WannaFlyHigh
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Yeah. Someone mentioned that earlier about them handing out pink slips for small infractions.
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Flight School backed up
- Thread starter Cowgirl
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Always hate to hear it. I heard the back up in Pensacola is pretty bad at the moment. Ebb and flow of Naval Flight Training I guess. It seems every stage you'll find the feast or famine, and it's associated reactions.
Astro_Rekt
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Hey now, trash can tacos from Almeida deserve some recognition.
Coming from Milton to Corpus, the food scene is hurting. Those tacos are fire though!
Those tacos are probably the thing I miss most about Corpus. When I left, I was at the point where they wouldn't even ask for my order anymore
Jenshotjr2013
Member
Not sure if this is necessarily true. If they know anything about the shortage of personnel they would want all of us to stay. Also I am currently here in NASC and I personally dont know anyone who has gotten attrited and the last 2 all hands they have had they mentioned that they are not increasing standards or anything like that. I was recently talking to someone in Lemoore and they are desperate for pilots, so if they increase attrition, retention is going to get worse and the pilot shortage will get dangerous to fleet readiness
You’re not wrong, but there is a disconnect between lots of people being paid to do essentially nothing, and having them go fill fleet seats. There’s a bottleneck in the way, and unless they work on widening that aperture, it’s unlikely to stop being a problem.
What I can’t wrap my head around is why there isn’t more of a push from the USN side to take more ownership of the contracts for parts and maintainers in their own service. It’s all joint-run and USAF led, which is part of the problem. I don’t know how much of that is inflexible, but there sure seems to be a disconnect between the services.
You can also drive your cool tacoma on the beach in corpus
Why do I get the feeling that NAVAIR would answer this question with, "Due to contract limitations, we have to work within the current situation." That kind of talk from NAVAIR usually can be decoded to, "We can't because it's hard."
The government pays for certain scope and performance - usually for a fixed price. The contractor / vendor doesn't perform outside of that. It is my experience that most gov folks bend over backwards within their power to provide the fleet or training what they need within budget and contracts. I haven't heard "we can't because its hard" from any of the system command folks. Is your gripe with the government or contractor / vendors?
100% with PMA. And many of the "challenges" which get identified and reported by the fleet (and contractors) would often just get punted back to the fleet (and contractors) to solve.
I get it. No one person is trying to fail, but as a whole, program offices seem to excel at delaying success.
WannaFlyHigh
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Well, surprised no one has broken the news yet but today the Navy took some drastic (to us candidates atleast) measures in relation to aviation recruitment.
"All NFOs and Pilots Officer Candidates in DEP are being placed on hold (including those scheduled for 15 October 22.) The FY23 Officer Accession Plan has still not been signed, and there are ongoing conversations of a potential significant reduction in Aviation accessions. Until the plan is official, the Aviation OCM and NRC have agreed to hold off on shipping any more pilots and NFOs."
A bunch of aviation candidates in the next OCS class in 12 days were notified of being put on hold indefinitely. Many of us had quit our jobs, ended leases, swore in, booked flights, received FINSELs and orders, etc.
"All NFOs and Pilots Officer Candidates in DEP are being placed on hold (including those scheduled for 15 October 22.) The FY23 Officer Accession Plan has still not been signed, and there are ongoing conversations of a potential significant reduction in Aviation accessions. Until the plan is official, the Aviation OCM and NRC have agreed to hold off on shipping any more pilots and NFOs."
A bunch of aviation candidates in the next OCS class in 12 days were notified of being put on hold indefinitely. Many of us had quit our jobs, ended leases, swore in, booked flights, received FINSELs and orders, etc.
AFidk
dumb ensign/SNA
Does this mean anything for Primary source accessions like NROTC and USNA aviation selection rates?
You’d have to read the entire notice to know for sure, but my (entirely meaningless) GUESS is a yes. They can stash ROTC and USNA ensigns in the fleet for quite a while.
WannaFlyHigh
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Will try to get a response for this. My guess is yes also, but not sure if it will impact your selection rate or stash rates.