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I was in the FRS in 2012, so yeah.

The one thing we all agree to avoid! :D 🤣

That's good to hear. I've kept in touch with him (I mean... he's literally one of my best friends) and his descriptions of his flying largely match that caricature - albeit - to his credit - he's been exped the whole time and I know he's had to land on some way more challenging boats in worse...

This is all so true. It turned out that some of the missions I thought I'd like I find boring or not worth the mission planning. Then, even more ironically, as a DH having taken a break from 60s for a while (HTs + Disassociated Tour), I found other missions I didn't like as a JO to suddenly be...

I think this is a fair take. But for what it's worth, while I haven't done any of those things in combat, I have routinely trained with SEALS, and guys in my squadron on this tour have also worked with Marine SPECWAR and USCG teams. We practice HVBSS frequently; we TERF frequently. We shoot less...

I want to be clear without saying things we can't say, but this appears to largely be a matter of luck and positioning than a preference for one community over another.

Paramount + has The Courier which was a true (and new to me) story of what is apparently considered one of the best informants to the west from inside the Soviet government and the person who brought the information back time. Really fascinating.

Reading his bio and looking at some of my peers I knew from USAFA (exchange cadets at USNA) - I am always amazed at how much opportunity the USAF seems to be able to give for in residence graduate education compared to Naval Aviation.

TIL! Still don't see myself giving him another click, when he started discussing the ranges I was pretty livid.

I may not have explained well enough. The front offices can and do 100% weigh in and write recommendation for the outgoing crop of JOs on each slate. However, what's different than in the past for HSC (and I assume HSM and HM too) is that: 1. We used to turn in our own preference sheet to the...

As he stated in one of his videos it's the AGM-114R :rolleyes: which is also when I decide to turn it off, unsubscribe from his channel and resolve to stop watching / giving this guy any youtube ad time.

I took a Japanese family (close family friends who came to visit us in the States) to Udvar Hazy to see Enola Gay at their request. It was fascinating to them and brought one of them nearly to tears. It's hard to imagine being in those shoes. It's a complex relationship.

Almost complete with DH here in HSC, so totally different ballgame... but not. My JO's I assume are like you where they get a list each slate of like 50ish options (I assume the number of HSC/HSM/HM bubbas on any given slate +/- a few) and they have to rank literally every single one. From what...

Assuming you can be cleared, you seem to have a decent grasp on the social obstacles you'd face. Go for it. It's an awesome* job. (*Will have soul sucking moments or days... but not in sum total)

And therein lies the problem. Everyone I saw online was talking about how awesome the USCG was.

That's incredible to me, and I've never met a PR who wished to go back to VFA. Unreal. I'd be livid too. I haven't always had the most talented or hard working PRs, but the majority really have been salt of the earth people I have enjoyed working with and our current crop is pretty good.

I've met and actually seen a few Old timers (they would have been O-5+ when I was a MIDN in the early 2000s) who had the sewn ones on SDB's even for what it's worth.

@solarflare1014 - apply and make them tell you know. I recently worked with a PAO with a very similar background as yours in terms of having some civilian equivalent experience working in the news and PR.

I cannot imagine we are that far along in replacing the T-45 that today's NIFE students will see it in their pipeline. Then again, I'm helo swine so I could be wrong but AFAIK the Navy hasn't even announced what will replace it.

I have also seen what @Gonzo08 is talking about. My first cruise's airboss would definitely yell at dudes he saw over the radio about to launch without gloves on and sleeves rolled down... the most recent cruise I did was basically just the CVN Safety O begging guys to do it with little to no...

@Randy Daytona thanks - looking forward to that read. That graphic is pretty stunning.

Can you explain? Not sure I'm familiar with "the Last Supper" in this context.

Gotcha, I figured that was happening. My guess is that less than 1 in 10 have a Bachelors degree, maybe even less across the entire enlisted Force in the Navy.

There is no way this is true.

