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Serious answer: no. The Air Force has aircraft that are primarily fighters, the F-22 and F-15C. The Navy has aircraft that are strike aircraft as a primary mission. Now I'm a helo guy, so I'm going to shut up now about pointy-nosed aircraft before I bullshit any more, but there is a greater...

The Multi-mission designator (M for Navy/Marine Corps) is for one thing: money. Put a few other secondary missions on it, make some promises about how its ROC/POE will be written, and boom: multi-mission aircraft. If doing so makes one more senator feel better about the money, or puts one more...

ROTC as Div II/III? You mean at being lame? Sure, ROTC is less good at being lame. They'd probably be in a second, separate draft, simply because they are done in a second later selection already. You could trade a USNA grad for an ROTC grad, too, I guess, and across rounds - ships going in...

I still think it should be the other way around - ship COs and wardrooms get stats on the graduating class and draft ENSs for their ships. The selection order is by Battle E points - from worst to first. Underway/deployed/river city ships mail in their results. Higher-bandwidth platforms can...

Dude! Spoiler alert!

For what reason would someone opt out? I think I may have back in my "sure, sir, I'll sign whatever you need!" days. Edit: Ah ha - so I filled out a form when I commissioned (2005) saying I was ineligible for the MGIB ('84 edition) because I was an ROTC or service academy grad. I think that...

Funny thing - there was a discussion I heard somewhere a few years back about the origins of the word "man," especially as a verb, and the phrase "all hands" was linked to it. If you think about it, in any romance language the word for hand at starts or sounds like "man-." So when we say "man...

Triple-post FTW!

Last two pilots from my consortium were the Naval Gunfire Liaison officers at Camp Pendleton. Sounded like they were pretty sweet gigs. Both left at their MSR (1 w/ retirement b/c he was prior E).

Say, this is an interesting question! Could we split the thread off? I know that my alma mater had to change their patch back in the day, ostensibly because the idea that a tiger would grab a submarine with its hind paws is very unlikely. Obviously someone doesn't understand METAPHORS. The...

Why not MV-22 for the USN? M=Multi-mission for us, and with all the crap they want it to do (or, more importantly, want to say it will do so they can get funding for it), it's looking very multi-mission.

@mad dog , clearly your penchant for self-portraiture is not new...

It's nearly free to scan them (except for that it seemed to me in my squadron that obtaining a scanner was only slightly easier than getting one's hands on some Plutonium), and super cheap to store them. Why not?

Sir, your weapons of logic are useless here.

just no more schwacking parade characters or coaster-riders as they go by... I'm sure some demographics will be hurt more than others.

Just another one of those Millenials with their damn selfie sticks*. *Now outlawed at Disneyland!

Sweet! Omega makes belts!

You could throw the mission contents of a 60R (minus dipper) in a V-22 with an AW and NFO and have modular SV-22. Radar might not be so modular. The Navy's already getting them now... it's not impossible and makes more sense than a S-3.

New guy: Use PMs when you want to passive-aggressively put down the community. That way, you don't passive-aggressively put down the community.

Yeah, also, I mean in that case the SME would, most importantly, speak Chinese. Btw, what're the memory items for "Too Hard Light ON (no secondaries)"?

This could be useful to fill certain technical billets... maybe ones we don't even have yet. Going to the Spratlys? Take a former USN w/ you for 6 wks - maybe someone who's done business in China or has studied something since. If they're some sort of staff corps active USNR, then the medical...

Plus the hooters.

See, if you had asked a Helo or P-3 person a similar question about a possibly useful, but practically useless part of their aircraft, they'd all know it in a second. Because somehow that is how we piss excellence.

For the purposes of your photo, a set of green Marine trousers will suffice. In fact, when I ordered AWG trousers from Abbotts in 2008, that's what they gave me - difference is the back pocket flaps. Then you just need a basic black tie (not silk) and a green cover. The cover's different from...

I'm sure the guarantee that you and your family will be warm and fed, unlike the rest of the proles, gets 'em halfway there.

Some days you ride the bear, some days the bear - he rides you.

Is the issue with the lower crew weight in an ejection seat an issue because the acceleration (from a fixed-thrust rocket motor) would be too high? If so, then why not have the <140 crowd walk to their aircraft with 20 or so pounds of "ballast" to make the seat heavier? You can put it on part...

So I did the AD master's after commissioning. I went to a top-level school and got an MS in Aero Engineering. It's going to open doors for me, which is great considering I'm FOSx2. Part of why I'm FOSx2 is because of the degree. Most of why I'm FOSx2 is because I am an ROTC instructor (+2nd...

What if he really _is_ in the business? He's so secret the gov't doesn't even know about him.

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This is awesome. Liking this post is not enough.

As someone who deals with the service assignment process, I'd like to correct two misconceptions here, but first off, Leif had a really well-written post, and nearly every one of his points is spot on and by-the-book. He's a total unicorn to have been redesignated 1170-1390. 1. Can a mod...

A lengthy investigation followed by an change of the MSR or EAOS to 30 years in the future for the guilty party to pay it back. Ever wonder why so many senior leaders have a "back when I was a JO, you could really screw things up and survive!" story? There's your answer.

OK ok ok, so this "Red Line" thing... never heard of it as a helo guy - we spend our blessed existences near the coast, where it is always nice and the only Air Force problems we have are when they set all our car alarms off taking off. After some googling, I found this...

Strongly suggest searching the web for CNATRA or "Navy Flight School." Also, you can try reading airwarriors.com.

This is like when ATC tells someone to stand by, and they reply "roger, stand by."

The... hot zone?

They'd make a lot of happy COs if they made the splash screen identical to the old B one... that'd really get some howls

Any ones w/ Helo themes in mind? Like one in monochrome green w/ "PACK MY BOX WITH FIVE DOZEN LIQUOR JUGS" around the bezel - Awesome.

It reminds me of this theoretical story... "Fear reigns supreme as the world fears rain supreme"

So your wife flew in to see you graduate 3 days before the birth? I thought flying that late was a no-no? Also congrats on getting everything worked out. It just so happens that people who think ahead and have their shit in one sock just "coincidentally" have things work out with a much...

Reasoned solutions that allow nuance, trust in subordinates, and leeway for leaders to act on the spirit of rules? Oooh I dunno...

A gentle schwack from a hammer and a wire brad could solve at least the rear-facing camera option... probably cheaper than the "gov't model" option. I bet the folks over at iFixit could show how to remove a camera from any number of PEDs more gently. Probably not reversibly, but at least w/o...

Could we change this thread title to "FY15 O-4 List Out"? or, "O-4 List Out (Last Year)"? Every time I see this thread come up I think the list is actually out. I've fallen for it at least 4 times.

I have had a different experience and found >1 person who has cared and who has a hand in my future employment. It's at least possible that a good GPA can pay dividends for much of one's professional life.

.... until you get out - most people are in the Navy from 5-10 years. Then you have to work somewhere else, and they might want to know what you majored in. They're also going to want to see a good GPA.

Is your worst-case outcome a "no, let's move on, please" or a "NO, and F-U for asking!" ? Answering that might help make the decision on whether or not to proceed, & whether or not you'll get backing from others.

The CORTRAMID vs E-cruise question should really be split off... Hey! With summer cruise season wrapping up, how'd the whole "MIDN in flight suits" thing turn out? Is the OP gonna tell us what this whole deal was about in the first place?