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combat training...
- Thread starter Horseshoe
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It's vastly different than the AF. The Navy/Marine Corps gives students the chance to drop bombs (practice) to perform dynamic BFM and land on ships PRIOR to becoming Naval Aviators.
The Air Force designates their pilots, THEN does all that good stuff. For the Navy, once a pilot, then you learn your platform: like an F-18. Once you learn the F-18, you get attached to your fleet squadron. Once in there you have numerous levels of training broken down by the squadron and the individual. The squadron must complete numerous training exercises with a certain complement of its personnel. The individuals will learn new items and earn qualifications.
It's a big red a**.
The Air Force designates their pilots, THEN does all that good stuff. For the Navy, once a pilot, then you learn your platform: like an F-18. Once you learn the F-18, you get attached to your fleet squadron. Once in there you have numerous levels of training broken down by the squadron and the individual. The squadron must complete numerous training exercises with a certain complement of its personnel. The individuals will learn new items and earn qualifications.
It's a big red a**.
Combat Training
There is weapons system employment training as referenced by Cosmania and starts very early and by the time you are finished with FRS, you are an almost ready "up round" to join a fleet squadron. The carrier based squadrons go through their own unit level and then air wing level turnaround turning that gets progressively more complex and ends up at NAS Fallon under auspices of the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC), which is closest thing to USAF Red Flag.
There is weapons system employment training as referenced by Cosmania and starts very early and by the time you are finished with FRS, you are an almost ready "up round" to join a fleet squadron. The carrier based squadrons go through their own unit level and then air wing level turnaround turning that gets progressively more complex and ends up at NAS Fallon under auspices of the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC), which is closest thing to USAF Red Flag.
Additionally, "training for combat" never ends throughout your entire career. Over 20 years and many hours of actual combat under my belt and I'm still training (and more importantly, learning) how to fight.