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So you're saying this would not be a good week to carry your NROTC dummy rifle around in your back pack on campus...I know it's been done recently in the NW.
Sadly there are those who will capitalize on this sensitivity for a while.
Get in touch with the Naval Safety Center...at the least peruse their web site. If something bad happens (unsafe and injury) around the squadron, they'll be looking for you with questions like, "Why didn't your squadron comply with NAVOSH Inst. #$#$%?"
Shouldn't be too hard to get a program...
They were done hook up, with the wires stripped so there is no way they could trap.
We don't have launch and recovery bulletins for their jets (except the E-2C of course) so we would take no risk of catching them.
Also a couple of years ago we crossdecked an E-2C to their carrier. The French...
Flew the Boeing E/F and G portable flight sims with full OFP loads today at demo at the Pentagon. Very nice, lots of gucci stuff the beeps and sqeaks guys will love.
Eye muscle exercises can help with "lazy eye" symptoms...which is what that basically is. Not sure if you'll have time to make a difference...having had the PRK may be making your eyes function differently than they were used to for the past 20 or so years. It most likely exacerbated the...
Guys operating battlefield UAVs are in the thick of it. If they earn a BS for their actions it is deserved. Perhaps operating a battlefield UAV while under fire could qualify for DFC.
But I'm having a hard time with a DFC when you are remotely operating the device (like in Nellis AFB) and not...
A cordial greeting is always appropriate...
"Good morning, Warrant"
Better yet, get to to know them. I was surprised how many CWOs and LDOs were on the Stennis ship's company and how helpful they could be.
How much do you get? $20...$30....just don't do it every week...
I knew a guy who made a lot of coin going through college by hitting the "Bank" for a deposit of "Drain Babies" once a week. And he was the first one to say "Yup, I made $400 this month with a smile."
Depending on when you report, it's possible you may be able to re-qual while on Basket Leave at USNA. Talk to the Chief in charge of the weps range at NSA and see if there are any qual dates between now and graduation...or shortly thereafter.
Perhaps, but the fellow I was talking to was doing NFO bean counting...could be SNA...
As with all rumors, believe none of them, pass along all of them.
Regarding the cat/trap "simulator"....Some enterprising JO apparently built a ramp, jet and arrsting gear/wire set up and had it up and running at NAS Miramar. Miss the wire end up in the pool. It was blast to watch.
This was pre-Tailhook days during the pre-cursor to Tomcat Ball...the Foc'Sle...
Yes, this was run behind the Cubi O'Club and NAS Miramar that I saw.
After a few drinks, it was harder than it looked.
My Favorite PO line: "Are you in, are you in, are you in???....oh you are...oh, you so beeeg!!!"
Odd...when NASC came to USNA for service selection night in Late Feb...they mentioned a potential shortage of SNFOs in late april or early May that may require some SNFOs to slide to an earlier start date. That was it. The reason was CNATRA does not want training aids and IPs sitting idle on...
Ahhh yes, Po. Good times across the "Aromatic River"..chucking pesos to the kids in the river...eating baloots (sp)...smiles (not the AW type :) )
How many people do we know that got busted trying to go from the ship directly to the O'Club with out passing go, or vice versa. Running across the...
Stick forward, neutral harness, lock your lateral...oops...
Stick forward, neutral lateral, lock your harness....
A word here or there out of place in Boldface can mean all the difference.
...the LANDS of the free...
Timing with a spotter is the key...typically using PRC radio.
Sucks when you have some one like Christine Augileras singing and the anthem is sung with so many warbles you got no idea how long it will go on for....
Have seen this on two occasuions...once a meteorite flashed so brightly in amongst the marshall stack, that we called for a fuel status check to do a head count. My cockpit literally flashed like a flashbulb went off.
Other time was on YPs off eastern shore of the Del Marva peninsula. A...
Here's a unique A-4 shot. I wish I had the story behind this...anyone???
May not be a US jet. When I flew in the TA-4J, going off-roading was one of the few items that made me think about ejecting on deck due to the tall landing gear and chance of rolling over.
Speaking of VF-43....
When I was stashed with VF-43, they flew T-2, TA-4Js and F-21A Kfirs on loan from Israel. It landed so hot it used a drag chute. We flew them with a single centerline. A .8 was a long hop in that jet for our squadron.
Kejo,
What do you think of this?
Would prefer rather than you just posting a link...add some thought or a comment on the subject when starting a thread.
Do a google web search and you will most likely find unclass info out there on the subject you seek.
Because of what most of us do here for a living, our answers could be on the edge of being classified. Thus the lock down.