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There isn't shit on the web? Did you try here: http://www.airwarriors.com/community/index.php?threads/ocs-and-niobc.40674/ Maybe contact some of the folks who posted on that thread???

What about the BURP; the Basic Unemployed Reservist Pilot? What category do they fall into??

They had a great AFN commercial where you see these guys in camo and face paint with M-4's patrolling through a swamp. They start talking about the importance of weather knowledge and ask the camera "do you have what it takes to join us?' It then shows them inflating a giant international...

This is what I call a normal Tuesday....

The supposed NMCI rule is a printer within 50 feet. Of course, you're in the Reserves, so you don't get a printer until you turn 65 or something like that....

Unless you have a Lexmark desk top printer which was provided by NMCI a few years back. Windows 7 doen't have the driver to support my NMCI printer, so I can't use my NMCI printer on the NMCI network anymore.... NMCI should change their logo so it says "The Fleet Serves Us"!!

Actually, I'm not paid to produce information for a FOIA request, but I still have to do it. My job assignement doesn't say anything about going through years of old records, to include the records of my predecessors to find informaion that someone asked for it. In your case, you have a...

Hey PenguinGal, I saw on Nat Geo Wild that Penguins mate for life....

Flying respot?

I flew an H-60 with a camelback bag like this and it served me well. http://m.camelbak.com/mil-tac-hawg/d/1163_cl_3612

Wink stated he hated the term "boots on the ground". R1 asked him if he had a problem with the word "boots". My post was to simply suggest a reason that he may hate the term "boots" is that poem we were forced to listen to.

Maybe it's a flash back to this ???

Except for the fact that KPS means Kings Point Sucks....

When I got commissioned at Mass Maritime, I was wearing USN Ensign boards vice the midshipman boards my classmates who didn't join the Navy wore. But at Kings Point, everyone gets commissioned since that's the price of a free education.

Do you have a better term to convey the meaning of "boots on the ground"?

So far Japan is only buying F-35A's. It would be tough to operate them from a big deck amphib so unless they change their buy, it will stay helos only.

Holy crap, Cat... you guys were a couple of changes of clothes away from this:

O-4 = loss of spine O-5 = loss of heart O-6 = loss of soul O-7 = loss of perception of reality

I clearly remember the words from my Skipper when I picked up O-4; "you don't stand duty and you get your own parking space".

I would say that communities that have a single site RAG will tend to PCS more since one RAG will supply multiple locations.

Did you talk to your XO? That is the person who will normally work with you and your Detailer (why you're a JO)on your next set of orders. Recommend a drive by to the XO to ask those questions.

Some advice I learned early (and practice to this day), when you stick your head above the grass and take fire, sometimes it's best to just duck and cover. Someone else will stick their head up soon and they'll start drawing fire. Heat on them is heat off you. I learned that was the first...

Like when Super-hinge has to respond to city hall after JOPA-man answers the noise complaint email with brutal honesty.... Sometime a little tact may go a long way in smoothing ruffled feathers.

Sawgrass Country Club (not TPC but probably nicer but without the island hole) has offered free tee times to military folks on Labor day. I'm teeing off at 1330! Played TPC Sawgrass and must say that was the nicest track I've ever played. TPC Virginia Beach used to have internet only...

At least in the Navy, most promotions are usually just the wife and maybe kids. (Unlike some Air Force promotions, where it seems they flew in their entire families; it was like a retirement ceremony with all the family involved) Since the wife is usually the one pinning on the new rank...

Edmunds send a reporter undercover as a car salesman to discover and then report on their tricks. It was pretty informative on how a salesman will attempt to maximize the price without you knowing about it. I would recommend reading it for anyone who is about to walk onto a car lot (new or...

Is this kind of like asking what percentage get jets???

What Flag Officer is willing to throw himself (and his career) on a sword for someone's patch?

We need a "that comment is sure to being a whole bunch of bad karma onto yourself" button!

Being deployed to the other side of the world when your daughter is born has got to be on the list somewhere. PCS'ing every couple of years gets difficult as your kids start making friends. Staff work. That being said, I have no regrets!

My info is dated, but you used to be able to defer student loan payments for your first two years in the Navy. So, you'll be picking up JG (with that raise) about the same time you have to repaying student loans. IIRC, it wasn't a Navy program per se, it was a program within the Student Loan...

I still will occasionally wear the old pin because I don't wear it enough to bother: 1. doing the work to get the Strategic Sealift designation 2. Spend the money to buy a new pin that I might wear once or twice a year .

You don't just have to ship out, you need to keep your license active and be involved in a industry related to you license. And you don't have to wear the enormous pin that I may occasionally wear because no one knows exactly what it is.

Were you one of the knuckleheads who tried to take off during quiet hours during the VP-30 COC with CMPRG on the stage to speak, we're you? So an ACN of 43 means you a P-3 at max gross weight or P-8 with 10 mins of fuel on board... Since the PCN at the worst part is 24 , you'll be less than...

It still boogles my mind that some who can't swim would join the Navy. Army and Air Force OK, but the Navy?

So, you'll be my neighbor??? Isn't O-5 pay great!!

Sounds like you want the San Marco, Lakewood areas. I live about 28 mins to work and got to Mayport today (to go to the beach) in just under 30 mins.

Dude, for $600 you can get a pair of Bates brown shoes, a new pair of Dryjoys golf shoes and a brand new driver. I'm not sure where your priorities lie, but $600 for a pair of shoes is waaaay too much on an Ensign's salary!

The problem with 295 to NAS (over the Buckman Bridge) is when there is a fender bender on Rt 17 heading into the base. Traffic will back up over the hump of the bridge in a heart beat. If you're in Mandarin, you're committed to the Buckman.

FIFY (and citing my source at the 50 second mark)

Hey, it's OK to hate on the P-3, leave NIP out of it!

I sat the Chief's board and I was told that the SCPO and MCPO boards did pictures and were just like the O Boards. If I put out some bad gouge, my bad!

So she's two for two? Flew two platforms and both have been retired????

You have to know where to cash the Per Diem Checks, what to do when the oven catches on fire and where the nearest divert is if you run out of coffee.... lots of responsibility!

A bitching sailor is a happy sailor....

Was this sign posted outside OLF Coupeville?? (Too soon????)

However, an Officers photo is displayed on the screen during every Officer promotion board, so if someone is grossly out of standards, then they may not be selected. Until an Enlistedman is up for Senior Chief does a photo get displayed. For E-2 thru E-6, all that matters is the test and...

For the record, I'd love to attach that picture to all the noise complaint email responses I have to send. The moments of happy satisfaction would soon be outweighed by the ass-pain when the sent my response to the city, the paper, the Region, etc.

Any questions????

I like the neutral polish, the brown was darker than the dye in the leather and it would leave an uneven coloring when I was done if I didn't get the wax layer equal.