VMFA187
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40 minutes ago, brabus said:
The word important should never be used in the same sentence as SOS. And the above sound par for the course.
At least it is only 6 weeks in residence and not a year like O-3 PME in the Marine Corps... Or two years via Distance Learning.
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9 minutes ago, Prosuper said:
As a former Flight Chief of 100 Crew Chiefs this has to be welcome relief to today's Officers and NCO's. With Iran ,China, NK ETC ,rattling sabers we need to be mission focused. It was bad enough when straight Amn Snuffy married a stripper and then cried in front of my desk complaining that the other 99 Crew Chiefs know what his wife looks like naked including me. Also you know for sure that POTUS is no politician. All those other guys who ran would have not had the guts to pull the trigger on this.
If that is true, I think it beats the story of one of my 35 Airframes' Marines, who was 19, spending several grand on his government credit card at a strip club in Guam...
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59 minutes ago, Warrior said:
Interesting that policy decisions like these get rolled out via twitter.
I signed up for a twitter account solely to follow Trump. I'll just leave this here:
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While the venue may not be the best place to voice policy, the decision is wholly welcomed. If we could continue this trend and focus more solely on our purpose as warfighting organizations I imagine a significant portion of the glaring retention issues would be solved regardless of the incredible outside opportunities.
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3 minutes ago, mcbush said:
In the AF, flight safety investigations consist of two parts: the Safety Investigation Board and the Accident Investigation Board. The SIB occurs first, is generally safety-privileged, and is primarily concerned with preventing future incidents and disseminating lessons learned to the relevant parties. The AIB follows and looks to assign cause/blame, and produces a report which is publicly releasable. Is the USMC process similar?
It is. The Department of the Navy does two investigations just like you described. The first only to assess what happened IOT get the information out to the fleet to prevent further accidents linked to the same cause(s). The second investigation can be punitive, ultimately assigning blame for the mishap.
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10 hours ago, Warrior said:
Small F-ing world. I'm an AF C130 pilot and I went to HS with one of those guys.
Anyone know anything about USMC SIB/AIB processes?
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network ForumsSIB/AIB = Safety Investigation?
If so, I know that it'll take > six months for the report to come out. If you have more specific questions, shoot.
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50 minutes ago, Clark Griswold said:
I think you would (still need AAMs) - I'm not an expert on lasers but for air to air I think the use DE weapons will be further down the road than the use against ground targets- for use against a fast moving and maneuvering airborne target will require a shit load of energy imparted to the target for the short period of time before the target defensively maneuvers - just my guess but I suspect the first gen of aircraft mounted lasers (in fighter/attack) will probably need a longer period of time illuminating their targets to be effective than an enemy air vehicle will allow - now large aircraft with large lasers like the ABL in a 747 are a different animal
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThat's probably valid. I'll buy that argument.
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On 6/28/2017 at 2:30 PM, Clark Griswold said:
Resurrecting the Flying Dorito (A-12) would be an ideal platform IMO, designed with two weapons bays, one could hold the laser system, other for PGM / Defensive AAMs
Would you need AAMs with lasers?
Regardless, I don't think I want to be in the game when that stuff is around.
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On 6/26/2017 at 2:31 AM, Lawman said:
Phone autocorrected it.
MSIC, part of that huge Intel apparatus we own/ignore/misuse...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_and_Space_Intelligence_Center
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThat was a great course. I wish I had attended when I was more senior/experienced as a tactical aviator, I feel I would have assimilated more of the information.
That's what they get for sending a Marine with a social science degree from FSU!
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1 hour ago, Hacker said:
I have lots of things to bitch about after a 20 year career in Big Blue.
But...as I posted over on the Airwarriors forum recently, getting commissioned and earning the privilege to fly military aircraft for a career was hands down the best decision I've ever made in my life. There are things that I, in retrospect, wish I'd done slightly differently here and there, but overall it was a spectacular adventure and an entirely worthwhile experience. It was also incredibly formative in terms of my character as an American, a husband, a father, etc.
Don't have a bit of worry that you'll regret the decision to follow in our footsteps.Well stated.
While I'm probably not going to retire from this community, I wouldn't trade it. The friends I've made and the experiences I've had - Your college buddies won't even be able to comprehend. I'd do a couple things a bit differently here and there, but I don't regret any of it. Flying fighters will go down as one of the best decisions I've ever made and ever will make.
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3 minutes ago, SocialD said:
If you're all about "the fight" then you should probably hang up the g-suit and roll to your nearest Reaper squadron. You're "in the fight" on almost every sortie. Heck you'd probably employ more weapons (against the enemy) doing that than you could ever imagine in a fighter.
I still get to fly my 6 sorties/month in my Viper, as a part-timer. Although, it's quickly becoming not worth it. If they actually deployed us to go fight and not sit on our asses on TSP after TSP, I might agree with you. I wouldn't even mind the massive pay cut I take to go on orders. But the only fighting we seem to do anymore is fighting one self (USAF) inflicted road block after another just to get anything done.
I'm not strictly speaking about employing ordnance. Fighting your bros in BFM, a 4vX, etc... is largely what I was speaking to when I referenced "fighting."
