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https://www.airforcetimes.com/articles/f16-pilot-remains-recovered-from-iraq?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB 10.6.16&utm_term=Editorial - Early Bird Brief My buddy was on station when it happened....my crew manned up and pushed early as his relief. What a shit day this was back in 2006. Welcome home. ATIS

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Singapore not so much. Thailand on the other hand...your internal "Bitchin Betty" should be on full tilt the entire time you are BOG in that AOR (drunk or sober). One of my plane captains came back post portcall with a black-ish eye/scratches on the face. I asked how he got it...he just pointed to his Adam Apple. Nuff said. Break Break To the OP: Flight Docs are truly gold in the Navy. You might want to give it a look. Besides being cool (I never met a douche flight doc)...they also bring IV bags on cross country/airshow trips so you can rehydrate under the plane after sampling the local adult malt beverage(s) the night (and into the morning) before. You never let a Doc buy his/her on drinks on the road....never. Best of luck with your decision...listen to your gut. Huggy....you nailed (STS) this O-club whites wearing Naval Aviator. You all beeeoootch about wearing your blues here on the boards...but we Navy guys couldn't wait until Friday (or Wednesday night in San Diego) to put on our whites and head to the club. (Tap your sarc meter folks if it's sticking or INOP). ATIS

Fly Navy instead, chicks dig the "whites". http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmotc/nami/Pages/WelcomeAboardNAMI.aspx http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=225372 ATIS

Dyess AFB BOQ....sleeping in after an early morning swim practice. Heard my cell going off....and heard speaker announcements and SF running around the bases....slept a few more hours until my sister kept calling my cell and decided to answer. Pulled out camcorder and started recording live TV coverage. It was a beautiful morning in Texas that morning, absolutely CAVU. Base was on lockdown so buds and I went to bowling alley and raised some beers to the fallen...then bowled the best game of my life that evening. Five years later after getting back into the Navy....started the U-28 program May 2006. ATIS

Dr. Lehman was the 65th Secretary of the Navy and a member of the 9/11 Commission. More importantly than SECNAV...Dr. Lehman was a Reserve A-6 Intruder B/N (Bombardier/Navigator) and continued to fly out of NAS Oceana even during his days as SECNAV. He was a little before my time...but from what I heard around the squadron spaces, he was popular...had his issues and distractions, but was a pretty effective SECNAV during one of the largest peacetime build ups of our nations military (the 80's). Here is a little taste of what I mean: Posted by aaron on February 19, 2008 Got this kickass story from Gunner John Lehman was the US Secretary of the Navy from 1981 to 1987. He was also in a rather unique position being an active Navy Reserve flier as a Bombadier-Navigator on the A-6 Intruder. In the rank of Commander, he certainly was nowhere near the highest ranking officer where ever he went. However, as Secretary of the Navy he established Naval policy, sat at the very top of the Navy chain-of-command and every Admiral in the Navy answered to him. Never the less, when we put on the Navy uniform, he was just another Commander. Lehman typically would do his required Navy Reserve training at NAS Oceana, not far from his Secretary’s offices in Washington DC. He enjoyed talking with the guys in the back bar at the club. On one such night the Base CO, Dynamite, walked in, spotted Lehman and walked over to apologize along the lines of "Mr. Secretary, I’m sorry, my staff didn't tell me you were aboard the station." Lehman said "That's OK Skipper, I'm just here as a weekend warrior bagging some flight time." Cramer replied, "OK Commander, then get a f*cking haircut and be in my office at 0800!" Lehman immediately walked across the street to the BOQ barbershop!

Not trying to take the wind out of your sails Alpha, but you have OCS and potentially flight school ahead. Go get some wind under your wings learning to serve, some of your questions may be answered for you as time goes by. Keep your head up and your options open...that gives you flexibility. A lot of decisions are going to be made for you by The Man (timing, locations)....out of your control (finger crossing won't help...but good grades might). Flexibility is key. Best of Luck.

Take it from this stupid 0-1 back in 1992....when my first training command 0-5 told our class: "...you can always find another girlfriend. You get three yellow sheets in your training track, you won't find another place to become a Naval Aviator". It all comes down to priorities and managing expectations (already mentioned above). Be honest with yourself and those around you....and live them. Break Break Side lesson: Don't sit next to the douche that asks the Commander if he can take leave to see his girlfriend every weekend during training. To this day I can't believe that question came from the mouth of a "boat schooler" (aka: Naval Academy). ATIS

Meeting Steve Canyon.....Go read it if you haven't. You won't be upset you did. ATIS

Go with the NFO/Navy standards....pass those and your are set. On the other hand...if you can tread water without getting your golf clubs wet...you pass the CSO course. This carrier aviator and U-28 plankowner had to take this shot...it was just too easy. ATIS

http://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/topic/21098-benefits-of-becoming-a-cso/#comment-409716 Make sure you read this thread as well. Choice between CSO and NFO should not be made based on a swim test. Get in the pool and embrace the fact you need to get better and you will. Anyone, in any service, flying over water with the chance of "stepping out" of the aircraft and getting wet needs to know how to swim...or at least survival swim. Cheers ATIS

