If I remember right a few months ago they achieved initial operating capacity so if not already, they will be real soon. But don’t quote me. End of they day though, 22’s don’t have the range to support the carrier without being carrier based unless they were just detted all around the word
Man I gotta say I agree with this. I have about 3 years sea time, 10 years AD also. If you told me I could fly p8s and never see a ship again, I would not complain. Of course I'd fly whatever the navy needs me to and theres a huge difference between O and E life on the ship.
Right right but I forgot to mention this but I meant aircrafts that have NFOs in them haha my bad
P8 does too, one of the flight instructors I had was an nfo on one. On another note, just got to see a Top Gun premier! Way better than the first, still has some pretty funny inaccuracies but still the best movie I’ve seen in a while!
Shoot, i love the ship life. Been forced into sea duty 3 times sadly
I’m in the same boat , if I get the opportunity to select jets I’d be ecstatic. I’m also prepared for other pipelines.
ALL OF THEM!
However, just tossing this out there. “There’s a waiver for everything” lol During my NAMI physical, My knee to hip length is to long but was told if I really wanted to fly jets I can sign my life away saying I’m okay with my knees being obliterated during an ejection. ?
I didn't know that, but now I see that works too! I'm glad I'm only 5'9 hahaha
One of them was a skinny 6'4 2nd Lt. who wanted to fly Cobras or jets and was told his legs were too long to fly either, but can still fly practically anything else.