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I'll see your 15 years and raise you another 26 years.

Same with the UH/HH-60M, except we have TACAN, VOR and ILS. Thirteen years into service and we are just now, in a limited way, get IFR GPS...on SOME of our aircraft (the ones deploying to Europe). It's a Garmin hack.

When the SH-60B came out, the Navy had SH-2F capable ships and SH-60B capable ships. Heck I even rode in the back of a Seasprite into Somalia in the 90s. I imagine a solution might look something like that. The 60R sticks around as a legacy aircraft as new ships are built to hold the next FVL...

Come on...you got to admit it...come on.

I kind of expected the same, so the quality of the event made for a nice surprise.

I went to my Red Carpet event this past week. My official last date is 31 JAN 23 (or January 31, 2023 in civilian form). It hadn't really hit home until I received a framed certificate detailing all of my awards and military assignments. They F'd up the Navy part, but what do you expect? They...

Is the HGU-56/P new or special for the Navy? We've been using them for a long time in the Army.

Really? How old are you? Over 60? I get that the Naval Reserves might have a problem with age...due to your year group and all that. But unless you are creeping up on retirement age, you could most definitely join the ARNG as a warrant. I was 44 when I joined the ARNG. I have done two combat...

Good news indeed!!!:D

We have a decent footprint down there right now. I didn't go down because A) I am now OIC of an AVIM maintenance company and B) I am retiring in less than 4 months. I have turned in EVERYTHING!!! Here we are doing a 120 hr for a Chinook heading back down tomorrow.

This would not be uncommon for immediately following surgery. 40% would be appropriate for someone who could raise their arm half way or less from their side to parallel to the ground. ie in the neighborhood of 25 degrees. The rating has to be reevaluated (after 6 months and every two to five...

Different regs in the Army, but you get 365 days to be on a "temporary" medical profile and still receive flight pay. Since flight pay is service wide, I would think the Navy has a similar policy. I tore my labrum (3/4 of circumference) and rotator cuff, had surgery, and was back flying in 4...

I never flew something to the boneyard or museum. My experience has been mostly on the other end...I am the first Army pilot to have my name in the log book of at least a dozen aircraft. Yes, even military helicopters have that new-car smell when they haven't even flown to the first 9-11 tail...

OK...12 years ago this was a shit show. What I want to know is what happened to Friggity over the past 12 years?

I almost forgot THIS famous Army Aviation "movie". Fun fact: The star of one movie is also an extra in the other movie.

Watch 'Fire Birds' and you will never be able to erase Army Aviation from your mind...in a bad way. Not even bleach will work.

Not sure how it works for a carrier, but for the small boys, they use a wind hunting circle. The ship starts by picking a random speed and heading and observes the relative wind speed and direction from instruments on the bridge. They toss some chicken bones and crows feet on a plate, light some...

No? It doesn't stop you from making fun of people who don't drive Jeeps, does it?;):D I really just posted to a) show that not all Subaru owners hate Jeeps, b) there are atypical Subaru owners, and c) I like to post pictures of my Suby just as much as Jeep owners like to post pics of their...

Don't hate Jeeps, don't own a cat, have never eaten tofu, might have eaten a cat (don't know), have a hat with the flag of a country that no longer exists (does that count?), don't have the Beatles on a play list, but not opposed to the idea, don't have many guests at my house because they would...

The Seahawks I flew had AC. It may not have worked well, but they had AC. From my perspective, having flown both, the Black Hawk is more brutal from a heat standpoint. The damn thing is painted dark enough green that it should just be black. Preflighting in the summer REQUIRES gloves to not...

Hi all, I laughed so hard I pissed and sharted myself, because, you know, that's what old guys do! I don't fly jets, but I am still flying Black Hawks and I am just shy of 59 years old. I do try to get my copilot to do the top of the aircraft on preflight, but that is more laziness than...

So when I give up my CAC at retirement I assume I lose my free TSA Precheck status?

Meh. I have been using a coyote standard Marine web belt with mine for years. Works great. You can't really see it unless debloused, so who really cares? Oh and trust me, a sergeant major can pick out a flight suit from 400 meters! Especially if it is not bloused into your boots when not...

It doesn't actually work that way. They take your highest rating. Let's say it is 20%. Then they take the next highest rating, let's say it is also 20%. You get the first 20%, then they apply the second 20% to what is left. So 20% for the first rating, then 20% of the 80% remaining is 16%. 20% +...

No, Rich Carey at the Vystar building on base. He picked through 500 printed pages of my medical record and produced a list of about 15 items. A week and a half later I had two VA doctor's appointments, one that included Xraying almost every bone in my body. While I haven't received the...

Ha! I never read this thread because VTU? Guam? But I did a search on "disability" and it came up. So, I have to add my experience to the WTF part of reserves, or in my case guard, and VA disability. I left the AGR program 2.5 months ago to return to the M-day and technician program. Why? It's...

