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I like your optimism.

You would if you wanted to redesignate into another community as you aren't beholden to the commitment from the bonus. As for aviation jobs, perhaps, just depends on how hard up the detailer is for bodies in billets.

The irony of that is that you're technically supposed to give the organizational set back and then go buy your own pair.

For the sake of argument, I wonder if 201 made it into combat first or if HCS-4 or HCS-5 did. All three mobilized right around the same time.

We may be saying the same thing, but differently. I took your initial post as meaning the best mission leads are those that have tactical knowledge but are better airspace/aircraft managers than tactical gurus, but I think we have actually agreed.

Because a non-tactical pilot with good cockpit management can herd cats, but a non-tactical pilot isn't going to understand the nuances of what a GBU-38 can do vs a GBU54v5, can I plug airframe x into slot y and still achieve effects required by the GFC, run a PR, do a full DAS push, etc, etc...

Not gonna lie, this is probably the most retarded thing I've ever heard.

It's interesting you ask this now as I just spent a better part of a day perusing through FLTMPS on squadron billets (don't ask why). I can honestly say that I saw a lot of white space in VFA squadrons that I didn't see in helo and maritime squadrons.

My gap was pretty large. I commissioned in 2005 and did a year at grad school immediately afterwards. Combined with my deployment boat (the Enterprise) having mechanical issues, I ended up not deploying until Jan 2011, so a little over 5.5 years from comissioning to deployment. Since then...

The T-bar was getting going on NAS Jax circa 2010-2011. Anyone out there know if it's dead or still sticking around?

I logged about 5 hours in a B-52 once. As a helo bubba seeing that 7 engine approach was interesting. The CRM wasn't anything abnormal, and they rolled back the opposing good engine to alleviate any adverse yaw. According to the aircraft commander, in real world emergency losing another engine...

So for those of us unfamiliar with jets, is the thought of explosive decompression akin to what happens if an astronaut hops out of a spacecraft without a spacesuit on, just to a lesser degree?

Better feed lips, the plastic is surprisingly durable and I've never seen them break. The old metal mags after a lot of use could bend which could cause mis-feed, especially at high rates of fire. You can load a full 30 rounds in a pmag, the old metal mags were actually only designed to hold...

I asked this very question a few years ago and I was explicitly told that only the person driving the POV got mileage.

Nope, you're reading it correctly. The other awesome thing California does is if you don't register/title it in California at time of purchase, you are to physically remove it from the state within 24 hours of purchase until it is registered in whatever other state. If you don't they can fine...

Now that, that is pure genius.

http://www.boe.ca.gov/pdf/pub52.pdf I'll let you read the fine print but here's the rule in California printed verbatim. "Please note: If at the time the contract to purchase the vehicle is made the service member arranges to take delivery of the vehicle in California, the service member will...

Ok, I think I see the disconnect here. Example #1) I buy a car in California, I pay sales tax in California. I owe Florida zero tax. Example #2) I buy a car in a state that doesn't collect sales tax (I think Oregon is an example). I owe Florida zero tax. Example #3) I buy a car in...

Again, not quite. Quoted directly from the Florida sales tax form, I recognize that I owe tax to the state in which the motor vehicle was purchased, unless a specific exemption applies. I do not intend to avoid sales or use tax in any state by registering the vehicle/vessel in Florida...

Not quite. You pay sales tax where you bought it, just not to Florida. If you somehow convince the seller to not charge sales tax and also don't pay sales tax to Florida, that's considered fraud and brings some serious monetary penalties.

What I'm enjoying right now, I live in base housing and I average 1-2 letters a week from a lender asking if I want to refinance my VA loan, on the house I live in, on base, owned by the government. Still haven't figured that one out yet.

Oh if I only had multi-engine time.

I was the tower flower once on the Vinson during a boat det and a helo landed, the wheels were just on the left line of the wheel boxes, right on the waist (can't remember which spot exactly). No fixed wing flight ops happening, but the Captain comes charging in and flipped his shit on the Mini...

Have you explored the Envoy option? It's a direct path to American.

The only beef I've heard from folks down at IB is the distance to anything outside of IB (downtown, PB, OB, etc). Otherwise, I've heard IB is getting pretty nice now, especially compared to a decade ago.

