08Dawg

If I were an officer on that ship, I think I would be mighty pissed if some hotshot civilian lawyer tried to shift the blame to me by calling me incompetent. That's slander.

Even though mine's a six or seven year as a nav...yeah, I'm probably staying in. I've got way too many friends on the outside working shit jobs even with a college degree because there's not much out there.

All the H models are 60-xxx or 61-xxx. There were no G's "converted" to H models.

Just another b!tch that is against everything, for the sake of being against everything. "We want to repaint the stripes on the road orange instead of white". "NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT, ITS A TERRIFYING COLOR!!!"

I have never chewed anybody out for it, hardly even said anything because I feel like that would just add fuel to the fire. It's just common courtesy to say SOMETHING to somebody as you pass them. I dunno, maybe I was raised different.

You must have seen a shitty nav class, because mine was not that way at all. I never once felt that way about my class, or the classes within two or three of mine. There was one dude in a class behind me that was very much out for himself, but everybody knew who he was, and once they figured it out, gave him a wide berth. Slammed his ass (sts) on drop night for it, too. What you might have seen was the navs in EWO phase being lost/bored/frustrated, because integration was about 96% what the EWOs had learned for the last month and a half, and about 4% what the navs knew.

What kinda hacks me off even more is people who render salutes and don't say a damn word. Whether it's me returning an airman's salute, or me saluting a more senior officer, I always, always say at least "How ya doin" or "Good afternoon, sir" or something. But sometimes you get these dudes that throw you a salute, but say nothing at all, almost in a "I'm doing this cause I have to" kind of way. And it's not just once. Almost seems to be prevalent. Anybody else had this?

I realize this is a minor issue in the grand scheme of the queep and shoeclerkery, but a bro who just went told me no bags even if you've earned your wings already. What's the story there?

Barnstormers is more or less, GA pilot porn.

Always thought Gary Sinise was a class act. Here's just another example.

No posts in ten days??? What the hell is this thread coming to (sts)?

2!!! It continually amazes me how much we, as the branch of the armed forces that deals primarily with air combat, continue to downplay the air part, and just focus on the combat...if we even really do that.

Not sure how you'd export this to international aviation, but with ADS-B coming online, I wonder if there'd be any way to tie that in with this idea?

Ya know, for as much noise as we make about valuing heritage and history, there always seems to be some serious soul crushing whenever some dude tries to display a little respect for it. I'm sure if you asked the dude with the patch, he would tell you he's not trying to compare himself to the Thud drivers of old, just trying to honor their heritage a bit. That's real heritage, not the made-up crap that leadership spews out every year. Lighten up, Francis.

Going slightly along with this...why the hell do we insist on wearing eight-point covers in desert locations? That's a Navy-Marine thing.

I just finished the FTU about four months ago, so PM me too, if you want.

Pics?

A toast. Godspeed, brothers.

"You were in a 4G, INVERTED dive with a 707?"

Now if only we could get the Corellians to stop mucking up the acquisition process.

Not all of us are wearing radiator wings, dude. I've never sat in an RSU. Know your audience, clown.

Never seen "Office Space", huh? What, don't you want to express yourself? Edit for buffoonery

Anybody else keep getting distracted by that "Supplementing our troops" girl on the right? I think she needs a protein shake...

Get some!

At least we're not the only ones having to deal with something like this. Looks like the squids are at it, too.