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Aviation instructor career path
- Thread starter FormerRecruitingGuru
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Wait, we're not supposed to do that here?
I’ve spent ~4 years in total getting coffee in the B, C, and D rings as a contractor (really). Does that count?
Nope, e-ring only.
Were you a contracted Starbucks barista or the Dunkin' rep?? We had coffee pots in my E-ring office...but that was during the Cold War.
@Hair Warrior . . . . This.
Yeah. How’d you know?
Fantastic! Did you have the classics two-pot Bunn with the glass pots designed for inter-service fighting or the finger-burner tall, steel multi-cup style? I miss the taste of hours old coffee blended in an unwashed pot.
Oh, I thought the first photo was the back seat of a Growler.
I was checking Wikipedia and stumbled on this naval officer designator:
Limited Duty Officer: 630X Aviator (Aviation) (NOTE: Phased out as of July 2018, per NAVPERS 15839I, Manual of Navy Officer Manpower and Personnel Classifications, Vol. 1, Part A)
Did the Navy ever make use of pilot LDOs? Looks like NAVPERS 15839I phased out this LDO career field part of revamping the naval aviation officer corps in 2018.
Limited Duty Officer: 630X Aviator (Aviation) (NOTE: Phased out as of July 2018, per NAVPERS 15839I, Manual of Navy Officer Manpower and Personnel Classifications, Vol. 1, Part A)
Did the Navy ever make use of pilot LDOs? Looks like NAVPERS 15839I phased out this LDO career field part of revamping the naval aviation officer corps in 2018.
They did back in the 80’s and 90’s although I don’t how many people took the duty. I had one friend do it, a P3 type. As I recall he knew he would max out as an O4 and could never command. He left the Navy after 12 years or so but all of his time was in the cockpit.
That was my understanding of LDO, too. Although in IWC, I’m told LDOs max out at O-3 until/unless they earn a bachelors degree. But doesn’t aviation LDO kinda sound like what they’re trying to do with perm instructor pilot? LDO could be the Navy’s version of Army flying warrants.
Then again, the Navy phased out aviation LDO for a reason so there must be some rationale why it wasn’t working/wasn’t needed.
We've also tried flying Warrants several times (3?) and each time has failed, most recently, pretty spectacularly from what I saw. I'd type more but I am going to bed.
