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For the record, I was just trolling with my question. I knew the answer already.

Nope - plenty of people have been very successful with only two out of three if one of them is academics, and if you are good enough at academics you can suck at the other two and be fine.* *based on my experiences graduating from one academy and teaching at another.

Academics trumps everything at any service academy.

Did they wait for somebody to be convicted or was an arrest enough?

Anybody hear back from somebody who took the gig? The general consensus of my peer group was that they'd have to add another zero to that 293k.

Great, now where am I going to keep all of this sand..?

Ok, I knew or could puzzle out the first 3, but what is a HAVOC? Edit : never mind I found the acronym

Of course! I never lost any flight time when you guys went Green on Green (and often gained an hour or two). Even on my boat tour it never really hassled us - as we were fond of saying, all the Air Plan really gave us was a point from which to measure deviation.

Probably closer to trolling than joking - I've spent a lot of time around ACEs. I will be interested to see if the prior-Phrog and Osprey-from-the-beginning guys will be able to get along. Navy helo communities have always had problems with that as new aircraft are introduced to communities. I...

They like to have Phrog guys as ACE CO because they generally do a better job of taking care of the aviators from other platforms.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly, and tools have to write sentences like the one Flash quoted. On the other hand, I'm a huge fan of voting with your feet, so I'm willing to call it a wash.

I've had to show transcripts for my Naval Architecture degree a number of times to prove it was a "real" engineering degree (and that is even with having an M.E. as well). Some HR departments (the initial screeners at large to medium companies) might let those engineering-lite degrees through...

You can contribute to both. There is another thread around here somewhere that covers it.

I've palm-treed two of them - pretty sure by the unintelligible (but definitely angry) noises coming from the 5MC that their Air Bosses wouldn't think that counts... Only one boat I've cruised on is still going, and it's the one I did my disassociated on. Everything else is a reef or sold off.

Well, you can lead a horse to water, and you can hold its head under until all the bubbles stop. But you can't make it drink.

Cat has a point - we need a new term for those who are thousands of miles behind the fobbits but don't quite seem to realize it.

I wouldn't have thought it possible that somebody could argue for air medals for in-conus UAV pilots without sounding like a douche. And this article sure didn't change my mind. Having said that, I'm not sure the strike flight air medals really have the same cachet they used to, I have no green...

"Technical Management" and "Engineering Management" degrees =/= engineering degrees. Make sure you understand the utility of the degree you get, both in job opportunities and salary potential.

1) Agree, somewhat, though she seems to be happy with that region. 2) Everybody's relationship is different. I know plenty of folks who had geo-baching work great for them, and plenty others who wish they had done so for some of their tours. You just have to be honest with yourself about...

No, it is designed to put bodies in billets that need to be filled. Any actual professional growth is a bonus.

I think we are agreeing here. My thought is they want to make a public example of him: but my concern is that they are doing it in a ham-fisted way that isn't inspiring confidence in their aviators. It's great that you and your buddy are doing that kind of training, but the problem is that the...

Yep, and hopefully the average young guy will maintain his faith in that system. But if they know they've screwed up, and they think that their leadership will try to hunt them down for it, will they still feel trust in the system? Ideally a young guy with doubts would access the SIR, compare...

I don't think the CG was ever going to be able to make a court martial stick, and the fact that they at least created the appearance of wanting to could have a negative effect on an individual's willingness to be fully honest with a mishap investigation. That's unfortunate. But backing off...

I will second Curaçao; it is a little bit of a trek from the main town, but there is a new Hyatt with a great golf course (Old Quarry) attached and some very good restaurants.

I used it in a paper last year and never found a 100% solid attribution (the references to Darrow were all second-hand to the Library of Congress). I've also seen it without the "not". Good either way.

Nice.

First of all, whether HAL's autocorrect rules or he was trying to sneak one by, that's funny. I don't think there is any way the people involved didn't know the rules, and didn't know that due to their positions they would be hammered if their actions were made public. That pretty much...

I don't mind that. What bugged me were the people my wife worked with that would call her anytime they heard about a mishap to ask if it was me. Not hugely useful, especially when the Pecos mishap went down, as I was airborne in a phrog that day.

Do they keep them available while underway? There was a big argument about that on my boat tour - a couple senior officers wanted to not have them available because they thought it looked like we were condoning sex on the boat. I was on the other side of that argument, they were going to be...

For the case in the article, he was told to stop (so essentially given a warning) and didn't. He needs to be tossed. Your bigger-picture question is interesting, because for the most part people are only anonymous if nobody cares enough to figure out who they are. For instance, I've never put...

Yeah, but it's kind of cool to shut both your engines off (intentionally) knowing full well you'll be riding it down. Well, in retrospect it's cool. It's a little scary at the time.

I did my boat tour there so let me know if you have any questions. It's a good gig.

That is unrelated to C-power. He is talking about what was in the -46 called emergency throttle (but would have been better named manual throttle) which when activated allowed manual control of fuel flow to the engines via rocker switches on the collective. The closest -60 equivalent is when...

You know, you just can't let it get you down. I know a lot of decent guys who induced a lot of self-inflicted pain by not knowing when to stop pushing the string. (I didn't learn that lesson on the first try either).

Lumpy has it right, but there were also issues of inadvertent deployments and failures to stay attached after impact. And while I am old, and I do have a lot of Romeo/Sierra time, I've never even sat in a legacy 60, let alone flown one. 90% + of my legacy 60 knowledge was accumulated...

Back in the late 90's we took an extended look at this in the HC world. There was very little correlation between primary/intermediate scores and FRS/Fleet performance. There was more correlation between performance in advanced and performance in the FRS/Fleet, but it wasn't across the board by...

What percent make out with their sister?

Maybe it wasn't really Jim, but his non-union Mexican equivalent instead?

When you get to be a HAC (and even more so when you get to be an instructor) you'll figure out that a guy's NSS in primary is only sometimes indicative of his eventual potential in thee aircraft. At most, a 50+ NSS in primary just shows he picked up the basic aviation skills faster than the...

Recruiters/Detailers/Monitors/CO's etc. don't lie. The truth changes.

"We" want minorities in the service, and thus bend over backwards to bring them in, retain them, and promote them. Our internal policies that I referenced (see promotion board precepts, for instance) are designed to help meet "our" goals. But they still don't have a right to get a commission...

How does that equate to forcing the services to commission those people?

Nobody has a right to be an officer in any branch of the military. Any service can use any discriminator not barred by federal law or its own internal processes. Brett is correct, fair has nothing to do with it.

They won't care and won't even notice. I wouldn't sweat it.

I was an instructor at 3 when it happened (and was out at Brown with a student so I went over to have a look/laugh at him on button 0). They landed fairly fast (which causes water to rush up the tunnel) and then the student planted the nose which caused the ECL quadrant to get soaked. Good times.

The specific scenario of the SAR right out of port that PL mentioned before comes from the incident where a likely still-drunk OIC put himself in the aircraft on a SAR over the objections of his JO's right as they were leaving port. The breathalyzer thing is stupid and reactionary, but anybody...

Unrelated, but now I'm curious - is it common to launch without a rescue swimmer to boats in distress? Is it just the -65's that do that due to cabin space limitations?

https://www.tsp.gov/PDF/bulletins/11-u-4.pdf This is the bulletin on implementation - I haven't waded through it but it might have your answer.

Between my first tour and retiring, it seems like there has been a conscious effort to try and push people to take the "tougher" jobs prior to learning board results to discourage folks from dropping the pack.

Can you drag your feet until you know if you screened, or will you have to pick your joint billet first?