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Good point. They are too shortsighted to see that this program will drastically improve safety in the long run, even if it may cause some families heartburn in the short term.

Wow. Instructor pilots are short of gear. That is unsat. You know I've dumped 10000 pounds of gas immediately after coming off of a tanker to buster back for an unexpected charlie. That cost the taxpayers how many thousands of dollars? Yet in the same deployment I had to wait over a...

They had a big nuke draft when I was a senior middie, many moons ago. They wanted all the engineers in my class. I suppose my invitation must have been lost in the mail.

One thing to consider is that you get a pretty one sided view in primary. Maybe times have changed, but when I went through there was not a single jet-background instructor in my squadron, or the base for that matter. I heard a lot of bad gouge and opinions about the jet community that turned...

Rep for being the first person on airwarriors to bother to spell Berkeley correctly.

I ran into one of these kids the other day. Well, he ran into me, literally. Despite my honking this 17 year old backed his car right into mine. Within a minute he was on the phone to his dad to come rescue him (I was being nice and friendly, btw). His dad was cool, and offered to fix my...

P***ies. Even though I do not agree with their views, I could at least respect them if they stood their ground. If they had an iota of the fortitude of those they criticize (the marines) they would not back down. It was pretty apparent from the beginning the way this would play out. We've...

I stand corrected. I was with A's my first cruise and D's for my second. See, I just proved my own point that one should not make claims about an airframe that one does not fly. :icon_wink

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Awesome! Never heard of that, but I hope its true.

I won't compare E-2's and Awacs because I have never sat in either. Unless you have flown A-6's, F-14's and F-18's your arguments are academic. In Afghanistan and Iraq the hornets went everywhere the tomcats did and employed more variety of ordnance than the tomcats. F-18's employed all...

There is a very affordable option for a commercial equivalency. You are entirely on your own for the CFI, even if you are a military instructor pilot. There is no ATP equivalency, you are on your own even if MGIB helps you pay for training.

Generally no. I do know that a lot of my fellow quitters have used the MGIB to significantly discount the cost of their ATP/type rating training. A lot have used it to reduce Higher Power's cost from $7400 to 3-4K.

BTW, Berkeley passed the measure on Tuesday night. 8-1. Now, back to titties.

"Attempted" to go through the process. As in failed? Did you just walk in with a filled up ice cube tray demanding $40 a cube? Cause I'll tell you that doesn't work either.

Son... you haven't been married yet have you?

Even "hot-or-not" has a ten point scale. You're an all 1's or 10's type, huh?

Big rack (and I'm not talking about you and your avatar "Nips). I try to see the good in everybody.

Ahhhhh. The ubiquitous "communications" major. Gotta love it.

No kidding. I visited the campus recently with the family; more than a decade later there has been no improvement in the eye candy department.

No biggie. I did it every week for 4 years (well not always chokers).

Hmmm! All of us navy types understand what you mean by the lingo small boy. I wonder what a stranger who happened upon your thread title might think about this place.

Eight Words with two Meanings 1. THINGY (thing-ee) n. Female...... Any part under a car's hood. Male..... The strap fastener on a woman's bra. 2. VULNERABLE (vul-ne-ra-bel) adj. Female.... Fully opening up one's self emotionally to another. Male.... Playing football without a...

My airwing was fortunate to participate in the invasions of afghanistan and iraq. In fact, we were the first on the scene after 9/11. We were on our way home and just off the coast of Oman when that went down. The ship changed direction within the hour. We dropped a lot, but nothing too...

Air Force... yes. Navy and Marines.... NO. We are still in the dark ages when it comes to paperwork.

Awesome that you are finally back. Now how about jumpseating your ole buddy Huggy to Honolulu :)

They have a website as well where you can buy cds and listen to some of their songs.

Yeah, but have you seen most of the wal mart customers! :eek: I'm a Target man myself. More MILFs.

