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And as if that isn't funny enough, I played the video again. Check out the YouTube ad at the bottom.

Sign me up! Make me a master chief! Actually, what the Halo series needs is a warrant officer.

And new tires. Already installed and christened with mud.

My own little gift to myself. I'm putting it on today.

Awww what the hell...I'll ruin it for you. Go to this site, get an account and study your ass off instead of drinking and windsurfing. This recommendation brought to you by the Army guy who now only wishes he could be in P'cola or south Texas instead of Ft. Rucker for aviation training.

Ewww...I think I peed in that fountain.

I certainly don't call my primary kinetic implement a SHARM! LOL

OK..a serious answer (followed by a better answer). I use -hawk Pilot but I have used -hawk Driver because I have flown both Seahawks and Blackhawks. The medics in the back of our aircraft are more full of themselves than the worst pointy nose fliers. To them, we are just the ambulance drivers.

I had a 9 year break in service and was 42 when I joined the guard. I've got 22 good years and over 6000 points. I'm just sticking around because A) I still like it and B) I'm packing away points 365/year as an AGR.

Consider a transition to the ARNG. Most guard units do water bucket training annually and fight fires periodically. Recently we had a fairly junior M-day PC get picked up for a forestry job flying UH-1s.

For me, the frustration occurs only after the student shows strong defense mechanisms, resulting in his refusal to listen or follow instructions. At that point there is a stagnation in learning. In one of the most extreme cases I've seen, the student made an IG complaint against the instructor...

I can TOTALLY identify with your sentiments. THIS (see below) happened during one the simulator periods I instructed. I had to take a picture because I couldn't believe this is how he solved his turning-the-wrong-way problem..

No. Unless you're HSC.;)

It seems the Air Force guy I was talking to probably didn't know better. I asked about it just last week and he told be they had already bought it (Baylander). Given the modifications that were required to make Baylander able to land an Osprey, it makes sense that it is probably a different...

Pennsylvania?

I was disappointed. I thought you meant, "This river don't go to Aintry. You done taken a wrong turn." All of the survival gear and PLB are great, but let's not forget that water and training is by far the most important. Last summer we had a soldier in the BLC land nav course (training was...

I'll see your Shamu and raise you a Partridge Family. So new total time is in the single digits. It ain't even got a paint job yet!

It's been awhile. I remember one of the squadrons at Mayport getting a mod that included blue filters that were stuck on with Velcro, or the military's version, hook and pile. I never actually got a chance to fly NVGs in the Navy. I assumed it was more a color issue than bulb type. Speaking of...

All of this stuff to change the color of lights in the Seahawk? Shhhh, don't tell anyone we have four MFDs with...wait for it...multi colored displays!

Perspective...no facts. I can say that continuing to stick to tried and true instrument techniques was/is not a bad idea. Teaching Army aviators to land on a ship during the day is fun. It is scary as hell at night.

Very interesting. The last I heard they were the ones who bought IX-514 Baylander.

Off of the original topic: On a pre-mob we had to spend a day learning to inspect vehicles coming in through a security check point. I asked the SGT why we had to learn this. I pointed out that if we get to the point I have to inspect vehicles coming onto the FOB, we are in a BAAAD way. He said...

I spend a great deal of my time working with the product produced at Ft. Rucker. It is inferior to what I flew with as an FRS instructor in the late 80s. Try as I may, I just can't chalk that up to starting in a fixed wing aircraft. It has a great deal more to do with what I believe to be a...

LOL "You landed on ships unaided?" "Yeah. We didn't know better."

Chuck's reddit post is fairly accurate. The article in smallwarsjournal, not as much. The author doesn't appear to have hands on experience with brand new aviators coming out of Rucker. My disagreements with the article warrant a separate post. One big difference is the maintenance program. It...

Four more and he's an ace!

Hmmm. Maybe I should pursue an option to finish out my time in the Navy.:rolleyes:

How first-hand do you want? I spent 8 weeks there last fall going through the instrument flight examiner course in the Lakota sim. Some of my classmates were IPs at Rucker. I have friends who teach out there. What do you want to know?

Moriah? In our days we just called it the helo DET. As LSO we constantly tried to offer the OOD solutions to the wind/pitch/roll envelope. We were told to "Knock it off!" We were just using a wiz wheel. They were using the wind hunting circle approach.

I’ve seen these things in action, and I’m well aware of their maneuvering capabilities. Sorry...I couldn't help it. :p

Clearly I have been out of the Navy for awhile, but this seems very confusing. I get the transition from HSL to HSM...pretty much the same missions just upgraded capabilities. But now there is HSM expeditionary (traditional HSL deployments) and HSM on CV. So what is HSC? It's not HS and HC...

It hasn't gotten wild until a Port-o-let is blown over! FWIW, if you ever find yourself at Camp Blanding in a port-a-john and hear a helicopter approaching, you'd better finish your job quickly.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice that. The making of that video was a serious shitshow, of which misappropriation of resources was just one of its maladies.

Well, it has been about 28+ years since the incident (1988-89 ish), and 22 years since my last runup in the Seahawk. 60R time in sim was with rotors already turning. In the 60 A/L/M we do the HYD LEAK check at idle. I guess I forgot about the differences. Since it was both of our first times...

Hmmm..both generators? Really? LOL. HYD LEAK is done at idle. Generators come on around 97% Nr on the ground (WOW). LOL It's all good! :D I just did an MTP annual eval on someone last Friday. It's just not fair arguing systems with someone who evaluates this shit every week, almost every day...

I actually interacted with him. If you can call being pointed at from across the ship's wardroom table as he said, "And you guys in the funny green suits..." interaction. LOL He was just a CCDG commander at the time and our ship was brand new out of the shipyards in Maine. As was our...

Really? 1996? Was there another more recent instance?

Maybe Greer was CNO at some point. Then the unauthorized ribbon issue could be explained.;)

And don't forget that film star Reed Popovich! I had him as an instructor at TACTRAGRUPAC.

Run away as fast as you can! The Army does this nonsense. I get it. "We can use the photo to screen out shitbags." That's the good part. The bad part, at least for the Army, is it turns into a nightmare in getting your office record brief (ORB) to match/sync with your photo. I took my latest...

If we are talking Air Medal-ish types of awards, than your 90% figure is pretty far off in some communities. Most of our Medevac and Apache pilots who have deployed have killed someone or loaded someone dying into the back of their aircraft. Depending on the deployment, I would guess 25-50% have...

I was really half joking, because: 1) We can't take non-rated people in the front seat flying 2) October is a bad month for me because a) Ironically I am going to Norfolk for DLQs b) Going to Marietta for annual MTP/ME ride c) Other instructor is out of town at IFE course and we have a back-log...

Can I bring my shiny new HH-60M and recruit for the Army National Guard? I might have a decent chance at recruiting a couple of HSC guys.:D

“I went home that night, and I knew what I did,” said Evan. “I think to the outside community, something like this will give a sense of perspective.” I think I got a different perspective than what Evans intended.

Don't feel bad. I was told the same thing back in the day. In fact, while doing my CCDG tour my Air Ops boss requested I put flight hours and landings as the first bullet on my FITREP input. When I tried to explain that no one really cared much in our community about that and that, "I AM on a...

We always tried for the ever elusive CENTERED light for free deck landings. Is that still a thing?

Well played....well played.

Evidently not easy for everyone. I suppose it depends on the course, conditions and rules.