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Awesome, thanks for the info!

Has anyone had their leather name tag sewn on at Wings and Things? Going to be down there in a couple of weeks and I'm wondering how their quality is with sewing leather jackets.

Requesting NA wings as well, winged with @Duc'-guy25 out of Meridian.

Never gets old ?

I read high during my initial flight physical, so they took readings at medical twice a day for three days and averaged it out. It will help if you can figure out a way to put yourself in a happy place for the 30 seconds that the cuff is on.

Don’t totally discount them, they aren’t perfect but for some things they’re solid. For Primary I could see them being useful for the Navigation flights and practicing PAs. If you go the jet route for advanced they’re awesome for practicing phase II stuff. I wouldn’t want to fly a plane after...

The other things I would do is pop your head into your squadron skeds office and ask them if there’s any way they can schedule you for a practice sim. They get access to the open slots before they’re released to the profsit list, and when I was stashed in there we would regularly hard schedule...

As someone who was dead set on going to Corpus and got switched to Whiting the week before I started API, I was initially pissed but ended up having an awesome time in Pensacola. And most people I talk to that went through Corpus feel the same about living there. Either way you’ll look back on...

Not sure how long the wait is for the squadron or T/M/S patches, but I only ended up waiting a couple of months for a name tag pitch from TG (ordered under the assumption it would take a year plus and was pleasantly surprised)

Save a horse, ride an... ejection seat?

What's typical for a first tour JO by the time they leave their fleet squadron, 700-800? And is pretty consistent across TACAIR or would you expect certain segments (VAQ, CVW-5) to have more?

I thought I remembered the P-8 having different wings than a regular 737-800?

If your weight was the problem then someone in STUCON would be talking to you about it since everyone has to meet the ejection seat limits for the T-6; the fact that you’re anthro’d out of the E-2 probably has something to do with another one of the measurements. And I’m not positive but I’m...

I agree, although I should say that I think 99% of the people that would give you crap about it would do it in a joking manner and would only do it because of the perception that you don't wear it until you wing, and not from needing to shit on someone else. I think it's interesting that...

In two years aboard three different training bases I have never seen a student wearing the G-1 until they are winged. Take it for what it’s worth but I agree with @Duc'-guy25 in that wearing one as a student would make you stand out in the wrong kind of way.

No no no, an old fashioned should never have fruit muddled in with the bourbon. It just makes it taste like a bourbony fruit punch. The only ingredients should be: Bourbon Simple syrup Bitters Garnish with a cherry or orange peel Maybe it’s time we start an AW drinking thread. ?

Yeah dude don’t worry about the NATOPS until you get down there. Aim to show up at Kingsville (or Meridian) with a 0 leave balance and an empty travel/alcohol slush fund. That’s what I did and it was definitely worth it.

Keep an eye out for when B&H has sales on Macs as well - usually you can find last year's models discounted by $300 or more.

I bought them through the desktop site about a month ago in $50 increments and it was reimbursed two days later.

I got the same line when I went through when one of the instructors noticed my Allen Edmonds. Bought a pair of Bates to get me through API and then started wearing the AEs again and haven’t heard anything since. There are a lot of dumb API-isms and once you get to Primary you’ll find out that...

Unless things have changed you only need to be processing for a clearance to go to OCS, and by the time you leave be able to hold an interim Secret.

Some of the best advice I got before Primary was "If you don't know someone who is studying too much and not hanging out with his buddies and having fun, it's probably you!"

Obviously 147 is the golden child right now, but once they are done transitioning are they going to start the process over with a second squadron or will 147 remain the only operational 35C squadron for some time?

Don’t worry about selection until you’re almost done with Primary. It changes a lot week to week and you have no idea what the needs of the Marines will be when you finish. 6 months ago you needed to be top of your class and put Jets as #1 to get it, now the Marines are calling people already in...

Don't sweat it too much bro. When you get to API they'll tell you exactly what you need to know, and if you put in the work and actually learned the material in IFS it will come back quickly when you start reviewing it. Same with the stuff you learn in API when you get to Primary. Same with the...

Not sure what I did but I got my card in Jan 17 (post commissioning), called in May of 17 and asked for SCRA benefits, and they applied them and did not charge me the $450 fee in Jan 18. Maybe just got lucky but I would try a few times to see if you can get a different customer support person to...

http://www.public.navy.mil/netc/centers/cnatt/nascweb/anthro_/files/3710.9D.pdf

At least when I went through last year, we were considered applicants until we successfully passed the NAMI physical during check in at Pcola. After that we fell under the student standards.

