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i was in 101 a couple years ago S/F

i thought the JSF was being developed by Lockheed Martin strap the external gun on the JSF & out the window goes stealth, not to mention even less performance & range due to the extra drag. why not an internal gun? because it's already overweight yea they were here also though i didn't fly the...

true true the Corps is banking on the E-JSF to replace the Prowler, sometime around 2015+ ... the JSF should start replacing Harriers & Hornets around 2012, with the last Hornets staying around until around 2020 no internal gun, less ordnance than the Hornet, less range & performance than...

four Capts & a govt van, we drove out there & took it ... anyways, NPA looks like a war-zone, first time i'd been there since the hurricanes ... shoulda got a pic of the Gym, or what's left of it S/F

MATSG Building sad, but i kinda chuckled at the sign ... S/F

it's sad that the performance of the STOVL JSF will be no better, and probably worse than the F/A-18C ... S/F

being from the "B" team at K-Rock, i used to make fun of T-45C guys & their VV's & all, until i got into the Hornet, now i don't ever want to fly without one ... you's guys who've never flown with one, don't knock it till you tried it :) S/F

hmm, "severe braking problem", news to me ... sh1t i'm more worried about planning link failure on landing than i am the brakes or anti-skid sh1tting themselves. the planning link issue has been killing hornet pilots & crashing jets for 15+ years now, and they still haven't fixed it (don't know...

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the best explosion has to be CBUs, only thing better than a CBU explosion was watching 8 of them going off at the same time ... napal, i mean firebombs are only cool in the movies, i was dissapointed at them (from the air that is, i wouldn't want to be on the recieving end of them) as for...

i wasn't trying to be funny. 14 years of Marine Corps service & 5 deployments later, the advice i gave you is what i would tell anybody asking for similar advice, whether it's on a forum or face to face. oh, and i'm happily married myself good luck S/F

I love it ... dudes come in here requesting advice on when to get married during flight school, the women here get all googly eyed with the topic of weddings & marriages and get all bent out of shape when guys reply with "don't do it" and "you should wait" and "many more women await at airshows"...

Video ... WMV file, 16MB/2:14 HA BFM against an F-15C ... butterfly set, 1/0/2/guns for loadouts, 2 valid shots for a kill ... F-15C slick, Hornet single centerline tank S/F

na, not really, i could care less as it was 4 years ago and nobody in the fleet gives a crap how well you did in the T-45 at the boat ... by the way, congrates to all who qualed, big accomplishment S/F

why? i had a 3.0 at the boat with no bolters or W/Os when i qualed in the T-45, and was top hook, but nobody kissed my ass, or is it because it's a chick? i got winged with a chick who had 1 DQ & 5 downs (and got Hornets) ... nobody kissed her ass? S/F

you gotta love the Marine Corps ... it sponsers events like the X Games & a car in NASCAR, it actively recruits hard charge'n & risk take'n individuals, it has commercials on TV of men fighting monsters & rock climbing huge gorges as they turn into a Marine, but it'll punish the hell out of you...

compared to an 18D? come on man, why not to a 18C also? ohhhh, i know why, a little bias showing for the two seater, eh ... no worries, we single seat Hornets have WSO's too, we just have to load them on TAMPS and then carry them out to the jet :D. just kidding mate, just having some good clean...

true, the Harriers are the newest aircraft in the Marine Corps inventory, but explain to me how it is a formidable weapon?

i had three buddies wash out of flight school (2 out of primary, the other out of jets) ... two got Air Intel and one got MO. that was 4 years ago though i'm a damn idiot, and publically educated, if i can make it, most people can, just gotta have a good attitude (and not suck) S/F

Marine Corps still uses Mk-77 Firebombs

tanking off of the Omega is cake compared to the Iron Maiden. you stab at the Iron Maiden and you are loosing a Probe tip or worse, an AOA probe, as well as it leaving its mark on the side of your jet. funny story about OPSEC ... i stayed out in town near Osan, Korea once for a few days...

i stared at that picture for awhile looking for the F-35 at the base of the island, but all i could find was a Helo with a pretty large piece of FOD sitting just in front it ... S/F

don't you "hold" when you hit the marshal stack at the boat? S/F

actually, one of those dudes i met after flight school ... so really 4 guys from flight school & one guy after i hit the fleet "keeping it real", it fit the post, and after the 6 double Makers Mark n Cokes, i couldn't think of anything else to use S/F

just to throw it out, i'm a little over half-way through my first fleet tour and I know 5 dudes (two good friends & the other 3 acquaintances) from my flight school days that are dead now due to non-combat mishaps ... call it want you want, i call it sobering. think of safety standdowns as a...

don't know if you have seen it or not, but here's some gouge on the current pet policy for Americans bringing dogs/cats to Japan ... if you want some info about Iwakuni, PM me the questions, i'd say i'm pretty familar with this sh!thole ... S/F

question #1: yes question #2: the Skipper's jet is usually painted in pretty colors S/F

122 flies F/A-18C's i'm 99% sure that the F/A-18A+ did not get the -402 motors ... what they got was the APG-73, a new MU (i don't know what they call it, we call it a "brick" - has all the data loaded onto it from TAMPS), they got AIM-120, GPS ... i think that's all the big stuff they got ...

i was the guy flying in that video, and it was the fourth time i had ever fought an F-16 (two more times since then) and only one of those guys used the vertical, and he was a former Navy F/A-18 pilot. somewhere along the lines they started to believe 9G's across the horizon will win everytime...

yes Sir, velcroed to the helmet cover after reading your assessment and out of curiousity, i watched the HUD tape (can't post that) again ... the Hornet went 45degrees nose up after checking across the F-16's tail (7.2G's for those interested), the F-16 turned across the horizon (typical) and...

