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Chuck Yeager could also routinely visually spot bogeys at over 50 miles while in Germany (also from his autobiography). Sounds more like Chuck Norris to me.

UPS doesn't have the international heavy time requirement anymore. They have had a hiring window open for awhile. I am not sure if it is closed yet. Fedex- still a popular choice, but not hiring. SWA- No interviews until next spring. You will need a type rating to get to the front of...

In the hornet world guys switch back and forth between the legacy and rhino all the time. The planes have different NATOPS quals, but in the eyes of bupers you are an FA-18 pilot, which flavor doesn't matter. I would imagine the helo community would look on the 60 the same. I would take a...

My old squadron. :eek: Glad he is OK.

I only know of one instance. A buddy of mine on a disassociated sea tour had to go on a short notice 2 month stint to fill in for someone who lost her security clearance. It sounds like she had major debt and credit issues, lost her clearance, "lost" her deployment, and my buddy had to take up...

Well... I have canceled plenty of training hops for weather, and not felt a bit of regret about doing so. However, when we flew in Northern Iraq during the invasion in '03, we had the worst weather I have ever seen. The mountains in Northern Iraq and that region of Turkey rise to well...

Has there been any talk of the Marines getting the G to replace their prowler fleet?

Glad he's OK Notice kids how it is always a "routine training flight". Don't treat any flight like it is routine.

Is it good to be short and fat for pulling G's? Yes. Yes it is. :watching3

That already happened to those poor russian kids in Beslan. Terrible. Happened to a western school in myanmar not too long ago as well. Heaven knows its happened to plenty of schools here in the US with homegrown nutcases. It has given me pause that I have 2 of my 3 kids at the same...

That's Funny. With each PRT my "documented" height kept going up.

A ton of guys from my year group, '97, are bailing/have dropped letters. They were able to fill VFA department head OK, but I think next year with '98 guys they are going to really be hurting to fill DH slots. Just about everybody from my last squadron is getting out. Amazing what random 1...

It is really sad that people sink so low as to inflate their self worth with false claims. It seems like most who actually did something are really humble and downplay their involvement. Then there are the John Kerry's of the world and their how many purple hearts...

I would imagine most of them, at least the half reasonable ones, are happy. They only dislike their arab brothers a little less than they like the jews.

USAA... Great company, they certainly deserve their reputation for customer service. However, in every case I have found better rates or terms with other companies. I have been with State Farm Insurance since I was 16 and USAA can never come close to their prices and State Farm's service...

I will give you the advice my CAG used to give us: You can always get another wife, but you will never get another Navy career. He had been married 4 times.

:eek: Cat, that looks a lot like a bunch of B-17's heading for Berlin.

Short answer to your desire to fly for Lufthansa or British airways. Not realistically going to happen. Short of moving there, getting their citizenship (find a nice fraulein to marry), and going through the pain of getting the European licenses, you are not going to fly for one of their big...

Awesome, she looks like a keeper. And she likes guns too. Bonus.

A Brunette: With a Blonde "opposing solo": I think that I have seen this movie...

Congratulations.

How do you go about it? I had a skipper in intermediate say he did it. I've never really thought about it until now, but it might be a good keepsake, or something to hide if I ever run for president.

Jolly, I'd be happy to be your new mentor. Jolly, do you like movies about gladiators?

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Thanks for sharing. I may have to plan a cross country to Boerne TX.

Yes, actually a guy just returned from my unit who did just that. He wasn't the point man, mind you, but he did help clear houses. Most of our IAs have been staff work, but he was attached to special forces and went where they went. We just sent another guy to be a civil affairs officer in...

My squadron has filled about 10 IAs. 2 of those ten I still haven't spoken with, but the rest, except for one, have stated that they were doing ridiculously tedious staff work. It was not literally a corporal's billet. They came back with the opinion that other services expect less of...

I'm speaking about the grunts. I know in the Navy you went where the squadron went, regardless of how often you saw combat.

