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In a local San Diego paper - F/A-18 pilots first...
Drink the f****in'
man.
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45 minutes ago, LookieRookie said:
I'm convinced Chang is a line flying Major that just loves to rile everyone up while sipping some 18 year single malt.
Say what you will, that was likely the most entertaining post I've read here.
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50 minutes ago, LumberjackAxe said:
What would be awesome is if the AF offered, instead of a 9-year $130k bonus to 10-year pilots, a 9-year career pilot track.* I think they'd see a lot more signing up for that.
*subject to change at any moment.
The Royal Australian Air Force does that; you have an option to take the command track, or stay in Never Never Land where you never grow up and stay a pilot forever.
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2 hours ago, brabus said:
It's all good, I'll figure out how to use that damn radio about an hour after I hit the ground.
And that is why I really bring my iPhone.
55 minutes ago, fire4effect said:Not exactly the same but along the same line of thinking, I always carried a cheap $40 Roshan phone with scratch card minutes in Afghanistan. Seems the most reliable means of comms in third world areas is the cell network. Most certainly not secure but if my day has REALLY gone to sh!t then the bad guys already know where I am and I want the good guys to know too. 40 bucks plus minutes would seem mighty cheap at that point. When I watched "Lone Survivor" I couldn't help but think how something as simple as having a local cell phone might have been the difference between everyone coming home alive with no one knowing their names and being the subject of a feature film.
We were issued "burner phones" by our Flight Equipment Marines on every sortie we launched on for this purpose.
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1 hour ago, Flare said:
Most of us Luke guys do, especially since they told us the beacon and the radio may or may not work.....
It was also mandatory to fly with one at my last CAF squadron.
That's more along the lines of what I expected and what Hornet guys do. More if you have to divert than anything else.
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38 minutes ago, Homestar said:
PG county is no joke.
These pix went out on twitter and I'm pretty sure they're not our guy. He spent very little time "isolated".
Edit to add: local news is running with the pictures, so at least they think they're legit.
Those images have to be unrelated to the event, or at least staged after?
The 'chute appears somewhat convincing, but I have a hard time believing a guy who just got out of a jet is going to dump his flight gear and take a few photos. Even more unconvincing, he's is using a radio in CONUS and not his personal phone.
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2 hours ago, Duck said:
5 years ago my ANG unit tried to hire a twice passed over Capt and wasn't successful in getting a waiver. Now it seems pretty easy to get the waiver. My unit has told me that I will pin on O-4 as soon as I get there and they can process the paperwork since I have SOS complete.
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network ForumsDuck, you can be my wingman any day.
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12 minutes ago, Duck said:
Dude as long as they don't change anything by this Dec. I am looking at twice passed over for the win!
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network ForumsSo that is what is going to likely happen to me, because I didn't do USMC PME, which is a two year program. Does anyone know how Guard units look at that stuff? If it's any help, I have a Master's Degree and will be complete with AF PME - Squadron Officer School, in less than a week.
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14 hours ago, Duck said:
Memo just dropped today, ALL O-3s twice not selected for promotion to O-4 WILL be offered continuation to retirement as long as they are "Fully Qualified". I didn't see where the memo originated, but bad news for anyone foolishly hoping to get a non-continuation check.
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network ForumsI'd like to see the source if anyone can find it. I'd imagine this is probably where the USMC is going.
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https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/articles/marines-to-offer-retention-bonuses-to-pilots-again
I'd almost be willing to bet it'll be $10,000/year or less.
For 6-7 hours a month? No thanks.
I'd be somewhat interested in the deal where you could fly for the airlines "for seasons... building seniority," like you posted Duck. But wouldnt that be similar to the Guard or Reserves?
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2 hours ago, caseylf said:
Why is that? Everyone is happier on AW ;)
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They're just happy to be off the boat with a reliable internet connection.
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25 minutes ago, pawnman said:
I know a guy leaving the Air Force to fly for the USMC.
Hope he's not looking to fly fighters...
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45 minutes ago, Duck said:
I don't hear much about the USMC having aviation retention problems. Is it just not as bad or not being reported? Same for the Navy.
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network ForumsIt might be because aviation is such a small part of the Marine Corps, but I'm fairly certain it's just as bad, if not worse. At least for the fighter community - I can't really speak to the others. USMC F/A-18 squadrons are at, or just slightly below 50% required manning at the Captain level, and the vast majority, i.e., 80% of the Capts I know, are planning on leaving after their commitment is complete.
