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They are already available - I know of quite a few in the test community using them. One of my pilots is a big fan, but I haven't wanted to leave my helmet at Pax long enough to get it myself yet. Your problem as a student is going to be to convince those VT's to drop the money on you as...

(1) Think (2) Squeeze (3) Talk In that order, please.

I cannot speak to CWO/LDO, but AMDO's as a community are not going anywhere that I know of (AMDO's and AEDO's combine at the O-6 level, going from 1510/1520 designators to both being 1500's).

Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer (Maintenance) (152x) SECNAV approved description for AMDO.

She raised a son who chose to serve and gave his life in that effort. I will honor her (and anybody else) for that, and ignore her for everything else she has done.

They can have sufficient a/c to meet that timeframe. While we won't be getting the 20 or so that I believe the schedule still shows for FY 08 (that sked will be changing in the near future), I think 15 is a fairly reasonable target for next FY for LRIP 3 and Lot 4 a/c.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2007/05/longshot-a-swooping-haawc-for-torpedos/index.php#more Side note to the altitude discussion.

Your best bet is to let your COC know in advance of your problem/potential problem. If you don't want to do that yet and you are wondering if your situation really fits the Navy's concept of a family emergency then either post a general description or PM the details to one of us older types and...

The point of stashing with the community you are trying to join is to impress folks in it enough to give you LOR's. Those add a lot to your package.

That link only stands up the squadron administratively. Warm bodies and aircraft will follow much later. There will be ZERO R's available to -70 in Mar 08.

Don't worry: nobody who is any good at math would say that.

Stand up for -70 is not until Jan 09 per last Rainbow Chart.

Your CO has no obligation to rush you out the door. Your designator will be changed to 1300 (GEneral AViation). I don't know if GENAVs are still being sent to CVN/LHA/LHD's as ship's company but I would check. (That was a few years ago, so that policy may be long gone.)

Cut-off for the June board was end of Apr (I think, too lazy to look it up) unless there are exceptions for attrites. Oct board should be his target, but the advice about meeting the detailer is spot on.

I would also add that CO's tend to be community favorites - and have often received beneficial detailing and other breaks from their sea daddies along the way. If they pay for that privilege with the occasional quick hook, well, I am inclined to believe that maybe that all balances out in the...

http://www.npc.navy.mil/Boards/Administrative/ActiveDutyTransferRedesignation/ This is where you start. Good luck and you can PM if you have questions on the process. Talk to your command about going no-cost TDY to work for a community that you are interested in - that would be an enormous...

http://www.npc.navy.mil/NR/rdonlyres/BD6BD529-B203-40B4-9A63-B232928D9882/0/FY07USNO5Linestats.pdf You can find similar statistics for each board from here: http://www.npc.navy.mil/Boards/ActiveDutyOfficer/05Line/FY07Board/ Statistics for command and DH are not published in this way...

I am not arguing the point that some just need a warm body, just pointing out the initial response to the requests. Since the ACSB is not a statuatory board, I would be curious to see how much the precept really affected the decisions of the folks on the board who came in knowing who their...

Strictly personal opinion here, but I've had a fair amount of interaction with USAF (on the acq side relating to CSAR-X) and I don't see life getting any better for AF helo types. If you love the mission and that is your top priority then that is a great way to get into it, but the lifestyle...

This would be more of a discussion for another thread, but you have to keep in mind that 13xx - more so than the other designators - tends to punish folks who do anything "different" with their career path. It has nothing to do with what or where the mission is, but everything to do with the...

The move back to ACC was the 5th re-org in 20 years, so I am not shocked that folks still get it wrong. Minor threadjack: if folks are interested in what is happening for USAF CSAR this is a decent summary: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2007/05/gao-re-csarx-recompete-the-contract/index.php

Totally agree on the training issues you mention - simulation is not the same - but even when fixed I am not positive that the mindsets of commanders will change. To a certain extent, it seems a lot of senior folks look at those capabilities and seem to be thinking "that's great, but it isn't...

While you will see a significant increase in ASW capabilities with the Romeo, the downside is that you should expect commanders to be interested in you almost exclusively as a sensor platform. For HS guys who want to be tactical I am afraid going to the R would be quite a disappointment. I...

The growler program seems to be reasonably healthy, but JSF has many issues, and the P-8 many potential issues. I wouldn't count any of those chickens quite yet. And to add my .02 to ground jobs, I don't think they are holding us back from our flying potential. Yeah, they occupy time that...

