Ha! When I went "missing" in '65, my roommate couldn't WAIT to get into my Playboy selection!! (And we're still in touch!)
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Worst parts of Naval Aviation
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Ha! When I went "missing" in '65, my roommate couldn't WAIT to get into my Playboy selection!! (And we're still in touch!)
Good: As a brand spanking new KC-130 Aircraft Commander at age 28, I was entrusted with a plane and a crew, and over 2 weeks, flew to Afghanistan, swapped a plane, spent a couple days in England and made it back in one piece. To be trusted to accomplish something like that by your CO is just awesome.
Bad: on deployment missed sons and wife's birthday, anniversary, dog had to be put down, grandfather had last rights read (thought he was going to die but miraculously bounced back). Shit happens and all you can do is compartmentalize on the other side of the world and keep moving forward.
Would I do anything different? Hell no I have the greatest job on earth !
Bad: on deployment missed sons and wife's birthday, anniversary, dog had to be put down, grandfather had last rights read (thought he was going to die but miraculously bounced back). Shit happens and all you can do is compartmentalize on the other side of the world and keep moving forward.
Would I do anything different? Hell no I have the greatest job on earth !
"This is the business we've chosen." ~ Hyman Roth
Prolly not, because he was standing in the mighty shadow of Bunk!
Ha, I can't believe she even looking at him with the Bunk in his all mighty presence. I was called the dirty legend
Bad: not being part of the Wing. Learning that everything you hated about TBS is alive and well in the infantry and that, even though you are a FAC with 150+ live controls, you will never get to kill a bad guy. Welcome to the "peace time" Marine Corps.
Good: that FAC tour is still the fast track back to the Wing!!!
Good: that FAC tour is still the fast track back to the Wing!!!
It just means something falling off the aircraft. Might be live, might be blue. Something other than "continue dry"
gotcha.....we got a request for support specifically requesting live controls recently, and it struck me as funny considering the range in question is inert only.......in my mind, we normally have some sort of ordnance to hog off on CAS hops, so I figured a "live" control must be something more. Makes sense though
In the vernacular, the alternate (i.e. not live) is "SimCAS".
So for their qual/currency purposes, sim ordnance counts differently than something coming off the aircraft? That would make sense, but I didn't realize that was the case if so.
