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Meh... I drink alone, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself... I started drinking it with my ole lady...she's in bed and I'm on AW... Some of my best friends are WSO's and some of the best Marines I have been around in my 18 years are WSO's. I still like to...

thread resurrection... I flew a nav leg today with an iPad Mini and the Foreflight app (the $150 subscription). First time using both. It was about an hour hop and I didn’t go above 15k. Only a few observations at this point. The glare sucked at times as it sit on my left knee. No issues with...

FWIW... from CNATRAINST 3501.1C (INTRODUCTORY FLIGHT SCREENING (IFS) PROGRAM), 19 May 2012 "4. Background. IFS was implemented to decrease flight-related attrition and drop-on-request (DOR) rates in primary flight training by identifying SNA/SNFOs who lack the determination, motivation, or...

I wasn’t trying to correct you. (If we were talking) The tone of my comment was more of disgust, with an attempt of a little cynicism thrown in. I suppose I failed. But thanks for calling me “devil”...made me laugh this morning. I haven’t been called “devil” since TBS. Regarding this new...

No, Chucks won't be until Daylight savings time begins...for now, just Bravos on Fridays.

Hold on there mate, he's not a FAG yet ...my sources say the author is an Ensign in VT-21 (currently out on the El Centro Weps det) flying T-45's which is a far cry from being a FAG. Back on topic though, an Ensign charging 70+ bucks for a book on how to become a military pilot... bright guy...

ATARS capability

I can't but it currently has high vis in the FA-18 NAE...T&R re-write was mentioned as few weeks ago.

Dude, that's some very bad gouge. 242's jets aren't G-limited. No Marine F/A-18 squadron's jets are G-limited. No Navy F/A-18's are G-limited. If the Growler community doesn't quit BFM'ing their G's, the quickly rising FLE might get them G-limited though...

I have owned a Contour for a couple years now. I velcro it to my helmet with heavy duty velcro. I've flown BFM, LAT and taken traps/cats with it. The only time I've had it fall off was the initial break turn of a BFM set...it was my fault though - half-ass stuck it to my helmet on the "take a...

Checking and responding to threads at AW while at a middle school concert ... solid work HD! Squeeze, I'm in a 3rd MAW unit and haven't heard about mando checkpoints @ installation gates...I'd like to see that e-mail. I didn't realize we had a problem in the Corps with people being drunk at...

FYSA... Marine Corps Alcohol Screening Program MarAdmin 709/12 12/12/2012 GENTEXT/REMARKS/1. THIS MARADMIN PROVIDES EXECUTION GUIDANCE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MARINE CORPS ALCOHOL SCREENING PROGRAM (ASP)....

a very quick glance at the NATOPS performance charts: 402 engines; ~half a bag of gas, clean, >1.0 density ratio, 40 knots in the face, dry rwy, full AB -> ~1200 foot roll. w/ 20 kts in the face -> ~1500 ft roll

It's kind of funny that a light fuel and weapons load on a Flanker will probably make it as capable as a fully loaded Hornet...

I have it on my NMCI laptop but it's obsolete. It still has 332 standing back up as the first F-35B squadron...as we now know, 332 is dead and instead, 121 transitioned from F/A-18 to F-35B. It says nothing of VMA-513 going away. That's just pointy nose. The chopper's portion of the FY12 AvPlan...

I believe it will be allowed to hit the airshow roadshow, especially in the next couple years while it can't do anything tactical. Just like today's appearance in Yuma, it'll be a "good news story" while on the airshow scene that will help the program.

Well, I'd say most of what's truly limiting the F-35 right now is the computer software not being anywhere near complete. What the MC says is "FOC" and what will truly be "FOC" is two different spins within the halls of the Pentagon. The F-35 will not be "FOC" until FY17... and with the current...

Well, they are deliveries that will go straight back in Mod. Let us know when you see them in the pattern there at NYL. I'm pretty sure MAG-11 had to supply the Hornets to escort them to Yuma. Currently, when it IOC's in 2015, it will only be able to drop an LGB or JDAM and fire an AIM-120...

F-35B in Yuma for VMFA-121 redesignation ceremony. I believe three were suppose to make the trip for today's ceremony. VMFA-121 is suppose to IOC in 2015. Hope it stays on track... S/F

to add to your comment... - The MC owns around 250 F/A-18A-D Hornets. - The MC has 11 AD Hornets squadrons, one reserve squadron and an FRS. - Nearly 80% of MC Hornets are over 6000 hours. - Nearly 10% of MC Hornets are over 8000 hours. - Hornets are now being SLEP'd to 10,000 hours (the...

You and the other SNA get together with your Senior Marine and professionally explain your case. Don't come across as a DB or butt-hurt on your selection. The worse he/she can say is no.

be careful bro, sleep with one eye open...

My reply was to Mike's comment pertaining to the security at the BLS complex (Bastion/Leatherneck/Shorabak). Unless things changed since I was there in 2010, "host military/police , i.e. Afghanistan soldiers/police, are not guarding that complex (maybe they are on their side but not Bastion or...

