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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley, an amazing book about the air war in the Pacific. Just started Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior, Mike Leach. It got great reviews so I'm looking forward to it.

Both places aren't what they used to be in both people and structure. It's changed especially due the recent shenanigans of the Marine that allegedly killed the hooker in Olongapo. Cubi Point O club looks like a bomb went off in it.

We were debating this yesterday. Our thought was that the "golden path" may get folks promoted sooner, but if a guy goes sea tour then to ROTC for shore tour, the subsequent tour may need to be an ass pain to meet some yet-to-be determined metric qualifying for O-4 look. From there, the metric...

I smell a unique way of asking "what percent get jets" :)

The AF body composition test isn't exactly easy. I was on an Air Force base for about 6 months and there was a good amount of bitching about the waist measurement from the guys I worked with. Your waist can't be any larger than 39" regardless of how tall/short you are or how big your neck is...

To counter, super slo-mo video has shown that even "heel striking" is actually a mid-foot strike but to the naked eye it looks like the heel. To truly "heel strike" one has to consciously make the heel of their foot hit.

For those that applied or otherwise interested. I heard through the grapevine that this board was pretty competitive. http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/officer/communitymanagers/reserve/fts/Documents/Selection%20List.pdf

Slate is out, it's behind a CAC wall. Congrats to the slateees! https://mpte.portal.navy.mil/sites/NPC/restricted_documents/Shared Documents/PERS-43/FY-16 ACSB Slate.pdf

Not what I'm asking. On the Enterprise one of the warrant gunners worked all the appropriate ATF paperwork for about 1,000 dudes who bought shotguns in Turkey. He was not an FFL holder. He just coordinated all the ATF paperwork required for folks to buy it overseas and bring it directly home...

Anyone have any experience with this? I bought a shotgun while on the Big E back in 2011 but I didn't set it up so I don't know how to go about getting it started. Where I'm at right now I have access to cheap weapons and the good idea fairy thinks buying them and bringing them home is, well...

We are debating two different time points in a career I think. First, my opinion is that stick time outweighs getting a grad degree early on in a career. As a whole, my take is that big Navy and aviation should take a different opinion on grad school post-DH. However, grad school pre-DH really...

I'll use myself as an anecodotal example of what point I think you're making. I went to NPS directly following my time at the Academy. I got my masters and it was a great educational experience but in the 9.5 years since I haven't had a need to optimize delivery schedules or minimize the cost...

You missed my point, and I think we are comparing apples to oranges. You are a two anchor type that runs a lot of sensors and I would hazard to guess that you can get a lot of training done that doesn't involve actually flying in the aircraft, aka, a sim. In helo land, and I don't care what...

I think that's a huge problem. The senior guys, especially the DHs, have a responsibility to train the younger guys in tactics as well as officership. A single training officer can only do so much and additionally having multiple instructors brings variety of techniques in the aircraft that the...

Funny, that's what they do with first tour JOs that go become a WTI.

I know people who have, what are you trying to figure out?

Hell, I'll say it, I just love my job. All I ever wanted to do was be in the Navy and I'm doing it, so yes I would do it again. I could probably get out and make a lot more money, I have a large head with a lot of information stored in it, but where else do I get paid to lift weights while...

Totally depends on the board. From personal experiences the slots for each community vary each board, sometimes a community may need to fill only one slot (or none) and sometimes they can be looking for a handful of people. The submission deadline has passed for this board but if you put more...

There is also an instruction out there that dictates anyone who gets level IV (aka, a WTI), owes two years post weapons school/NSAWC in a sea going tour. It doesn't specify that it has to be as a super JO but only a sea tour. In HSC land, the current business practice is to detail post weapons...

I've seen both the active and reserve sides of Navy aviation and I would do it again in a heartbeat. I've only had flying tours and I've both deployed on the boat and I've deployed to some pretty small SE Asian countries. These are the experiences that I will forever remember and that epic sea...

Well, besides the fact that everyone told you what you already knew about it not being on-track, it is very doable. I've known a few dudes in recent years that have done it. Either let your front office or detailer know. Also, look on the NPS website and figure out your APQ. That resultant...

The 60H is old and tired (FCF 4-per anyone?) from an airframe standpoint but there are a lot of things avionics wise that I wish had been incorporated in the 60S.

I've gone to the Korean Air lounge in Narita and it's pretty great, go there next time your through there. The Priority Pass app is really great at telling what lounges are available, to include individual airline lounges.

The HAC in that vid, I flew with him a lot after he left Whidbey. He is a great dude and the guy was a helluva stick. It's a bummer he got out of the Navy.

