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When I sign a special lib chit, I always mapquest the route to check the mileage.

Then why do I have over 1,000 hours in plane guard????

I'm just praying the control station doesn't go through NMCI!

I could see it happening like this: Paddles: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL? HAL: Affirmative, Paddles. I read you. Paddles: You're low, climb, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry, Paddles. I'm afraid I can't do that. Paddles: What's the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as...

But that's half the fun of AW!!!

Rob, PM sent R/ Lumpy

Rumor has it P'cola is still going to have an end of the year airshow with the Blues flying. I don't know how much of their regular show they will do. I heard it from someone who would be in the know about these types of matters.

You did not get misquoted. You do not in itcite discussion by asking "why are they more important than the average warfighter?" A better question would be, "what do you feel the impact on future instructors and their students if the flight hours of today's JO's is cut so far back that they...

Dipping sonar helos would routinely operate in pairs doing ASW. I know we fly dual-ship CSAR and SOF support, but in Vietnam, CSAR was single ship. I don't know when it changed. I've never heard of helo crews training for division lead though.

One thing I try to do is never begrudge someone else if they get a good deal. The Navy, like life, is unfair.

I wanted to send one of my civilians to a school but I can't since the furlough may impact his ability to attend. If "knowing is half the battle" we are obviously losing....

Music makes you a better pilot, just ask Doug Masters....

Somewhere, Otto is weeping....

Having done a fly-in attack and a hover attack, they are not even close to being equal. Nothing is more accurate than a helo with a dipping sonar dropping from a hover.

One's a search platform to track a sub and the other is a localization platform to attack and kill it. Different missions that compliment each other when used effectively. However, you haven't lived until you can announce over ASW C&R for everyone in the Strike Group to hear, "my ball is wet...

As long as Admirals are going to need log runs, you'll always have manned helicopters. You show me the first Admiral who's going to ride a UAV off the boat and I'll show you the last unrestricted 131X.

HAL 9000 does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000

I had one for the H-60 wired into an extension pigtail. I had an enterprising (and thirsty) AT rig it up for me. He also wired in a kill switch, so I could speak on the radio without it going out.

It also conveys magic, which offends my religious beliefs. Some call the IG again!

Cat, If you woke up with your girlfriend AND wife in your girlfriend's apartment in Boston, I would be demanded to have "Rep Points" restablished!!

Palma in the summer.... I don't know if it can get better than that!!

But R1, you were our leadership...

That tops my 10 port call summer Med cruise on the JFK IN 97!

Since you guys will have two Wings worth of students (4 squadrons?) does one Wing bring jets or does both Wings? Since its contact maintenance I would think it would be easier for one Wing to bring the aircraft, tools, parts and maintainers rather than two Wings. So, could a student from Wing...

They got the name of the aircraft right, that's a huge success story for Navy media!!

I did that before when using my IPAD, and went to quickly remove the rating. I sent a PM to ensure the OP realized I made a fat-finger error.

The standard IDTC in the 90's through September 11th 9-11 was a 6 month deployment, followed by a surge period for 3 months, then stand down of about 6 months, Work ups would last approximately 9 months (TSTA I &II, TSTA III/C2X, Airwing Fallon, JTFEX, then deploy again for 6 months. Pre-9/11...

Then how did the carrier schedule work post-Vietnam Nam and pree-9/11??

This debate started as should helo squadrons have a Super JO in the squadron or a position on the CAG staff ( we are not getting both) The decision was that it was better to get our pilots experience on a staff learning something new vice being in a squadron again. On the flying side a CAG...

We're presently riding all our platforms hard and putting them away wet. This will only lead to less maintenance availabilities for our ships. The 6 month deployment every 24 months worked well for 40 years, if it ain't broke, then lets try to find a stupid way to make it less effective!

After reading Spekkio's posts, that's accurate.

Dennis Miller had a rant about how the News went from "getting it first and getting it right" to just getting it first and not worrying about accuracy. I think it also went with the demise of journalists being actual journalists rather than being pretty faces reading teleprompters. Although I...

The closures that towers are facing is not do to sequestration. The Navy shifted a bunch of Air Traffic Controller billets to sea duty, so each NAS got cut about 10-15% of bodies. Each NAS had to propose reductions in service and CNAP, CNAL, CNATRA, CNIC and USFFC all got to pick for a list...

I never heard of a citizen denying the police the opportunity to search for the bomber. If you allow the police in, then the 4th Amendment doesn't apply. Either way, it didn't matter. The police had permission to search home due to the threat to public safety...

Imagine calling your insurance company and trying to file a claim for damage to your boat after a firefight erupts with the bomber hiding in it??? http://gma.yahoo.com/support-replace-boat-ruined-bomber-standoff-165345489--abc-news-topstories.html I can image the different gov't agencies...

I'd like to say "Stroke", but if someone said that today, they'd end up as the subject of an IG investigation...

....In Watertown!

Gitmo?

What about these guys???

Please tell me somebody got a new call sign out of this!

That would explai. Why it's so damned heavy!

The Blues require some support from the host like smoke oil, water, lunch and vehicles. There is an entire pub for supporting the Blues that the host must follow. But compared to what they bring to the show anyone can easily make up those costs through various other means like gate receipts or...

If you ever have a pilot take a dump in one of the gravity sonobuouy tubes (H-60F or H-3) make sure someone covers the top of the tube with something before you "launch" it. The wind can cause 'loose material' in the tubes to fly back up into the cabin/cockpit making a big old mess!

I didn't qualify for P-3's coming out of Whiting, what with my parents being married.....

What??? You don't think they deserve a Navy Cross???? ;)

"We" have to be right 100% of the time and "they" only have to get lucky once. To say that something like this could never happen if people were doing their jobs properly is an incredibly naive opinion considering the types of the threats we are facing.

A little weird is good for the soul, isn't it??

We had an HMX-1 det to support a POTUS visit and I got a tour of the H-3 and got to talk to the Det OIC, an O-4 which is where I got my info. Additionally, it's tougher to come by H-3 parts these days. H-60 parts can be pretty much found at your local quickie-mart now....

The H-3's remain east of the Rockies. Anything outside of that area will be H-60's. To put the H-3 in a C-17/C-5, you have to take the rotor head off and that means an FCF after you get it put back together. An H-60 can fit inside without needing an FCF on the back-end.

I went into a Marine-1 H-3, I was very UNDERwhelmed with the cockpit. The cabin was nice, but was a bit less than I expected.