Article - Why the Corps’ Future May Sideline its Ground Pounders

[cfam]

Also - Nobody gives a fuck about your dinner parties and BBQs. The ready room won’t care about them in the fleet either.

The man speaks truth. You aren’t going to be raging nightly in the fleet, but you don’t want to be that one guy that doesn’t like to hang either.

Like it or not, you’re at least partially evaluated on how you integrate socially into the ready room.

As one of my first skippers put it: you’re evaluated on three things in the average fleet squadron; how you are in the jet, how you do at your ground job, and how you are socially. You should try to be great at all three, but you can only afford to suck at one.

If you’re “that guy,” then you’ll need to kill it in the plane/helo and be great at your ground job to overcome your social weakness.

 

[Treetop Flyer]

I, for one am fucking pissed this guy isn’t out drinking at Seville.

 

[RoarkJr.]

I, for one am fucking pissed this guy isn’t out drinking at Seville.

I’m actually omw there now. Meeting the bros, gonna get totally shmammered with the bois. Then I’ll wake up and shotgunny a BANG, then do some CrossFit at the brewery. Gonna be el sicko my guy.

 

[taxi1]

Not the mindset you want to have going into your first tour as an officer.

This is the mindset you need @RoarkJr.

 

[JTS11]

Mongo say stuff like:

Flop, Chop, Check, Drop.

Then, stuff like:

Lane, Lock, Sock, Down, Right, Idle, Turn, Flare, Pull, Pause, Level, Taxi, Taxi, Taxi

Then Mongo go fleet.

 

[Jim123]

Mongo tell band camp TBS stories to wide-eyed flight school ensigns.

(Or is this mental picture more like the part when C3PO was telling stories to the bewildered baby ewoks?)

 

[JTS11]

Dammit Jim!