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It's the little clown jet that could... except it can't anymore.

Ohhh. Yeah. He may not have a choice but to go to Oceana. I see it now. It wasn't written in all caps in crayon so I didn't get it the first time.

I think you mean Lemoore? My wife was EFMP, I went to Oceana. Portsmouth is right there. Lots of medical care options in the Sentara network for all sorts of stuff that would require an EFMP enrollment.

I read your post. What do you know about "hardcore combat"? America is not Israel. That tabloid article isn't really valid and wouldn't pass a high school new article research requirement . It's "reporting" from the Marine Corps Times at a time when old generals didn't want any change or...

Okay dude- you go ahead and think that our military wouldn't ROFL Stomp our enemies because of our "wokeness". "Wokeness" once meant letting anyone other than white males participate. We were dumb then. We're smarter now. If you can do the job, I give zero fucks about your personal life...

Get this guy to the ANG right now!

You didn't gain any credibility by including (or omitting it). Why do you want to be a Marine? Is it because the AF said no?

The USMC doesn't care about your AFOQT or PCSM score.

We had the 2ndLt who decided to unload his personal pistol while stopped at a stoplight in downtown Pcola- said he was going to the Whataburger across the street from Sammys and didn't want to have a loaded gun in his car. Ended up unloading it through his hand, his door, and into the car next...

Concur. This was the best one ever. And a favorite to parody by 2nd Lts.

They were targeting a different demographic for sure. Though I've never seen Army ad elsewhere. But seeing recruiting shortfall numbers (especially for the Army) I can see why they're turning over every rock, and shaking every bush to see what they can find.

Congrats! The T-45 has always had issues. Enjoy the time off- your nuts or ovaries will be in a vice soon enough and you'll be back to feeling overwhelmed and unready soon enough. Enjoy, decompress, spend time with family or take that 2 week backpack trip to Machu Pichu.

Be yourself. Don't say no to something you're invited to. Talk to everyone you can, it's not just the pilots who are important in the process- it's everyone. That Chief, or that MSgt, or whomever, holds sway in court with the folks who decide who to interview and who to hire. Be positive, be...

Interesting. I assume this prior service was as an officer and not enlisted? If that is the case, you're definitely out for AGR. But a regular DSG can stay forever if they want to- we have a guy in our squadron who left AD and came here with more than 20 years worth of TAFMS- and technicians...

"But this big bag of gold is too heavy... *sigh* I can't be expected to carry this by myself. This is bullshit!"

The USMC might be watching, but they're not going to make a smart decision on it. Ask a Marine MQ-9 guy what their primary METs are. Leave it to the USMC to buy a shooting RPA platform to do everything but shoot.

I suppose the one thing I'm lost on is: Where do you need a C-130 in the island campaign that you don't already have a runway in which a C-130 could land?

Unfortunately this is the way of the AF. I was sent on a wild goose chase a few months ago trying to find a waiver for something that we didn't need a waiver for. We have AD USMC MQ-9 crews flying with us to gain hours and experiences (the USMC doesn't yet have MQ-9s for these guys to fly)...

I have very limited experience flying around a boat, but I'm sure they care more about just kind of getting it into the window than anything else. Perfect is the enemy of good enough I suppose. But since you're talking about vectors and centerlines and other voodoo- are we talking about an...

Watch Iron Eagle 2 and then Top Gun 2 and compare plot points. "I am the GREATEST!"

Yeah, there are different barriers to service with the Active Duty forces vs the Guard. My USMC OCS platoon started with 93 and graduated 29. Of all of the guys I winged with in 2012 (perhaps about 20 across all of the T/M/S), 4 are still flying in the Marine Corps. On the flip side, we...

They're still at the 8am Tee Time after mids. Try harder to make fun of RPA guys. You suck.

Fair enough. My experience is that it is about even. Lots of the family business on the Marine side. The AD gets to attrite A LOT of people. The ANG does not get to attrite any. So I'd say we might be better at getting folks to the min standard. The standard can be lower here for some folks...

Yes. You can be a golden child one moment and black listed the next all because of who you were aligned with, and it could have absolutely nothing to do with you or anything you did. You were just one of XXX's guys, and now he's gone and he didn't get along with the new guy.

There is no perfect system. The Guard system heavily relies on, "do I want this person in my unit for the next 20 years?" It's difficult to make someone leave in the ANG. So being a better person and a fit for the unit is in a way better than being a great pilot who everyone doesn't like. Yes...

