how to build a nice helo. I flew a lot in AS350 A's, B's, B2's, and B3's back home in Southeast Alaska. They are by far the best light helos in the world (i've flown in other light helos too). The Turbomecha engines are simply amazing.
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    New Navy Ad...(well done!)

    how come navy commercials never show P-3's? oh yeah... nevermind...
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    women aviators

    let women fly? I wasn't even aware we let them vote! j/k Here's a Navy male's view... I think no matter which any branch of the service you join there is going to be a different view/standard for women. My squadron has some mighty fine female aviators, both NFO and Pilot. I'm more...
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    Enterprise grounded

    I bet it was Greenpeace!
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    Seabag Ownership Marking

    what's a sea bag?
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    what do intel guys do?

    mostly give bad intel...
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    Don't freak out... forum will be down this weekend....

    no way man, i'm here for you, i've totally got you back on this one!
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    Eyesight Question (sorry!)

    You can get PRK and still get in. Based on the numbers you gave i think you have an astigmatism of greater than -1.0 (as do I) so you cannot fly for the Marines (this info is dated though, 1999, when i was turned down for an astigmatism also, but not as severe). At the time I applied the Navy...
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    Don't freak out... forum will be down this weekend....

    if you want, i'll pay attention to her....
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    WTF? Confused by this weird website?

    This kid is the biggest tool....ever. I really mean that.
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    Don't freak out... forum will be down this weekend....

    I hate this forum anyhow. Go ahead, go down for a day, see if i friggen care. This place sucks! I don't need any of you!
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    Aaahhhhh

    I always use 4 hand fulls...then the plane just kinda lands itself. works for me anyhow :)
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    All female C-130 crew

    uh yeah...damn, i mean...wow!
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    Failures

    There is really no reason to fail any tests in API. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed (my ACT score was 21, SAT of 900) and i basically crawled out of high school. However, i didn't fail a single test in API and all it took was some good studying. The info is, for the most part, not...
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    A4s - Have you tried this?

    I'd have to say that Vietnam was pretty good the first time i passed by. but on a flight not so long ago the controller was both VERY difficult to understand AND she tried to vector us into Vietnam's ADIZ! We thought this was a REALLY bad idea and told her as much....she didn't talk to us for...
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    A4s - Have you tried this?

    i thought trying to understand a southern accent was tough...but then i came to asia. glad i don't have to talk on the HF's to the FIR controllers! The Japanese controllers aren't too bad, but every now and again you'll get one who you swear hasn't ever heard the english language before...
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    A4s - Have you tried this?

    i hate it when the Northwest guys come up on five fingers when we're trying to conduct an altitude swap in our working area! Now that's just plane( :icon_tong ) annoying. Even worse when some dude starts babbling in gobbledyguke over guard and they spam the airways! not that this has...
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    What's REALLY important...

    Silver Screen in P-cola is a great place. The beer is cheap the food is crappy (but cheap) and it's fun. The only thing that sucks is all the trailer folk show up with their babies in strollers for movies like "The Ring". Naturally the kid starts to scream when everyone else does, but keeps...
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    Whats a typical day at OCS like?

    That team sports day sounds kinda cool. but i did begin to enjoy? (if that's the right word) those long saturday runs. really helped with the hangovers. I puked several times and the DI's thought it was funny, so long as you got back in formation.
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    Whats a typical day at OCS like?

    GrySgt Hard Core, United States Marine Corps will be happy to answer any questions you have regarding that day. Please make sure to ask politely. I think OCS has gotten tougher. On my black saturday we had Eggs Benedict, fresh fruit and coffee. Now all they're feeding candidates is coffee...
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    Whats a typical day at OCS like?

    Oh yes, I remember the Rock well. He looked like a shaved ape, with a temperament to match. He was hella cool as a candi-o. once bought us (as mere candidates) a round at a strip club….that was one WEIRD experience....
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    T-34 vs T-6

    why'd they stop using the T-6 for NFO training? there go my plans for my shore tour....
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    Mk-82's

    we go to the "bombex" area, which is out over the water. Hitting the water takes skill, but i think i've mastered it. so if you're in the water, watch out! we do somewhat frequently get to drop rockeye's (cluster bombs are VERY accurate), but i have yet to participate in it. I hear it's a...
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    Mk-82's

    P-3's, 20K of love on 18 stations.... not that we ever get any real bombs to play with... I'm pretty fly with the blue death though, i can hit the water every time!
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    Interservice transfers?

    I too am interested in going army, guard, or possibly coast guard. if you find anything else out about it, please post. great topic!
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    Treatment of NFOs in the fleet

    NFO's are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. Some are great, just like some pilots. Some really, really, really suck, just like some pilots. NFO's have one other great use (other than, you know, Naving, finding subs, etc), if you take the thickness of...
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    T-44 Cockpit Pics?

    Any of you guys in advanced right now got any pics of the new glass cockpit for the T-44? Has that program started? When i went through about two years ago they were talking about it extensively, saying it was right around the bend...well, i didn't swallow that whole! But anyhow, any y'all...
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    Just selected, got questions

    Woohoo! Another one! Prepare yourself for a dynamic, exciting, and challenging future....well, it is challenging. Seriously though, it's a pretty good community to be in. Enjoy advanced. I had a great time there and as stated above, it's all front loaded. Once you get into RI's (which...
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    OCS locker setup ?

    That all makes sense. I guess (re: navy OCS, not USMC) there is a desire for the guys coming behind you to have it as tough as when you went through. If they don't, you feel they are somehow weaker. But getting people through the training makes more sense than busting them up for tradition...
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    OCS moving

    Astro, You sound like someone who gets bent pretty easy if a Candidate LCDR was able to piss you off and rattle your cage. You finished OCS, you know it was all a mind game. I (having come from the streets, yo) yelled at poopies with great enthusiasm because i understood the purpose (by the...
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    OCS locker setup ?

    This is most depressing. Is it true that they don't wear dress shoes during drill at first? If they don't have the officer portion, who asks the gouge questions? Is the candio phase still two weeks?
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    This will make you proud

    Go this from a vietnam vet friend of mine, he was 1st Air Cav, makes fun of marines a lot, but respects the hell out of them. ****** This will make you proud! Maybe you'd like to hear about a real American, somebody who honored the uniform he wears. Meet Brian Chontosh. He is a...
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    Crew in Fatal Crash Mistook Island for Carrier

    that's some serious breakdown in SA...
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    Question for Salty Fighter/Attack Pilots

    A P-3 can carry up to 20K of bombs....and we can get up to pee while doing it. now, of course, using a P-3 for precision strike wouldn't be a really good idea... we like to bomb places that don't have any air defense - you know, like picking on the retarded kid, you know your airforce sucks...
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    Medal Sytem Recommendations

    Man that sucks. He was a great person.
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    Medal Sytem Recommendations

    If there were an award for not being on time and for spending an entire day at work without accomplishing anything, I bet I'd have those.
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    Medal Sytem Recommendations

    This letter hits the nail on the head. a few weeks ago I was traveling in my blues through an airport. I was sporting my whole three ribbons - Nat'l Defense, GWOT, and Pistol (Sharpshooter), and my wings - I looked pretty sharp, if i do say so myself :) I sat down, waiting for my plane...
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    Body Armor vs Rifle

    Trauma plates are your friend. Wonder how the armor plates would do.
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