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My two cents: The Guard will pay for flight school and you'll be a pilot in the Guard. That means free flight hours. Or you can join the Guard and be a ground-pounder and pay to fly on your own. Since 50% of Navy pilots are helo pilots, you have as more of a chance of flying helos than...

You have to read "between the lines"....

Set the proverbial hook sooner rather than later?

http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Principles-War-Anthony-McIvor/dp/1591144817

But that is the trade-off between the Naval Services and the land components. The Marine Corps is designed to win battles, the Army is designed to win wars. So, if the requirement is only speed for a "drive by" then the CSG or ARG/MEU is enough. If the requirement is sustained power projection...

Well, the USS CONSTITUTION is still listed on the Naval Vessel Register as an active ship in commission... http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/active/fleet.htm She's 13-0 in battle and expirienced in counter-piracy (Barbary Pirates), I think C5F is missing out on a great capability with Old...

I would not equate my position to that of Ron Paul. I don't believe in the isolationist position he takes. Since our economy is dependent on the global trade of goods, world stability is in our national interests. Like Mario Puzzo wrote in The Godfather, "you can't make money, when you have...

There was a 10 year period between the fall of the Berlin wall and 9/11. During that 10 years there wasn't much emphasis on drawing down the forces assigned to EUCOM. When Rumsfeld became SECDEF, part of his plan for Transformation was to bring more units home and PrePo more gear around the...

We offered up a carrier... http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57363407/u.s-to-keep-11-aircraft-carriers/

It seems that the Stolen Valor Act may be revisited. http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2012/mar/20/4/lawsuit-newest-weapon-against-fake-seals-ar-382858/ If the case can be made that the individuals benefitted financially by claiming to be SEALS, then that could be fraud. But, does lying on...

Proves the old adage, the only spectacular thing you can do in a helicopter is crash!

I'm not old, but I have spoken to lots of "old" people...

The 60B, F & H were all build with floatation bags located at the top of the forward strut for the main landing gear. It was orginally designed to use helium which would increase the bouyancy but when the Navy got a hold of it, they used nitrogen. The bags when inflated covered the bottom 1/3 of...

Except for that one time an H-3 had a water landing on the AUTEC range down in the Bahamas. The range boat crew decided they would 'tow' the H-3 back to the beach. Well, the story ends with the H-3 filling with water and sinking so rapidly that the range boat got dragged down with it...

Did you mean a rich nymphomaniac, whose father own a liquor store?

Back to a happy place.... please note she is sporting wings!

I know a guy who started helos but then switched to Hornets and still got command, but he is the exception. A few of my thoughts are: Switching can be viewed as deserting your present community by some CO's. These are the same CO's who view dropping a FTS package in the same light. Each...

Orders in hand, NAS Jax bound this summer!

I could see this going bad... a PC picks his nose and a UAV helo departs from present position...

From the article: Instead, Tom Cruise is set to return in the starring role as a test pilot for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter — a plane that could well be the last manned fighter aircraft made in the West. Am I the only one who thought Maverick at the controls of a Reaper or a BAMS-D would...

So if I change my name to Daniel Seymore will that increase my chances of getting jets?

Fog, if I missed your point, I apologize. I agree that trying to build a nation to a culture that really doesn't acknowledge a leadership hierarchy above the tribal leader; reinforced by a religion that doesn't have an organized C2 architecture above the local leaders (unlike many of the...

Fog, Not saying your thoughts are wrong, but the Geneva Convention says if you remove a gov't, then you are responsbile for the population until a new gov't is installed. I'll concede we made lots of errors, but in removing the Taliban, the gov't of Afghanistan, then as GEN Collin Powell...

So suppose a person in a wheelchair rolls into NavyOffRec office and says he wants to be a pilot... telling him we can't hire him would violate the American's with Disability Act, wouldn't it??? Let's look at the facts of the story the OP wrote. He was pulled over, arrested and charged with a...

That would be illegal, therefore the Navy could not do it.

So, since my lobotomy, I obviously can't think for myself anymore. Please give me a reason then that the Navy is acting in this manner. Is Navy leadership just a bunch of hypocrites who out just looking to screw over subordinates only to advance their own career (as some have stated) or is...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/10/worlds-first-nuclear-powered-aircraft-carrier-big-e-makes-final-voyage/?test=latestnews The story comments on whether there will be another ENTERPRISE. There better be! There are only a few historic ship names that we've used repeatedly through our 236...

