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If you are posting on a website where your profile identifies yourself as a Naval Officer (and for the record the OP's profile does NOT list being a commissioned officer or member of the military) the opening criticizing the President would, IMO, be wrong. If you don't identify yourself as a...

I used to be able to log into Sailor Bob, but now my log-in is no longer working... (Too many SWO jokes to make right now!)

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Some people are naturally tools. Some people turn into tools when they get power. Some people turn into tool to conform with what is expected. Some people do not turn into tools.

I live on the other side of the bridge (San Marco area) and I can go either through downtown or over the Buckman (bridge south of base) in equal time. It's not the accidents on the bridge that cause problems, it's the accidents on Rt 17 just before the gates that cause the huge back-ups...

Now if we can convince our enemies to have a big orange net on their ships, we'll be all set!

This article does not address recruitment, it addresses retention. The Air Force is offering bonuses to keep their pilots in the service, much like the Navy has done previously.

What about Delta...??? http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2013-07-13/story/plane-guantanamo-skids-nas-jacksonville-runway-167-passengers-ok

Base Ops O calls the Squadron Ops O and starts the conversation with "trust me, this is not my idea..." Shortly after, Skippers are calling each other....

VP-30 made the Navy look good yesterday (at the expense of the Air Force, no less). BZ to the Pro's Nest! http://www.politico.com/morningdefense/0713/morningdefense11171.html (See 4th story down)

At my winging in the HT's each service toasted the other services at the "Over Tourque". (I know this is a HT standard, I don't know if the VT's do it at thier wingings) I do remember the Coast Guard Officer toasted the Marines Corps with "To the Marines... may your careers be as long and...

The more messed up part was while CNO, Zumwalt advocated for smaller cheaper vessels ( which eventually became the OHP FFG) vice the expensive, do-everything ship. So what do we name after the man who did not want the high-end, super-expensive ship????

Holy crap, R1 can read???

So, who was covering Plane Guard, a FireScout?

Do you really think that 15 LTs, even with the CNO's ear, is going to unfuck the acquisitions process?

Never speak in “definites” when dealing with the gov't.

can't hit 'like' enough.....

A few years back in the late 90's a bunch of RAG IP's were sitting around and wondering what happened to Naval Aviation. The folks coming into the community seemed different from who we were and those who went before us. One IP who's now an O-6 on his way to major command said that somewhere...

R1, Reading the info on the CRIC: Disruptive Thinkers is a select 15-member working group comprised of emerging junior leaders from across the Navy tasked with developing unorthodox technological, tactical and policy solutions that can be rapidly fielded in support of the Fleet. The group is...

I love the answer of when the TFR's will be lifted. Well, the first squadron deploys in December... so we hope by then!

I was referring to the Tomcat. I used "does" which conveys present so I can understand the confusion.

I'll defer to the guys who actually design aircraft, but if sweeping the wings were better or easier, then we'd have all our aircraft with that system. Since all but 1 does folded wings, I'd bet that is the better method.

To echo Flash, a lot of the problem answering your question is that the jobs vary in levels of pain. A couple of buddies did protocol for the Chairman and loved it. I know some guys who did J-5 writing the JSCP, NDS, NMS and the GEF and they would take unaccompanied orders to anywhere to get...

On the flip side, during Primary, my On Wing asked me if I would be OK flying helicopters? (It might have been right after a very 'firm' landing....)

There was an F-35 in the pattern at NPA Saturday morning, in form with 2 hornets tight and one in loose trail (taking photos?). They overflow me on the course 3 times. Please let the record show that my crappy score was directly due to being distracted by the F-35... (That's my story and I'm...

Maybe because its a bunch of JO's and they don't have message release authority?

Let me see if I have followed this thread correctly: The Marines got new cammies (which may or may not be a copy of a Canadian cammie pattern) which everyone likes, but they won't share. The Army spend a shit-ton of $$$ and screwed it up. The Air Force tried to outdo the Army and now has green...

Since there is only one "random capital fairy" (by you use of "the" rather than "a") that would make it a proper noun, therefore shouldn't it be capitalized (Random Capital Fairy)??? :)

Which is OK for a flight suit since it's flame retardant. It was NWU's you'd have a 'screaming Class A' fire on your hands!

Of course SECNAV wants to get rid of the uniform. All that money the Navy wasted on developing uniforms could have been better spent on $26 a gallon biofuel for the ships!!!

You can only go so far telling the complainers to shut up before you get a letter from the local Congressman. It's less of a hassle to placate the few who habitually complain than to deal with a Congressional inquiry. Trust me on this one...,

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Kow, I see you have the Casa and the Falcon in your pics. When's the Falcon going away?

I'm going to fly in via simulator. It provides the same quality of training as actually flying, or at least that what it said on the bottle of kool-aide I just drank....

Up at NWC our staff SEAL used to be an S-3 NFO then went to BUDS.

If you don't like sarcasm, then you may not like this site and you may hate being in the military!

Who?? Never heard of MB...

I knew a couple at NWC. They did enjoy it, but for a while it was a gaurenteed IA filler. Your community will release you to go than IA and the PMP folks would catch you a year later. The only down side was getting selected for a topic that you're not excited about (hello, Ops Analysis) but...

I shot down a couple of P-3's in the 60H sim with Hellfire. I had a smile on my face for a couple of days after that!!!

The policy is not waived, just not being enforced.

NOB had the same requirement. If you had your car registered in a state that didn't require an inspection (like Florida) then you had to get a Virginia inspection and emissions check to get a base sticker. Then the base got a new a JAG who explained that what the base required was illegal. He...

This looks just like Barnett's "Core and Gap" map or the earth seen at night.

I read a book about that concept once.

Pre-merge it was not fun. Post-merge (with the helo turn rate) it was a lot of fun. And then he dropped a bomb on me.....

You can hang a sidewinder on the M-299 rail which the H-60 uses for Hellfire. When we first heard about it in the mid-90's senior leadership told JOPA to never thing about it. Imagine the PG helo being loaded out for Air to Subsurface (torp), Air to Surface (hellfire) and Air to Air all at the...

The F-117;' there was no F'ing way that aircraft was an F'ing F!!!

For the Triton, it will be MPRA shore duty at lest according to the Triton FIT.

I would guess JPALS since it is the future system of record tied into a data link to give the ship's posit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Precision_Approach_and_Landing_System

That's right, we are all risking our lives to protect this guy's way of life....

I'm hearing that they'll be P-3 airframes at Jax until 2017. And everything always runs on schedule in the acquisition world...