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  1. Swanee

    ATSB and the Marine Corps

    Just curious: Why would you want to lump all those together? Do you live a great distance from the OSO's office?
  2. Swanee

    Fallen Angels - Admin Seps for all?

    On the Marine side of the house we are getting farmed out to classes at the SOF school house and the JAOC school at Hurlburt, as well as having an option to get some of the mods for EWS done, and we have a metric crap ton of dudes who are getting their MCMAP belts upgraded at the cyclic rate...
  3. Swanee

    What should I know?

    Is the Army LRC course the same or similiar to the course in Quantico?
  4. Swanee

    43 NSS needed to get into Primary

    They do this at TBS, it's called your Leadership Grade. Basically the SPC give who he thinks his #1 guy a 100 and who he thinks his bottom guy is a 70%. It's pure bullshit. I'd rather see a douche bag get jets (edit: or rather finish in the top of his class) than a guy who has a wife and a...
  5. Swanee

    ATSB and the Marine Corps

    It is still pass/fail. He was passed up for another reason. Probably because there are no air contracts with the Marine Corps for a while.....
  6. Swanee

    USMC Air Contracts still possible?

    OCC goes to OCS, Commissions upon graduation and gets sent across the street to TBS right away. It's a short term water faucet. PLC... you go to juniors and seniors, or combined, then you wait around to finish college to commission. Then you wait to go on active duty and go to TBS. Could be 3...
  7. Swanee

    marine corps engineering

    This is what I meant. By all means have goals and work to achieve them. But if he is really set on being an Aeronautical Engineer, there are other services where there is a much better opportunity to do so than in the Marine Corps. But again, that is IF the ultimate goal is to be an AE. If the...
  8. Swanee

    marine corps engineering

    Just what it sounds like, a payback tour. You basically pay the Marine Corps back for them putting you through grad school by having a job that would use that expertise you gained from your studies... BTW I wouldn't plan on trying to become a Marine with this as your plan. There is a lot of...
  9. Swanee

    Fitness

    Have you done P90x? It's pretty much a push pull press ab routine... I like the p90x workouts, for the most part. I tailored it to what I want to do (basically add more cardio and get rid of the BS kenpo workout) The diet... eh... I already eat pretty healthy so I don't use theirs. I'm...
  10. Swanee

    Marine Air Contracts

    One thread is probably enough... Nothing for a while. Best advice is to do something else that you like to do and keep applying. eventually we'll need more people.
  11. Swanee

    The SWO Picture Gallery for those so inclined

    Got to take a ride on her from Little Creek to Norfolk back when I worked at the Marina on NAS. She is a cool boat.
  12. Swanee

    what STDs does MEPS test for?

    I was so effing cold, I am pretty sure I pissed in it at least twice. I say pretty sure because at that point I was numb.
  13. Swanee

    "THE WORD" at tbs right now about API

    Or maybe there is an emphasis on not having 300+ 2ndLts in the pool at MATSG right now. That seems to be the message that is communicated down here (if you are somewhere else, you ain't here). I'm sure they will get your money out of you at some point, but don't be so sure that it's going to be...
  14. Swanee

    Local or Navy Adult League Hockey

    Some guys need double runners. I kid you not. Then there are some guys who are okay.
  15. Swanee

    Nuclear Weapons

    "Fucking Kangaroos..."
  16. Swanee

    Cell phones

    Verizon. Mine is out of Phoenix, Wifey's is out of Northern Va. Hasn't ever been an issue not having a local number. In fact, we haven't had a house phone in about 4 years. The only reason before that was because it was needed to open the gate for people at an apartment complex.
  17. Swanee

    A-pool to Clean-up Oil

    Okay, so maybe I skimmed the article...:ashamed_1 (-1 for being a retard) BP still gets off easy.
  18. Swanee

    A-pool to Clean-up Oil

    I agree. However, I recently read an article that talks about how the government has some type of insurance policy of sorts to handle this stuff and as a result BP would only have to pay the first 75 million bucks towards the cost of the clean up. Apparently there is something like 20 Billion...
  19. Swanee

    "THE WORD" at tbs right now about API

    Bad gouge. My brother who is an Laughlin AFB says that the Marines are actually going to train there in Del Rio. Not that Del Rio is any better than Enid...
  20. Swanee

    "THE WORD" at tbs right now about API

    Ahhhh, so you're the asshole (:icon_wink) who is filling these young impressionable motards with these terms like MiTT and Deployment, giving them delusional thoughts that they may actually get to the fight before they make Captain. You should be ashamed of yourself. .....Well played!
  21. Swanee

    "THE WORD" at tbs right now about API

    So you don't know "the word" but you are spreading "word" about "probably deploying within the year" and MiTT teams.... Right. Did you think this one up? I hated the rumor mill when I was at TBS because none of it was true. I hate the rumor mill in MATSG because (gasp!) most of it is bullshit...
  22. Swanee

    "THE WORD" at tbs right now about API

    Check out the section "Operational Cultural Information" on your MOL account after you graduate TBS. It will be there. I got assigned the arm pit of the world... I mean East Africa. But yeah, we are supposed to have to take PME along with EWS in our region to become subject matter experts in...
  23. Swanee

    Charging people money to become a fighter pilot

    Wait, I never got a "Certificate of Acceptance" with the "Officer of Marines" title when I contracted for OCC-200... Does that mean I won't be a fighter pilot? Damn. I should have paid my money. You gotta know this stuff coming in! "
  24. Swanee

