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This is huge. Thank you.

He was effectively fired and we lost a lot of talent in his "resignation," if you want me to use the correct terminolgy. Uh, what? If you're talking about my anecdote, go back and re-read it. Like I said:

To be clear he meant like purposefully bombing the board - i.e. ensuring there's a gap in FITREPs, not submitting a picture, etc. in order to get the severance. So, I ensured my ducks were in a row, didn't ask for a bad FITREP, didn't tell the COC I was planning on or at least considering...

I was part of a squadron that was shut down (deactivated, officially) as part of the CVW-14 shutdown. The effect it had on my FITREP, career outlook, and opprtunites I was previously tracking for has indeed made me bitter enough years later that, in addition to other things, I'm near the point...

Cool. As it is currently being reported, it's a dumb reason to be fired. I had a company officer at the Academy who after her tour at the Academy was let go from the Navy due to frat. Should I not communiate with her because of one decision she made or continue to trust her for her otherwise...

Had a long talk with a valuable mentor of mine on this very topic. Mostly we disussed the integrity of the process - it's called "involuntary separation" pay after all - it shouldn't be someone who is purposely bombing to cheat the taxpayer. I ended up going all in on the board for this year and...

Color me dumb. I just realized the infamous SEAL trial that just wrapped up is what he was talking about. I didn't put two and two together; I was thinking Ghallager was some other inside the Pentagon story of things gone awry.

Elaborate. What's the story here - sorry - unfamiliar...

Looks like they are making a movie on Hudner and Brown, Devotion based on a book by the same name.

Does it have to be a USN gig? Can I go straight to the Air National Guard?

In HSC, the DH's are often the guys/gals with the highest monthly hours since they have the most qualifications and are doing missions and teaching events for the younger JOs.

That's why there are #retentionproblems. Had to.:D

I think the VTJs do this too... I've always thought it was stupid. Worry about your callsign in the fleet.

Haha, I thought the same thing.

Pretty cool production. Never heard of that breaking the wings tradition - that's a neat thing to do.

Just curious - why only 1 year tours? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the CVW deviates from 18 months right? Even in CNATRA it is typically an 18 month CO tour.

Just finished Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy. It had some great stories, especially for someone like myself who was pretty unaware of how we transitioned from Diesel subs to a Nuclear Navy fairly rapidly under Rickover's guidance demands and...

Gotcha, that's what I meant, API not IFS.

That's what I've seen happen to most of our attrites - 1300, then get sent to a CVN to be a TAO.

Been a minute since I worked in STUCON; do the Academic ones not count anymore?

In my case, I had timing that forced my hand before I effectively got what was planned to be my highwater FITREP on my first tour. That has had the effect of making me an "untouchable" if there was a caste system in Naval Aviation. I got production orders because I had a great CO/XO and Wing...

Anyone know anyone who has done continuation? Seems like it was a big deal and well publicized for the Marines but a fairly not-talked-about topic in the Navy.

Ha! Right you are. I've found these discussions particularly helpful as "extra briefing items" to talk about on the 8 hours of XC flying on Fridays/Sundays.

FWIW, the guys giving the input from the training wing are a very select group of guys, most of them having had multiple tours (or reserve equivalent) worth of being an IP. They asked us mere mortals via a survey about what should change in a future syllabi, I assume to grasp better to what the...

As I understand it, the TH-57 operates under this aforementioned domain. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is why we also encourage people to put on their FAA flight plans "on file at KN(XX)" where PIC and SIC would go so as to prevent them from going after your FAA ratings?

Dang. Even on the low end at 50 GPH that's almost 2x as hugh as the 57. I can't imagine though that gas is the highest cost here, is it? It's gotta be how often parts need to be replaced, how time intensive the inspections and overhauls are, and the supply chain that makes said parts readily...

Color me dumb on the topic as I've really done next to 0 homework on the topic, but overall, out of the candidates, who has the lowest acquisition cost and who has the lowest sustainment cost? Also, just from a business perspective, why wouldn't Bell (or any other company for that matter) submit...

