This is so true. It is pretty rare that a VFA guy is sent to the VTs and I wondered why. It does happen but those cases are the exceptions.
I assume you mean VT-(not jets) here?
This is so true. It is pretty rare that a VFA guy is sent to the VTs and I wondered why. It does happen but those cases are the exceptions.
From my vantage point, VFA/VAQ don't play the quality spread game for due course production tours. There may be some lip service paid, but in reality, we tend to send our top folks to the FRS and (to a greater extent) to get patches. YMMVwhy we prioritize WTI and FRS folks when the people who are selected to go there are based on a quality spread, not just performance.
From my vantage point, VFA/VAQ don't play the quality spread game for due course production tours. There may be some lip service paid, but in reality, we tend to send our top folks to the FRS and (to a greater extent) to get patches. YMMV
Anecdotal/opinion only:
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Mostly agree with you. However my point remains the same: HSC picks its future Skippers on the day they are assigned their first shore tour jobs. Those shore tour jobs are not given out in a manner that selects the "best and brightest" in the community anymore because we have introduced a form of quality spread, gender diversity, and (I assume) racial diversity into the mix. If that's the perogative, then that's the preogative fair or not, but stop saying that "the best and fully qualified" are being selected when in reality it's "the people with the right timing, the right gender, the right background, the right squadron, and just the right level of quals to make the quality spread for the FRS or Weapons School are our future Skippers!"
Guess it just doesn't have the same ring to it, and of course, the people doing the selecting want to think they are, in fact, the best and most qualified to be there in the first place, I suppose.
Bro you need to sit down and have a beer. Here's Hotdog's career advice:Mostly agree with you. However my point remains the same: HSC picks its future Skippers on the day they are assigned their first shore tour jobs. Those shore tour jobs are not given out in a manner that selects the "best and brightest" in the community anymore because we have introduced a form of quality spread, gender diversity, and (I assume) racial diversity into the mix. If that's the perogative, then that's the preogative fair or not, but stop saying that "the best and fully qualified" are being selected when in reality it's "the people with the right timing, the right gender, the right background, the right squadron, and just the right level of quals to make the quality spread for the FRS or Weapons School are our future Skippers!"
Guess it just doesn't have the same ring to it, and of course, the people doing the selecting want to think they are, in fact, the best and most qualified to be there in the first place, I suppose.
Mostly agree with you. However my point remains the same: HSC picks its future Skippers on the day they are assigned their first shore tour jobs. Those shore tour jobs are not given out in a manner that selects the "best and brightest" in the community anymore because we have introduced a form of quality spread, gender diversity, and (I assume) racial diversity into the mix. If that's the perogative, then that's the preogative fair or not, but stop saying that "the best and fully qualified" are being selected when in reality it's "the people with the right timing, the right gender, the right background, the right squadron, and just the right level of quals to make the quality spread for the FRS or Weapons School are our future Skippers!"
Guess it just doesn't have the same ring to it, and of course, the people doing the selecting want to think they are, in fact, the best and most qualified to be there in the first place, I suppose.
This is so true. It is pretty rare that a VFA guy is sent to the VTs and I wondered why. It does happen but those cases are the exceptions.
It also isn't always a death sentence. @MIDNJAC and I had an instructor at Meridian that got picked up for the Blues. Not sure what he's up to these days.
If you went VT(props) from VFA, you probably have no future.
I assume you mean VT-(not jets) here?
It also isn't always a death sentence. @MIDNJAC and I had an instructor at Meridian that got picked up for the Blues. Not sure what he's up to these days.
You're a bit Naive if you think HSC skippers pick future skippers that late... usually they've got an idea within the first 6 months of folks checking into the squadron. How else do you think they get them the JO tickets required to make it to those primo shore tours?
As for the women and minorities taking your jobs... your rant sounds a bit like those washed up regional lifers so I'll give you the same response I give them- of course that's the case... the aviation industy in the US in general is greater than 90% white and 90% male. As a white male you're a dime a dozen, so you have to work harder and do more to stand out from the crowd.
You're a bit Naive if you think HSC skippers pick future skippers that late... usually they've got an idea within the first 6 months of folks checking into the squadron. How else do you think they get them the JO tickets required to make it to those primo shore tours?
As for the women and minorities taking your jobs... your rant sounds a bit like those washed up regional lifers so I'll give you the same response I give them- of course that's the case... the aviation industy in the US in general is greater than 90% white and 90% male. As a white male you're a dime a dozen, so you have to work harder and do more to stand out from the crowd.