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I get that, but I guess my real question is why bother? If you are the bottom HAC on that det you have no chance to break out at the squadron, so now everybody has less experience and you sent guys to sea out of sheer bloody-mindedness.

I could understand taking extra H2Ps to sea because they have to get qualed, but why on earth do you have 6 HACs?

That's strange, I missed the outpouring of public reaction to this.

[I'm too lazy to pull out all the quotes related to the comments I want to make, but hopefully this will all make sense anyways.] - On the subject of earnings after leaving the service. The best way to figure out what you make now is to take a paycheck calculator (here is one, but there are...

That is true. '99 at HC-5.

He missed a lot of the real interesting stuff from the picture anyways. Which does bring up a good point: try to get to ASO school, it is still one of the best classes in the Navy, and is worth something to lots of aviation/aerospace jobs in the real world.

None of the services have had much recent success* with programs that couldn't be billed as upgrades to already existing models. *Though I suppose it is all in where you set the bar.

That makes much more sense.

I just don't believe that HR is in a secret conspiracy with the CEO/board to increase LGBT numbers which are then secretly collected and reported (to where, exactly..?). And yes, I'm far enough up the organization that it would have to be that high, and it would directly contradict the...

I don't know where you work, but speaking for two different aerospace companies in CA that isn't true.

You aren't missing anything, they only do it on themselves...

No sense waiting - my medical report read "Pilot in Command had copious amounts of opiates in his system..."

PM if you'd like me to look at your resume - I'm pretty involved with hiring at an aerospace outfit.

What are you looking to do?

The extensions are really easy to get - I'm on one right now.

My advice would be to call the civilian who sits that desk at bupers and call them directly.

Are you sure you don't want to try suspending all overseas liberty first?

From Virgin Galactic's latest flight last week. Includes crew ICS and a pretty interesting angle.

R1 is correct. Also, do NOT buy into the myth of a "get well" tour. As a smarter guy than me once said, NPC doesn't have hospitals, it has leper colonies...

They are already ditching the well deck on LHA-6+.

Sad to say we would run out on the amphibs.

Assigning flight deck pay when you don't have enough skins to go around is easy: Divide your people into 3 groups (those on the deck almost all the time for every evolution, those almost never on the deck, and those in between). Give it to those in the first group in reverse rank-order, then if...

At your age and salary the higher tax bracket is going to be a minimal hit. If you have the funds to pay the tax hit roll it into a Roth IRA. Pick a low fee Vanguard fund and you will do fine. Take the time to learn how to manage your own money, but below are a few things that have worked well...

Random advice for the OP. Don't be too impressed by your "hand-selected" status, and be even less impressed by the the people you select yourselves. I will be the first to hope you somehow accomplish great things, but I will also be the first to advise you to never buy in to your own hype.

The concern isn't the space it occupied, but overall vehicle weight.

Here is some practical advice: ask a mod (politely, mind you) to edit your name out of this thread for you:

Virgin Galactic's first powered flight this morning: Two really nice pics from VG's twitter feed (I'm too lazy to figure out how to embed them - any mod who feels like it and knows how is welcome to change this): 1, 2

This post is crap without 6 pages of STEM-on-future-barista violence.

Point and click with a trackball may suck compared to what it should have been, but it is way beyond the legacy keyset. Now the P/C-legacy keyset hybrid? THAT was the worst.

IIRC, the AF requires that you be an MTP for those slots. Unless you did DCMA at SAC or challenged the course there are very few USN/USMC guys who get that qual.

I'm at an aerospace company near you; we haven't finalized our intern plan for the summer yet, but if you want an honest opinion of your résumé pm me your email.

It is the good life, BTW. The Navy really was good to me but retirement is even better. You'll love it.

Very cool - congratulations!

I don't know exactly what "space physics" entails, but I work at one of the bigger commercial space outfits and we don't have any there. If you really want to design space ships I'd suggest MechE, EE, some of the CS degrees, and to a lesser extent Aero.

For the record, all Japanland call signs suck since the Beef Steak kids went away.

The turd in the punchbowl of this whole discussion is the UAS vs. Manned Aircraft discussion. When you look at the proportion of the cost of a vehicle that goes in to sustaining the meat puppets (cockpit and safety infrastructure, training, etc) it gets harder to support. We are still building...

So if it isn't operating off a CVN, doesn't that imply some sort of airfield, where we can maintain adequate security and whatever assets are needed for a relatively permissive environment? What does that cost?

(a) Very cool - hope it works out. (b) How did he do that?

There may be some with no military experience, but none have ever made it through the first resume cut at my company, and I suspect they are fairly rare. (Much like there are some test guys at OEMs who never flew military, but again they are the exceptions).

You have a few misconceptions: - "Aeronautical Science" degrees are not a requirement for any corporate (or other civilian) flying jobs. - The biggest variable to acceptance to TPS are the community you are in and what their openings are during the window you are able to apply (you have to...

Do you already have a lot of the math done? What is it that you want to be that your current major will prevent?

You'd still do fine and know more than me. Like with MATLAB I spend most of my time shaking my head about how excited I was just to get a spreadsheet to use my sophomore year when I was an engineering undergrad. <------ Old.

Yes, but the interface issues between the versions can still get you - though the cautionary tale of Airbus should be cutting down on that by now.

A career in military aviation offers a good route to the commercial space industry. Engineering degrees, ability to code, be a CATIA driver, various aviation-related skills (test, etc) all will help.

Correct. It is programmed automatically in normal operation, but can be set manually. Nose attitude (would be much higher if the stab were level).

Got it in one.

I started a thread on here about how it went for me finding a job after I retired last summer, but short version is I agree with wm. Your education and the jobs you choose in the Navy will have a direct effect on your options when you get out. Shorter version: plan ahead or take what you get.

With prior thought and effort, you can come out at 8 or 20 years with a leg up on your military peers (whatever your field) but unless you are an acquisition guy going to a defense contractor or a a pilot with the right kind of mins going into flying you will be behind your civilian peers (there...

I'd suggest you leave it out. I agree that modern 20 something's mostly don't care about this issue, but those aren't the people judging your application. It's a simple calculation: the chances that sharing that information positively influence somebody to select you are much smaller than...

Got to say, I understand where you are coming from, but I was thrilled to find out my mishap was caught on camera. Saved me a whole lot of hassle.