Rocker

All I know is I keep forgetting to turn off the damn aux pump after gear up and forgetting to turn it on after gear down. But I can taxi with the best of 'em (not that I'm allowed to). Thanks, Little Rock!

To put it in gentle, PC terms, some dirty whore gets up there and gets railed by a donkey. What, were you thinking she got up there and pet him behind the ears and fed him a carrot or something?

What better way to train someone for a job than to teach them what they're not going to do?

Hmmmm. Not 21. You might check this place out for some good clean nocturnal fun. If you're over 18, you could go here for some good potentially unclean nocturnal fun.

Oh, Hydro, don't be such a SOAP! Nobody's gotten personal yet - it's still just a small and somewhat friendly pissing match!

What's wrong with making traditions up as we go? We're still relatively new. I would bet that the Navy was still making up traditions around 1834.

Well, at the very least, it's entertaining that you guys think WE'RE homos! That's like negative world, though I think many would argue against your (convoluted) perspective on Air Force deployments. Unless you mean "deploy" out to sea... In any case, thanks for the answers, squids. Go Navy!

That gets SO annoying. I look at the Navy (from a limited perspective) as antiquated (and not in a good way like the Marines), poorly standardized, slightly gay most of the time and very gay some of the time, and just all around goofy. Do you NEED to walk around with your bag unzipped down to your happy trail during peace time? Just a question. And why can't you just have NORMAL enlisted ranks for me to figure out? But all that makes me wonder - and this is open to any Naval Officer who reads this (or Marine who cares enough to answer): How does the Navy look at us? Spoiled and overly anal-retentive would be my first guess, but I've always wondered that.

That's about all you can do. I usually tell them how happy and lucky I am to be doing what I'm doing. To add: of course, I've had it pretty easy so far... [ 05. March 2006, 16:57: Message edited by: Rocker ]

When do senior and command pilot ratings come down? I recall seeing that it was hours for some airframes and gate months for others.

That's pretty funny, and I like how "SATAN" fits in there so naturally (uh, sts)! You can search fixes here: https://www.airnav.com/airspace/fix/

At ours we gathered inconspicuously at the wing building at a designated time a few days before graduation, some realizing for the first time who all was actually in their class. Then one at a time, while the rest waited in a conference room, and based on class ranking, we were called in one by one to an office down the hall to select our assignment from the drop for our class. Then when it was all over, we left individually, going separate ways (in my case to the LL/TF checkride brief), most likely talking on cell phones. The camaraderie was brilliant.

Cottage cheese and chocolate milk as a base, and then Military Special vodka, 151, and Southern Comfort. The grog bowl should not be a pleasant experience and that mixture should help prevent it from being one.

STS?

I used to refuel NJ State Police helicopters (S-76Bs), and they all had the cable cutters. Never heard of an ops check though.

I think you guys might be getting two this year. I got a call a couple of weeks ago from Corpus asking if I wanted to trade my D-M assignment to go to the Long Island unit along with the co- that's already going there (who's a class behind me here at the Rock). My folks only live about an hour from the unit, and I definitely seriously considered it, but I'm holding what I got. I didn't hear who ended up taking it.

So am I completely retarded for seriously considering living on base at D-M when we get there? It is f-ing EXPENSIVE to get anything decent in Tucson right now. My wife is applying for all sorts of GS jobs on the base there, and we're both into the idea of having no commute and not paying rent/mortgage/bills and being right around the corner from the BX and commisary, where we like to shop anyway. And running the air conditioner as much as we please when it gets brutal out there. Not to mention being able to drunk home stumble from the O'club on select nights. Obviously there's no investment whatsoever in it, and the effective pay reduction of not receiving BAH will be shocking at first, it just seems like so much less of a hassle. And when I'm gone, I can pretty much count on the wife being in a safe place. Anybody live on base by choice or am I being weird?

Oh I know...I was talking about the 920th, 106th, and 129th RQWs. Granted, they are AFRES/ANG, but the original poster didn't specify. EDIT, AFRES not AFRS. I don't think the recriuting service has any rescue units. [ 08. February 2006, 15:36: Message edited by: Rocker ]

The year I was selected for pilot training through OTS (2003), there were two CRO slots given out. Sounds pretty tough to get into to me, by the numbers alone. That's great that you hang out with all the CROs and PJs, but I just have a feeling for some reason that the prized recruits for CRO aren't UPT washouts. No doubt it's an undermanned career field, and for a tiny minority it could be an option, but I'd bet 99.69% of washouts either wouldn't try for that or just wouldn't make it. Part of my point that is less obvious is that I don't think the type of person who washes out of anything would excel in the CRO field. Just my opinion - don't start ranting again if you disagree. And oh by the way, the 347th RQW is not the only rescue wing in the CONUS.

Wow, that IS my favorite! What you think you have there is nothing. As far as I'm concerned, I'm not even in the aforementioned "pic." The Rocker you think you know isn't me. Move along.

You left out the hyphens. Stick a fork in you.

I'm just gonna ammend my original input and go with "doggy-style."

Wow, the F-22 sure is cheap. The plane that pays itself off. And you GO E-4B!! Only $36K an hour. "Oh, then I better just take two of those."

Roger, I know a CRO is not a PJ/CCT but as far as officer careers go in the special ops/rescue world, CRO would be interesting and challenging, and is related to the field of pararescue. I didn't mean to imply that they are the same thing.

Combat Rescue Officer (CRO). Of course I'd need to get myself in four times the shape I'm in now, but pararescue is awesome.