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Essentially, he just sent an email to the Chief of Staff stating his intent. Nothing in writing, aside from the email trail from above. A MARADMIN isn't necessary.

The entire Marine Corps. Every single Friday. It's awesome. Just remember, when you (the generic "you") sea lawyer the orders from your higher, you are basically clearing your subordinates hot to sea lawyer your orders. I'm sitting in my bravos as I type this, with heartfelt admiration for...

It's an entirely different kind of flying.

Got a few emails over the last few months. He's doing fine and squeezing limes.

Amen. We need to re-enable rep from tapatalk.

Concur. I just hear the "he's a hero, look...he has a Purple Heart" about so many people, when actually it's not evidence of heroism. Everybody who signed on the line to join the military had some level of courage, otherwise they wouldn't have voluntarily joined and exposed themselves to the...

I'm not saying that he's not a solid pick, in fact, I think he is.....but anybody can get shot. It's not necessarily indication of any great wisdom or prowess.

You should try MEU CDO while deployed. I suggest the last night of port call in Australia for maximum effect. It's fantastic.

Exact-a-mundo. Pretty much the most painful waste of time ever, aside from tower ODO (Cherry Point and Miramar only) or Command Duty Officer (on the MEU).

Don't use Aquatic Realty in Perdido. I heard that they got flattened during Ike, but in the unlikely event that they are still in business, I wouldn't use them for ANYTHING. It's been 20 years and I'm STILL pissed at them.

Do navy students at -101 have to stand GDO?

I didn't think anybody actually used that. Go figure. I thought it had something to do with running short of C's that had traps left in them. They had to substitute some D's to get the boat squadrons out. Like I said, I heard about this a few years back and the details escape me. You would...

That wasn't it. I think it had to do more with aircraft availability. Somebody told me about this a few years ago, but I can't remember the details.

I think he's talking about tower ODO. I'm sure that RPs still stand AODO at the squadron and GDO at MAG.

Wow. I must've somehow missed another incident.

Again?

1. Close, but not CAS. The FW components are doing CAS procedures, but the rotary wing are not. Additionally, JAAT is aviation centric, vice ground centric. FM 3-04.126 Appendix C, Section 1 states: "C-1. A JAAT operation is a coordinated attack by rotary and FW aircraft, normally...

Oh, it's a hotline alright.......just ask for JoBoy and get 20% off.

1-866-679-8420 This is the CNATRA selection hotline. There's a series of menu options that explain what your chances are of anything flight school related. All your selection numbers are answered there. Week by week chances, percentages, minimum NSS required by type aircraft and...

Same here.

What bubblehead posted is what their customer service folks told me yesterday. Essentially, that you have to have the card first, then ask for the SCRA to be applied, and then see if you qualify. That seems pretty straightforward. The rep I dealt with specifically said that it only applies to...

I'm not going to ban you. Eyes and ears open. Mouth shut until the search function has been exhausted. Then come back with questions. Ok? Btw...how much did that phone call end up costing you?

How do you think that guys like me, TreeTopFlyer, Jarhead, and a crap ton of others wound up flying jets for the Marine Corps? Correspondence school? To bluntly answer your question: yes, Marines get jets. Generally every week at least one guy gets them. Sometimes more, sometimes none. It...

Didn't we just do this?

That sounds like an Air Force issue, vice a fixed wing issue. I've seen the same thing myself. I'm certainly not looking down my nose at Army aviation. It's just that if you want to be included in the CAS role, you're going to have to learn to do it to the accepted standard and according to...

That is classic Army aviation doctrine. Nothing at all wrong with that, provided you recognize it for what it is. You are using aviation as a supporting maneuver element rather than a part of combined arms. The AH-64 is a phenomenal fires platform. It works for you, so rock on. But it ain't CAS.

I was in the stack with them. They rolled in 180 out of their assigned FAH, called "In HOT", and then dropped. I didn't see their hits, but the next thing heard on TAD was "Get OUT". The S-3 asked for a reattack. Again, "Get OUT". From what my S-3 buds told me, they don't get to do CAS...

A "500-700 foot CEP" would be an outlandish embarrassment to anybody who even occasionally drops bombs. Even the S-3 guys did better than that. I'd bet that the USAF F-4 types were doing less than 250' CEP even way back in the 70s. Today's aircraft can drop dumb bombs within a 100' CEP without...

I'm not in the Air Force, but any of their fighters that are/were capable of carrying GP bombs was capable of dropping them accurately enough to perform CAS with them. That obviously includes USN and USMC jets as well. Just out of curiosity, what do you consider "accurate enough"?

Well, ok then. If you never saw it, it must not be possible.

Not really.

I'll bet you ARE pumped!

Just answer all the questions honestly. The absolute worst thing you can do is lie. It's probably not that big of a deal anyway. Now bearcrawl down the passageway while reciting the entire Aggie Code of Honor.

Call the number and ask for the PowerPoint. They're there to help you! All you need is a phone, an email address, and perhaps a credit card and they'll give you anything you ask for.

No flaming...just the standard username change request to something along the lines of "AutoRotate", "Sixtysrule", or "StarbrdD" when he hits the HTs in a year or so.

I encourage you to call it and verify. It's legit. Why would I post bad gouge to answer such a reasonable request for information?

1-866-679-8420 This is the CNATRA selection hotline. There's a series of menu options that explain what your chances are of anything flight school related. All your selection numbers are answered there. Week by week chances, percentages, minimum NSS required by type aircraft and...

Signing the letter and being the decider are two different things, sadly.

I've been out of the qual loop in the Harrier for awhile, but essentially there are X number of T&R codes that must be completed before a pilot can get a qual. Some of them are very poorly thought out, irrelevant to current requirements, and do not allow sufficient intervention by leadership to...

I used to be the Division SORTS officer. A "huge abortion of a mess" would be a quantum leap forward. You're looking at it from a larger perspective I think in terms of unit readiness. I'm thinking about the T&R on a smaller, more individual level. It has grown too complicated and unwieldy in...

If only we had people in the squadron with sufficient experience and judgement that we could trust them with making such assessments on an individual subjective basis rather than on a collective and objective set of made up metrics. We might consider putting such people in charge of...

Too bad nobody could have seen that coming.

You forgot "Slow it down....a little power.....POWER"

Vertical Landing.

Thanks. I've never had a problem finding it before. Just go to the store and that's it. Not now.

Does anybody have a source of 5.56? I'm getting nothing here.

It hasn't been sled tested. It's not NAVAIR approved, so clearly the operators of said vidcam/mount care nothing about safety and hate America. Thus: SAFETY VIOLATORS!!!!!

The down side is that you don't have anything worth filming. Smiles and shit. *Full disclosure: I'll stipulate that it's cooler than what you would witness in a C-12.

You know they can't put something on the Internet if it isn't true. It's like a law or something. I think that Woodrow Wilson got that through the UN.