Search results

Actually... at least according to the XO who green inked my many PAO articles many years ago, the slash from F/A-18 has been officially dropped. It should just be FA-18 now. Personally, I think the whole convention of putting F and A in the name is stupid. I understand why they did it back in...

Who said anything about letting them get to the merge? :D

Well, the Rhino is a good all around fighter, and they will get at least 25 years out of it. I have flown a lot of the lot 29 supers and I would be happy to take it toe to toe with anyone else out there.

Congrats. I'm getting out soon, so I understand your joy at getting your next job. How many years did you have in? Why did you resign your commission?

I think students nowadays are really missing out. The T-2 was a great stepping stone between the T-34 and a more complex aircraft like the T-45C. Students still had to adjust from covering 2 miles a minute to 5 or 6 miles a minute, but it still steam gauges, a second engine to baby, and was...

Well... based on his good looks and refined tastes you should have just assumed that he was a hornet pilot. :D

Did this O-5 happen to be a dark complected viper pilot?

I've heard rumors about this for awhile. Glad to hear they are finally carrying through. I've only been on nukes myself, and have heard nothing but bad things from my friends who've been on the connie, kitty hawk, and especially the kennedy. So the kitty hawk is the last conventional carrier...

If only we had the cojones...

Edit. In the post above, I clicked on smiley of a yellow guy with glasses. Instead, this devil shows up. Is it a sign about this thread?

Actually, I think I would find Allah. :icon_smil

+1 Bottom line, if you go around making a big deal about your beliefs you will annoy people. That is the same whether you are catholic, wiccan, atheist, whatever.

Man! Times have changed since I went through API a decade ago. You all sound so stressed about it now. I thought people didn't stress enough about it enough when I went through. Out of the 50 I started with, only 8 of us made it to the end without rolling. And this is not rocket science...

Why should anybody but the squadron Intel O be stuck with security management?

I suppose it varies in quality from place to place, but by and large it was worthwhile. However, in typical navy fashion it was 1-2 days of info crammed into one week. It is geared toward more of a younger audience. I was the only officer in my class of 57, and most of the questions were...

Amen. I did TAP recently too. It really opened my eyes to how much I haven't done.

I've had Plantar Fasciitis on and off again over the years. I'm currently fighting a bad case of it now. The time before this one what really helped was the two cortizone shots I had in my foot. That, combined with resting it and a lot of stretching really helped. It takes a fair amount...

Congratulations! I've got three myself. You sacrifice a lot, but you get so much more back. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

We are just talking about visiting for two weeks. Nobody would actually want to live there. :eek: :icon_tong

Life between deployments can really vary. It depends on what your squadron is doing at the time and your groundjob within the squadron. Did the squadron just get back from deployment? Or, are you working up to go? Generally, getting ready for deployment, "works ups", are the busiest time...

Well, she wouldn't make playboy if she wasn't in the military. The magazine wants her for the novelty and the naughtiness. However she can still turn heads, especially for being 30 with two kids. I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers.

All you young picky pups.:) Just wait. She looks pretty damn good for thirty.

LOL:D

It sounds like she is basing her whole opinion of the military on observing a handful of Jrotc kids at her daughter's award banquet.:indiffere

Since we are on the subject of salutes... I see a lot of my fellow O's too lazy to return a salute. Especially going through the gate. Does it really put them out to take the two seconds to put on their cover and return the salute to the gate guard. And since most of us drive SUV-tanks...

3 Hornet losses! I don't think so. I only know of the one - a very sad and preventable loss.

This reminds me of my wife's story. She was an Air Force nurse and got out as a captain after 5 years in. Right before she was commissioned in '97, the air force offered the opportunity for all nurses to walk away, education paid for, without any commitment or payback. She chose to stay, but...

