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I knew 2 guys who were drafted during Maritime Advanced to go E-2/C-2. "Draft " being the key word since there was a need apparently. Nothing to count on.

Yes.

'Grizzly Adams DID have a beard'

Thanks, also my next tattoo.

It's happened, and almost happened, to more than one VP crew.

Yeah, this year. College program numbers rise and fall along with the needs of the Navy.

Now, I'm just curious (not even considering a career with comm air), but do you actually have to get airborne to log "chock to chocks". Example: Comm air starts up, taxis, aborts for downing gripe, taxi/tow back, shut down. Do guys actually log that?

Original question answered. Thread locked. snowboarder, use the search function.

"I'm not paying you to talk. Make with the sleaze."

At midnight last night, I actually had a stripper tell me Happy Easter. Creepy.

Overseas allowance?

Yeah, we've hit max stupid. Locked.

Jesus Christ, Huggy was joking.

best first post ever.

None taken, I was still the best looking fat vampire there.

Until they put you on the night rotation. I came back looking like a vampire. A fat vampire (stupid MREs...)

USMC C-130 navs are enlisted.

A regular deployment these days involves the desert. Per diem is less there. VP spends less time in the places that used to be known for more per diem. Make sense? As far as P-3s providing more IAs, dunno where you came up with that.

Per diem these days is not what it used to be. As far as not going to sea, good chance you're gonna trade that for a stint in the desert. Keep that in mind.

I'm referring to your slamming the DIRCOM system in post #7 when by and large it's major success story.

You're way out of your lane in here.

Come on man, didn't we all? Good thing I still look 25...

I'm wasted, so forgive me for not googling. The US Army Reserves STILL have Cobras? Skid?

They award strike numerals for SAR? Most AM's i've seen for SARs used the little star system to denote multiple awards.

yeah, it's thumbs up or thumbs down, and if you score thumbs down, see you again next summer.

followed by inebriate, on deck that is

Where do you come up with this shit?

Someone has to know the name of the pizza joint on Okinawa with the great commercials... "NO CORN"

yeah, they like to think so... i keed

No Brett, long story short, oversped prop into fails to feather into oil starvation/fire into 3 engine ditch. It's really is a well written book by a former VP-9 Skipper.

No comment there. Also keep in mind, gambling with your troops is highly frowned upon...so I hear...

Another pilot, no NFOs on C-130s.

He sounds like a cross between Sherman from "American Pie" and Chris Farley as the bus driver in "Billy Madison". We're done here.

We flew our mids everyday, as much as they wanted to. How much flightime a Mid gets has way more to do with the squadron itself and their Mid training program (or lack thereof) vice the overall community.

More AD bodies for IAs.

You're kidding me right? The only thing i would expect a Middie on cruise to know about a NATOPS is what it is. If he/she really wants to know what life is like, find a JO just to explain how the chapters are organized. Memory items? Yeah. How to egress. Ops limits? Not so much.

Please elaborate.

You can still join and be commissioned without a scholarship. You may also pick one up. This isn't a show stopper.

"Hey where is my post where I'm bickering with another member about nothing to do with the topic?" deleted.

Because they are. You're ahead of the game already, no matter where you end up.

yeah, my advice is to talk to every IP you know. In person. You'll get a hell of a lot more out of it than 3rd hand "there I was" gouge on here. There is no magic formula for any airframe. Scan, scan, adjust, wait, scan, scan, adjust, wait, scan...

www.nametags4u.com has embroidered USMC wings... http://www.nametags4u.com/cgi-bin/wwlist.cgi?pm=LISTCAT&cat=marine

I lived in Honolulu, right downtown, for 3 years (minus 2 deployments). I was lucky, in that the traffic was always flowing opposite the direction I needed to go during the work week (Windward side-north commuters coming south on the Pali highway as I went north to K-Bay). If I got to work and...

You ate a whole jar of peanut butter?

A crisp hundo. Think of it as a gift certificate. ( a nice digital camera would also be cool, especially if it was ready to go for pics at the ceremony and after party)

thread's dead, but I had to acknowledge this one. awesome.

I actually went to a "Dutch" restaurant in Ft Lauderdale of all places. Pickled everything, lots of fish cured in salt.

For A to B repositioning flights, yes. PTAPTP all the way. If there's something to be done tactically between A and B, you fly by the rules and file accordingly or as much as ops(EC) will permit. The fun stuff comes when it's time to deal with customs on deck..."uh...yeah, we de-bugged...

Or you could offer a CWO transition to guys already qualified in these airframes. I know plenty of people who'd take the pay cut to stay in a flying gig. Already winged, proven, and experienced. "But what about the cost for ACIP and flight pay?" - Fine, no ACCP and cap flight pay. Yeah...

We're done. If someone wants to pm this kid with a story, go ahead. Now it's a pissing match. Mods: reopen if you feel the need.