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how do you know that the F-16's weren't lasing for themselves? how do you even know if they were GBU-12's? they might have been GBU-38's ...

bash this me if this has been posted before ... but it's sss-uper! (requires powerpoint to view)

Phrong, i don't envy you ... good luck. 2 1/2 hour drive to an all-hands Ball ... is it going to be a mando-fun Ball? because i can see a couple cheap-skate drunk Marines saying they aren't gonna pay for a room & try to drive back to base. just my opinion, but driving far distances for a...

it's an "event" marker ... shows up on your HUD tape when you squeeze the trigger

guess the "break off gun attacks at 1000ft" ACM training rule did not apply? does anybody know what the setup/PADS were? if it was a legitimate 1v1 guns kill on a Raptor then props to the SH driver. S/F

Brett might act like a middle schooler from time to time but i can assure you he isn't in middle school

my advice to all the dudes who haven't started flight school yet in P'cola (and even to the ones in flight school) is to scrap that newbie TBS motivation off of yourself and enjoy, guilt free, all the free time you have because the Corps & the Navy will get there's when you get to the fleet...

for all you motivators ... MARADMIN 107/06 ««---------------------------------------------------------------------»» Date signed: 03/02/2006 MARADMIN Number: 107/06 Subject: FIXED-WING AND ROTARY-WING PILOT TRANSITION INTO THE MV22 R 020054Z MAR 06 FM CMC WASHINGTON DC(UC) TO...

yea, stop drinking Rumsfeld Kool-Aid. and don't lecture me about "Operational Maneuver from the Sea" and other "visons" the Marines have, i've been in the Corps 14 years (6 of them flying), i know all about them. besides, if i was talking about stuff i'd "like to have" for war, i'd be wishing...

from the stuff i've seen, the JSF B will be the least capable of the three versions. it doesn't have an internal gun, but a strap-on gun, which will take away it's low RCS, but that won't matter because whatever low RCS it has will be nullified by the external fuel tanks it's going to need in...

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i figured he flew (our MAG CO flies weekly) but not on combat missions. learn somethin everyday ... still pretty convenient that he flew "the last recovery of an F-14 Tomcat from a combat mission" though - good for the bio S/F

i grew up watching MTV, and i still watch it from time to time, guess i'm jacked up too. America has a lot more issues than MTV. we should start with foreign policy and work backwards ... when we realize countries like Israel & China are stabbing us in the back on a daily basis, we'll be getting...

CAG on a combat mission, hmm ... similar to the MEU CO that went on the Helo ride into Yugo to pull out O'Grady ... RHIP, i guess, gotta get the accolades, & it's great for morale "O-6 shot down", press would have a hay-day and what counts in end is how your bio reads .... S/F

cough cough ... let me see if i can do this ... <clear my throat>, take a sip of kool aid ... "Skipper, thank you sir for welcoming me to my first gun squadron ... my plans sir?, well, on my first tour i want to get my section lead, my division lead, & my ACTI, as well as be the first one to...

the best IA tours going right now, at least in the Corps, are the ones that pull you from your fleet flying squadron and place you in the Horn of Africa or even worse, a joint billet with the Army in Iraq, while still on those DIFOP orders ... thinking out loud <put'n out some serious chaff...

just to throw it out, as this engagement spirals outta control rapidly towards the deck ... nothing within this thread was taken personal by me, if i said something somebody took personal, well, grow some skin :) ... and i enjoyed the discussion with Dave have a happy New Years fellas! out...

ACM training rules of today states max of 8 in one engagment ... no more "furballs" :( but hell, i have hard enough time though keeping track of two bandits & a wingman in a 2v2! totally agree. BFM/ACM also compresses time requiring you to make quicker decisions & reactions ... go do a...

i'll be receiving social security before the Corps gets the JSF ... i flew for the "B team" at K-Rock and now i'm stuck flying a "JV" jet in the fleet, i guess i'm fucked nobody to banter with here in BFT, we all fly the same jet. i can't imagine what the O-Clubs at Miramar, El Toro, Oceana...

my bad, i didn't know you've been in the fleet flying fighters since 1988. if, on the other hand, you enlisted in 1988 but have only been flying the SH for a few months now, which is what i suspect is the case here, then i stand by what i said ... you shouldn't be making blanket statements...

maybe when you have more time in the fleet than you do in the training command you can call me & my beloved F/A-18C junior varsity :) it's funny, and sad, that Boeing & NAVAIR took the slowest 4th Gen fighter in the world and made it slower. great avionics though, and it's new, a part me...

i'm sure the grunts on the ground would take whatever CAS they could get, but i'm with Skidkid on this one ... all of the Marine FACs i've talked with who were in Iraq said they'd rather have Marine air on station when it comes to close air support. the common theme was the AirFarce, to include...

if somebody was to ask me which service i would recommend to go fly in, i'd say the AF. why? the Air Farce main focus is the air; the air is a side note for the Navy & Marines. an AF pilot goes to work and his main job is to fly & he gets good at that. a squid or jarhead pilot goes to work...