The Army did the same thing with the HH-60M. The UH-60M was a great improvement over the UH-60L, but the medevac shit they put in the back of the aircraft came from a bunch of O-4s, O-5s and maybe O-6s that had never really done medevac. We were one of the first (second I think) units to be...

We do have two. The more recent guy was definitely a HAC before leaving. I have seen his records. The other guy...not so much. Someone who used to be here on AW actually knew the guy I am talking about and filled me in on his story. I did overnight x-country in HTs as well. But I remember when...

OK, so bar record proves he was a lawyer. How do you know he was an Army pilot? We have a former Seahawk pilot (other than me) in our guard unit. He has been telling lies so long he forgot the truth. He told me some stories which I KNOW aren't true, but other Army aviators seem to believe. Just...

FIREWORKS! FIREWORKS! FIREWORKS!

I have been sailing most of my life, but have ZERO/ZILCH desire to spend more than a week or two on a sailboat. On the other hand, I am perfectly fine with retiring in NE Florida across the street from the St. Johns River.

Had no idea you could shoot "fuses" out the back. Also, the stabilator functionality was pretty far off. I wonder if it was because he didn't know or he was trying to stay out of the weeds on what it does and how it works. The Black Hawk Advanced MEDEVAC (BAM) window is actually for the cargo...

Have you deployed as a 15T in combat? If not, talk to pilots about what it is like to deploy as a pilot. It's a given that deploying as a pilot is anywhere from slightly better to orders of magnitude better than deploying as an aircraft mechanic. How much better depends on which service and...

Out at Cecil things have changed SO much l now that you wouldn't recognize it. The barracks across the street from hangar 67 are long gone, as is the BOQ. The exchange is a gym. The branch medical clinic is a JSO training building. The national guard is in hangar 860, the S-3 hangars at the...

Apparently being ugly doesn't stop one from getting knocked up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HR2S-1W_NAN3-57_1-57.jpg

Of the three, the demise of each was as follows: USS Kauffman (FFG-59) 1986 - 2015 is in the Philly shipyards (I think), Thomas S Gates (CG-51) 1985 - 2005 was scrapped in 2014, and Slava (1979 - 2022) was recently converted to a reef in the Black Sea. So actually, none of the ships are around...

Back in "the day"...1989. "Slava", before being renamed "Moskva". They say renaming a ship is bad luck. If you look really really closely at the guys in white uniforms, you might see me on the flight deck of TS Gates.

I have consolidated money from several old 401ks from former civilian employers into my TSP. Unfortunately, I got "penalized" several years later during my divorce. But still, paying my ex off in pre-tax money that she can't collect for another 15 years was a small victory.

I love my Navy leather flight jacket, but I have to say, when it comes to wearable-in-the-aircraft jackets and cold weather gear, the Army does it right. Who doesn't want some of this smoking jacketesque goodness?(see pic) But seriously, I have a heavy weight nomex jacket, an ACU pattern fleece...

Especially in this day and age, where the size of your button clearly contributes to your work/life balance.

Ground pounders? Hell, they don't care about their aviators! It wouldn't surprise me if the Army fielded the pilot-less Black Hawk just so they wouldn't have to pay pilots or pay for their flight gear.

A certain Black Hawk pilot I know can finally pass their check ride...as a front seat passenger.;) "The Black Hawk, which dates to the 1970s, will continue flying for the Army for several more decades."

"I'd like a large Ramius on wheat and a medium on white." "Sorry. One ping. One ping only." ---walks away hungry ---

Sort of. The brand is ICAN, but it is Chinese.

Finished up just before Christmas Eve. Custom 29er. Geeky stats: 27.1 lbs Carbon thru-axle boost frame with custom Aircraft Green paint Carbon .29 mm ID carbon rims, DT Swiss hubs, Aero spokes RockShox SidLuxe Ultimate Rear RockShox SID SL Select Front Maxxis Dissector 2.4" Tires Selle Italia...

I thought the same thing. Here I am 14 years later about to retire with enough points for a >50% retirement. I had a choice of waiting for an O-4 slot to open up in the Army Guard or revert to warrant officer (CW2). I chose the latter, thinking it would be easier to manage a peter-pilot job...

Well, you can mandate something at the federal level, but who will enforce it? This is much like the sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce other federal laws. Of course once a guard soldier goes to a title 10 school or title 32 in some other state (that isn't doing the same as Oklahoma)...Game...

Apparently I'm not the only one with a little pet peeve about nonsense guard blabbering. Now, if you want to go for the win, do the fart in the PA challenge on guard from 30k'. Making guard fun again (at least for a little while).

Yes, I do that. But I also try not to teach young impressionable pilots that that is the Go-To method. Those @%$#%$ will do something wrong and then turn around and swear that you as an instructor taught them to do it. It takes one time and then the next time one of them gets the bright idea to...

Easy there Strawman Tex. No, I do not. But your response about chiming in is kind of douchey itself. A. We can't turn down the guard volume independently on our aircraft. It is a function of the radio settings. The software switch is "GUARD R/TR" for our two UHF/VHF/FM ARC-231s. Our common...