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lol, if only a lot of others would start seeing it that way.

2 weeks? I got 6 days off between ocs and tbs, and 2 of those were spent driving. Just forget about leave if it is only to see your girlfriend. You get the weekends off, but are restricted to a 300 mile travel radius unless you get an out of bounds pass (which is fairly easy to aquire if you...

I can't answer your question exactly, but I can tell you that part of your security clearance investigation includes a credit check and when you get to OCS you will have to fill out paper work stating how much debt you owe so that they can make sure you will be able to pay it on what you will...

in that pilot's case, it might be

If you get to take it again try taking your head out of the viewer for each line of circles. For example, put your head in, pick out the circle on the first line as quick as you can without trying to focus on it, then pull your head out again, let your eyes re-focus, and repeat for each line...

If I were the pilot of that jet, I don't think I would've ejected.

Yes sir I am, you?

Our company was told today that if they are an NFO contract they WILL not have a chance at getting a pilot contract while at TBS. NFO's are in high demand right now.

I used Arco and when I took the ASTB it was the same exact questions as the study guide. I recommend it.

hehe, I don't want to try and argue this with someone who has a masters in aero engineering, I'm just sharing what I was taught. I don't think the book expects the average person to have knowlege of airfoils on that kind of level.

The answer is infact "A". In an average wing you get approximately 75% of your lift from bernoulli's effect (the camber of the airfoil) and 25% from newton's third law of motion (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction). Air is deflected downward under the wing, which creates...

I had prk done before I talked to my OSO, but I think it would be a good idea just to check with him first.

thanks, and yes I report to charlie on thursday. The last two classes have had high attrition rates. My platoon had nearly a 50% attrition rate. They have changed the E-course and some other physical events. Pickup is done a little differently than before. Another thing they tried out on us...

roger that, I just wanted to point out that you can get a more detailed view of how each scheduled week is broken down if you are interested

Go to www.tbs.usmc.mil and click on schedules. It breaks down every company, even by what they do each week.

Hey all you inbound candidates, This website helped me tremendously in preparing for OCS and I wanted to repay that debt to all you guys heading there this summer. I just graduated from 191, and the Colonel has and is changing a lot about the program and used us as a testbed. I'm not going to...

I might piss a lot of people off here, but I thought, besides a lot of funny lines, this movie was a piece of trash. It portrayed the Marines in a very negative way. I just read "A Table in the Place" by Lt. Carey Cash and that book made me proud to have chosen the Marines and excited to go...

191 was selected over a month ago

Have you all heard Pat Boone's lovely rendition of Enter Sandman? It is a must as well to any Metallica fan's collection. (note the sarcasm)

I guess I am also concerned about how I can get them sent to me in time at OCS, seeing as how I don't know what my address there will be before I go, and having family mail them to me would be a pain and might cause them to be late. I think doing the auto-electronic payment is the best idea.

Thanks for all the suggestions

What did all you guys do as far as bills when you were at OCS? Could you get any of your payments deferred or did you have to have somebody take care of that while you were gone?

Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. It can hold 4 people, there was two believed on board, two bodies in the aircraft and two parachutes found nearby? Bad reporting. I hope for the best.

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very interesting, thanks for the post

I believed since I was a little kid that I was going to fly for the Air Force. After being in the Air Guard for six years and then finding out what the Marines were about, I didn't even apply to AF. I went straight to the Marine OSO. I am not by any means saying that is what you should do...

Okay, I got a good one for ya. My Air Guard unit fell victim to one a few years back, when the president came to St. Louis. We had the Marines staying in our hangar with the president's choppers. One of 'em left a pile on top of the toilet seat (the lid was closed). We know it wasn't one of...

no alcohol for 78 hours prior to your blood being drawn, and no food or drink except water for 24 hours prior to your blood being drawn. Other than that I guess you could do what you want. I went to great lakes for mine, but I wasn't there for 4 days, only overnight. We were not confined, we...

I just got the call, I'm in for 190 Air! I'll see you all in October! 254 PFT 24 ACT 9/8/7 ASTB 3.14 Aviation Technology

Well now I know why my bird comes back code 3 all the time...awesome videos!

FYI, I am going for OCC 190 out of the midwest and my OSO isn't submitting my package until this Friday or next Monday. He said that my board meets Aug 25 and that I could even update my PFT until the 15th. You might want to ask your OSO, he is the one who will know.

My OSO told me that the average PFT score for the air contracts that were accepted to the last OCS class was like 260.

this would not surprise me, that pretty much sums up my great lakes experience. it seemed to me that i was the first person they ever physicalled their. nobody knows where you are supposed to go what you need to do or why you are even there. after telling my OSO this he told that pretty soon...

you can't eat or drink anything but water 12 hours prior, you're up between 4-5 AM and have to go through a miserable 9 hour physical which could easily be done in about 2...some vacation.

has anybody been to lakes for a class 1? that was about the longest and most miserable day that i can remember having in a long time.

lol, i think that is the funniest DI quote i have ever heard in my life!

just study/look through the ARCO book. that's all i did and got really good scores. if you are not a pilot you may need an extra study source for the aeronautical knowledge section. if you are, its easy.

ok, thanks. i am an f-15 crewchief and the air force is the same way...pilots don't touch the aircraft. and i know that the marines have trained maintenance crews for their aircraft (no disrespect was intended by the question), but one of my supervisors told me that marine pilots do some...

for all you marine pilots out there...i have heard that marine pilots do a lot of maintenance themselves on their aircraft? is this true? if so how much maintenance and how complicated the tasks do you end up doing?

I know a retired tomcat driver and he told me no RIO he ever had was worth the 180 lbs of fuel he could have had in his place!

Here is a link to a really cool website that I use to find interesting places to fly into. I found an airport in Kansas on this site where you land on a grass strip and taxi on the street into town and park in front of an old hotel that has a good restaurant. I'm sure you could find some cool...

I am going to predict that for anyone who has any backround whatsoever in military or civilian aviation, this movie will be completely retarded. For people who enjoy watching movies simply for unrealistic action scenes and hot actresses, it will be enjoyable. I don't think I will even bother...

This has nothing to do with military, but I thought it was friggin' hillarious....Bad Charlie! http://www.big-boys.com/articles/smokeape.html

I love how witnesses to airplane crashes always make up parts of the story. The article says the pilot safely ejected before hitting the ground, but the witness to the crash says he saw the pilot get out of the plane and walk around. It was always my understanding that the pilot leaves the...

how do you flush a whole koran down the toilet?

This does happen all the time. My unit sends down F-15 pilots to Homestead to stand alert over the ADIZ and they get scrambled constantly to intercept highly dangerous C-172's and other similar aircraft. Usually when this happens it is civilian pilots that don't know the procedures for...

no new variant of the F-15 is a match for the F-22.

lol, my navy recruiter makes the same jokes. I think the Navy's ranks are weird...having ensign, lieutenant junior grade, commander, admiral, etc. instead of 1st and 2nd lieutenant, lieutenant colonel, and general like all the other branches do.

I made SSgt in 5 years through hard work, discipline, and long hours of studying...actually the Air Guard gives everybody staff in 5 years after they pass an airman leadership course. That's an E-5 by the way. Sorry about the re-post of the video. Didn't know it had been put on here already.

Someone started a thread a while back that asked what motivates people. This video does a good job of that for me. Enjoy the ride! http://www.big-boys.com/articles/f18ride.html