We value that cone's opinions of others and their ability to judge whether or someone would be a good fit in our unit. The Cone is one of us and will be until they retire. They earned our trust when we invited them in, and they've earned a say in who joins our unit. There are reasons for...

There's nothing better than a burrito and a Bloody Mary or a strong Arnold Palmer on the first tee box after doing hoodrat shit with your homies mids, while the rest of the base is coming in to work for the day. When you're on mids the 8am tee time is pretty much mandatory.

The fuck do you mean by that?!

If you can't do the helicopter at the same time you will be dropped. We don't have time for below average performers.

We have plenty of Intel Officers who failed out of UPT in our state. For what I know the Guard Mafia in UPT is a real thing. Fuck with the Guard Mafia and you're not going to get hired by the Guard (yes, we will ask UPT studs about their IPs who are rushing our unit). You don't have to be...

You can do anything once!

Well. Maybe not time spent on becoming smarter and better, but being easier to condition to kill another human being. I believe the instances of PTSD in Pred/Reaper crews is related. The AF as a whole doesn't condition their officers to be practitioners of violence the way other services do...

The Guard has been doing it for years. Plenty of prior E's who went to pilot training in their upper 20s running around ANG squadrons that fly things with an F or an A in front of them.

Nah man. You said, "It's the most capable mobility platform to do it." The most capable Samurai died when facing the weakest gatling gun battalion. Picket's Charge was a failure. The men were brave, but they died all the same. The weakest part of the AF is that they make everyone do PME, but...

Talk less. Smile more. Understand the difference between, "With the right amount of help, we might get lucky and get to the LZ without them knowing" and "Fuck it and fuck you, we can make it to Tehran and back without anyone's help"

We just picked up a couple of guys out of AFROTC in a similar situation. Dudes owe a DSG (Part Time) commitment to the ANG equal to that of their AD AF commitment. Palace Front they call it. It's an amazing deal for these guys. Free college, direct commission into the ANG, front runners for AGR...

Yes. New Bern thinks Barbecue is moderately slow cooked pork, chopped up, throw on a Food Lion hamburger bun, and doused in vinegar. There is a shitty BBQ place in Havelock that calls themselves "Texas BBQ". Their brisket is nothing more than crockpot pot roast with ketchup, sugar, and some...

IF the plan is going to take 10 purple hearts, 4 Air Force Crosses, and a CMH, it's fucking terrible plan. Edit: I can't take credit for this quote- it was an opening line in a class at TBS- but it's one that sticks with all of us.

Dude. You're making those of us who also wear silver wing look bad. FWIW, the AF has been out of the legit EA/EW game for almost 2 generations now. The Navy guys know more, have way more experience, and have everyone else beat on this one. Your Patch should know this.

I have no doubt that they had Raven and Prowler support. I'd be surprised if they didn't. I'm also not surprised that the dudes flying the stinkbugs would leave that detail out.

Those F-117s brought as much (perhaps more, as they could carry 2 GBU-27s or GBU-31s.) loadout to a fight as a Harrier could, minus the gun. It allowed those attack airplanes to get to you. There are some great Americans who laid it on the line, going into downtown Baghdad on night 1, with...

Ugh. Go eat some crayons and sing some cadence. Even the 6 functions of Marine Aviation recognize that there is more to military aviation than assault support and CAS.

The career timing of Yut Yut pilots has been in flux for the past few years for most communities as they've been in transition to new airplanes. Lots of pilots have been stuck in the fleet. B-Billets deploy a lot. YMMV.

Dude. You need to recalibrate your "not too great" meter. Those are bad scores.

We were worried about a single vendor engine when the contracts were bid 20 years ago, but apparently no one was worried about a single vender egress system across pretty much every pointy nose aircraft in the DoD inventory. The fact that a single failure has multi-service, multi pipeline...

I think you mean isn't surfaced with Tarmac. We haven't used Tarmacadam for any surface that an aircraft will be on in decades because it's a really crummy material for anything heavy.

The wifey and I tried a couple of different versions of the fake meat when a bunch of the stuff went on sale for like 70% off a couple years ago. We figured, "Why not... let's see what the hype is all about." Personal anecdotes- 1. It smells horrible while cooking- like, the first time we...

Hey- as a yut at heart, I completely relate!