Which means you can't go to jail for a crime without a trial. Try this one: you walk into your bosses office and call him a fucking ass-hole and make diparaging comments about his wife. He fires you. BUT, what about freedom of speech??? According to the point you are trying to make, your...

Not disagreeing, but casualties is a cost of doing business in combat. Kicking folks out for a civil matter is a bit different. My use of expendable is as an "admin loss" vice a "combat loss" but I do see your point.

That statement is way too broad to be accurate. I know a couple of guys who were IN the military, got arrested and 'charged' with a DUI but then had the charges dropped. Until they were dropped the individuals lost their security clearances so they could not fly until the matter was fully...

Is being drunk in public a crime? If so, then you can be arrested. If you are arrested for an alcohol related incident the Navy comes down hard, regardless of what the actual incidet was. But to reference your argument, I think your issue is with Texas law: Section 49.02 of the Texas Penal...

I won't say "definitive" but go to the BUPERS website: https://secure.bol.navy.mil/menu.aspx You want to look at the links for 1. ODC, OSR, PSR, ESR 2. Official Military Personnel File. You can have disparity between the two. For example, one of my awards is mission in my ODC, but the...

Do you really think that the offender only drank and drove one time and happened to be caught this one time? Yes, he was caught once, but I was hazard to guess this was not the ONLY time in life that the OP had a couple of drinks and decided to drive home. Kind of like when the Navy has a...

Do you really think Navy leadership just woke up one day and said, screw it, we're going to punish folks who did stuff that we no longer approve of even though we used to do it? Or could it have been a change in the social acceptability of a DUI (society as a whole changed, not just the Navy)...

If you know Boeing is in Seattle, but don't know the exact building, odds are that pilots would target industrial looking buildings in hopes of hitting a high payoff target. So, it makes sense to plade camouflage nets over the building to complicate the targetting process if Japan was able to...

Investigation complete. The survivor will not go to Court Martial.

Or this:

Admiral King (CNO/CINCFleet) during WWII issued a directive that addressed the micromanagement and failure to develop future leaders by not trusting them. He wrote this 11 months BEFORE the attack on Pearl Harbor. I ask you how much of what he cautions against is evident in today's Navy and...

Should we have a breathalyzer app for AW? It may keep HAL from drunk posting while he's in Sydney next time drinking (and mocking us) Just a thought.... :)

I think I remember hearing that NPC formally put out that a 90-day (or less) gap in FITREPs is not considered adverse. I found an old message that stated that less than a 90 day gap is OK. Anything greater than 90 days will cause the system to flag your record. A google search for a bunch of...

My Google-Fu is weak. I've been searching on line and in AW for about 40 minutes to find the video of the minibike formation at a Blue Angle event. Can anyone provide a link to the video?

This comes in white, so it can be worn with khakis... http://www.cafepress.com/+ensigns_should_bebr_seen_not_heard,68328045

I asume you will be wear khakis or NWU's to work on days you are not on the flight schedule since you are going "to lead from the front" as you wrote.

Well, there used to be wiggle room....

When I was at Camp As Salaya the CSM stated at Indoc that no one was supposed to wear "those glory badges" because we were in Qatar and it was a war zone! 5 minutes later he made it a point that no one was supposed to have any IR glint flags on their uniforms because we weren't in a war zone...

Could this bea "shaping fire" like the Navy recently employed when saying we might have to go to 10 carrier from our present 11. This might be a way to get specific Senators and Congressmen involed in the fight on the DOD's side.

A masters degree is a check in the block for promotion to O-4. If you already have it and do JPME thru distance education, then you maybe able to get a tour at the Pentagon or other hard duty that may make your record a little stronger than some of your competition when you are up for command...

So it looks like Blackberry service was shut off in the Pentagon. Why do I have a feeling that staffs everywhere were able to have a productive Friday since there was no tasking coming down from on high???

Not sure how you define "strategic corporal" but I have always heard (and used) it in reference to a low-ranking member of the military taking an action that has negative impacts at the strategic level. The guards at Abu Ghraib, the personnel involved in the Koran burning, or other similair...

But if the issue is whether the present administration will go after people they feel are harming the country, then it is relavant. If you make the argument that the actions of these individuals have compromised the safety of U.S. servicemembers in harms way (which is evident by the fact that...