We use Samsung tablets loaded with Avare, a program pretty close to Foreflight, for national airspace stuff. There are various DoD programs available that can load imagery, GOS/GRG, etc, that we also use. I'd hazard to guess that we fly with them almost 100% of the time, save for flights like...

I've heard of email tasking but I think this is a first...tasked via Airwarriors!

Absolutely fucking genius.

I've also seen it happen to different aircraft flying together in the same formation, some felt it, some didn't. Lots of factors exacerbate it.

This change is bullshit, plain and simple. It's change for changes sake. If there are good reasons for this, I've yet to hear them. The rollout was horrendous, "surprise!", which only hurts any potentially beneficial aspects. It removes individual identity from the sailor, and it removes a...

The takeaway is that dash-2 did his job. Since there was no fat chick around all he had to do was tell you that you were on fire. Well done dash-2, well done.

My info is somewhat dated but in my specific case my BKL length was about a 1/4 inch too long for certain platforms. They did not entertain any possibility of waivers, etc, and I understand they still don't perform fit checks. My advice, slouch when they measure, jump off of a chair for a few...

In other news, there was apparently a fist fight at the 32nd street base theatre when some chuckleheads decided to sit during the anthem prior to a movie being played.

Call them/email the unit directly. As of about 12 months ago, the AF as a whole wasn't taking any ISTs. The only guys I know that have made the switch to AF got off of Navy active duty and went into AF reserves.

A good example of why it's great to be a helo doing a flyover. The direct quote from the FAA guy when I did a flyover of an Eagles game in 2011, "I don't care how low you go, just don't hit anything". Needless to say, we were looking up at the top of the stadium when we were at the 50 yard line.

Second Fleming Island. I still own a house there and want to move back someday. Great schools, good community, and it'll put you reasonably close to downtown Jax and not have a super long drive to work either.

Just wait till a helo shoots down a jet with a Hellfire...:D

$40 at an Olongapao tailor and I ended up with my own set of custom fitted two-piece tiger stripe flight suit. :cool:

The type IIIs are pretty dang comfortable, especially compared to the type I. I expect the SEALs will now roll out a different uniform, just to be, different. :)

Laptop. I've done both and while the tablet is nice you will at some point need a keyboard, etc, to type more than a few words or just surf the internet.

I'll use myself as an example. By the time I leave my current orders, I'll have been on sea duty for 12 years straight (all flying tours), and I've been deployed for almost 6 of those years (not counting workups, conus dets, etc). If I had been required to go to a boat for the "traditional"...

I know several guys that have screened for deep draft command/nuke pipeline and none of them did the "boat tour" disassociated. I'm sure they are out there, but I'd be surprised if they are the norm vice the anomaly.

One thing that I think is being unwittingly left out of this conversation is the competency of the pilot who flies all the time versus a pilot who hasn't. I've never been on a shore tour since flight school and I'm an O-4 in my DH tour. Having not left the cockpit yet, I've flown with brand new...

I had dual citizenship when I enlisted and since the program I had enlisted into required a security clearance, I was required to renounce my other citizenship and even signed a form saying so. I would be surprised if that has changed.

Isn't that an Army thing? I thought all Navy units deployed with and brought their same aircraft home with them.

I get that rules are different for winged and non-winged. That said, a dude dies, a dude loses organs and can't fly, and a dude is down for a year. Each one of those could just as easily happen after winging as prior to, and the end result is the same for all three. My point, saying you're...

I don't buy this argument. The exact same thing could happen to you after you get winged and the end result is the same.

Be a lot cooler if we already had it. I know for a fact it's been a bitch for awhile about why NAVAIR can pump a lot of money into certain programs but leaves low hanging fruit such as upgraded ASE to fester on the vine. The stuff that is supposedly coming should've been fielded by now. With...

Wouldn't a "not in the line of duty" determination mean that he did something against the rules. For example, a dude wrecks a motorcycle but hasn't done any of the basic rider courses, etc, then that can be considered not in the line of duty. In lieu of there being an official order saying "no...

I recall showing up to NPS as an ensign enrolling in the Ops Analysis department and all everyone kept saying was 'I'm sorry'. They were right, that department was tough.