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From the outside looking in, listening to the pointy nose dudes talk about how difficult CQ is, this seems like a not-so-great idea.

I wanna make a game of it, see how drunk I can get and still be lucid enough to answer the doc's questions.

No shit, due to Covid-19, my flight physical (scheduled this Wednesday) will now be done over the phone.

For those left, Jets!!

Switch steps 1 and 2. That way people understand why flipping burgers at the shake shack while living in Venice Beach probably isn’t a financially good idea.

I’ll be the asshole... You’ve been watching this forum since January 17th and haven’t seen anything posted, so why didn’t you? Apparently you were posting ‘with a high degree of accuracy’ on a different forum. Instead you waited till someone else posted and now lecture the rest of us. Those...

I’ve been writing a lessons learned on my transition to active AF that I’d gladly throw up on a subforum as well.

I’m a math guy so numbers have always been appealing, and I had similar questions/doubts. From the information I’ve read; humans currently have no known immunity, there is no vaccine, a transmission rate of 2-3 per infected person (compared to less than 1 for normal flu), and an estimated death...

Kim Jong-Un gives zero fucks about coronavirus.

I finished my overseas PCS in the nick of time, got here last week before the redonkulousness kicked in. I brought my dog with me too but a lot of airlines have put temp-bans on transporting pets. I have some friends that are now sitting around wondering when they’ll PCS over and also when their...

Pretty sure he selected the Navy Osprey pipeline.

I'm a nerd and every time I've seen someone post 'CW' in this thread I think "who the hell still uses morse code?"

Wrong on both. The vast majority of both of those jobs are done by enlisted.

DanMa hit the nail on the head. I was lucky and hit a weird timing window due to the Navy shutting down my squadron, worked some contacts I have and got my JTAC qual. I was even working a pretty unique deployment with some folks to use said qual and then timing struck again and my squadron stood...

Really good book on understanding human tendencies. The author goes into individual habits but also a good deal of time spent on organizational level ‘habits’. Many takeaways for leadership at the personal and the squadron level.

The ‘freelance’ aspect, or more accurately helping sailors avoid it, is why I’m a big fan of MilitaryOneSource. It’s actually a DoD funded program and can get the sailor mental health care without requiring them to just point to a random dr in the yellowpages. It also helps avoid the MTF stigma...

There are ways for a Servicemember to seek out mental health solutions and the CO won’t find out. It’s called militaryonesource, providers can recommend it, and it’ll never appear in a medical record. The Servicemember will have access to licensed psychologists/psychiatrists. The frustrating...

It’s the same process to go to ANG as it is to the reserves. The only added layer is that your package has to go through the state level ANG command as well as the AF reserve side so it just adds time to get the whole deal completed. Otherwise the process is the same; rush a unit, get accepted...

For folks addressing the commissary’s value, how often does the sailor shop there? I think we as officers look at it a bit through rose colored glasses because paying an extra few bucks per pound of meat, etc, doesn’t bother us but it makes a huge deal to Seaman Timmy. That said, I would love...

I understand completely what you are saying. The irony is I’m not religious. As you said, c’est la vie.

Condescend much? Stop being a fucking dick.

That’s literally the only actual example used in the article and in this thread. The rest of the article was vague generalities. I’m not saying it, you did as well as the author in the article.

Efficiency in operation is always the key. I think it’s a bit disingenuous to say that the most cost saving measures come from reducing the size of the chaplaincy Corp.

Having seen firsthand the effect that a chaplain has on the resiliency of airmen, you are 100% missing the point.

The article focused heavily on the chaplaincy, however there is significant bloat in all staffs and the admiralty that needs to be addressed. Sure, there are more chaplains per capita than WWII, but there are also drastically more Admirals now than in WWII as well. How many RPs could we keep if...

Just like closing some bases in the name of saving money is now showing itself to be a bad idea, getting rid of the chaplain corp may seem like a good idea now but long term would be really bad.

Supposedly USNA is implementing this or has already switched to it so I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t filter out to the Fleet within the year. Cadence push-ups wouldn’t be a big deal but either before or after the plank, that’s gonna be killer on the shoulders.

I know him third hand, the dude did some good things overseas, definitely didn’t just hang out in the JOC all day.

I wouldn’t wear a uniform on the way to work but once at the squadron and in the bag, I wore the leather jacket all the time. Broken in, I thought it was warmer and more comfortable than the alternatives.

Surprisingly, only roughly 300 miles less range than the COD.

Unless I’m mistaken, CVN-80 will be the next USS Enterprise.

Yeah, just click a button and all the pubs sync. Pretty easy.

I assume you guys use Foreflight for FAA pubs? What about flight manuals, TOs, etc? For non-FAA (AFMAN/AFI/etc) we use Goodreader.

That’s what got me, I watched it on my phone. Went home and watched it on my laptop and it’s more obvious.

I am too, and it admittedly got me good.

To move away from Politics Thunderdome 2.0... R2D2 getting some, supposedly from the Iran attack.

I imagine the punishment they are gonna receive in Saudi would be worse than being prosecuted here.

It’s funny you posted that clip, because I thought of this one with the resolutions Congress passed this week.

The annoying thing is Congress passed non-binding resolutions, so they in essence passed the buck on actually doing anything. I personally like the idea of going back to the Constitutional idea that Congress controls the war strings. Precedent is hard to overcome though and Congress essentially...

Looks like the SWOs get a leather jacket. Too bad wash khakis aren’t a thing anymore. Then again, SWOs never really do look cool anyways. https://news.usni.org/2020/01/09/navy-message-authorizing-swo-leather-jacket

To be fair, don’t we all sit around at night drinking and then argue on the internet?

More often than not the NSW tours as a fires officer doesn’t help much either.

Sounds like they must be prioritizing initial investigations. A lot of folks I know getting reinvestigations have taken 12-18 months.

Aw man, but I just bought a huge box of rubber dildos. ??

This is all just part of Paramount’s bigger plan for building up excitement for Top Gun 2’s release.

Hell, reinvestigations are taking 18 months start to finish, so I’m not surprised an initial took that long.

Yes, it happens. In the Navy it’s rare and very difficult to get, and usually comes along with doing a tour as a fires officer in a NSW/EOD unit or with ANGLICO.

Beautiful watch, but $14,000. ?

I realize I’ve never sat on the JCS but I’ve definitely heard about throwaway COAs. Hell, I even had an O-6 tell me to write one for a brief to SOCPAC.

Ok, that makes sense to me, so not a dick move.