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If you might be interested in flying MH-47E/G Chinooks for the 160th SOAR drop me a line. It's not the Air Force, but it's not the Army either. It's a little known fact that we assess prospective inter-service-transfers on a case by case basis. A 46' guy would think he'd died and gone to...

I'll bet that phase team was a bunch of happy campers. They didn't even get to fly the aircraft!

A little off topic, but one of my favorite "minutia" questions that pop-up during every annual check-ride: "So, why don't you tell me how your NVGs work." "Well, after several hundred hours of using them, I'd say they work just fine." Chuck's right, if you can't fix it while you're flying, or...

NuSnake, Please accept some humble warnings from an Army officer. If you choose to go the OCS route, there are several pitfalls the recruiter will "forget" to tell you. You can't get a particular job (MOS) guaranteed prior to attendance at OCS. Furthermore, you won't even find out what...

We'll be at NASNI 23-29 July if any of you rotorheads want to get together for a beer and solve the RW problems of the world. PM me for details.

I'm going to agree, and expand on what Chuck said. As a 160th pilot and former NSW guy I've been on both sides of the debate. Pilot's are pilots (more or less), service is just geography. As a SEAL, we rarely could get HS to infil us in anything but the most favorable conditions (50% illum...

The Warrant Officer recruiting web site is:http://www.usarec.army.mil/hq/warrant/. It's got just about every piece if information you could want for WOFT for interservice transfers and civilians...you just have to dig to find all the info, but it's in there. In regards to the OCS/WOCS...

After reading some of the recommendations on informing your chain of command of your intentions to submit a WOFT application; Let me add my my 2 cents. As one guy indicated, you may be able to complete your application (except LORs from your chain), without letting anyone know up to a point...

For all of you guys trying to get into WOFT right now, let me give you a little bit of info from the "inside". The Warrant officer Community Manager has put out several times in the last year; "We're picking up more WOFT candidates this yeat than we have since Vietnam." If you've submitted a...

reply What you failed to mention is yes, the AH-6's may only sling one or 2 rocket pods, but when that's the case, the other 2 or 3 stations are filled up with GAU-10 .50 gatlin guns or M-134 7.62 miniguns. That's alot of forward firing power. Also being a pretty small signature aircraft...

Letters of Recommendation Crice, the comany letter of recommendation should come from your Division Officer. The battalion letter is synomous with the C.O. These two accompanied with your ltter from an Army Aviator (preferable CW4 or above) is all that should be included in your packet. I...

Cricechex, I went fro the Navy to the Army in 2002. All that's required form your chain of command is 1: a conditional release, which states if you get picked for WOC, the Navy agrees to sidcharge you, regardles of your adso, etc. Some C.O.s may be reluctant to sign this. I know my CO gave it...

However, I'd had some great Cobra gun escort into some rotten LZs over there, so we have the utmost respect for the USMC skids who came to play when they high powered Army couldn't hack it.

160th SOAR If you guys want to read another great piece of 160th history. Pick up Sean Naylor's "A Good Day Not to Die". I came out March 1st. It's a little scandalous in that the stars made some poor, politically motivated decisions (as in Somalia), but the stories at the pilot and operators'...