Marine F/A-18A/A+ deploys to the boat also ...

Ault Report, Origin of TOPGUN and today's state of Air Combat/ACM little moto for those fellas still in training ... schwacking a Fighting Falcon the video is around 27mb, .wmv file ... 1v1 DACT against an F-16, butterfly set at 17k, both jets centerline only stay motivated S/F

the Snipers out of Yuma are a Marine reserve squadron but they do have a few active duty pilots ... they are Hornet pilots, but i think a Harrier pilot might roll through there occasionally. some of the MAWTS Hornet guys will get checked out in the F-5 and fly with them. i don't know how...

AVPlan (Apr2005) things to note from this: no Marines will be doing Hornet training at VFA-106 after FY 07, which goes along with the info I heard from IPs there that 106 will stop training legacy Hornet students and become a SH-only RAG. (pg 3-10) transition plan for the MV-22, first...

they are still around ... there was talk of disbanding VMFA-134 Smokes, the reserve squadron at Miramar, but, last fall, they ended up getting rid of the Hells Angels, VMFA 321, out of Andrews instead

both of those examples carried Nukes, i suppose we are pretty lucky they never saw the "action" they were originally built for, eh ... speaking of eyeballing a F-22, i snapped these badboys a couple years ago: $ $$$ $$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ S/F

as fighter pilot, i only wear my dogtags when i'm out playing shirtless beach volleyball in my blue jeans and aviator sunglasses ... on a more serious (and random) note, back in the day when i was enlisted, i had a female acquaintance that liked me to wear my dogtags when we had sex, very...

preach on brotha ... NEW YORK POST ONLINE ED by Ralph Peters CLASHING MILITARY CULTURES April 13, 2005 -- LAST month, I sat in the of fice of Col. Jon "Dog" Davis, a veteran Marine aviator. While at war, the Corps' pilots had seen a rise in their accident rate. Davis was determined to...

of course we are all speculating on this, but just because they came from Cali doesn't mean they were loaded with tanks ... single centerline you can make it from Cali to the East coast with two stops (and the news article mentioned they were coming in from Pensacola which would've been their...

i've been in the Marines since 1991, and i've been flying for the last 5 years now, with 3 of them in the Hornet ... i believe i have a little more credibility than you, grow some thinker skin, i was just giving out some helpful & useful advice because if you are going to throw out information...

i wouldn't be surprised, i'd be shocked, but anything's possible i suppose ... if it is the case, i would guess it wasn't the F-16s that said it but another platform monitoring the situation. -------------------------------------------- not trying to be a d!ck but from past experiences...

"'They had tricked me,' he said. 'I saw only one, but the other one came around, and they had me. One of the pilots told me, 'Eject or you will be dead.'' He said he took the smart route and ejected safely." BS, that guy is talking out his ass, what he heard was Allah telling him to eject ...

i'm amazed at how much gas gets dumped (and wasted) ... i watched this KC-135 (4 second video shot with my camera) dump a full load of gas in order to make his landing weight, he didn't offload any of it to us because we were still fat on gas ourselves & had to dump down ... must've flew...

the times i've hit the Herc we've been below 20k feet and at 210-230 knots ... IMO it's one of the easiest tankers to get gas from, in the Hornet. the S-3 & KC10 is also easy, except WARPS pods in turbulence. the "Iron Maiden" is the ass kicker, getting in is easy, staying in is a b!tch. i...

thanks for answers ---------- nope, nothing against WSO's, i have some pretty good WSO friends, and i've met some pretty damn smart ones too, helluvalot smarter than me ... i just like the extra ~800# of gas and being the pilot in command, not the "pilot by committee" ---------- majority...

ahhh, a little FO pride showing eh, good to see it mate....... no worries though, we'll see. i'll bet a paycheck that the Corps will eventually buy the SH-F model because the current Hornet fleet blows due to maintenance issues, the Corps WSO community (especially at MAWTS) is pretty damn...

for Hornets guys, the competition to get them is high and it's usually second tour Captains (or Major selects) with all the expected quals and then some. i suspect it's the same with all the other platforms in the Corps. Phrog i have a ?? for you via PM S/F

don't know how the squids are doing it, but a FAC(A) training syllabus for single seat Marine Corps Hornets is in the works, should be implemented soon. can't wait, WSO's say it can't be done by single seaters, yet air farce A-10's & F-16's have been doing it for years .... how much more gas...

from what i remember (6 years ago), TBS rooms sucked ... then, a few years later, as an F/A-18 pilot, i lived for 8 weeks during the winter in a non-heated A-frame metal hooch out at 29 Palms for a double CAX,,, then lived in a sub-freezing muddy tent in S Korea for 3 weeks, i thought back and...

yea, if you don't know your EPs. both methods work and both methods fit the appropriate service ... standups fit the AF method of holding your hand through Primary, and EPs in the aircraft fit the Navy/MC method of learn it on your own & display your knowledge in the brief & in the aircraft...