I'll second this. I have two months from my JO fleet tour that I had 0 hours in, and that's from an airframe that wasn't struggling in actual airframe readiness at the time (MH-60S). Of note - I wasn't med down or in the bad graces of ops/training either... I did a few sims if that's worth...

THIS. We rarely had more than 1 or 2 PR's that were qualified, let alone above the rank of PRAN. In my entire fleet tour, I didn't see a single PRC or higher.

My fleet PR shop did, yes.

I have found that to immediately disarm a Chief can be done in one of two ways: 1. Immediately agree with everything they say and praise them. Case in point: getting off the boat after an extended underway, I had on my sea-bag and a back pack with (the horror!) a yellow stripe on one shoulder...

Yes, ok, I get it that there are always exceptions, but as a general rule, this remains true when actually convicted of a DUI.

Never knew that. That's amazing.

While this may be true as an applicant, do not think this is the case once in the Navy. DUIs are career enders at a minimum in the Navy.

Do IFS, it's a blast. Consider finishing up the PPL before you start flying the T-6 (a few of my friends did this, they just continued with the contracted flight school on their own dime in A-Pool and before classing up for Primary) and your hours in the T-6 will count a bit more down the road...

Gents, great GA discussion. As I've been flying more on the weekends of GA aircraft I've become more and more interested - besides AOPA, what resources do you recommend reading about getting more involved in GA and what should I read before owning/fractionally owning a plane?

Care to elaborate on these miserable C2Xs?

Yeah for what it's worth, that job looks miserable, but our EKMS Manager was always the avionics DIVO, until that DIVO became an actual AMDO who royally messed it up; then it went to the Chief. :eek: I recall my Skipper saying to said AMDO, "LTJG [X] - what do you do around here? You do less...

This will change.

Our squadron Intel-Os were in CVIC. Of our airwing, 2 were stuck doing shift work on the Admiral's daily intel brief. I think the other 4 did shift work processing the film footage of ordnance expenditures. Never saw a single Intel-O in DESRON, but occasionally, if there was a high interest ship...

Try some of the Costco (Kirkland) brand liquors. I turned my nose up to them until my neighbor from Mexico and tequila connoisseur swore by Kirkland tequila and so far, everything I've tried was better than its price point in my opinion. #gladtofinallymakeanonHSCpost

Calm down bro. I've never said HSC guys are better sticks to students. I've never heard an HSC instructor during my tour make that claim in front of students either. However, when HSM guys do tell the SNAs they spend a lot more time overwater operating RADAR and other sensors, operating top of...

Assuming you're an Ensign now, you forgot to add a sir when addressing @RedFive . Smiles. Anyway, what's this about being lied to by SWOs?

In fairness, the first time this slide was ever presented to me, it was presented to me by a front office saying "this is our Commodores' argument as to why the SWTP needs to change. We aren't given enough time to practice those mission on the top right; expect more of the overwater missions to...

In fairness, as I've said before, from my view as an HT IP, I anecdotally believe that R's are the preferred platform of most graduting wingers nowadays from the HTs.

Also... this.

I think the IPs at Whiting are very honest about what HSC does and what it trains to do. However, the IPs aren't the only exposure there - at the NHA Fleet Fly In the commodores get together with everyone too at panels. With that said, I do understand why we train to those missions. I don't...

Part of the problem is that neither of the HSC commodores list those as missions, sir. ("Any helicopter can do those, here's what makes us warriors in the fight...")

@Meyerkord and @Brett327 - wasn't there, but said JO (and HSC pilot) claims one of the O-6s said that HSC won't improve until it stops adding missions and requirements. Until then, it will continue to fall behind the rest of Naval Aviation until it has a more focused set of missions. I'll add...

We had a JO go from my squadron. Talked with said JO today and am awaiting a full rundown, but the long and short of it was "yes, I am jazzed about the future of Naval Aviation, yes, they really listened and seemed to care what we had to say, the big push will be more options for in residence...