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On 3/16/2017 at 9:31 PM, JQuintana said:
The law is the law, but 28K as an 11H sucks when others are getting 34/35K. I get it. We have the highest take rate out of the pilots in the Air Force. But all this does is just reinforce that we always have been, and will always be the Air Force's red headed step children.
Now I made my choice years ago, but you could be a Marine fighter pilot with no bonus who was just told that $5k a year will probably be approved in the future.
$28k doesn't sound all that bad. I could put a new street and track bike in the garage with that!
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13 hours ago, euser said:
I'm not sure of the workings behind that decision, but it seems odd that a training squadron is where they'd send the lower performers. I grew up Navy and many of my family/friends are Navy pilots, and from what I've gathered from them its typically the top guys going to the RAG/training squadrons for their shore duty. Is it just because the numbers are so low, or has it always been considered not great orders?
The RAG and VTs are different in terms of follow-on orders in the Navy/USMC. Lower performers, i.e., dudes who leave their first fleet tour without their four-ship flight lead qualification can't teach at the RAG, they can only teach at the VTs in T-6s and T-45s which is why they end up there. Now I don't know personally, but I'd imagine the Air Force isn't sending it's below average dudes to teach brand new F-15/16/22/35 pilots, those guys are probably teaching in T-6s.
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14 minutes ago, matmacwc said:
... the retired A-10 pilot community came out of the woodwork to slam her. (sts)
I enjoyed that.
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From the sheer standpoint of aircrew training requirements/proficiency - This is a bad idea. Especially when you consider declining flight hours. Coming from a multi-role platform, I've always been impressed, and comforted, when we've played with Eagles. I want someone who does that mission exclusively in the fight, when it occurs, because half to two-thirds of my time is spent putting heavy objects into or near the ground.
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On 3/20/2017 at 6:07 AM, skibum said:
What we're about to see is the pussification of the Marine Corps. There's already talk of changing the tone of Marine recruiting from sharp-edged, combat focused to moral citizenship. Marine commercials used to make me secretly ashamed of the AF (now I'm publicly ashamed) because they focused on fighting while we focused on social studies. Now, I'm afraid our last bastion of real warfighter mentality is about to get castrated.
Time will tell. It won't be this event - Occurrences like these only make things our leaders in the past did for fun completely off limits for current service members. What will really have an adverse effect is allowing everyone to attempt to do every MOS regardless of their abilities its effect on our combat capabilities.
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12 minutes ago, tk1313 said:
Less F-35's and more supers... As a legacy hornet driver I can't imagine you disagree.
The Marine Corps not purchasing any Supers is why we are hurting so bad now.
But yes - Some of those advanced Super Hornet models look pretty amazing.
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15 hours ago, pbar said:
I thought it was Congress who forced this all-the-services-by-the-same-jet on us, not the USMC.
I was more apologizing for the request for a requirement that likely won't ever be incredibly useful, at the expense of so many other vital aspects critical to fighter performance and capabilities.
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20 hours ago, Magnum said:
In the immortal words of Snooze, "being a fighter pilot won't get you pu$$y no more."
And also Top Gun is really old. The kids these days were born in the late 90's. They don't even understand the SNL reference...
ICEMAN - The Later Years - watch more funny videosValid.
I'm an instructor at Miramar - Where the movie was filmed, where we still send studs to go land on boats... And some of these kids going through haven't seen it.
Ridiculous.
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24 minutes ago, Day Man said:
You need boats to go on cruises...
Jokes.
Make more Raytheon Award Videos or something.
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1 hour ago, ViperMan said:
Lesson (not) learned is that you don't let a kid (the Marines) sit at the grown up's table when making important DOD-wide acquisitions, or if you do, you don't allow them to have disproportionate influence on the outcome.
We should have bought only A and C models. The B is terrible.
On behalf of the Marine Corps - I'm sorry.
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Dudes,
Am I dense or do Air Force squadrons not make cruise videos like the Navy and Marine Corps?
Akin to something like what the Pukin Dogs' released -
What should the Air Force be if it is so broken now?
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The Air Force is a war fighting organization. Combat, regardless of whether hand-to-hand, or from the cockpit of a single seat fighter, is a physical endeavor. If all the members of an organization don't have some basis of that, then you're not going to be an effective, cohesive, organization able to deal in war.