Wow! Never wish away somebody else's good deal. I'm sorry you academy types don't get that. Fwiw. Those 4 years should count for something. But, just to set the record straight, ROTC types can get sent enlisted just like academy. It happened to a Stanford guy at my unit. A...

Pretty lippy to be calling those you aspire to join "idiots", and "fools". I'd cool it junior.

That's a good point that I was going to bring up. If we put aside universal health care for the moment, I think fixing our legal system would be a huge step in the right direction. Part of the reason our health care costs are so large are due to seedy lawyers, frivilous lawsuits and...

So you are fine with the fact that health care costs have quadrupled in the past decade and we americans pay more for medicine than the rest of the planet? Sounds like we could use more regulation and less attitude of "I got mine, screw the rest of you".

Yes, lines suck and so do convoluted forms that you fill out every april. But do you deny that those two departments get the job done. Would you do away with the DMV? Would somehow privatize it with a for profit organization? How safe would the streets be without a DMV assisting law...

You also do not see the right to get free streetlight, paved streets, public schooling through grade 12, a police and a fire department. Yet, the government still provides you those services through your tax dollars. What does this issue have to do with the bill of rights? Your point 1) Of...

Are there many Wii games for little kids?

I went to school in a "nuclear free zone". Seriously. There were signs all over the city proclaiming such. My roommate acquired one for his room.

Funny how things change... For years the 93-95 T-notch creed was 3.0 to CO (at least in the hornet world, but probably everywhere). Now those same folks are really sweating making command.

Short answer yes. Ingested jet fuel is apparently one of the most toxic and carcinogenic substances known. It seems like that is said about a lot of things nowadays, but there is no debate about the effects of jet fuel. I never thought much of it at the time, we kind of laughed about it...

When I was on the TR the water on the ship often reeked of jet fuel. Not always, but often enough that it became a running joke in the ready room. The corporate knowledge (a bunch of aviators-fwiw) was that the ship used the same tanks for water and fuel and that accounts for the residual fuel...

Do you think that 400 pound person wants to look like that? No. Of course not. Who would want to look like that? Do they have a choice about what they put in their mouth? Absolutely. Do they often make poor choices knowing full well the consequences of their actions? You bet. So why do...

I hate to burst any young'ns bubbles here, but a lot of what ryno posted is true for the navy as well. However, how well you deal with it is all a matter of attitude, like hackerf15e said. The other-than-flying stuff wears you down after a while. Of my 5 peers from my fleet tour (the 5...

I had a friend like that. He was always enamored with my career path. He would always talk about how lucky I was and how he was going to do the same, blah, blah. I didn't hear from him until several years after college. He had gotten in, taken a flight all the way to pensacola, and while at...

A glitch in the matrix?

One other statistic often bandied about is the unemployment rate for veterans. I'm going to call BS on that one. When I was in tap class recently it was me (the only officer) and 57 sailors. When they did the presentation on unemployment benefits, handed out brochures, and clarified how easy...

Hal, Have you seen their new first year pay. High 60's. They will be flooded with apps. I'd add mine, but their 2500 hours minimum is not fighter friendly. It seems like only the big majors lower their total time enough to get pointy nose military types.

Airline Pilot Central is a good site. Their forums are a bit more mature and they have detailed salary information on every airline in the US.

Amen. I kept the same girlfriend for 2 years. I regret that. To answer your question about advice for prepping for flight school. I would get some flight time. By no means do you need to get a license or anything, but a little stick time in a cessna couldn't hurt. Most show up to flight...

It's true. The hornet carries mines. But I can say with pride that in my whole career I only twice had to ever enter a mine code. It's actually kind of cool when you couple up the jet to the route you program to deliver the mines. Well... cool like the first time your dad let you mow the...

That is very common for BDU-48s to come off on a hung ordnance approach. The reduced airload as you slow down to land allows the bomb to come loose. My last squadron would always dirty up over the target area if we thought we hung a 48 just to prevent what happened in Va Beach.

“I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.”...