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I just finished watching this movie... very well done! I wish this aired on regular cable or came out in the theaters though so it would've reached a wider audience. I didn't even know about this movie until I saw this thread

The first day of OPS A made me want to punch small woodland creatures. 6 weeks of the stuff was bad enough (for people that didn't want to go that route)... and the last I heard was that they were making OPS like 8-9 weeks long with CSOIII (I feel bad for the classes that have to go through that). Also what I've heard with CSOIII was that the out and backs were getting moved to Advanced NAV because they didn't like the huge gap of not flying between Intermediate and the cross country and also that the 8000 series is going away because it serves no purpose at all

That's a ray of hope right there! I was asking around today to see if anyone could tell me at least what to expect in regards to either graduating on time or being stuck here for a little longer since my Kirtland dates are relatively close behind my LR dates, but all I got was "this place is so dynamic that I don't even know what to tell you"

That's so depressing... I was really hoping to be out of here in 4 months...

Sweet! Thanks...that's exactly what I was looking for. Yeah I keep getting told that graduating late is the norm, so I'm expected my other dates to get jacked up as a result...

Can anyone give me any info for NAV IQ at Little Rock? Specifically for someone who's gonna go to Kirtland after finishing up at the rock... like how long I can expect to be there since I'm not doing the "long program" and what I'll be doing in the phase(s) I'll be in (a general overview)

The 8-legged horse is (what I'm guessing he drew inspiration from) Odin's horse Sleipnir and is part of Norse mythology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir

So does that mean EWOs (if chosen to go to AFCYBER) will have to sport the spiffy new cyber wings instead of their NAV wings? Maybe some spiffy red cyber wings?

I'm guessing there's a flight suit to go along with these wings?

This sort of happened to me. I went into my FTP semester having to repeat a core class (missed getting a C by like 2%...), but at the same time the AS class got in the way of me retaking the core class, so I had to push back my graduation a semester. The end result was that I got a conditional event and I lost my scholarship (which sucked, but wasn't the end of the world), but I stayed in the program, learned my lesson and improved from there. With two fails they may be a little harsher though, but you never know until you talk to them.

The new vice wing commander at Randolph is a WSO (or so I hear) edit: forget to specify which vice

Casual LTs - We've been waiting for you... to clean : buy food : do the mindless tasks no one else wants to do : "We're gonna need some volunteers to be 'extras' in the mock cow invasion exercise today." (all in good fun )

It is, but the move (for the AF) doesn't happen for like another year and a half

That's the truth. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrossmanjr/16...57594161063415/ *not my room and not my pictures... found the link searching "nav dorms" in yahoo

Yep, if you're single, you're in the dorms. If you're married, you get to live off base. If you're in the dorms and you want to move off base, you put your name on a list to say you want to live off base and when the dorm occupancy rate reaches the magic number they start going down the list starting from the top offering each person the opportunity to move. The dorm occupancy rate was going up and was nearing 90%, but last I checked it had dropped back down.

I'm fairly certain that's not official. The Vice here at Randolph said that there'd be field testing of different versions of the new service dress going on around base very soon (this was last week... or maybe 2 weeks ago)

I'm guessing this is the rule at Randolph?

^That's gonna be a terrible day for you. That crap is soooooooooooo long and boring... that is if you read/watch it all.

Hmmm... maybe I'm confusing this with something else... but there was some form (I could swear I signed something like this... but then again my mind could be playing tricks on me) that changed my category from just saying something like "Line" to "Nav"... er... "CSO" That's mainly what I was trying to get at Oops, no it is 6... I had the 8 year thing going with 2 for training plus 6 after

You only get the 8 year commitment (NAV) and 10 year commitment (Pilot) if you get selected during the rated boards ( I'm not sure if ABMs have a longer commitment too). Once you get selected you sign a piece of paper saying you're not going to be a regular line officer, but a rated officer (whatever you got picked up for) and that you accept the extra commitment that comes with it. So, if you don't become a rated selectee... then you don't get the uber long commitment.

So what if you commission in December? Will we just get a check for $300 out of the blue (no pun intended) one day?

Ahhhh, ok I gotcha I whole heartedly agree. I've said this before, but if I could go back in time... I'm fairly certain Engineering would not have been my choice for a major

So so so so so true <-- Same for this guy Here's where I disagree. My dad did electrical engineering when he was in college with the full understanding that he was going back into the military... it took him two boards, but he finally got accepted to OTS and his job was Comm. The Communications field has a good amount of relevance to EE/CpE, but since he was an officer that relevance wouldn't really help him out too much (because he wouldn't be doing the hands on stuff... if Comm O's do, I apologize, I'm just going off the pearl's of wisdom he gave me), but it was the management side of managing those getting the EE related experience and doing the EE related work that helped him. So for his master's degree he picked up an MBA, realizing he wouldn't be in the AF his whole life and that an engineering degree alone wouldn't help at all. So to make a long story short, my dad was RIF'ed out of the AF and shot offers like crazy from civilian companies because of his education and he now makes six figures simply being an engineer managing engineers. Needless to say, I'm going the MBA route, hah. I have no desire really to make money engineering (it's fun using it in my own side projects), but to manage engineers or manage anyone, yeah... I think I could do that.

If rated doesn't work out... even though I hate it with all my being... I'd probably go with Developmental Engineering (62E something) or Civil Engineering (32 something). But that's mainly because that's all I was allowed to put on my job form along with el rated job, haha.

I like my Daisy Dukes... nothing makes me feel prouder than to see my boxers hanging out of the bottom of my shorts