I am so utterly flabbergasted it's sickening. You WANT to go SWO? Why would...Are you just...What the f....?! Damn, dude...are you NPQ from flight or something?
To those who PREFER that kind of punishment, more power to them.
That reminds me...there was this mid doing a cruise on my ship and I asked him what his 2nd class cruise was on. He said in a VF squadron. Intrigued, I asked him why he wanted to do a surface cruise and go SWO. He said all they did at the squadron was fly a couple times, watch movies, and leave work early. He said he wanted to have a job where he'd have more to do and be kept busy. You know what I said to him? I don't either, but it was something along the lines of..."If that's what you really want, then you DESERVE to be a SWO."
You know, I always knew I was bitter with the community, but when I found out my lat xfer was approved, I started flat out hating it.
Oh, and Falconer...18 mos. is still not a drop-dead point. A POS ensign from my last ship just got his pin in January. His 18 mos. were up in July. Frankly, I'm amazed this guy even got his letter, let alone his pin.