In WW2 the fighting was fierce and costly, but at least it was over fairly quickly. Battle, rest, wait for next battle. Rarely was the frontline static (except for Italy) and units could often be rotated to the rear. And, at least there was a clearly definable frontline. Nobody in WW2 had as...

I retract this statement. I think 50 of 64 pilots got it. I'm still surprised that every pilot couldn't get it. It was harsh for NFOs, however.

That guy had about 10 fewer than my dad, a collector. Luckily, his neighbors aren't idiots.

Interesting. I won't get defensive because I have not heard their reasons. I personally knew most of them and was nothing but friendly (or maybe I'm the reason their experience sucked :eek:). Are you sure that they are separating the flying from the ready room part. Once the door to the...

Exactly. Not an affront on the community, my peers all loved the tomcat. The RAG for them was simply a right of passage that they didn't relish. A squadron personality can easily change overnight with a new CO or a couple of other hail and farewells. We've both seen good squadrons go bad...

Amen Brutha. When I was a fleet squadron skeds O, the JOs were great, it was the O-4s and 5s that were always the problem children. The O-4s always had the most snivels and the O-5s wouldn't tell you their snivs until after the schedule was already written.

Between Brett's and Heyjoes posts I have to laugh, My FRS experience at 106 as a stud... Real good IPs. Not a single dick in the whole squadron. There was no ready room divide, studs could and did sit at the same table as the instructors. We had several meals out with instructors on det...

Did you not see the :D ? Just do your best in the RAG. The club is nice, but you don't need it. Fleet bubbas are going to call their friends at the rag to ask about so and so all the time, club or not. Just don't be a one way, work hard, and be the guy who helps out your classmates.

Take it somewhere else thread jacker. :D

:confused: 7 years in the hornet community and I never saw us eat our young. That was the Tomcat community. RPs and RRIOs were to be seen and not heard at VF-101, from what my tomcat buds have said. To answer the OP question, like gets much busier but better after the FRS. The flying gets...

Be thankful. The Navy could do like Air Force UPT where they just keep you around 12 hours a day regardless of whether you are scheduled or not. That would solve the problem of needing a good schedule since you could always find a stud waiting around for the next flight. I'll take the Navy...

I do not know if it is still this way, but when I was in primary we did not have a single jet guy in the whole squadron. I remember some instructors being very vocal in their stereotypes of the jet community. They were all wrong.

Oooh! 3 blades. You're dangerous!

On one of my last missions involving tomcats I was a leading a 4 plane of hornets providing red air for a division of tomcats. The tomcat lead calls me: "Hey Huggy, none of our 4 radars are working, we can give you red air". On the bright side, I think I shaved with a tomcat this...

I don't think it is completely BS. I certainly would never compare anything I did to what pilots in Vietnam or Korea faced, but every point me and my squadronmates earned was for delivering ordnance in Afghanistan and Iraq. I feel like those were well earned points. It was purely luck and...

Score one for the good guys.

For my airwing in Iraq and Afghanistan it was two points if you either took fire or delivered ordnance. 1 point for going in country. No points for those who didn't go in country. 20 points is still the norm.

I'm having trouble understanding IP time and how it should be logged for the FAA/airline purposes. I was a single seat hornet guy who did my last tour as an FRS IP. Do I understand this right? ...none of my time before my FRS Instructor tour was IP, since I was single seat, even if I was...

Well...Maybe a shirt. But I'll be damned if you'll get me to put the pants back on.

I have an extra bedroom I can rent you. It is right between a 1 and a 3 years old bedrooms. You can share the bathroom with them. Only 350 a month. Oh, but I have to warn you, I walk around naked mostly.

To use your own lingo, you "screwed up" once. Do not screw up twice by keeping this a secret. It will likely be found out. If not now, then later, when your clearance needs to raised and they do a little more extensive investigation. I definitely know of at least one instance where an...

All 8 of them?