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Any old NAO's out there?
- Thread starter USMC1775
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I was in VT-10 when the Navy adopted the NFO wings. But I'm old enough to have had my first training flights in the "SNJ" UC-45J. There was nothing like sweating in the right/nav seat of an SNJ on a 100 degree Pensacola day while the Marine pilot screamed at you and hit you repeatedly in the face with his clipboard. I don't know what today's wussie NFOs will do when it hits the fan in the real world.
http://www.airlinehobby.com/fullsize_thumbs/504273270.jpg
I was in VT-10 when the Navy adopted the NFO wings. But I'm old enough to have had my first training flights in the "SNJ" UC-45J. There was nothing like sweating in the right/nav seat of an SNJ on a 100 degree Pensacola day while the Marine pilot screamed at you and hit you repeatedly in the face with his clipboard. I don't know what today's wussie NFOs will do when it hits the fan in the real world.
http://www.airlinehobby.com/fullsize_thumbs/504273270.jpg
Goober said:
A common example now (in the Navy) is for squadron intel officers in P-3's to their observer wings after doing 200 hours and completing a short syllabus that covered the basics of the aircraft and safety stuff.
We have a IRR LtCol who at work was an air controller (is that how you describe them) and a UAV guy who had a bunch of buddies do the NAO thing (he was NPQ'd). They even sent some of his buddies to flight school to get NFO wings as senior CAPT's and MAJ's. He said the Marines couldn't figure out if they wanted NFO's or NAO's in OV-10's, up until the time they retired them.
ip568 said:
ip, I ask for my education, not to call you out...
I always thought SNJs were the Navy version of the T-6. For example: http://www.skytyping.com/north_american_snj.htm
Was the plane you flew (Beach 17?) a SNJ w/ a different series number? Like the T-6 is a SNJ-2, was this an SNJ-whatever? I know google knows all, but I'm a bit lazy and curious what you have to say.
I take it that AOs are a thing of the past. They would fly with us in Hueys in the left seat and fly in the back seat of the OV 10s. During the 1972 Easter Offensive in RVN a bunch of USMC AO Warrant Officers were sent to fly with the USAF OV10 FACAs to call in airstrikes and artillery. An interesting group of guys.