Sooooo do you think his command has to wait the 31 days of being UA before stopping his pay orrrrrr

I tested (i.e.: one time and gave my feedback on a sheet of paper) one of the initial proptypes of these. I was shocked at how much better it was than the traditional sim in most respects.

FIFY

Best food I've been given was a DDG... SUPPO HCO asked if we "had a few extra minutes" - we said yes - still refueling - and those extra few minutes he ended up explaining was him getting his CS's to bring us dry rubbed ribs, not sauced ones. They were FANTASTIC. Worst: I was once given a paper...

Exxxxxactly. I once had a DDG take a solid 10 minutes to give me hot gas after hooking up. Slowest...pump...ever.

Probably a combination of all of them with ISTs being the least likely. They will get their disassociated tour out of you if I had to guess! Some have already done some swaps to HSC and I have to assume VRM as well.

I agree with your overall point, but maybe we should consider those who are talented and could have made it (i.e. DH selects that opted out at their 10-11 year mark) but chose to leave. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that not the point of the article? Some people just don't want to DH or go to...

In order for the Navy to PCS you CONUS, you need to have 12 months left of your Wings+8 service requirement. In order to do this, they shorten Instructor Tour (or generic shore tour) lengths in order to maintain 12 months left by the time your "new" tour length is up. There's been some mixed...

I assume it was like "funguuuu funnnguuuu funguuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" followed by a few Hail Mary prayers thanking Her.

Interesting. My next door neighbor recently PCS'd from NPS and she mentioned there were a glut of ENS's waiting to start flight school being sent there for their Master's first. Sweet gig if you can get it.

It's been years since I read Dumb But Lucky about a P-51 pilot in WWII in the European theater, but I vaguely remember the number of training hours as around 14 training hours before they were like "alright, let's get you into a P-51 and do this thing."

That's sad to hear. I loved living there, but I could see the problems getting worse by the time I left. I remember asking my Realtor friend who was very much among the influential business leaders in the area "if I left the Navy, what could I do here?" His response was "and maintain the same...

There's a huge gap in my opinion in Pensacola. You have the high end business class in Pensacola which are literally multi-millionaires that are visible but few and far between. After that, a few business owners, a lot of military retirees working a second contracting or GS job, then the...

I assume you're being sarcastic, but there's a piece of me that thinks you know there's at least a shred of truth to this statement.

If I had better internet right now, I'd post a meme of a joke going over your head. Do you know which one I meant? No?

No, we clearly know you don't know it all. That's OK, no one knows it all. Oh, please do tell! Edit, I see this has been played out. Welcome to the site. Looks like you've gotten your dose of humble pie welcome as is the case for many newcomers here and any ready room in the fleet.

We have one in my squadron... but then again I also had one that was at my last job too that wasn't flying ever again. Not sure what the difference was. I assume attitude. He ended up lat txfering from 1300 to Space Cadre.

Can't say I've tried this, but it reminded me of one time at the Atlanta Aquarium, as I was waiting in line, a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE (literally thousands of kids) collection of school groups were cutting us (the reason I can't remember). I took Joe Gatto's approach and just started yelling...

Yeah, didn't work out well for him in Navy. I'm not sure if he ever had to pay anything back, but FWIW, this was 2014 and he got back on with an AA regional... I'm sure he's fine now.

In my JO tour we had a guy who had previously been an airline pilot. He purposefully selected Rotary Wing because he wanted something new and challenging. Turns out, he hated flying low and TERFing - particularly at night - and he requested a redesignation of platform (but not via the FNAEB...

Just because there is an increased interest doesn't mean there's a decrease in standards.

"It says here you qualify for CS. That's a great start. Before you know it, you'll use TA, get accepted into STA-21, and then you'll be flying A-10s in, oh, I don't know, maybe 4-6 years from now?" I keeeed I keeeeed. ?

OP, if I may ask, why Marines? I'd take a look at all the services aviation programs.

Off topic a little bit here, but where can you find that information? Genuinely curious.

No, but I am confident the admissions office could be a great place to ask.

OP - to answer the second part of your question - yes - people have come back from being overseas to attend. A member in my chain of command grew up overseas.