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Evidently I needed extra screening.

Not really. We only fired blanks at Marine OCS. Probably a few hundred. The point is that shooting weapons wasn't on the agenda at AOCS. Drill was. A lot of it. Supposedly classes in years before they got pistol qualled, but not in 1989.

The difference is that the weapons at OCS are actual firing weapons. The M-1s at AOCS were drill only weapons that were kept locked in the individual wall lockers when not involved in drill.

Yellow tape on the name tag is Batt II. White tape was for candi-o's. The belt was for duty, most likely BOOD.

The other thing missing from this hurricane scene is a cloud of foot powder. That generally preceded the discovery of the scene pictured here all the way down the passageway. I still remember the sinking feeling wondering if that was my locker or not.

Ask for what you want, take what you get, and pray that the timing/needs of the Marine Corps work out in your favor. Just like any other set of orders.

He's very lucky his rifle is still there. That's always the biggest pain. Especially when they disassemble it and distribute the parts around the DI office.

Your orders come from MMOA, but the assignments are determined at MAG. This often results in major buffoonery as whoever is filling PSD that week kicks the proverbial can down the curb. The report dates don't change, so the more PSD futzes around deciding who goes where, the less available...

Because FAC tours are managed at the MAG level, and the MAGs are community specific (aside from The People's MAG in the PRCP). You can tell how communities value the billet by the quality of the officers they send. See "HAC to FAC".

If it flies, floats, or fucks it's cheaper to rent.

Would getting aircrew wings help? I know that SAR is hurting bad for Corpsmen. It's a good desk, too. Beats sitting around at the clinic handing out Motrin.

Come ON, man! It's a highly polished turd! It's $30 a night. Find a better deal in Yuma. It would be better with more strippers, though.

I thought it was one of the few things hard and fast in the Navy; You run aground, you're fired. Period. I don't really have an opinion here as to good/bad, just an observation of consistency.

Double A ball? Put me in, Coach!

Are you kidding me? I try not to even fly into military fields unless absolutely necessary. Feather the left engine, kick the VIP out, and go off in search of a decent cheeseburger. Anything where there aren't warm cookies at the FBO or the U-drive doesn't have leather seats is just uncivilized.

Western Iraq moves and involves the possibility of drowning? Funny. That's not what I saw there.

Nope. They were spinning on deck waiting for me to punch out. I talked to them later that night about it. We pretty much agreed that if I had ended up jumping out we all would have been better off with them not launching. As a reference, I couldn't see them from spot 7, even with goggles...

Only if you have some of your home brew on tap. Back on topic, bitches!! Please tell us more about the great conspiracy to subordinate the chopper combat power by the Hornet mafia. That never gets old.

Sounds more like the ACE on a MEU.

I think Brett was speaking about the navy choppers.

No. That was the night the whole Gulf went 0/0 and we had to do CCAs back to the boat. Nowhere else to go, no tanker, and that's where the food was. Scariest thing I ever did.

Don't be too sure about that. 3/12/2003.

I'm sure they'll find a way to get you to DC/Quantico as soon as possible. Have fun with that!

Less Will I Am and more Unabomber. .

If you want the real truth, the most pivotal aircraft in these wars has probably been the C-17. Everything simply would come to a screeching halt within a week without them.

Atlas didn't ask anything about it when I applied a few months back. They won't be hiring off the street for awhile anyway, so it's probably moot.

True, but this whole powered lift debacle is pretty new. I don't think it'll effect me, but the guys coming up in 10 years or so may feel it. The same goes the F-35B.

Yeah, I didn't think that I'd ever actually need it to someday ride the panel, but I didn't want to disqualify myself for being selected to come test because I was too cheap/lazy to take the test again. It's like the class I medical. I don't actually NEED one until I were to make Captain many...

Well, according to the FAA, it's powered lift. Like I said though, the airlines still think of it as a plane (and rightly so) so for the foreseeable future that's not going to be a problem. I have plenty (1200+) of multi time in the C-12 and the T-2, so that's not a problem. As far as your end...

QED

All of them. I've been told that (unprompted) dozens of times on deployment.

As far as the FAA goes, they're both "powered lift". Nobody really knows about this from the airline side, so nobody is really saying anything. I've talked it over with some FAA guys and check airmen for a couple of carriers and they don't seem to care yet. All my Harrier time is listed as...

I've got all of that, and the totals. Still waiting to hear from your airline. My sponsor doesn't know when hiring will start again. On that note, my FE written is about to expire. Do I still need it?

A made up term by people who don't understand JDAM. Lots of geekery involved, but it's a garbage in/garbage out process. The better a coordinate, the better the hit. Elevation counts, too. The rest is basically sea-lawyer bullshit.

You'll be fine. The problem is there isn't "a stack" anymore. It's all a computer screening. Nobody knows exactly what they're looking for, except the obvious "more is better". It's really frustrating.

What he said is the same as all my airline contacts. I think the process is just a whole lot different than when they came up. I hope he's right.

From your keyboard to God's ears.

No, he doesn't. There are plenty of other flying jobs that set you up for the airlines that a P-3 dude would be competitive for. The only military guys that would need to go to the regionals are generally NFO to pilot types and chopper dudes with very limited fixed wing time. Having said...

Isn't that the CNATRA selection hotline?

That is truly awesome! Congrats! The downside is that you have now given hope to all the "I'm 29 and want to be a pilot " types.

Is that a navy thing? East coast thing? Rhino thing? I've never seen one. I've seen the CO come out and direct a change on specific instances, but that was in more flagrant cases.

Has anybody actually seen one of these fabled "callsign review boards"? I figure I would have been on one of them by now if they actually existed.

I disagree. Decent callsign. Plus, much like your jorts, Tevas, and woven belt, if the youngsters don't think it's cool they can suck it.

How about 15 June? Right after my PFT. I'll get right on that.

It's less about discernment and more about how little I give a shit. I save my snobbishness for barbecue, enchiladas, and high-end lesbian porn. To each his own.

Beer is different. You know that. I just like irritating the coffee snobs. Especially the ones that couldn't tell $18 a cup French stuff from 7-11 coffee on the night shift. Not that you are one of those guys, of course. I certainly couldn't tell the difference. Hot. Caffeine. Lots of it...

It's coffee. It tastes like......well......coffee.

They don't sell Folger's where you live?

It's just like a regular snow plow, but it's up-armored, has GPS, cost $938,000, has a 15 month MOS producing school to receive the required certification associated with it, and is broken 70% of the time. The Marines continue to use shovels so that we don't get our snow plows wet/dirty that...

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! That's a good one! Oh......you were serious? Smiles and shit. Having done the Asst. MEU AirO job, it was pretty lame. It would be a great stretch to say that any of us "worked our asses off". Then again, that was pre-9/11. I did the Division AirO job, too, but that was...