    "THE WORD" at tbs right now about API

    It would make sense if they taught you a language from your assigned micro-region. ....but I wouldn't put any money on it.
  25. Swanee

    "THE WORD" at tbs right now about API

    There are a lot of us hanging around here. They may send some guys on IA billets, others are getting TAD orders to go work for the different MAGs, still others are getting PTAD orders to go work with an OSO (some get extended PTAD orders) and yet the rest of us are just waiting, getting stashed...
  26. Swanee

    Uniform Regs

    Um... what?! You are wound way to tightly around the axle on this one. I guess you're one of the guys who tucks his collared shirt into his dockers and wears a braided belt and running shoes when you go out and hit the bar. Was his uniform filthy and covered in dirt and muck from the field...
  27. Swanee

    Security Clearance and Foreign Marriage Question

    The real answer is.... Maybe. Does your new Russian wife have a father who just happened to be a Colonel in the KGB (you laugh, I know a guy who may not be a Marine much longer because he can't get a security clearance for this reason). As Trunk monkey says, make sure you know about her family...
  28. Swanee

    43 NSS needed to get into Primary

    As of last week the CO of MATSG has said that this NSS hike for API attrition is not applicable to Marines.
  29. Swanee

    Class of 2010 almost done

    Tan works too.... Khaki sounds... gay...
  30. Swanee

    Class of 2010 almost done

    Desert... not Khaki....
  31. Swanee

    Conduct Unbecoming (what NOT to do while in a pool at PCola)

    And you came to this conclusion not because you know any of the parties involved, nor do you have any further information than what has come out on the internet through a single news source and a Naval Aviation forum.
  32. Swanee

    What happened to marine reserve aviation?

    Like I said, I know. Though I'll leave it at that: I decided that I wanted to go the AD route. ....And I wanted to be a Marine. :)
  33. Swanee

    What happened to marine reserve aviation?

    Yeah, I'm well aware of how Guard/Reserve does business.
  34. Swanee

    What happened to marine reserve aviation?

    The Air Force has a program out there called Palace Chase that pretty much does just that. I'm not sure why the Navy/Marine Corps doesn't do this; maybe it's a size issue. The AF Reserve and the ANG are fairly large entities...
  35. Swanee

    Air Force not accepting applications for OTS.

    Lots of word around here that basically says the Navy and Marine Corps are in a similiar situation as the AF wrt aviation slots through OCS...
  36. Swanee

    Anyone read this article? "The Reality of OCS"

    So what he is basically saying is that you are going to be uncomfortable for a few weeks. Big effing deal. What a whiner...
  37. Swanee

    The Doctor is in! Ask a Flight Surgeon!

    What happens when you don't use the cream?
  38. Swanee

    USS Murtha?

    The Brits have always had the right idea about what to name their ships. Illustrious, Resistence, Goliath, Furious etc... We have it ass backwards... What Marine wouldn't be proud to be on the latest LPD: the USS Puller? But no, we named an FFG after him, then decommed it and sold it to the...
  39. Swanee

    T-39 Down

    http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/breaking/wb/243319 Local news in Roanoke is reporting one of the students killed was a 2008 VT grad. They don't mention the other 3.
  40. Swanee

    Westboro Baptist Church, masters of public idiocy, to protest in Corpus

    I couldn't agree more. As a funeral detail guy, it would be tough not to "create an incident" after the ceremony was over. But it the end it would prove nothing. These assholes will eventually die, and their message will be lost. But I guarantee 200 years from now we will still lay our fallen...
  41. Swanee

    Marine Corps OSO Appointment TIPS??

    Heheh, he just wants the tip.
  42. Swanee

    Girls with Guns, what's wrong with that?

    I thought we couldn't call it "Jane Wayne Day" anymore. Maybe it was just a TBS/Quantico/HQMC's backyard type deal.
  43. Swanee

    The Great Pirates off the Somali Coast thread

    Disabled? Yeah, I guess it isn't going anywhere but the bottom anytime soon.
  44. Swanee

    USMC ''guaranteed'' flight slot??

    It was cold (it was very cold), some got hurt, a couple got sick, some couldn't hack it physically, some couldn't pass the exams (it's amazing how tough stuff can get when you are sleep deprived, exhausted and under nourished) some just didn't have the leadership qualities or abilities, others...
  45. Swanee

    USMC ''guaranteed'' flight slot??

    Half a second thought on something that everyone will identify you by may not have been the smartest choice. Big words coming from someone who wants to be here. I may not have earned the privilege to call myself a Naval Aviator, but I have earned the privilege to call myself a Marine and an...
  46. Swanee

    USMC ''guaranteed'' flight slot??

    If you make it through OCS and TBS then yes you will get your shot at earning your wings. Nothing poof about it. OCS and TBS ain't exactly easy. And sign on bonus? Seriously?
  47. Swanee

    USMC ''guaranteed'' flight slot??

    Yes, you go to TBS as a 7599 and know you are going to get your shot at earning your wings if you get through TBS. You don't have to compete for an MOS because you already have one. It should be noted that both the Air Force and the Navy have similar guaranteed slots. Pretty much all the...
  48. Swanee

    Flight physical prior to TBS

    You'll be okay, and will get current as soon as you check into MATSG-21. Lots of guys were in the same boat you are in now.
  49. Swanee

    commissioning options

    As the Mouse said, there are no enlisted pilots, so if you want to be a pilot enlisting won't help. You are 22, cut off is 27. You have some time. Get a sweet gig as a sunscreen application expert at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas and keep applying.
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