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Hey Killer, I have some fond memories of dorm 1 and 3 and the female contingent there! Not to mention the view from the back side of 5. But I was stuck over in dorm 10, nothing to see but Ross street. By the way, which outfit ya in?

What if you dont have shoe laces...i'm still on velcro kangaroo shoes!

I just downloaded the study guides for the ASTB, was curious since i suck at electrical and mechanical stuff sometimes. anyways, in the spatial accpeception section can you name the plane they use??????? immediate OCS SNA slot to the winner! j/k

I just graduated from A&M last may. Left the corps at the end of my junior year, its a good program and a even better school to go to. I just had some personal issues outside of the corps and didn't want to mess with it anymore. Sucks...never did get my senior boots. :( Oh yeah, and you...

I can vouch for the "85% are going helos" comment. I have friends at Pensacola who have told me that almost all the guys are going rotary wing. One got lucky I guess, he got E3's (similar to AWACs) and is heading to Oklahoma to train on those. just remember...needs of the service change.

Cadence is one thing...jodies (spelling?) are another. I did a few years in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M we always ran to cadence and yelled jodies. I know that singing while running made it that much harder. But made you a better runner. Plus some are just down right dirty/not politically...

If you want to lessen your "bumps" on your road toward getting an OCS slot take my little bit of advice. If you have to deal directly with a NRD, just ask them for the forms that you need. Dont tell them stuff over the phone that will go on the forms. Even if they are asking in passing...

dont they have better things to worry about? Hell, I dunno if I'm even going and I know I have better things to do, and they run the place!

Thanks Nate. Check your PM's.

I know that there are different standards once you are in the Navy as far as times/numbers go for the fitness test. Does this hold true for OCS? Or is it level across the board? Also I live almost 7000 feet up, do they take that in account when I do my test here? I think I'm a bad runner here...

I have always only put SNA down and nothing else. When I was in AFROTC getting categroized I did the same and the silly AF got mad, said I HAD to have three choices and they HAD to be different. Pilot....Nav....blank. They filled in the third one for me as Space/missile. I was pissed, since...

Just remember that you can get Pro Rec'd and not selected...as yours truely found out last march. Had a broken arm anyways, so hey no biggie. About to resubmit package.

I could be mistaken but I'm fairly sure that since they are volunteers, you only need to be a licensed pilot. My old man is a 06 in the Coast Guard and when he was flying they did alot of work with the Aux. Mainly auxillary boat crews, but they do have pilots as well. I'm also fairly sure that...

Bout time we got a forum for Coasties!!!!!!! (Coastie Brat)

I started running last year after i hurt my knee playing club hockey at my college, I was around sea level which was nice, now I'm up at around 7,000. Its definetly harder to run distance here. My 5k time dropped from right around 21:00 to around 28:00. I was lucky just to finish! Anyways, I...

There's a post somewhere with the addy for the Blue Angels/Van Halen video. Thats pretty good. Here are some links to sites I've come across: F-18 http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/fa18/fa18media.htm F-18E/F http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/fa18ef/fa18efmedia.htm...

What the hell has my post turned into? G/D this is getting sad! By the way..they story is true!

So this Naval Aviator stops buy today in an Air Force T-37. Just gas and go. He had a long leg comming up and wanted alot of gas, so he pushed down on the tail allowing me to throw not one, but two chocks under the nose gear. This placed the fuel openenings higher than the highest point of the...

Speaking of the Viper....a Thuderbird F-16 crashed on the 14th at an airshow up at Mountain Home AFB. The pilot ejected safely. Story at www.af.mil

I just started at the FBO here in Colorado Springs. Figured it'd be a good "in the meantime" job while I'm waiting to reapply to OCS. Anyways, my second day on the line and a new F-18F comes rolling through from St. Louis. It was a VFA-122 jet, #120. The pilot is the chief test pilot for...

Did ya'll know that a few years back the Air Force actually bought several Mig-29's from Monrovia (pretty sure on the country)? They said they were not going to use them for air to air combat testing....but then they show up on the Nellis flight line.....hhhhhmmmmm I'm looking for the article...

Well Steve, ya let the cat out of the bag! That show is what I am referencing here. The VFA-106 guys did fairly well. But then so did the Luftwaffe boys. the 50/50 ratio was correct, and the reasons for this are somewhat interesting. When the Luft Mig-29s are held to Soviet style tactics, the...

i'll reveal the answer after some more guesses. me109? lol nice bird though.

Good luck there man! I'm kinda worried about sending in my next package because my grades faltered my last year. i missed about 3 weeks in the fall, and then i was in a cast almost the entire spring and wasn't able to write, had to dictate my upperlevel essay tests. Man talkabout having to...

I've seen the results of this fight.... But who do you think won??????

What have I done? lol Great post I think, thanks for all the feedback. Just a quick story... My old man trained back in 78-79 at Pensacola, flew helos in the CG for about 20 years, head of testing at Pax River for the HH-60J. Outstanding pilot. Anyways, he said that while he was in primary...

