Looking for gouge? Ask your Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation here (Part 1)

[schwarti]

Gotcha, thanks.

 

[Nose]

So it sounds like really the only difference between rotary wing/fixed wing is that the helo bubbas are bigger weiners and prefer to dress like the ladies!

Fixed it for you.

N

 

[phrogpilot73]

Fixed it for you.

N

We still have bigger weiners, so it doesn't matter how we dress - the ladies like us best!

 

[HeyJoe]

More current Ouija Board "action"

Only problem with this pic is the "kid" in it --- I never saw a Handler who let anyone lower than a cranky, crusty ol' Chief with coffee-stained teeth get near the Ouija Board ....

Such an irresistable subject for photographers...oops. I mean Mass Communications Specialists....

080321-N-3038W-099 PACIFIC OCEAN (March 21, 2008) Using the "Ouija board," Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Tramaine Dubuclet, right, tells Cmdr. Chris Bolt, executive officer of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) what aircraft have launched and how many are awaiting other flight deck commands. The Ouija board is a diagram of the flight deck that displays the location of every aircraft aboard the ship. Nimitz is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman John Wagner (Released)

 

[Uncle Fester]

Holy crap... Bolter's a Big XO now?

 

[xbreaka]

Officers and eating.

Me and my friend were discussing this and I just wanted to get the real scoop. I know officers pay for chow, however where do you guys eat the food ?

I heard somewhere that officers on the boat either eat in a more serious wardroom with the SWOs and other officers, and that aviators/nfos eat in a separate more laid back type wardroom. Maybe I am entirely misinformed, but where do you all eat?

 

[Single Seat]

Aviators typically do have their own wardroom, unofficially... however we like to go to the SWO-room, sit around in our dirty flight suits, and take up all the chairs just sitting around bs'ing.

 

[FLYTPAY]

Aviators typically do have their own wardroom, unofficially... however we like to go to the SWO-room, sit around in our dirty flight suits, and take up all the chairs just sitting around bs'ing.

Aviators tend to stay in the "Dirty Shirt", just forward of Ready Room 1. SWO's are afraid to come in there....the clueless ones still come in but are summarily beaten with bamboo canes. The wardroom on the messdeck level is where the SWO's tend to eat, they serve ice cream, lobster, etc, and your monthly dues are probably going to be about $210 circa 2004.

 

[Col Angus]

I know officers pay for chow, however where do you guys eat them ?

We generally do not eat the other officers

 

[Harrier Dude]

All the above is true for a CV. For an amphib, there's only one wardroom. All officers eat there. It tends to develop into a self selecting system of table arrangements where people sit with "their own kind".

Some of the chopper dudes from small boys can tell you about those wardrooms. One big table and often more formal.

 

[BackOrdered]

We generally do not eat the other officers

^*Insert SWO humor here*

 

[fc2spyguy]

We generally do not eat the other officers

Unless you're a SWO, in that case I have absolutely witnessed the consumption of several JOs by a DH in the wardroom.

edit: bleh, I'm slow today

 

[Single Seat]

Unless you're a SWO, in that case I have absolutely witnessed the consumption of several JOs by a DH in the wardroom.

edit: bleh, I'm slow today

Yeah, we had a SWO-4 tell one of our LSO's that wearing his float coat and sunglasses on his head in the lower wardroom was unproffesional. Never mind the fact the upstairs was closed and he had like 15 minutes to eat lunch between recoveries (in the middle of combat ops).

Response? Several flight suits for dinner, sitting around in float coats and shades, for the entire evening chow period.

 

[Ace_Austin]

I had ONE meal in the wardroom of a DDG on my 2/c cruise. I was happy to eat on the regular messdeck after. At least there I knew what I was getting when I asked for them to put it on my tray. Not to mention I felt like a tool ordering my lunch from some poor Seaman that got stuck cranking instead of doing their real job. One more reason to avoid the Shoe-Life!

 

[brownshoe]

Aviators tend to stay in the "Dirty Shirt", just forward of Ready Room 1. SWO's are afraid to come in there....the clueless ones still come in but are summarily beaten with bamboo canes. The wardroom on the messdeck level is where the SWO's tend to eat, they serve ice cream, lobster, etc, and your monthly dues are probably going to be about $210 circa 2004.

Ahhh! So this is why a lot of the pilots in my day would pass around the OOD arm badge, so they could eat on the enlisted mess decks in a flight suit, while on det. (not kidding.) They just didn’t want lobster and ice cream.

Steve