Bleak future for SNA's

[UncleFester]

Ah, the pendulum continues to swing and those at the apogee (perigee? perihelion? apoplexy? sh*t, I don't know, I was a bull major) freak out as they see it coming and going. Okay, for what it's worth: Nearly an exact duplicate of that email was going around, oh, around my youngster year at the Chesapeake Killer Klown Kollege. They don't need pilots, no more jets, you're all going to die and there's dead dogs on the King Hall loading dock (the bit about the dogs actually turned out to be true, but that's another tale). Anyway, so we all figure there's no hope. By the time we graduated, oops, they cut too many slots and now there's pilot slots in plenty, and even us ac rocks got tickets for P'cola. Now, all this bizarreness with "undesignated" guys and grad school is new, but if you're really hard charging to go Navy Air and can't get a direct shot, take those extra chances. It keeps you in the hopper. I did two years in SWO purgatory the hard way, and here I am with my wings of gold (one more anchor than I originally planned, but it's all good). If you get shuffled off to the Raggedy-Assed Reserves, hey, you know what? You just got a million bucks' worth of free flight school with nearly no commitment and no long scenic trips to the Persian Gulf. Count yourself lucky and go fly a traffic copter or something. These hard times are scary for the seriously gungy, but most of you have only seen the tiniest little scrap of the Fleet and have no idea what it's really like out here. Navy Air is not divided into fighter guys and "other". That "The Right Stuff" crap died out years ago. You get what you get and 99% of you will love it. As for the "raising the bar" thing, you should be working your ass off in flight school no matter what - this is not a job you take for the cool jacket and the chicks. If it works out, it works out. If not, you're getting free job training and even the crappiest officer job in the Navy looks good on a civvie resume. My advice is concentrate on beating your next biggest alligator, be it the Hornet RAG, Primary or API or plebe Chemistry. There's no sense worrying about five alligators down if the one at your feet eats you.

 

[ChuckMK23]

My advice is concentrate on beating your next biggest alligator, be it the Hornet RAG, Primary or API or plebe Chemistry. There's no sense worrying about five alligators down if the one at your feet eats you.

Amen!!! - Worry about the here and now kids and everything else will take acre of itself - aka don't sweat the things you can't control!

Well said Uncle F. !!!

 

[Godspeed]

Ah, the pendulum continues to swing and those at the apogee (perigee? perihelion? apoplexy? sh*t, I don't know, I was a bull major) freak out as they see it coming and going. Okay, for what it's worth: Nearly an exact duplicate of that email was going around, oh, around my youngster year at the Chesapeake Killer Klown Kollege. They don't need pilots, no more jets, you're all going to die and there's dead dogs on the King Hall loading dock (the bit about the dogs actually turned out to be true, but that's another tale). Anyway, so we all figure there's no hope. By the time we graduated, oops, they cut too many slots and now there's pilot slots in plenty, and even us ac rocks got tickets for P'cola. Now, all this bizarreness with "undesignated" guys and grad school is new, but if you're really hard charging to go Navy Air and can't get a direct shot, take those extra chances. It keeps you in the hopper. I did two years in SWO purgatory the hard way, and here I am with my wings of gold (one more anchor than I originally planned, but it's all good). If you get shuffled off to the Raggedy-Assed Reserves, hey, you know what? You just got a million bucks' worth of free flight school with nearly no commitment and no long scenic trips to the Persian Gulf. Count yourself lucky and go fly a traffic copter or something. These hard times are scary for the seriously gungy, but most of you have only seen the tiniest little scrap of the Fleet and have no idea what it's really like out here. Navy Air is not divided into fighter guys and "other". That "The Right Stuff" crap died out years ago. You get what you get and 99% of you will love it. As for the "raising the bar" thing, you should be working your ass off in flight school no matter what - this is not a job you take for the cool jacket and the chicks. If it works out, it works out. If not, you're getting free job training and even the crappiest officer job in the Navy looks good on a civvie resume. My advice is concentrate on beating your next biggest alligator, be it the Hornet RAG, Primary or API or plebe Chemistry. There's no sense worrying about five alligators down if the one at your feet eats you.

Yeah, but what are my chances of getting JETS???? Girls only like guys that fly jets. Ya know, Jets, like fast jets, jets with cool paint jobs, jets with missiles and cool flames shooting out the back.

 

[UncleFester]

Jets? Oh, right, those things that can't find their asses with both hands and a flashlight without the Hawkeye. One jet drops out of the package, time to flex. One Hummer drops out, time to go home. Or as the late, incredible Gerry Carrol (Vietnam jet pilot and novelist) wrote, "it's safe to say that the taxpayers got a tenfold return on every dollar they spent on E-2s".

 

[WarEagleEnsign]

Grad school

The Navy gives out graduate school to just about anyone. You don’t have to be an engineer. Three guys from my school were picked up for non-engineering degrees. They sent me to grad school for a MS in economics, another guy went for a MA in political science, and the third was picked up for a MA in English (if you can believe that crap). Several more went to Navy PG School and received systems administration type degrees. If you’re interested, and you have the grades, apply – you would be surprised. Plus, it beats the hell out of being stashed here in Pensacola.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Chicks dig the wings and the uniform - you could be flying a dumpster for all they would care - The fact that you are a Naval Aviator is all that counts.

 

[Kycntryboy]

As long as you tell them the dumpster is more dangerous than the other jets, and you shoot bigger missiles and stuff. :sly_125:

 

[zuggerat]

Chicks dig the wings and the uniform - you could be flying a dumpster for all they would care - The fact that you are a Naval Aviator is all that counts.

anyone know of a dumpster squad looking for pilots?

 

[SNA-Wanna-Be]

So will I be able to get a SNA slot for 07'!!!??? J/K!! I think the Air Force has a dumpster squad... its called the entire Air Force.

 

[zuggerat]

seriously guys, i have a 2.5 gpa and a 6 on the PFAR... what are my chances? i have a really good recommendation from my bowling instructor too. I really want Hornets.

 

[Kycntryboy]

It honestly depends on you perform under pressure to pick up those 7-10 splits.

 

[trvsmrtn]

I met a stripper a few nights ago whose dad is an AF Major General. She's gonna write me a letter of recommendation to get hornets.