Contractors (who aren't allow to engage in "combat"), Jordanians and Tongans. The biggest mistake in this incident was letting the "locals" build their compounds just outside the wire along "shit river". We were saying that 2 years ago when I was there. The BLS complex is in the middle of...

From the training and readiness (T&R) manual WRT Marine Hornets and flying low level at night/on NVG's.... Night Systems (NS) -> "At the discretion of the commanding officer, aircrew complete and proficient with the NS-2400 stage may fly any night or night optional event in the T&R with the...

congrats

So the word on the street is that VMA-513 is shutting down within a year. Anybody have any word on this as it wasn't apart of FY12 Marine Corps AvPlan? S/F

The 67th FS out of Kadena are known as the "Fighting Cocks" and their ATC C/S is "Cocks"....yes, very un-Air Force'ish. I have some bros who fly with the Go Pro and I can vouch that it can handle up to 7.5 G's when using a suction cup to the canopy or the helmet strap. I use the Contour 1080P...

No way HD … not with a Congressman on their side and the media labeling them as “whistleblowers”. If these two dudes sense any reprisals, they start a shit-storm by contacting that Congressman or the media. No Colonel or General will risk their next promotion on these two cats. I wouldn’t be...

While I'm not a "high ranking USMC official", here's the skinny on the first Marine Corps F-35B squadron... the first F-35B squadron is standing up this October in Yuma, AZ. Previous USMC AVPLANs had -332 standing back up from cadre status but that doesn't make sense in a bad economy and a...

Are you really seeing this in your fleet squadron? In all of my tactical flying in the Hornet, I've never seen anybody fall back on their T-45 2v1 training. Four FNG's have checked into my squadron over the last year and none of them have displayed any "T-45" tendancies in BFM (1v1, 2v1,2v2)...

Advanced flight school 2v1 is a drill in talking and flying at the same time while trying to maintain some SA in a mostly scripted 3-D enviroment ... nothing more, nothing less. It's not trying to teach tactical 2v1 flying. I would submit that by the time a dude gets to Fighter Weps in the...

I get why the BFM IPs in the VT’s would want a different colored T-45…to distinguish between the bandit and the friendly during 2v1 BFM. Why though? The 2v1 BFM is scripted in the VT’s….it’s a comm drill that tries to teach the students how to talk and fly at the same time. Adding a little...

well played Bevo, well played.

Ok, so the chick at 0+27 is very doable...would need only a shot or two and a dimly lit room to make her a 1. the chick at 0+35 seconds has to be a squids wife...I'd have to be at my "body's capacity to maintain consciousness" (thanks HD for that qoute, nice) or back from a year in the sand...

at least 5-6G's everytime you employ the gun A-G ...and conceivably up to max G if you are defending (up to 7.0 G's in the F-35B's case)

I’m going to be a negative nancy for a moment so please bear with me… -A Marine Corps F/A-18D squadron is going away by the end of this CY leaving four D squadrons in the Corps. -By the end of this decade, there will be no more D squadrons left in the Corps. -By the end of this decade, there...

I'd like to have been a fly on the wall for this particular debrief... "Any safety of flights or training rule violations...?"

Fratricide in combat is one thing, but dude, in training? WTF?! Firebreaks, safeguards, whatever, how about some common damn sense? I get it though, sounds like the poor sap was set up for failure and chose poorly in the end… hero to zero when he armed up and squeezed the trigger! Now that right...

From several legit sources, rumormill from out here on the street is that one Marine F/A-18D squadron will be cadre'd by the end of CY12. That's a lot of aircrew out of a job... Also, it's not looking like VMFA-332 will be stood back up in Yuma by year's end either...but that's because of the...

rumormill so take it with a grain of salt (though so far it's been legit)....the witness was outside when the gunshots started - he ran away instead of to the door...

Too bad the rumors were true...

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/at-least-one-dead-in-coronado-136501988.html Sad way to start the New Year. More details will surely be made public. I suspect some of you will know the two Navy personnel involved in this.

…and that Chinese student runs back to formation to clean his trousers and tell his bros what just happened while that instructor sets the pit up for the next grenade toss as training continues. US Marines on the other hand -> Training is halted and multiple investigations are immediately...

we are

I was med down for a week. Resting with a bag of frozen peas on your boys and taking the prescribed drugs is highly recommended. Trust the doc on that one. I felt great the day after my vasectomy, no pain whatsoever and decided to continue with some house renovation…wrong answer – after...

Call bullshit (respectfully) to your MOI (is he a Marine pilot?) A squadron buddy in Beaufort several years back had a child in the Exceptional Family Member Program. He deployed and went on dets, no issues...he was limited to CONUS duty stations though. Good luck

concur...the British Harriers will not be replacing the F/A-18D (the thought is laughable). The article is both poorly written and ignorant of facts, particularly the last two paragraphs. More like - the British Harriers and parts will be used to replace Marine Harriers as they are needed in...

I debated on starting a new thread but I think this fits perfectly right here... New River Osprey pilot charged with indecent exposure time for a callsign review board for this guy... S/F

KBayDog's calling... CH46 to MV-22B transition board for CY-12 -> MarAdmin LINK