i saw a shіtload of them parked at New River when i flew over a couple weeks ago the following is just FYI ... has "Skidkid's" name written all over it :) R 121000Z DEC 05 FM CMC WASHINGTON DC(UC) TO AL MARADMIN(UC) UNCLASSIFIED MARADMIN 585/05 MSGID/GENADMIN/CMC WASHINGTON DC AVN//...

don't remember, i haven't been to the range since TBS, 6 years ago S/F

i figured my post wouldn't go over well with the unionites around here. maybe the truth hurts, dunno. i am ignorant as to the airline situation because, well, in the grand scheme of my life, i could give a shіt about it. i have no intention of going to the airlines when i'm done flying fighters...

standard union response "management fucking it up", a favorite of mine realize when you point your finger at somebody else to make excuses, you have three fingers pointing at yourself i've worked for two different unions in my prior life, second favorite qoute at my teamsters job i had was...

Harrier Down Off Florida pilot ok S/F

F/A-18C is JV? LOL, shut up and give me some gas! and fix those canted pylons, maybe then you can outperform me :) S/F!

the Hornet doesn't have slats

hornet does fairly good at low alt with 2 or 3k of gas (coming in for the break), don't need to ramp downhill to get 550+ in mil somebody asked what the "hum" was ... above around 500knots (low Alt), the hornet "hums", called the "hornet hum", you'd have to hear it to understand it Brett...

so i had a boring day at the office today, not scheduled to fly, so i decided to look up how many Marine Generals we currently have and what they flew. i used the General Officer Biographies on the USMC homepage as a guide. i won't promise the accuracy of the below information because, well, i...

well, what i'm getting at is why start a thread with "AH-1 shot down", then reference a news article that says nothing about it being shot down, just that it crashed. i've seen the open source news articles pointing to it being shot down. it's just annoying to see people jumping to conclusions...

could you point me to the news article that states it was shot down? or are you just guessing?

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the Marine Officer selection/promotion board is made up of 10 officers - 4 Fighter/Attack pilots, 1 helo, 1 herc & 1 attack pilot, 2 ground guys, and one WSO/NFO ... the promotion board gets all the names of Officers that are in the zone for promotion and there are only a certain amount of...

i think the more appropriate question is why does the Navy have an "air force"? i mean, the Navy does such a good job at taxiing our ground Marines and some of our harriers & helos around the world, why not just get rid of the Navy "air force" as a whole and put all Marine air on amphibs &...

I'd like to take this time and thank all the Navy Hornet squadrons who, due to the practice of bag'n traps, have trapped out their high lot F/A-18C's (with all the fancy avionics & big motors) and have had to trade them to the Marine Corps for our piece o sh!t F/A-18A's & low lot F/A-18C's. Keep...

To be honest, I see those dignitaries flying in the Osprey more of propaganda than as education, my opinion. In educating, I meant is there anybody going around to squadrons and giving PME briefs as to the capabilities, safety, etc or has there been any Osprey sim time dedicated to PME? We get...

yes but no, and yes he was S/F

Phrog, There is a lot of bad gouge floating around about the Osprey, how much educating (safety, pros/cons, etc) is being done with current 46 & 53 drivers who in the future will be transitioning to the Osprey? I ask because recently I was talking with a good buddy of mine, 1000+ hrs & 2...

4G's/350knots in the overhead & externals should be empty before hard manuevering, otherwise there are no restrictions on the A+/C/D ... and it seems only the Marine Corps is practicing this because I've seen some squid hornets in the last year coming in at the "speed of heat" S/F

no sh!t bro

interesting course, very informative, 'bout gouged my eyes out though with some of the topics covered. the married couple, interesting people for sure, best part of the course IMO, next to the little "tour" S/F

Steve, not as unethical as local property owners & rental companies conveniently charging the exact amount for their houses or apartments as that of local BAH prices instead of what the property is really worth. i respectfully disagree with you. i used the military clause several times but i...

i wonder if there is any polarized protection to protect me from the radiation hazard of the APG-65/73? my nutts get fried from the back lobes everytime i turn that thing on ... a side note, what A4sForever said - my visor goes up during any air-air engagements S/F

then why would the fella need 16 jets? why not three, two to fly & one to can parts from? the whole idea is wishful thinking; i agree with brett semper fi

new rules for jarheads is we don't have to wear a cover off base while in a vehicle, only on base unless it is a safety hazard ... and just to throw it out there, Marines don't salute while un-covered. i've heard of non-offficers (wives, etc) who happen to be driving a car with a blue DOD...

my 2¢ worth on the topic ... i think most junior enlisted Marines aren't gaffing the salute off. you know it when you are getting gaffed off. besides, most jr enlisted Marines haven't even seen many officers, majority haven't seen one in a flight suit. it's not easy to see the rank on the...

saw one station here in the Low Country of SC with a price of $3.69 for 87 Octane ... most others are sitting around $3.25 .... two days ago the avg was around $2.49 guess i'll buy me a bike S/F