Along those lines: http://armedservices.house.gov/pdfs/ndaafy08/HASCFY08NDAARelease.pdf See page 18 for our buys, and page 31 for aviation in general.

From a boat point of view, the largest problem was too much optimism in an air plan. Regardless of how good the deck crew is (and Essex should be the best due to their optempo), there are still only 6 spots on the left side of the boat. No amount of competence on the part of the deck or...

Were you on there with Grumpy as the ACE CO?

I had the opportunity to be a third-party participant in 8 BG workup/SOCEX's (and all the other names they evolved into), each one with at least a couple of different components to the ACE. With the phrogs already starting from the dominant position, it was really the attitude of the OIC's of...

heyjoe has it right, integration costs have shot up to the point where they are looking at something closer to $10 m/copy. COTS is all well and good but it gets tricky when you try to get it all to talk to each other.

The doors do contribute to the structural integrity for both B/R and blackhawk style airframes. The benefit is mostly in impact attenuation.

If you go in with that 'ultimatum' they will wish you good luck in your Army career and forget about you 10 seconds later.

And nothing from nothing, but since we have disagreed on motivations (if not on systems) before, I thought I might throw in some free advice that you are free to ignore: Whether intentional or not, you come off as being pretty quick on the trigger to blame "old guard" 46 guys for some if not...

MPS for S/R was not original code - that costs more (though I agree it might have been worth it). (And please don't think I am defending it: the latest version automatically disables mode 3 in the aircraft when you make a mode S entry on preflight, one of umpteen reasons it is hard to be a...

I don't know how much you ever play in the acquisition process, but understand that you are talking about a (relatively speaking) very small number of actual folks who are fighting the cost-schedule-requirements war. The ability to orientate (thrown in for our USMC friends) the map to any...

There isn't a simple answer (outside of going box by box). But remember it is not just the individual boxes, but they are also wired together with other boxes to let them all talk to each other. I don't know enough about the B to speak exactly to the overall improvement in capability, but...

Sorry, UI, I was using the technical definition of BFM.

"BFM" to a guy who grew up in a Phrog. May all be old news to you, but I started out in an aircraft that still had vacumn tubes... Regardless, the F-22 has some pretty cool, and subsequently pretty expensive things that were paid for by their developmental dollars. Whether or not JSF takes...

There is the "strap-on" kneeboard digital map, but I am not a fan, and I don't know where it is in terms of release to the fleet.

If you ever play with Link-16 you will appreciate the cockpit a little more. It takes that type of interaction to appreciate its good points. While by far not the best cockpit out there, it is such a step up from some of our legacy airframes that you have to like it for that, if not for a...

Think about size and duration of the production run, schedule changes (it is more expensive to move from 15 to 10 a/c per year than it would be to just start at 10), and the fact that there are some whiz-bang, BFM things in the F-22 that will not be in the JSF.

I am not much of a SAC fan myself, but I don't think you can blame them for the R's weight issues. And Lockheed only stuck on what they were paid to stick on. So short answer is requirements creep, longer answer is the whole Helo Master Plan vision-thingy and the list of things we (and our...

Slight threadjack: The R with a full bag of gas is up to 22k with no buoys, no RHEP, and no weapons.

Partial explanantion of E-2's troubles: http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=10714

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi-bin/client/modele.pl?session=dae.25449070.1176311434.WTXqvH8AAAEAAF31f2UAAAAA&manuel_call_cat=5&manuel_call_prod=81178&manuel_call_mod=feature&modele=jdc_inter You have to scroll down a bit to see the methodology and results.

Take what Big Iron said to heart, you would be amazed at how quickly the front office will decide if you are a player or not. The first thing you want to do is sit down with your DH and find out what he wants - your first OIC will have the most influence on how you do, but you can bet your...

Just to be clear, you can ALWAYS choose to geo-bach. What you are likely to be unable to do is continue to receive your prior duty station's BAH if it is higher than your new location's (overseas always and Critical Housing Areas sometimes being the exceptions). It can affect your dislocation...

Not at all. I fly almost nothing but day/VMC these days: when people ask me if I miss night flying I always answer "of course not; it's dark at night."

Good for him. Runways are for pansies.

Nothing wrong with that. When I stepped off the established path, it was interesting to see the inability of a lot of the senior folks to understand that my reasons for choosing jobs and career path might not be the same as Big Navy's. On the other hand, I was a helo guy on a 3 star's mostly...

That's ok, I'm sure no passed-over helo guys with OOD letters will hate you if you get promoted anyways. (I would add one of those smileys, but it just ain't funny...)