Next time you are slamming down 7th Street NE in a single/two ship...look down. I will be on my stoop slugging back a beer looking up. Only comment I have is you should be lower so I can toss one up. Your late evening (2100-2300+) flights do have a tendency to piss off the neighbors with kids though (you are a lot louder than 'Eagle'# flights or the medical chopper headed over to INOVA). Cheers ATIS

Had a slight smile on my 0500 coffee chugging sleepy face watching this on the local DC news. Cheers ATIS

Interesting situation. video.foxnews.com/v/5041079038001/warning-graphic-video-fatal-shooting-on-city-bus/?#sp=show-clips ATIS

Massive amount of UNSAT with this guy. I'm sure his access and clearance will be unaffected though (always willing to be surprised and have to backtrack on that opinion). Little people like us would be looking at paper on our desk and a personal escort out of the building. Cheers ATIS

One step forward...two steps back. Thanks Shipmate. http://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2016/07/video-appears-to-show-navy-official-pointing-gun-at-people-in-fairfax-co/ ATIS

What...ABM's aren't "Expert Fighter Pilots"? Cheers ATIS

I just threw up a little in my mouth. John Paul " “I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way.” Jones (and many others) are rolling over in their graves. ATIS

The Navy is firing skippers right and left...so you aren't the only service with issues. I think the Nav also has an issue with ID-ing folks with good paper too early that lack the BOG/Task and Purpose mentality of leading men and women in harms way. Most are too scared about F-ing up. ATIS

I need to go back and find the eyebrow I lost there...thanks to my Navy Chief and this dumb 0-2 at the time. ...bout time we are going back. Cheers ATIS

IRT the Glaser....not the most accurate. For a house gun putting the first round (hopefully) center mass at 10-25 yards (doorway, across a room), GEFGW (Good Enough For Govt Work....which in the old days was a good reference, which i'm invoking here). Make sure whatever type of rounds you use in your gun, buy extras and go to the range and shoot those exact loads though the gun. Mixing different round in an auto can be tricky when it comes to feeding. Only way to know for sure is to shoot the real rounds stacked the way they will be in your grab/go kit. FYI: .357 Mag through a Model 19-3 short barrel not advised. While the gun is rated for the round...it hurts you, the gun, and I think the tunnel of flame out the front of the gun will get to the tgt before the round will. Cheers ATIS

2 When I lived in Maryland...G30 was my nightstand gun (Glaser Safety Slug up front, CCI Speer Gold Dot in the rest of the mag(s)). S&W 19-3 (pic below) was my back-up loaded with .38 Special+P's. Now I live on Cap Hill...haven't gotten around to dealing with the paperwork to bring them up from storage in Md.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/usaf-redesignates-eight-mq-1-predator-units-as-attac-424122/ Green ink in the logbook now ....Attack in the title.....small steps to improve the RPA culture? Q to the RPA folks...will it? Cheers ATIS

My interview questions back in 2000.... #1. What is the oldest brewery in the United States: A = Yuengling (I thought/and answered it was the Pabst Blue Ribbon brewery established in 1844, the board actually appreciated that answer and was impressed I even pulled that that out of my A$$). #2: I see you like guns on your resume....what's your favorite and why: A= Anything in .45. S&W .40 wasn't super huge back then. There were a few more questions...related to some dumb moves the Navy made with it's aircraft inventory (few of the board members were former Navy NFO's like me), I answered honestly that the Navy was mistaken and budget driven vice capability driven...that was a SHACK. I ended up getting the job, but looking at the 0-6 across the board table (lined with all the other 0-5/0-4's in the sqd) asking these questions , I was shaking my head. Those were "fishing" questions....see if you would be a good fit in the bar and how you reacted to unusual question(s). They had already made up their mind. Great bunch of folks, unfortunately it was short lived (and back to Navy/SOF flying I went). Cheers ATIS

Go get your eyes cut (with an approved procedure to bring you to 20/20) and switch over to fly pilot for the Navy. Fly helos, P-8's from the beach, or any of the lot of aircraft types from USS BOAT.....take your pick (actually it's about 10% desire, 50% grades....and 90% needs of the Navy...yeah, the math is done incorrectly on purpose). I'm a little biased being a Navy NFO with some B-1B backseat time and a sh%t-ton of U-28 CSO time....I would still go Navy (been doing it for 23+ years). Don't forget the USMC (Helo's/Harriers/Hornets...soon the F-35). Plus, in Navy pilot/NFO type-model-series aircraft, the ratio of CO billets that go to single anchor (pilot) or double anchor (NFO) folks is about even. From my observation it tends to be more pilot heavy in the command billets in the USAF. Oh...and one last thing.....party your tail off and have fun at U of M regardless of what you do. Cheers ATIS