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I saw 5 that I knew. I guess my YG was the prime applicants...

I know they haven't sent anyone yet, but they keep saying that they are looking for someone to "go there" in the next year. I know blue dollars buy the aircraft for the Marine Corp however I had also been told that the Navy has committed for up to 35 to keep in the Navy...but then where would...

OH and here are my first squadrons patches!

phrog- I've heard a lot of rumors of a Navy guy going down and flying w/the FRS for a few years - sort of a try it out for the community. Have you ever heard of that? The reasoning was that they keep throwing the V-22 into the mix as a COD replacement, but want a COD guys take after flying...

In todays age, it depends on your platform. My first 2 cruises I flew S-3's and left my shore tour with 349 total traps. Now I fly the COD and on my last COD cruise (I only did 4 months of the cruise) I got ~25. On my second COD cruise now and the pace is about the same - ~25-35 for cruise...

What is the harm in applying? I would venture that many prior Enlisted Officers have had brushes with the man in their past. What would stand out on your application is how you have performed since then (quals, etc), your evals and Interview boards. Being successful after being "off track" is...

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Yeah, I did too. I'm back here again, but they deleted my old acct so I have to make a new rule. I guess the transient rate is so high that after 1 month of no activity they delete your acct.

NMCI ain't got Sh*T on One-Net. "Notice of intent to cancel the notice to cancel the notice that we intend to send after we finish cancelling the last one". Oh and the CO's Secretary in BAH sends more e-mail than anyone else on earth...

My ride is generally considered to be solar powered! :) The COD does not conduct shipboard ops after sunset (no launch w/in an hour of sunset). However IMC Doesn't effect us. If the wx is bad enough for the ship to canx flight ops, there will be a COD inbound, I guarantee it!

People making a Naval Aviation website their own personal U-Tube, funny video, pop culture trash posting place. Keep it relevant and I won't hack it right the F*ck out and close it. Keep doing it and I'll hack you right the F*ck out. Think I'm just having a bad day? I'm deployed so of...

Djibouti, Thumrait, HST, JCS, GW, RGN, ENT, IKE, JFK, TR.

No, I thought it too HAL... That's the only reason I'm here. :)

Concur, I like to use the IMC BINGO #'s when the divert was 200+ NM away, Always made it a bit close... I'm heading back there tonight to join Det 4 and swap out w/the AOIC. He's gotta roll...

KMAC - Most of our AC are more 38.5 than 38. It was the TCAS/TAWS mod that pushed it to that. I use 38.5 as my personal rule and use that example when I am teaching the rule. Do you guys run into the rule of 11 often? I've only really seen it when doing the long OEF hits out of OBBI and I...

Rule of 11... (10.5 now) :D I know the questions wasn't for me, but let's see if anyone can figure out what that Rule is...

You cannot predict the 'timing' of these things. OCS is often used as a shock absorber of sorts. If the Navy needs more Officers than ROTC & the Academy will provide, then they open up the floodgates. If ROTC & the Academy are providing ample bodies for the year, OCS becomes very competitive...

16-98 Here, we had about a 50% attrition too. If I remember right, once you began rolling classes, the chance that you would commission went down dramatically. No matter what the reason for the roll...

WannaGoFast beat you to it!

Welcome to Airwarriors Sir! I hope that you find it interesting and worth you sharing some sea stories with the rest of us. I think that many on the site will benefit from your experiences, advice & stories.

Outstanding Memorial Service today, VAW-120 sent their shipmates off with lots of class and dignity. I would venture that there was well over 800 there. The Chapel was filled and overflowed into Bldg C9. People flew in from every corner of the globe. Australia, Japan, all the TRACOM's, etc.

I think we can just leave it where it is at right now.

Don't put it off too late, I called a month ago in Norfolk for an appt and got Sept 18th as the earliest. Pics are supposed to be due by Sept 30...

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I sold Cellphones while I attended the Police Academy, then I just sold cell phones waiting to get on with the Navy. The whole police academy thing was a backup to the backup. Police claim to fame? I managed to talk my way into being admitted to the police academy with 13 speeding tickets...