In addition to the link above, there is also a change 1 to the 6110.1H that was released a few months ago. You should be able to google it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15653208/ "WASHINGTON - Military veterans display their medals and service ribbons all day once a year in Australia. It’s a tradition that Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson would like to import to the U.S. Nicholson is asking America’s veterans to wear...

I don't know that we had "overwhelming" force in OIF. In the north, where I flew, it was only a couple of thousand special forces troops supported by two carrier air wings flying 24/7. That was all we had vs. 100,000+ Iraqi military. We may not have been overwhelming, but we were enough vs. a...

My first cruise was on the enterprise. I shared a room with 8 other JO's. The bunks were three high and it was fairly cramped. Other than having only 8 of us in the room (vice sometimes hundreds for sailors' berthing), and having a foldout desk, it was not much better than berthing. My...

Well, I could ask my friend who just checked in there for a full DH tour.

That's quite a bit. For a hornet 250-300+: good 200-250: average <200: light

Whatever happened to planes that didn't require two pilots to get from point a to point b and simply land on the ship in the day. That is 10% of my mission.

My 2 cents is that a part of you will always regret not coming back as an officer and aviator, but once you find a decent career doing something else and/or have children- you won't really look back. FWIW, I've known some great female instructors at my squadron, but almost all of them end up...

Of the 21 JO's I served with at various times in my 3+ years in the fleet: FRS-9 TPS-3 VT-2 VX-2 Weapon School-2 Top Gun Instructor-1 Wing Ops-1 Fnaeb'd out-1 That is probably a fairly typical breakdown for a single seat hornet squadron. You can see we don't really pull our weight...

The days of bagging traps is for the most part over. The planes are too pricey and the heavies don't want the wear and tear on them. We had a group of admirals come speak to us with the "confession" that they were consumers and that our culture needs to change. I thought their point was fair...

I feel bad for those four honest jiffy lubes doing the right thing. They did what was required but are screwed by the other stores. It would be about like being a spinach farmer right about now...

Amen. Better yet. Let put all of the ccajn members in a cod and right before the trap explain to them the differences in landing patterns between oceana and the boat. There is nothing that beats the training of coming into the break at 1500' then trying to fly a normal cv approach...

Die Hippies Die!

Don't take my first sentence to mean anything you said CAT. I belong to a ww2 warbirds forum as well and there is frequently a dogpile thread about how much touhger it was in the olden days and modern pilots have it so easy now due to xyz. I never said that yesterdays pilots had it easy or...

Nugget Veterans! :eek: I have to take it with a grain of salt when someone flying that cute little training command airplane makes fun us ;) :D for "sensors" sensory overload. We still do big 20-30 plane strikes at fallon. But all ACM'n in a 3-6 mile diameter circle :eek: . Egads! I'm...

Unless the marines are part of a Navy Air Wing they do not normally go to fallon. They have their own marine work up dets.

The widom of the internet forums seem to espouse that because missiles are so deadly and self-guiding pilots have it much easier than the gunfighters of old. That could not be farther from the truth. The bad guys have the same damn missiles we do. With the missiles we have now days -...

Fly Navy if you ever ban me I'm going to SOD you :icon_tong :D {Of course, you could just wait a few months, so maybe that isn't a good thing for me to say} Geography ROTC FA-18 C-F

It is not even so much a career thing but more the numbers game. If you look at helos and p-3s with 2-3 pilots per platform compared to tacair with one pilot per platform that is the difference. Tacair needs all of its pilots just to fill the FRS, Weapon School, TPS, etc. Helos and P-3s have...

There are certainly some great exchanges out there. I've had friends go to the USAF for vipers and eagles, and Switzerland and Spain to fly Hornets. I tried to get Spain myself but ended up with my second choice (FRS IP). It was very competitive, I think the detailer said he had 14...

Good Idea! I've got that FORAC.

Hey "Seabz". Is that you?

The eye strain from extended use is obvious, but looking at a CRT monitor is basically like staring at a lightbulb. LCDs are much easier on the eyes.