Patmack18 said:
Jaxs... how's E-6 life? I select next Thursday and any insight would be appreciated. Just wanna know more about all the communities. Don't know any E-6 dudes.
Hey Patmack, I can't give you too much insight into the specifics of E-6 life, but, here's what I do know.
Going through T-1s at Vance sucks, but its a right of passage which everyone here accepts to get to the good life flying the E-6. T-1s is 7 months long, about a month of academics to start. "Transition" phase sucks, sucks, sucks, and then it sucks some more, and just when you think it may stop sucking, it doesn't, in all, about 6-8 weeks of total BS you have to go through. After this it does get a little better in Navigation, and you'll get to go to some cool places for lunch (hope you like BBQ). It is the meat and potatoes of training here, a total of 22 fights. Finally, you end with mission fam, but I know the syllabus is changing for Navy studs to do most simulated air refueling. Also there are co-pilot rides and I believe the number of these is changing for Navy studs as well, right now its 6 flights, but I think its going up.
Once you get to Tinker, you do innitial training on a 737, then the E-6. Word I have is that it's pretty chill at the FRS, and the squadrons aren't too different. No one I have talked to has had anything bad to say about TACAMO, and oh yeah, the plane kicks a$$ (brand new all glass cockpits based on the 737NG progressively being installed)
Good luck with selection, hope this helo draft I have heard about goes away.