GreenLantern330
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Thanks for the quick response. That brings up another question, if you get assigned to an aircraft that doesn't operate on an aircraft carrier, will you ever have to serve on one then as like an LSO or some other duty?
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Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation (Part 3)
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- C-2 Greyhound - cargo plane designed for aircraft Carrier Onboard Delivery
- C-26 Metroliner - land based passenger and cargo plane
- C-130 Hercules – land based medium cargo and personnel transport
- E-2 Hawkeye - all-weather, carrier-based tactical battle management airborne early warning, command and control
- E-6 Mercury - strategic command, control, and communications
- EA-6B Prowler - electronic warfare and countermeasures
- F/A-18 Hornet - all-weather fighter/attack aircraft
- F/A-18E/F Super Hornet - updated version of the Hornet
- EA-18G Growler - electronic warfare and countermeasures
- P-3 Orion - anti-submarine warfare, maritime surveillance
- EP-3E Aires II - intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance
- C-40A Clipper - Fleet Logistics Support and Navy/Marine Corps personnel transport
- C-9B Skytrain II - Fleet Logistics Support and Navy/Marine Corps personnel transport
- MH-53E Sea Dragon - anti-mine warfare, shipboard delivery, and assault support
- SH-60 Seahawk - medium lift, utility, assault helicopter, special operations support, anti-submarine warfare, command and control, Search and Rescue (both combat and overwater), and naval gunfire support
- UH-1 Iroquois - station search and rescue
Possibly, but not as an LSO.
Very common for P-3 guys on disassociateds though. On one of the T-45 CQ CAI tests, there's a question about how you'll recognize the cat officer when taxiing on deck - one of the choices is "By all the P-3 patches on his jacket."
Priceless!
This does beg the question, however, if you choose that answer, are you marked correct?
CQ CAI's now? Ha that would have been nice. As soon as I taxiied out of the LA after my first trap I had no idea what was going on....
GreenLantern330
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One more question then to clarify my last question. I guess what I was trying to ask was if you get assigned to an aircraft that doesn't operate on an aircraft carrier, will you ever be deployed on one or any other type of ship? Example: Let's say you fly P-3s, does that mean you'll never step foot on an aircraft carrier or other ship?
Did you read the posts above? You could, but not as an LSO
To expand on previous answers to your question: Lots of P-3 bubbas do what's called a "disassociated" tour on carriers, and sometimes on other ships, and also on staffs that embark. The disassociated tour is your second sea tour, and in years past (can't speak for the current situation) was almost a must-have to be competitive in the P-3 community beyond O-4. Typical disassociated tours on a carrier for a P-3 type are shooter, Ops Admin. and Asst. Navigator. But never LSO.
VP DivOs
On my first ShipsCo tour in USS MIDWAY, we also had VP types in various DivO (O-3/4) billets in Ops, Weps and Air Depts. In pre C-2 days when each CV had it's own C-1A COD, several P-3 Pilots Carqaled (often for the first time) in the C-1A, then joined the "COD Squad". They later became designated CTCP (Carrier Transport Plane Commander), required to carry passengers.
BzB
On my first ShipsCo tour in USS MIDWAY, we also had VP types in various DivO (O-3/4) billets in Ops, Weps and Air Depts. In pre C-2 days when each CV had it's own C-1A COD, several P-3 Pilots Carqaled (often for the first time) in the C-1A, then joined the "COD Squad". They later became designated CTCP (Carrier Transport Plane Commander), required to carry passengers.
BzB
GreenLantern330
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Thanks, that clears it up for me now. I wasn't sure what disassociated was when I first read it, so I was still a little confused.
Regardless of how many CAI's you've done, I don't think anybody has any idea what's going on after their first trap. We qual'd on the Nimitz, which hadn't done an undergrad CQ in a long time so a lot of the deck crew had probably never worked with T-45's before...they must have thought we were completely retarded.
Top_Gun_1_0_1
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Who is the pilot in control on a shuttle mission?, the commander or the pilot on the right?
and the people who fly the shuttle are either Navy/ AF pilot, do they make big $$$$$$ besides their miltary pay???
and the people who fly the shuttle are either Navy/ AF pilot, do they make big $$$$$$ besides their miltary pay???