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While I agree with you, can you seriously say that in today's military, especially when events like this are such big news?

Is your cockpit bright enough with instrument lights to not need any other light source, or are you an old school grimes light guy?

To avoid a headache on yours and your pr's part, if you put a knife on your vest that isn't authorized by NAVAIR or in the SOASI program you will technically have to fly with an additional, authorized, knife to put your vest in a RFI status. If you're down with flying with two knives go for it...

Turn your kneeboard around where the spring clip is on the bottom. That way you can fold the paper down vice up and the pen pocket will be to the rear. I do that with mine, I prefer how it keeps the paper better organized. Something that hasn't been mentioned here is what can be seen from...

In their defense, those usually come out of different pots of money. Case in point, my old squadron was given money from the wing earmarked specifically for flatscreens. When we asked if we could forgo the tv and buy stuff we actually wanted, no dice.

You could convince your sk's to buy you a Massif fleece, warm and breathes better than the nomex.

I don't understand how you riding as the pax in a car can result in you having an ARI. If you weren't driving, you were not underage, and you weren't being an asshole to the cops that busted your buddy, what did you do to get tossed in the drunk tank? That said, I have heard of cops letting...

I guess I'm ignorant to the rules but you'll be an O and your husband is enlisted? Is that kosher, the whole frat thing and all?

Only on paper. I knew guys of the engineering flavor that were really smart that were told to go to the interview. Once there they didn't fair so well. Whether they sucked or had selective forgetfulness is debateable, but either way they didn't have a say in at least going to the interview.

From an Academy perspective, you can be made to go to the NUPOC interview but they can't force you to pass it. Just saying.

Funny, your mom rolled over and mentioned the article to me too. God bless your mom :D

I had three awesome skippers in a row in my last squadron (HS). All of them were awesome dudes and having gotten to know them and their career paths shows that it doesn't necessarily have to be the Suckistan jobs to make CO and they epitomized what good leaders are. What it also showed me is...

He was, that crazy asshole :)

I would love to make Skipper but one has to be realistic. I'm going to take orders that I love and do my best at them (has been working so far) and if I ultimately make Skipper then that's awesome. What I'm not going to do is take orders as the Porta-Potty Officer in Suckistan just because it...

Here's a statistic that isn't really publicized. From starting as an ensign you have a 49% chance to make O-5, you have a 24% chance of making Skipper. So, instead of killing yourself to make Skipper, do what is necessary to make O-5. The retirements are exactly the same.

Yes. They aren't common and you have to be a good shooter. You earn EIC (excellence in competition) points (legs) in various matches throughout the year. Some are the east and west coast coast matches, followed by All-Navy matches, and Camp Perry, to name the more common ones. You get a...

HS Jax was my 10 or HS Jax was my 10th or 11th choice, can't remember which, but I quality spreaded too (2 out of roughly 30ish). Turns out I really loved Jax.

Interesting, I've never heard that observation before (caveated with the people who just hated east coast in general).

The basics are require but if you shoot cross eye then you put side load/strain on the rifle. The only pressure on the grip and trigger needs to be straight to the rear and shooting cross eye it is almost impossible to have only rearward pressure.

Switch to shooting lefthanded on the rifle. That is the only answer if you actually want to shoot the rifle well, otherwise you'll just keep chasing your tail.

See if you can get your hands on the 1500 round 7.62 cans, those things are pretty dang big.

I may be drunk right now, but you are the smartest man on the planet.

Except for hovering over a lake :D

JMPS is the Devil's Program

Yup

You know, the interesting thing is that ROTC scholarship grads are the least likely to stay in the military when compared to academy, ROTC non-scholarship, and OCS commissions. That has absolutely nothing to do with performance, but it is an interesting retention factoid.

Just so I'm understanding, is A time where you actually sign for the aircraft or is it FPT logged in our logbooks? That said, I left with about 1000 hours total and a little over 300 signing for the helo.

My onwing in primary mentioned that the Navy was really all just choker whites and dining out but man was he wrong...

That's pretty freaking sad, no one, even the Skipper, is so vitally important that a squadron can't function for four days with them gone. Not to mention it's over a weekend.

If you take the mask off with the canopy closed then you have to smell all the farts you let that were trapped in during the flight....

Not when you consider the threat level between the two. I'll be the first to admit that I am biased but I have a difficult time accepting that the threat level of an E-2 cruising along in a racetrack pattern on the Boulevard is exposed to the same risks as a helo at 150 feet getting rpg's and...

Here's my beef, I put in a few of my aircrewmen for an individual action air medal for what we did on cruise against pirates (anyone remember the Quest, not to mention a few other things I can't mention), but they didn't get approved and yet guys doing circles at 30,000 feet came home with at...

I was in Ft. Carson three days ago, this fire is no joke.

I played at a course called Tanglewood in Milton a lot. It was literally two miles away and between me and work so I'd play it often. It was fairly cheap and a decent course, nothing to write home about, but it was kind of tucked away and really easy to play as a single and not get rushed.

No kidding? That was a fun course.

Same here, San Diego is fun but I have no desire to stay here forever.

I get your point but there's a difference between out of sight/out of mind and actually getting to take them out shooting.

Monterey

I think it's pretty damn hilarious, the cat is like "dear God, why me?" :)

I have an extremely difficult time believing that reloading and some sort of protracted gun battle in a CCW situation is what would really happen. If you need more than what you can carry in a single magazine you are in a world of pain far beyond what you can cover in a CCW situation. That...

Although I think that's a pretty decent idea, that would really confound the "what percent get jets" question, because now how does the Navy delineate who goes where for what platform? Could you imagine the heartburn and wanking from studs if it were based off of just API grades or whatever!

Daytime version of the night HUD. I have no idea if there is any plan to integrate any tracking into either the day or night HUD.

Both are wrong, just close your eyes on short final and listen to the crewman, when he says you're in the circle, bottom the collective. 60% of the time, it works all the time :)

We were given the prototype to use and evaluate. They have since gone back to the manufacturer, I believe the production one is going to be much slimmer.

It did but I needed to make myself feel better :)

I think it got buried in an earlier post but the Day HUD is pretty sweet. My only gripe is the way it's set up now it can only be worn over the left eye. I personally prefer it on the right side of my helmet. The new model is basically a disc that fits over the end of the goggles. It's not...

I think it's nice to have the weapon but short of getting tens of thousands of rounds to shoot through it per pilot, I highly doubt the CAG would seriously consider employing it. It's the same reason that you don't see helos booming around with Hellfire all the time.

No kidding? Big Navy is actually going to pony up the dough to fund the ammo NCEA to shoot this thing? Funny, seems to me HAL back in the day was pretty good at doing that, too bad those capabilities got shelved back when the Huey went away in the Navy.

Is disagreement equal or synonymous with discrimination though? Religion and sexual orientation are sets of moral beliefs and not everyone has the same moral code, so does disagreeing with one or the other necessarily mean you are automatically discriminating against them?