[CSO drop nights]

dsul413 is right, the classification of the U-28 mission has changed recently, but no one (including myself) really wants to be the first one kicked in the nuts for talking about stuff on the internet. There is more info out there both SIPR obviously as well as unclass now if you're really interested and take the time to do the looking.

BL is that IMHO the U-28 has a great mission and the CSO gets to do a lot of things that are somewhat unique when compared to what a nav/EWO/WSO typically does on other platforms.

Congrats on that last drop, that looked really, really legit all around. If any of the U-28 dudes are on here from that class, PM me if you want more info ahead of getting your orders to HRT.

Agreed. I certainly don't want to be.

Same goes for me, feel free to hit me up.

[NAS Pensacola information]

Most of the time you can work it with your classmates if you live out the back gate for those 0530 briefs, as the guys on base will get in a few minutes before you can with the 0500 back gate time and they can print weather, NOTAMs, etc. Its not that bad.

[CSO drop nights]

Just curious, but what does the nav do on the U-28? This drop looks a million times better than ours was back in the day. All we had were a crap-ton of slick -130s and dregs -135s and E-3s.

I was in 95-08 for reference. Yeah, I'm old.

With the combined program now, its a full menu of airframes we can drop to.

You won't get much on the U-28 mission responsibilities; even though some classifications have changed, the community is pretty tight lipped.

What does the nav do on any airplane?

Depends on the plane ;)