Well I can't really say how they do it, or exactly what factors they use to weigh GPA's. Any recruiter types in here that can shed some light on this? Wink, you around???

Read that second paragraph again....I wasn't bashing music by any means. ;) I think the key words are.."I'd have no clue" which translates into, "woulda done bad." Anyways, the point is that they shouldn't really do that. Afterall how can you really do that when different things are harder for...

There's no slots open. Yeah so reading through my file here, I find out that I was pro req'd for SNA and didn't even know it nor was I informed. But no slots when I applied equals no slot. Not to bust any bubbles out there....just letting ya know. Oh yeah, new SNA/NFO requirement numbers are...

Just remember things change! I got pro-req'd for SNA last year. Still didn't get me a slot. Keep thinking total package and needs of the Navy. The new fiscal year is rolling around, and thus the new numbers are comming out soon. Keep that in mind too.

I've heard of the new "total force concept" where the Guard and Reserve units will all be tasked for various deployments and activations on a equal level or something along those lines. Some Air Nat guys we know have even been deployed than some active duty squadrons flying the exact same...

Thanks guys, some very level headed replies there. Good points as well. Basically I just wanted to hear from those of you who've had experience before I formed any misguided opinions.

So I'm looking at my OCS package folder (dont ask me how I got it :) ) and I have this page that says NRD **** GPA Computation Sheet. Hours attempted, Quality points earned, semester GPA. Now the GPA they have is different from mine...its acutally higher. So I'm assuming that this sheet is used...

Coasties are always open for some good haggling. ;) Note: I've met alot of pilots who've direct-comissioned into the Coast Guard...but never one that left the CG for another service... Makes one wonder.....

Its funny you metion Vance, thats where one of my pals was. The other was at Del Rio. Both remarked on the "nitpicking" of instructors on frivilous crap. On another note I talked to my old man about all this. He's a Coastie rotorhead so he did all Naval training, but he mentioned that the...

Navy training vs Air Force training.... I just had two very close friends drop out of AF UPT. Both were halfway through T-37's and quit. No bad marks for either one. Both said how much they hated it and these guys LOVE flying. The first guy said that the Navy instructors doing the joint...

Flew back down to A&M for a two week vacation and to catch the season opener and was treated to a flyover by a fourship of T-45's. Acutally saw em come in friday afternoon, nice and tight diamond formation across the university, then flew the break over Easterwood. Much better show than the...

I applied for Navy OCS. Anyways I guess it took soo long because of the holidays? I think that the more likely scenario is that the CWO submitting my package, didn't submit it when he said he did. Either way I still didn't get a slot nor would it have mattered. For me now its more of who I know...

My old man is a O6 in the CG, has his own Gold Wings, based out here and Peterson AFB, he "dipped into the blue" as my brother calls it and remarried to a AF O6. Anyways the point of the story is that I my step mom planned General Hinton's retirement ceremony last friday and I got to go to it...

I applied in November..got turned down in March..."shattered" my wrist snowboarding in-between...so the rejection didn't matter. I'm not reapplying till I'm 110% recovered. But was just wondering what its been like for those of you still on that ball. Here's my fun story... The accident was...

I went through the 4 week AFROTC camp with a former nuke sonarman. He is now the only AF officer that i can think of that gets to wear his "Dolphins" on his AF uni. Kinda cool if you ask me. he leaves the Navy for the AF, I leave the AF for the Navy......funny

I'm thinking about looking into the Marines as a possible path to my own "gold wings". Was just wondering what advice/reccomendations/info anyone could give me. I saw the posts about the Marines looking for pilots...are they not experiencing the full SNA slots like the Navy even though they...

Funny...a Cessna 172 has basic ILS...but a Hornet doesn't!!!

I was in AFROTC for about 3 years, I acutally had the AF surgeon general's office mail me copies of the offical USAF PRK "standards" and waiver proceedure after they made it offical. Even after I showed it to the officers at my unit, they still refused to let me begin the waiver process, said...

Yeah...so...um......How bout those 'Flyers eh???

HAHAHA...that made my day!!

When I was around 8, my brother and I would take this coffee table and tape string across one end like wires. We then taped paper clips to the back of our model airplanes like hooks, and straws on the top. Had about a 6 foot string running through that tied off to a chair on the other side of...

They go through all the same aviation training and wear the same wings. But while a Naval Aviator is a Naval Aviator....Marine Aviators are Marines first. They go through the same ground training as every Marine. Therefore they are very very closely tied in with ground units. Marine ground...

You are kidding right? Yeah I got turned down, and YES I did fall 8 feet off a rail and shatter my wrist back on January 6th. And I use the term "shattered" becuase thats what I did....my surgery required 8 screws, a plate, and bone graf from my right shin. All my notes are photo copies...

Bandwith Exceeded damn.....