I know you always hear from everyone "no matter what you will fly you'll love it" and do believe it to a certain extent, but have any of you or know someone who just wasn't happy with the community they got "stuck" in? More specifically, guys who really wanted jets and got selected for helos? I know low and slow sounds pretty damn cool, but was just trying to see if there are exceptions to the rules. BE HONEST NOW!!!!!
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Lets be honest now.....
- Thread starter Zotak
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Zotak said:
When I was editor of Approach, I got to visit just about every community and certainly talked to folks from every one of them. I found everybody I met to be very passionate about where they ended up despite what they originally wanted. However, there is one guy I met on my nugget cruise who flew S-3s and he told me repeatedly how much he hated the airplane and his community. He got himself a flag aide job and switched to the A-6 only to have community evaporate before he screened for command, but he did get some quality time before that happened.
I'd like to know if anyone (or how many) end up selecting jets and then wishing they had picked P3 or helos instead.
UInavy said:
Nope. Wanted fighters from day one and signed up for USMC because of guarantee that PLC offered. When Vietnam was winding down, I ended up in Pentagon out of TBS waiting for a flight school slot and Navy fighter pilot offered me immediate orders to PCola if I switched over. So I got what I wanted, just in a different service. Slight irony is I signed up hoping for Tomcats in USMC (they were supposed to get them and even had first cadre at Miramar in VF-124). If I had stayed USMC, I would have never gotten Tomcats, but by switching to Navy, I was able to get what I wanted (interestingly...my advisor in flight school was a USMC Tomcat guy).
heyjoe said:
What, the War Hoover isn't quality? What are you gettin' at Joe?
HooverPilot said:What, the War Hoover isn't quality? What are you gettin' at Joe?
I didn't say that...he did. But this guy is an 0-6 now and rarely happy. One of his squadronmates was so wild that we tried to get him out of Hoover into Tomcats...they actually banned him from their admin so he joined ours...he was later the guy who dropped the drop tank on a Iraqi patrol boat in Desert Storm. Definitely liberty risk...definitely warrior to the core...definitely not PC...they sent him to USNA as an 0-6....I ran into him in town last year and he was still livin' LARGE...my head sure hurt in the morning. I think he was showing mids how to go over the wall....in whites no less...if you are a war Hoover type, you know the legend, and it's all true.
heyjoe said:
Met him, drank with him, felt not so good later... Mucho respect for the man. Good story on the tank on the patrol boat though.
I wanted jets out of primary, had the grades for them, and the Marine Corps gave me helo's. Now I haven't been out to the fleet yet, but I wing in about a week, and I can HONESTLY say I will be MUCH happier in a helicopter than in a jet. For what the mission is now over in Iraq and where we're headed, there isn't a better job out there than being a helicopter pilot in my opinion.
Wasnt that S-3 pilot featured on the Viking episode of "Sea Wings" that the discovery channel ran back in like 95'
I just remember somebody made an attack on a patrol boat and ended up dropping a buddy store or something? Said they got the boat but it pissed the CAG off something fierce.
I just remember somebody made an attack on a patrol boat and ended up dropping a buddy store or something? Said they got the boat but it pissed the CAG off something fierce.
Lawman said:
That's all he had to drop and I'd say pretty fine piece of flying to figure out where it was going to go...not exactly designed for that
Not surprising that CAG might be a bit upset...CAGs have to worry that others might try same thing and hazard themselves