I can accept your point for those NFO's that have co-pilot duties, but I will argue that there are more valid measures of experience for an NFO. My comments and views on this have come from having an NFO skipper get acknowledged for 1,000 traps when hundreds of his traps were in the BACK SEAT...

Um, Ok. But I don't wanna do it by myself. Do you count your landings when you fly as an FE? All I was trying to get at is... Well I guess if you didn't get it the first time you wont. My aircrew don't count traps because, well because they don't. I think they just care about how many...

I have eaten at the Del Taco @ the NEX in Pax. It was there as of 1 year ago! EDIT: The Del Taco Locator Use the ZIP Code of 20670

If you were refering to my post, I think A. The sarcastic and teasing intent my post was pretty blatant B. I spent most of my flying career with NFO's C. If you are in a tube (or obstructed back seat) and have no influence on the pass, I will laugh at you for counting traps. If you...

Congrats! A buddy's wife is a -60 pilot in E-City and likes it a lot!

[Good Natured ribbing] oh gosh, what cliche' can I put in - Self loading bagage? GIB? Ballast? NFO's have a valid job but they don't fly the plane & they don't get traps. Of course most NFO's still count their traps, even if their in the back. (Congrats, you have had a pilot not kill...

Very nice. Thanks!

This would be a great thing to post in the private transitions or Private Naval Aviators Forum. I have been doing that math myself as I contemplate the stay or go decision. The math isn't the same as when I joined and can be eye opening... I would like to see some of his results to compare to...

I'd go as long as it doesn't conflict with the sweet ass deployment I have planned...

Awesome day, Congrats - And do write the "how to" book. My son is 3 and daughter is less than 1. I have 20+ years to make that happen in my family!

Philisophically, I suggest you wait to see if you get picked up for AMDO. If not, then no problem and you can re-apply to IW. If you do get picked up for AMDO, then you have some thinking to do. As for correcting the mistake, I defer to those who have applied more recently. My advice is...

So how was it?

I didn't think we would let them trap (reference the De Gaule thread from a few months ago), but apparently it is fine to trap the Rafaels & French E-2's. Nice video, thanks!

My wife saw one of these helo's & guys working yesterday on the powerlines that parrallel the James River Bridge. They were putting those "balls" on the wires that you see sometimes. I think it would be cool to try that, but then I really think about it and NO WAY!

I bet they were both E-2 guys. Not too many COD guys are going to give up the lifestyle once they are exposed to it!

Nice job Kmac - you said all that and a bag of snacks. There has been lots of discussions about the follow on aircraft for the C-2A for several years now. The first round of AOA has been done and the V-22 was NOT the winner, the recommendation was for the follow on airframe to be a new design...

Just producing an identical C-2 with upgraded avionics would not meet the desires of the navy today. The C-2B should be the "next Generation" COD. There needs to be improvements in range, efficiencies, countermeasures, and a variety of capabilities. It is often mentioned that the next COD...

Hornet guys eating the young again, 'eh? It will get better after the RAG, it will always get better after the RAG.

You are mistaken.

I have flown 2 of the best kept secrets in the Navy & have had a great fucking time doing it. No one claimed either one was glamorous...Get beyond the flash and the hype and do what you want to do. If you can't get beyond it, you won't be happy & we don't want you in our community.

Have you tried here? It list's an index that goes back to 1999... They list a March 1999 issue.

Most COD Guys do have TS/SCI elgibility, but don't have the need to know so it isn't "active".

Congrats OS3! Great news. How did you get the word? Your CO? I'm asking because one of my troopers has a package in and BUPERS won't tell me but the CO is on travel for a few days. Of course he's at the Bureau and I'm sure they won't be able to get word to him there. To obvious...

The board was pretty brutal for the C-2 Community this year. Several assumed future DH's didn't make it. Next year is going to be even tougher. I'm on that board and who knows what will happen. I would love to hear Bunky's take on it, but this is how I see it... The crux of the problem is...

That is what I was trying to get at in my earlier posts, but I am not so elegant/conversant in the words. The COD community still uses the OAG name and we attend the SSWG & the GAT meetings. We debate endlessly via e-mail our top 10 lists and then match them w/our counterparts on the west...