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What's your plan for school? Are you good academically? What degree are you going to get? Where are you going to school? Why OCS instead of the Naval Academy or Merchant Marine Academy (many great Naval Aviators who have come from Kings Point) or NROTC? While great if you're interested in it, a...

What?! :eek: You mean you guys had to pay for your own gas? I keed, I keed.;)

Man, I really miss those guys (Even MB). :( I missed the ruckus that ran many of them off but I do miss their sea stories and perspective. It's absolutely useless. You can accomplish everything the diversity initiatives claim to do with a swingin' steel beach, plenty of beer, and a few good...

Man, fuck that guy. I'm angry that nothing bad really happened to him.

Here's the PST instruction: https://nswmentor.com/staff-form-downloads/1220-410.pdf I'll second getting in with the bubbas at one of your local EOD or MDSU teams. Also, if you're near a Navy shipyard or Regional Maintenance Center, they also have dive lockers. Dive school is the same for EOD...

It's easy enough to verify: https://openvaers.com/covid-data But I guess that doesn't pass the bar for "peer review." ?

My buddy thought he had royalled screwed up his life until he got back to the carrier and spoke with his RO. His RO listened to him and said "[Buddy] you just got the greatest gift the Nuclear Navy could have ever given you. Congratulations." He's now having a blast as a non-Nuke MPA on normal...

Many people fail the interview with the Admiral. I have a buddy who's an LDO and a prior Nuke MM. He went to the admiral's interview thinking he would be a shoe-in to become a Nuke LDO. He failed. Don't take it too hard. Depending upon what you want to do with your career, you can apply to...

Are you commissioning directly into the USNR? What is your designator?

I was given three weeks from acceptance to the date I needed to report. I have heard of some people waiting over a year for their OCS date. It seems to be a crapshoot.

They've got some pretty sizeable rare earth mineral deposits that China is absolutely salivating to exploit.

Didn't an E-2 ditch a few years ago? I remember it being a sad story where not everybody made it.

A PC you say? ?

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

It seems like it's a real clusterfuck in Kabul right now but at least the memes are good.

Phrogs Phorever

How does @ChuckMK23 find time for these shenanigans? Between getting paid to fly and corrupting the youth with sea stories, it would seem he stays very, very busy.

Man, what a gig.

I believe those would be considered the "inland littorals." As in, "Conducted operations in the riverine and inland littoral domains enabling joint maneuver warfare across aquatic terrain features and providing logistics support to forces deployed in austere environments." Boy, I sure don't...

Very cool, thanks.

What's the story behind these? Why did the US issue Breitlings?

You mean you get to take the airplane home? ? That's a sweet gig. #FirstWorldProblems ?

Chuck Yeager still had that swagger.

Why do these guys seem so nerdy and uncool. They lack all of the swagger of say Chuck Yeager or Gene Cernan or Alan Shepard. You think Jeff was having the same thoughts Gene was during launch?

Let me be the asshole: It doesn't sound like you two really have much of a relationship. Long distance, wishy washy on your future, "too young for marriage," etcetera, etcetera. I know a few dudes who made career and life decisions in a similar situation and they ended up wondering what could...

Interesting shower thought: With the way the PLAN thinks about submarines and their belief that naval supremacy will emanate from their submarine fleet, are we handcuffing our hypothetical response to Chinese aggression by not having organic long range ASW aircraft like the S-3 in the air wing...

Interesting SWO fact of the day: All ships are required to have a prize crew watchbill consisting of an OOD, helmsman, Deck Apes, Snipes, quartermaster, and a few extra dudes with guns for security. This is usually for having to bring back contraband-carrying ships in case they need to be...

Your taste buds must be broken. Low country mustard sauce is superior to the black pepper & vinegar. North Carolinian? That's how I was raised eating pulled pork. The family BBQ joint has a vinegar based slaw that is phenomenal with pulled pork. You don't even need to vinegar sauce unless you...

Oh, I get it now! It's like this:

Me, trying to make that AirWarriors math make sense:

Haven't seen many SWOs respond so I figure I'll jump in: 1. "The number of GMTs is too damn high" mantra is spot on. Really, it seems repetitive and an administrative burden. Most of the time, the operational commanders don't care, but it's the admin chain of command that does and the admin...

This echoes my experience at OCS and working with/dealing with the SPECWAR and EOD communities. It might honestly be easier to cross-rate into the SPECWAR community as an E5 than it is get selected to OCS on a SPECWAR contract.

This is cool but did they really need to resort to such a low blow. :(

Standby, going to go write that article now. Should I suggest we add a refueling boom as well?

You gotta give those kids something to aspire to.

What a shame. That looks very difficult.

I'm going to have to go check that out.

Boy, this is a question tailor-made for me to answer. A little background: https://www.airwarriors.com/community/threads/need-some-swotivation.38497/. If you want more, just dig through my post history. I spent my whole life wanting to be a Naval Aviator. I ate, drank, slept, and breathed it...

When I applied it was a moot point because boards were very infrequent. Seems there's a 6 month wait time now but from what I understand, boards are more frequent these days (Quarterly and sometimes monthly for some designators). I would not count Lemoore, Fallon, or anything in New Jersey as...

If you don't make it, then you can apply again. In fact, I recommend applying multiple times if your first time doesn't work out.

This seems like a sunk cost fallacy. You're at the point where you need to make hard decisions about what you want more: military flying career or a career as a Marine. It sounds like your OSO and his staff have already made their mind up about you.

They probably add the honey after distillation and aging.

Rum AND a battleship in one picture?!? ?

Dream Status: Living it.

You actually get paid for this?

As a former cadet, I am appalled, appalled I tell you! I had to walk to the flight line, in sweltering SoCal heat, BOTH ways! It built character dammit! These young whipper snappers don't know how good they have it. ? On a more serious note, Chuck you're giving these young men and women some of...

I would second this. Also, if you're into Reddit, there are the following subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/awardtravel/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CreditCards/ https://www.reddit.com/r/churning/ There are also tons of YouTubers who can help...

An old boss of mine went to Barking Sands Test Range as either the ops or XO (Can't remember) after his staff tour. I think he even gets some flight time. The only downside is that you're in the Hawaiian hinterlands. He was a 60 Sierra driver though so I don't know if that makes a difference...

These are the critical, life saving knowledges I come to AW for.

Sounds like pie-in-the-sky nonsense that will change as soon as the next commandant and SECNAV are appointed.