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Losing Flight Contract

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sgtdube

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What shoud happen to you in the event that while at TBS you are injured and cannot fly? As in an injury to your eyes. Since you are on a garuntee flight contrct where does that put you?
Also what if you are in flight school and something crazy happens to your eyes or whatever else preventing you from flying??
 
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Aviator4000

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I hear that knee and ankle injuries are really common during TBS, can you get the NOMI WHAMMY due to a partially torn knee ligament or something similar? An eye injury sounds somewhat far fetched, but I am intereted what types of injury would DQ you from flying?

Lets say mid way during TBS you tear your ACL, then get it repaired, heal, and then go back to TBS. When you finish TBS will you get the infamous NOMI WHAMMY?
 
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Aviator4000

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As far as eyes go can you where goggles during TBS? I don't mean to sound like a geek or something, but **** why take any chances.
 
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Crowbar

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Aviator4000 said:
As far as eyes go can you where goggles during TBS? I don't mean to sound like a geek or something, but **** why take any chances.
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If you have absolutely no self respect, yes. Yes you can.
Keep in mind that you can't/won't wear goggles all the time, and Joe **** the Rag Man who doesn't know how to hold his weapon or watch where he's going can poke you right in the pupil when you least expect it...
 
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Aviator4000

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Crowbar said:
If you have absolutely no self respect, yes. Yes you can.
Keep in mind that you can't/won't wear goggles all the time, and Joe **** the Rag Man who doesn't know how to hold his weapon or watch where he's going can poke you right in the pupil when you least expect it...
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So if I decided to put some goggles on then I would be the only a$$hole wearing them or are there other a$$holes like me?
 
HueyCobra8151

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Talking goggles like this?

I get biatched at if I DON'T wear mine when we are training or something...
 
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Aviator4000

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HueyCobra8151 said:
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Talking goggles like this?

I get biatched at if I DON'T wear mine when we are training or something...
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That is exactly what I am talking about! I am glad to hear that this is not completely unheard of. The ground guys can make their cracks all they want. I would not expect them to understand anyway.
 
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Wouldn't expect ground guys to understand what? Why you will sacrifice your dignity for the relative safety provided during night land nav? Because that's really the only time you'll wear them. And if you knew how to read you would have saw that I said that other people wear them and I make fun of them. Difference is, with them, I make fun of them to their faces.
My bad eye is 20/17 so yeah I've got something to protect, too, but I take my chances. And I'm still going to Pensacola this summer for NFO training (any more little comments about ground guys now?)

Edit: By the way, lighten up. If you can't take somebody giving you a hard time about something as insignificant as this, you're going to really have issues at TBS.
 
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Aviator4000

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Crowbar said:
Wouldn't expect ground guys to understand what? Why you will sacrifice your dignity for the relative safety provided during night land nav? Because that's really the only time you'll wear them. And if you knew how to read you would have saw that I said that other people wear them and I make fun of them. Difference is, with them, I make fun of them to their faces.
My bad eye is 20/17 so yeah I've got something to protect, too, but I take my chances. And I'm still going to Pensacola this summer for NFO training (any more little comments about ground guys now?)
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I don't care what anyone says, I am not a big fan of the idea of risking a military aviation career over stupidity. Take your chance? If eye injuries are that common then why take a chance? If this is some freak thing that happens once a year then I too will take my chances.
 
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saltpeter

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What happens if I'm abducted by aliens, do I lose my flight privaledges. Thank GOD I'm in the Navy. Besides, I'm blind as a bat, last time my mom moved the coffee table I bruised my shin. I'm kidding dude, I remember being paranoid. Then you get winged and start smoking and listening to hard rock music that will kill your hearing. Relax and enjoy flight school, and worry about the real dangers, like marrying ugly woman.
 
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PSno23

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Thank GOD I'm in the Navy.
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Whatever floats your boat.

As for the goggles thing. We never had any serious eye pokings at night (though we did have a guy get caught in some concertina wire and split his calf open). If you ask me, you're just as vulnerable during the day - those branches are ruthless! And I was definitely one who refused to sacrifice my dignity for safety. The way I figured it, if I lost my contract due to a medical issue, I could compete for an Arty, Tank, or Infantry spot, as opposed to dropping the contract and getting shafted with combat adj or supply.
 
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KBayDog

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Aviator4000 said:
I don't care what anyone says, I am not a big fan of the idea of risking a military aviation career over stupidity. Take your chance? If eye injuries are that common then why take a chance? If this is some freak thing that happens once a year then I too will take my chances.
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I wore friggin' safety glasses, like the type you'd wear when you are doing carpenter...ing. I didn't give a rat's arse what anyone said...especially since noone said anything! Eye protection is absolutely indispensible during night nav.
 
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orthaj

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I know a guy who messed up his ankle real bad at TBS and lost his air contract. He was told he was going to be a ground pounder. He didn't like that so much and told the command (TBS) he didn't want to be a ground pounder and they weren't thrilled about his decision and leaned on him real hard to just accept it. He brought the issue up the chain and got some congressmen involved and argued "a contract is a contract" and if the Corps wouldn't let him go to flight school he would rather take a discharge. Eventually he was discharged. This incedent happened more than a few years ago (12-13) and i am sure the policies are in place to prevent these things nowadays.
 
freshy

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Crowbar said:
My bad eye is 20/17.....
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Wow are you sure it's 20/17? I didn't know the eye chart graded with odd numbers. Do they round up to the nearest decimal point?
 
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