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World of difference between an O-1 who attrites and a winged junior officer (most likely an O-3) with a solid track record, Aircraft Commander Qual, and operational experience. You'll find interservice transfers, while not necessarily 'easier' are much more feasible. Obviously, phrogpilot73...

How 'bout a CIWS on that wall every few hundred yards or so?

Absolutely nothing wrong with Brett's response. Reading Fezz's post indicates he feels awkward about asking the XO. No reason to. I agree, sack up and ask the man. He's probably going to tell you to wear it for the picture. The end. and no, I won't give you a hug.

Back to the original topic, anything is possible. I've seen people cry foul on their training and subsequent attrition manage to get a second chance at another location. Rare? Yes. Impossible? No. Your boy needs to have EVERYTHING documented. Has he tried talking to the USN exchange IPs...

No worries. We have enough folks on here NAUSEATINGLY intimate with ASW ops. I'm sure someone will jump all over the edit button if it comes to that.

Wait, they got them ON the boat? Underway? That's taking PCOD a step too far.

Posting while on Nav issued drugs...THAT'S funny. Side note: had a guy in my squadron go through the same procedure. Navy fvcked it up BAD. About 2 weeks later he was so swollen/inflamed/whatever he couldn't move. Med down for 4 months. I don't know what went wrong, and I really dont...

The real fun is sitting at the Starbucks and guessing which chicks are pros and which are amatuers.

Army National Guard or Air National Guard?

God forbid you "show the flag" off base in a flightsuit and encourage some impressionable youngster to ask you about your service and exeperiences in the military. Because we all know a flightsuit looks SO much worse than Lt Colonel Whoever taking a domestic flight in his cammies...

Again, trying to get back on track... I can't remember who it was, but we had a regular poster on here a few months ago who was slated for Maritime and went the C-130 route...anyone recall who it was? I'd be interested to hear first hand how it's going. edit: I figured out who it is and...

Right. One of those guys who didn't CHOOSE to get a FREE top notch, 4 year degree...cry me a river. Right. Who are you again? Guess I didn't do anything for the last 5 years... For the record, I was the first one on this thread to clarify and defend the folks who went directly to VR...

There's a world of difference between a true "hard landing" and a "firm touchdown". Standby for unsolicited Monday Morning Quarterbacking.

By...flying? AD folks in Reserve squadrons are there everyday. Whether they're these new guys who went straight to VR units or FTS (aka TAR) guys who transitioned from the Fleet. Those guys are flying as much as possible. Reservists have their required drill periods. Usually monthly...

UI, I generally agree with your posts, but that's bvll****. You understand those guys are AD with the reserve squadrons right? They're working/training/flying everyday. It isn't a "one weekend a month, 2 weeks a year" thing. They put in their time...every day, just like you or me.

For what it's worth, this is a great thread. THIS is the kind of sh!t that helps people out. My training jacket looked like a watermelon slice, green outside, pink middle. I keed. Sort of.

From the few AF buds I have, I've heard those in the blue don't get thier jackets until they qualify at an operational squadron. What all that entails, I have no idea.

That's funny. That's what actually WAS on fire... teh-erre numero dos yeah, it took me a while to get as well

have fun guys

You'll get more responses with proper grammar and spelling. Never underestimate the power of punctuation. troll?

time hack....

How do I like it? It's not a bad way to earn a paycheck. I'm not gonna lie, it's very challenging, but I could always be working at Burger King. As the Webmaster alluded to (oh your urbane wit John...you slay me, j/k), the language barrier can be a b!tch. Try talking to the crew with an O2...

How difficult is it? Depends on the language. I took spanish, I'm sure Japanese is harder. Fluency? You leave with the ability to read/speak/listen pretty well. A good foundation prior to full immersion into a foreign area. Length? Basic course depend on the language. Spanish is 6...

Yeah I went to language school, what do you want to know?

that's not bad gouge, that's OPINIONATED gouge. Fly whatever the fvck you end up with. Do it to the best of your ability. Sounds like prop advanced guys trying to play a T-44 vs a C-12, aka verbal diarhrea. Tell ya what, let's not have this thread degenerate into "my trainer vs. your...

hahaha, I gotta tell ya, I actually saw a TON of VQ types in Whidbey sporting the leather and whites...ridiculous. Before anyone accuses me of being a hater (which I am), they all had the VQ patch on. Leather jacket and civvies? That's kosher? I'd heard it was ok with no insignia, nametag...

