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Don't listen to Nomar, he doesn't know what he's talking about. I'm kidding; he's probably your best guy to talk to about KU NROTC right now.

Why do you do things like this to yourself? I think I know what it is--you need to take a deep breath, exhale, and finally admit to yourself how fucking gay you really are. Christ in a rowboat.

"Sometime, you guys should come up here. You'd enjoy the show." I sure did.

This is probably his only answer at this point, minus the trashbag idea. If he doesn't eat, his body will start conserving energy and he won't actually lose much weight. If his metabolism is up (like it would be after this type of workout), and he's eating good food that's high in volume but...

We tried to get something going on this in API, and what I was told then was that no one outside of OCS was being admitted to the qualifications because watchstanders needed it more than us. I thought that sounded fishy, but I got classed up pretty quick afterwards so I stopped working on it...

If you can leave footprints of your entire sole when you step down, you're flatfooted. Otherwise, you're not.

Didn't think it was funny until I got to the part about what happened to the "lone reporter." Not too bad.

One of our OCs in ROTC would practice them for the 2 minutes to see how many he could do, then work on them from there. The practice times he'd use to work on using him hip flexors for the first portion of the situps, then go to his abs to grunt out the final few once they started to fail...

I just thought those were wingovers. I'm not trying to be a smart@ss, that's what I thought they were.

Sure, dude. If it helps you sleep, keep thinking that. :sleep_125

No, I didn't. The second line was directed at Srtitan, not you. Basic reading comprehension is a wonderful thing. :)

Listening to some of the traffic up near A County sitting assistant RDO was pretty entertaining too--you had the entire gamut of accents, bizarre radio calls, and weird moves from civilians, everything from unintelligible Germans taking the active (with someone on final) to quavering Texas...

They do. Not much activity on it, but it's there at least. Good to see you here, Srtitan.

When I was med down in Pcola with my busted leg, I watched Good Eats and License to Grill quite a bit. Both good shows, and License to Grill had some pretty awesome grill recipes.

You could make Chicago Midway from Corpus as well (something to think about for Primary studs in RIs...). You couldn't feel your ass for about 24 hours after the flight, but it was worth it.

Sticky, anyone? This is great stuff. I wish I'd known things like this when I was applying to ROTC--thanks, Chunks.

Highly, highly doubtful.

Phil de Vellis; he got fired for it. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9072295

That's the sub I did my 3/c mid cruise on for three weeks. The crew was still convinced it was cursed, especially since after that incident it ran aground, then hit USS Ogden and tore apart its san tanks. They even had some Hawaiian priests come on board and exorcise the demons. I had a...

Jake obviously knows what he's talking about--listen to him. I ranked everything out in my head and put down what I wanted in the order I wanted it in, and got my second choice, which was fine by me. In any case, realize that you are just voting on your future. Good luck and congrats on...

Nope, none. He was kicking himself the last year that he had to pay out of pocket. Good guy, he just didn't prioritize or figure things out until it was a little too late.

joboy, you did something tactfully? I'd be in awe, but the earth must be ending soon, so it'll be short lived.

The only reason I took 5 years was my major required it (195 hours in five years--I had zero frickin social life). My roommate was a jackoff and took five years for a history major. I got fifth year benefits, he didn't. Try for four years, but if it's not possible or you're going to start...

Could ask webmaster. Worst he'll do is say no.

My scholarship was set up for Northwestern University but I didn't get in. It was a quick fix after I switched over, but I had already gotten into another NROTC affiliated school.

You haven't discovered that the internet is for porn.

This guy. Though I wouldn't have minded the ladies of ill repute.

I liked breaststroke better (no pun intended), then the crawl around the slow guys trying to kick me in the face.

Run a search. I know this has been done to death. There's several quals you have to meet, but it's a pretty reasonable ramp-up in intensity. Initially they're just figuring out if you can actually swim well enough to keep going; if not, you'll get pulled out of class and they'll work on you...

When I was trying to decide where I was going to go to school, I factored in the distance to a degree. I decided I didn't want to drive all day or have to fly to get back home for breaks, but that was me. I ended up going to a school that was about 3 hours away (out of state), and that was...

I'm not an IP, but I vividly remember a flyer one of the senior Marine IPs put up telling us that people had been doing this (shrinking the FTI pages down to kneeboard size) and flying off of them in the sims, and that if we got caught doing it, it'd be an automatic ready room down. I was...

GREAT show.

Reminds me of my second night at the I-bar playing ship, captain, crew, which I suck at. That got to be a little expensive.

Second what feddoc and xmid said. A podiatrist is going to be able to help you better than us. I speak from experience: I have the flattest feet of nearly any human alive, and pronate so badly that I've shocked every podiatrist I've ever seen. The only reason I haven't been seriously injured...

I know what you're saying, no worries. From my perspective, 1300 hrs seems like a ton, regardless of the type of flying it is.

D@mn skippy. I didn't like Florabama.

Oh, all of it came as a civilian, but he also (don't ask me how--he knew the right people, I guess) got to fly a P-51 at some point. He had ~1300 hours or thereabouts. I will say that it was not possible for him to do any better when he finished. I don't know how he wasn't suicidal...

I know a few folks who had some previous flight time and there was only one that I know of who got any real benefit out of it, but he worked his tail off to put himself in a position to get what he wanted: he was both an IFR and aerobatics civilian instructor who had more time than most of his...

This is essentially grease the groove.

I haven't used them personally (I just ordered some so we'll see), but from what I hear from Crossfit trainers they work better than other methods, and quicker, too. Another subsitution would be jumping pullups (jump to assist the pullup, then let yourself down slowly--builds negative strength...

Also check out the Crossfit website. They LOVE pullups over there.

Can you do a pullup, or is the flexed arm hang all you can do? Either way, you can try something Pavel Tsatsouline recommends, which is a technique he calls grease the groove. The quick and dirty version of it is you do X number of pullups or a certain amount of flexed arm hang time. You...

That's a callsign waiting to happen. And it won't be a cool one.

"That guy" on my cruise wanted us to called him--I sh!t you not--Maverick. He wasn't our favorite. He got very gently told to clean up his act by an O-4 at the I-bar before they closed for the night, and he had no idea what he was talking about. Do NOT be that guy.

The above seems to be the norm, though I haven't heard of any IAs recently. Let's see: a friend who flunked out in API got out after not getting PAO after working for the Blues (she didn't really put anything else down, though). Another friend in Primary looked around a bit and managed to...

This is a much longer term fix, but to really get comfortable in the water, you could try looking at the Total Immersion swimming method (here and here). I don't think that will help you during OCS because it takes a long time to start getting it, but once you do, you'll feel like a fish.

You might call USAA and see if they have anyone they'd recommend. Usually they're pretty good.

I had the same reaction as yours when I first heard about it. You're right, this does make more sense, but not that much more. I have no idea how they're going to standardize things using civilian instructors, many of whom are nearly the same age as the students they're teaching. My IFS...

I registered, and it was strange because they had the option for Midshipmen on there.

Unbelievably cool. I had exactly the same reaction--"Pull up! Pull up!" [A few seconds later...] "Damn, I want one of them!" Can you imagine a birdstrike?