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37 minutes ago, SocialD said:
Spend your reserve days building a plane that you then get to fly. That's my plan. Tailwheel, doors off, 500 feet, relatively slow, basic panel, flying in and out of grass strips...that's real flying anyway.
That sounds like fun flying.
I'd miss the fighting though. Flying is a means to fight.
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Looks like I showed up to the party a year too early. Shame.
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3 hours ago, polcat said:
I heard the pilot is already instructing at TOP GUN.
The guy is a weapons school grad.
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The Hornet underground is saying the pilot with the kill is now in the hospital with a broken arm from all the high fives.
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13 minutes ago, Lord Ratner said:
Please. Pretty sure you've never had to take our PT test.
#CheckYourGruntPrivilege
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I'm assuming you're being sarcastic which I can appreciate.
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On 6/9/2017 at 7:23 PM, tcf5566 said:
This is so messed up. The dude worked hard and sacrificed over 20 years, and somehow running 3 seconds too slow or doing one or two less push-ups cancels out all of that? This is why the AF deserves what is coming. I'll enjoy watching the disaster from my purple tailed jet. Good riddance.
How much effort does it require to pass a fitness test? Not much.
No officer should ever fail a fitness test.
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5 hours ago, Hacker said:
More A-A kills than I have. How many do you have?
So this should count less than manned aircraft, but less than a WSEP drone - Right?
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1 hour ago, ClearedHot said:
Yeah but was he a SpecOps Fighter Pilot?
Years back an Enlisted Navy SEAL got commissioned and ended up flying Hornets.
Bet he had some stories.
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13 hours ago, brickhistory said:
So the draft outline for the script for Top Gun 2 has leaked (probably Trump and/or Russians. Same thing, right?):
"TOP GUN 2: This Time It's Non-Gender Specific"Absolutely brilliant.
Shared amongst Miramar fighter pilots.
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1 hour ago, Gazmo said:
More with less. We had to pay for the F-22 and F-35 somehow.
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We needed a hell of a lot more of the former.
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7 hours ago, ihtfp06 said:
Gotcha, I'm still guessing there's something your friend isn't telling you.
Do you guys not get automatically passed for not doing PME? Our distance PME, EWS, is a two year program and a number of guys who are not complete - Purposely or not, despite being great in all other aspects, have been and continue to be passed over for O-4.
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1 hour ago, Clark Griswold said:
Yup - doubt it would be a BFM beast but with that extra gas it could probably keep up the speed to get out of a bad situation
Valid.
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5 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:
Just vaporware but an interesting idea ala the never realized F-16XL, an F-35XL.
Not sure if the A or C model would be easier for this mod (or any) but a new bigger wing to hold all the gas and give the 35 a new internal weapons bay.
and another with the cranked wing
Think in lieu of a clean sheet A-X, this XL variant would fill that role.
Sharp looking airplane.
I'd hate to have to go to the merge in that thing, however.
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8 minutes ago, MooseAg03 said:
I think he's talking about the boldface that was along the lines of "Canopy - Open, Toward Trailing Edge - Jump." I never flew it, but heard about their bailout boldface from squadron bros.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkForgive me - I'm a Marine, perhaps a little more dense than most.
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Judgesmails - What do you want to fly? What are your other goals? I'll assume your goal is to fly fighters, if not, you'd be best served looking for an opinion other than mine.
With that said, if I was in your position knowing what I currently do, I'd prioritize the ANG if at all possible. Quality of life is something you don't initially think about when you're young and all you can think about is strapping on a gray jet loaded with A/A and S/A munitions and delivering hate and discontent to the enemy. But it becomes hugely important when you've been deployed or on det 50% of a four year fleet tour. You can't beat quality of life with the ANG when you compare it to active service. Nearly all the benefits, with almost none of the massive downsides. And you have the added benefit of stepping into your first airplane knowing what you'll eventually be strapping on every day once you've earned those coveted wings.
Now, as for going active Air Force versus Navy - That's tough, and it goes back to my above questions. From my experience AF pilots are generally more proficient, all things being equal. This is for a multitude of reasons, some of which may not be entirely accurate as I have no direct experience operating within the Air Force. I believe the main reason this holds true is largely due to aircraft health - You'll likely fly more when you're not deployed in support of combat operations in the Air Force than you will in the Navy because their jets are better maintained, and there are significantly more of them. If you choose Navy, you'll also have to sacrifice more time than your Air Force peers on collateral duties. The benefit, which some see with that, is that you will have more opportunities for leadership experience, outside of the cockpit. This can be a double-edged sword. My priority was always to be as good in the jet as possible: But being responsible for the entire squadron's airframe divison of 35+ Marines with no actual maintenance training made it difficult to perform both duties adequately, let alone to excel at them. Now, that being said, there is nothing like getting launched from the boat and catching a wire once you return. But living on the boat, which I've never had to do for more than a week, likely completely counteracts that positive.
Bottom line, both are better than anything you can do in the civilian world. But if you want to be the absolute best in the jet that your capacity will allow, I'd go Air Force.