I completely agree, and I realize that making it through flight school is not only a function of can you be safe in a plane, but can you do it in x number of events and y number of hours. But from the students' perspective what we worry about is the 3 and out rule of the new system. If you fail...

That's strange. I commissioned in Dec 2016, and I opened the card in Jan 2017. I got SCRA benefits applied in Mar 2017 while living in FL (and billing address was in PA) and while they didn't reimburse my fee for the first year they didn't charge me this year. Maybe I got lucky but like I said...

I managed to get mine waived about a year ago, but from what I've read it seems to depend on the agent you talk to. I'd try calling the military number listed and cite the MLA.

Fair enough. I know a lot of it comes down to timing and I feel fortunate to be going through now when the floodgates were pretty wide-open. Hearing some stories from IPs who went through in the 2008 timeframe and sim instructors who were going through flight school during the post-Cold War...

That is what was passed down by CNATRA himself during the last round of all-calls: the pipeline is too full, time to train is too long, and there are people being winged now who would not have made it through the program previously. So they recently changed the pink-sheet policy to make them...

When I went through about a year ago, they would screen you the first or second week of API by making you do basic strokes, tread water, float, etc. If you looked like you were having trouble or wouldn't be able to pass, they would roll you into swim hold for a few weeks and then you would join...

I’m guessing not having a Gunny screaming in your ear about your form helps a bit too ;)

I got partial BAH when I was on OHARP (~$700 a month) FWIW. Not sure what the actual justification for that was though.

Would it really make sense to shoot them an email and get in line if you're currently in flight school? It looks like a lot of squadrons (in VFA land at least) do custom name tags so do you just rock the normal one through the RAG and then swap it out for a squadron specific one later?

I have had several friends attire at different stages of flight school within the past year for academic failures, flight adaptation issues, and medical issues, and most have successfully redesigned to other communities (biggest taker has been Supply). You do have to go to a board but at least...

March 29th, briefs in the API auditorium from 830-11 and the flight line is open 1230-1530.

Yeah they're having a Fleet Fly-in at Sherman on the 29th IIRC. Your STUCON or OPS should have the flyers that VT-10 just sent out.

Just selected strike out of Whiting, requesting access to any jet forums that apply. Thank you!

So apparently the CO is a RN Commodore (equivalent to Rear Admiral Lower Half) but he wears the rank of Captain when in command of the ship while retaining the rank of Commodore. Is that something unique to the Royal Navy (or even the Queen Elizabeth) or is that something that can happen in the...

For what it’s worth, I called Chase a few months ago and requested SCRA benefits for my Sapphire Reserve. It took them a couple of weeks but after a short review they granted them. Just passed the one year mark of having my card and no sign of the annual fee on my account.

When I was there back in Sept-Dec 2016, they issued a mix of Bellville and Bates, just depends on what size you were and what they had in stock. I'd say bring your CNTs but I wouldn't be surprised if they made you buy the Poly-Wools because otherwise you'd be "an individual".

Yep TW-5 still flies with them in solo. Not sure if anyone in VT-10 can chime in but I heard they just switched back to flying in dual within the past few months.

Our Skipper sent out an email a few weeks ago saying they still don't know if the FRS will be at Norfolk or NASNI, and I believe the IOC was 2018 or 2019 with a full transition by 2028 or 2029 depending on where they decided to put the FRS.

Yeah it's more about proportions, and he wasn't out of limits for anything so he's eligible to select any pipeline. It all just depends though, and you won't really know for sure until you get to NAS Pensacola and they put a sheet of paper in your medical record stating which pipelines you're...

One of my friends is 6'5" and is actually not anthro'd out of jets, but I know several people smaller than that who are.

Don't try to open too many accounts too quickly, the card companies will likely see that as you being in financial distress and in need of a lot of credit in a short amount of time. Also food for thought, Amex won't let you have more than 4 credit accounts open at a time (doesn't include the...

Things that I did early on that really seemed to help me in Primary: - Started studying EPs after Flight Suit Friday and while in Primary Pool before classing up. Nothing extreme, just flipping through them while in the gym or on the toilet - Hit the checklists hard in the static sims while in...