Green time also isn't an effective indicator of someone actually being a tactical guru either. That said, if folks who do actually have said experience I think it'd be a good idea to recruit them into the tactics guru roles.

I don't fault [most of] the jo's that are WTI's because 99% really do try to make a good product. My problem with the community as a whole is the decision to put guys in NSAWC with zero, literally no deployments as a JO. Again, I'm not faulting the JO level because the JOs are essentially just...

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He does have a point though. In my experience the order of planning efficiency and effectiveness, specifically when coming to integrating RW support. Tier 1 Marsoc Army SF AFSOC NSW Until just recently, as in the past two-three months, NSW planning for training events has been mediocre to...

Your mom's house. Lot's of sailors been through there, and it's pretty fun.

Sadly, I think the Navy is going to lose some helos and crews trying to figure the above out before they realize that HSC is spread way too thin.

If I'm not mistaken, it was PR qualed 60S guys from an amphib, and they couldn't man up two fully qualed PR crews for a section. So, there wasn't exactly a full CSARTF on hand, hence why they called in the Marines to go get them. A CVW was close and prepped for CSAR, I was on that carrier as we...

I alluded to this in a different post, but 84 provided about 55% of all SOF rotary wing lift last year in CENTCOM, 85 provided about 99% SOF rotary wing lift in PACOM. So, I'd say that they were in the thick of it. The perception I think I'm getting from you is that the 160th does all the work...

Just for a point of clarity, 84/85 weren't wedded specifically to NSW, the support they gave to NSW simply happened to be more due to colocation with the Teams (San Diego and Norfolk). There was a significant amount of support requested from and provided to other services, especially while...

Well, since you asked. I'll avoid specifics, but suffice to say, the majority of deployed support to SOF was from these two units. At home, it's about 40% for all training requests. The rest went to the TF160 guys and the scraps went to regular squadrons. Interestingly, there's a good portion...

3-4 200 round cans was fairly normal when I was active duty. The sad truth is that currency for regular Navy gunners is around 800-1000 rounds per quarter (can't remember the exact number). That is partly why regular Navy helos aren't considered as serious CAS assets. Unfortunately, the Navy...

Sure man, if that's how you took it then you should probably reevaluate your take on constructive criticism. Good luck in your flying career.

Cool story bro... I'm not a gunner and do not claim to be. However, in my previous squadron there were multiple issues with the 240 feeding, jamming, etc, and that was on flights shooting maybe 3-4 200 round cans. In my current squadron we go through thousands of rounds in a flight and rarely...

I hate to break it to you, but that may be a part user error and part a really worn gun. I've flown where we went through more than 6-7,000 rounds through the 240 in a single flight with no feed or other issues.

Yeah, just bitching as I'm obviously biased. When the DoD saved an estimated $2 billion on fuel alone this past year it does leave one scratching your head on where exactly to pinch pennies.

Navy pilots do go up to SWTI run by the Navy. I've sent guys through the ground school portion of WTI but since no WTI instructors are qualed in the 60, we haven't been able to get dudes through the whole course, and the Marines require we bring a helo for them to fly the course in with the...

I missed that but heard about it, that could've been interesting if it had gone on longer.

Both are shutting down.

I wonder if sparing the Fleet includes not shutting my squadron down? I doubt it, because we're just a bunch of dirty reservists :)

I'm not trying to stir any pot or embellishing whatsoever. I've seen those low altitude flight profiles multiple times from an A-10 and I've seen them use their cannon and put rounds on target from that altitude. I've also debriefed over the HUD tapes and could clearly see the bullet impacts on...

Except I watched him effectively engage targets with his gun, while at that altitude. I don't disagree with you that in a jet, any jet, flying low is tough. What I am simply saying is that in my experience, the A-10 trains for down low fighting much, much more than the other pointy nose jets...

Wait, Michael Moore is pissed you didn't include him!

I'll throw out some obserations here which I'm sure will ruffle F/A-18 guys' feathers... I've never met an 18 guy who would go low. Hell, I've rarely seen F/A-18 guys lower than 10k (I know they do it, I'm just saying what I've seen). How low? I've flown in my helo at less than 100 feet and...

Betsy was a classmate of mine at the Academy. Knew her well, a helluva person. Sadly, another name for Memorial Hall and the class of 2005.

Were we on the same boat? Because we did the same thing, after the week of pasta it was a week of rice and memory doesn't even recall the rest. I do remember time between RASs was almost a month and a half. After we finally got resupplied, almost all of hangar bay three was covered with mail...