I guess I should also clarify, that story only covered 2 days of the trip. Things went considerably better the preceding 2 days. If you ever see me in a bar, ask me about it. I swear to God it involves ninjas.

There's WAY more to this story than that article presents. Baseops.net has had a lot of good threads covering it. Go over there and use the search function, keyword "gouge". Bottom line, there were guys with the actual tests and the answers on crib sheets.

You aren't gonna switch communites for an exchange tour. You'll go to a unit similar to what you were doing in your original service/country. You may fly a different model of aircraft. Example, I'm flying P-3s for another country and am currently in the syllabus for the Embraer P-111. I've...

This was the same guy who refused to participate in his own wetting down due to the "cost involved". That should pretty much tell you what kind of guy he was.

I'm in the Midwest, doing a relatively big airshow. Well, I'm under the wing in lawnchairs with my 2P and senior Flight Engineer. It's about 90 degrees in the tube, and I have the 3P, junior FE, TACCO, and radar operator giving the tours, helping people up and down the ladder. For some...

Or God forbid you somehow find a way to keep the interior of a large aircraft cool(er). Next thing you know every slack jawed yokel (yes I mean Cletus) has set up camp in your plane complete with wife-sister and 3 runny nosed, dirty diaper wearing, circuit breaker pulling crap machines. Or...

I'm sure you mean "uniform other than a flightsuit". Bags still count.

Never had a Suppo in my squadron. Everything went through the SKC. I THINK there MAY have been one in the Webmaster's old sqdn.

Maybe you don't, and if not, good on ya, don't start, spread your influence around. But no-sh!t, there's a ton of zoomies in Japan sporting starched, creased, and ironed bags.

That's outpatient surgery now, I remember seeing ads for it in Thailand. Scary. I've seen more than one guy assume incorrectly. Don't be that guy.

Towards the end of the course he was hearing rumors that his orders were gonna get pulled. Significant, especially since he was a "top performer - go to guy" in his prior squadron, which is how he avoided getting screwed with a hard fill and recieved flying orders. Anyway, the change was made...

Maybe if the Coast Guard had P-3s. Negative.

That's weird. I went to DLI with a guy who was taking the German course for a PEP tour flying P-3s over there. He finished the course and was given new orders as an Primary IP since the Germans said they're closing shop on P-3s and moving solely to Atlantiques. I dunno.

Theory of "chroma-kinetics". Based on the idea that orange colored objects are able to travel faster. Something to do with light refraction. That's a joke BTW. No clue. High vis either for safety reasons (possibly a range bird?) or just to differentiate the aircraft for purpose of...

Um...NRL...the easiest way to explain what they do...think of it as a "P-3 for hire". Airborned testbed. Shore tour option for VP types. Not bad work, if you don't mind Pax River. My married buds love it, my single buds can't stand it (go figure). Ah, I remember back in the "old days"...

You won't be living high on the hog. As long as you can stand drinking cheap and not blowing excessive amounts of cash, you won't notice it. You'll be studying your ass off of rthe first few years anyway. By the time you have a significant amount of free time, you'll have saved quite a bit of...

Side note: O-1s, don't blow all that fat cash (sarcasm) trying to impress. I spent most of my first year as an O-2 paying off credit card bills staying in "classy joints", eating in "swank restaurants", and drinking "high end booze". La Quinta (which is spanish for "next to the IHOP") and...

False Advertising.

Hahahahahahahahahaha... man I hope that's sarcasm

Did a little research. Turns out there are two FLPP categories, FLPP I and FLPP II. FLPP I is a "career linguist", i.e. enlisted CTI. rates go from 100 to 300 bucks. FLPP II is "others" (like me, man, I always fall into that "others" category...) 50-100 bucks. Odds are, if you are a...

Fvckin aussies...

Language proficiency pay is only available to people who are in a billet requiring that skill, last I heard. It also isn't a lot of cash. 75-125 bucks a month, although that is being evaluated right now. Beer money regardless. If you are in one of these billets, and you already speak the...

Michael Madsen basically saved it. Made me wanna move into a trailer and unclog toilets in a strip club. I'll shut up now.

What? Did that hostess at the Outback on the SPID finally press charges? ZING. Gotcha Stowbo.