Bigred

One rescued, search ongoing for the rest. https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/12/05/search-and-rescue-off-japanese-coast-underway-after-marine-corps-c-130-and-fa-18-fighter-jet-crash/

You may be tracking this, but if you don't have any mil time other than RPAs, you're gonna need 1,500 hours. The 750 is only for mil flight time.

For my own clarity, if an O-4 has an ADSC takes him past 20, but DOPMA says HYT is 20, does the O-4 retire at 20 or stay past 20 till the ADSC expires? *edit - O-4 not on the bonus

I love the irony in that it's the 69th Bomb Squadron. Can't believe the squadron number hasn't been changed, but I hope it never does.

From personal experience, the willingness to take aircraft that would otherwise be a hard down, just to get off the damn boat, is pretty high.

Looking for any updates on the HC-130J lifestyle/optempo.

Negative, gotta find a range and pickle that load before RTB.

Man, you should've heard some of the arguments of my Navy bros on this very thing. The dudes shouting "First actual CSAR since Vietnam" couldn't really explain why/how it was so dangerous when some dude in an ice cream truck parked on the side of the road was live streaming the pickup on Youtube.

Yes. There were some significant C2 issues due in part to the doctrinal requirements for who provides PR to who.

Which is why I still get a kick out of how big of a shit show the whole Erbil thing ended up being. There were some people supremely pissed off that the Navy was successful in eating out of someone else's ricebowl.

I doubt it. SOCOM still has a doctrinal requirement to provide PR for their people. Also, those dudes are super picky on who they ride on downrange, to the point of being prima donnas about it.

I work with all the various SOCOM dudes pretty much weekly. When it comes to preparation, professionalism, and being ready to get in my aircraft, in order it’s MARSOC, Army SF, SEALs, and then Coast Guard (the MSRT dudes). PJs just intermingle so cant really say. More to your post, SEALs aren’t dumb as much as they are just really, really good at breaking shit.

Thread revival. Did this transfer of authority happen?

what's that?

For the uninformed (me), what was this "purge"?

Not as common as they once were, and the one's I've looked in to were similar in ass-clownery of requirements. Here in SoCal it's a heck of a lot cheaper to just drive down to Brown Field and rent than it ever was at the NASNI Aero Club (which doesn't exist anymore).

Not much of a ‘dry’ dock anymore

Got the word from the IST office, it's something I'll do once I'm finally in the Air Force and on the way to the FTU.

All, I am pursuing an interservice transfer into the Air Force to fly the KC-135. I was required to complete a FC1 exam and just received my DD-2808 stamped approved from AETC. On the form it states "FC1 pending successful completion of MFS-N". What exactly is the MFS-N? I can find info on the MFS but nothing on the "-N" part. What is it, and where do I do this exam at? Lastly, is the MFS-N basically done enroute to the FTU? As I'm a rated pilot in the Navy, I will bypass UPT and proceed directly to flying the -135. Anyone have any idea if I need to finish it prior to switching to the Air Force or can I finish it after I switch? Thanks.

It's definitely an interesting point of view, and I'd hazard to guess that if a guy was getting paid $250k to fly fighters there'd be less of a pilot shortage. Just my 2 cents.

Do civilians typically run all sims, even after done with training and in a regular squadron? Over here in the land of the floating runways, civilians only run sims for kids going through initial training or dudes coming back through for a refresher. Otherwise it’s whichever pilot who is unlucky enough to actually know how to turn it on.

What is the DP vs P spread at each rating period? I assume unlimited P, is there a threshold for how many DP are available? I.e., a squadron has 10 O-4s, does that mean only one, two, etc?

IDE? Is that the pro military education at ACSC?

Gonna take a wild guess and say he probably meant FAO?

I can say on the Navy side, those that are allowed to wear a two piece (non-ejection seat crew) hands down prefer the 2 piece over the 1 piece. Its more comfortable out of the aircraft and while flying you can combine it with a combat shirt to make it leaps and bounds above a 1 piece.