Corpus or Whiting????

[Heloanjin]

Scoober and I know the same person from Las Cruces. That was the story I was referring to and I have heard a couple other second hand accounts very similar to that. I agree that it is probably not that common but the chance that they can say "We don't want you to move so you can start monday" does exist.

OK, so two of you heard the same story from someone who thinks they know why they got their second choice. Who told this person how the decision was made? If it didn't come from the CNATRA folks who do selections, then its just heresay.

These kinds of stories have been around for decades. They've got no basis in fact. Their worse than internet urban myths. I once made up a story about deployment ending early. Told it in a loud voice on the mess decks. About an hour later I heard the story from someone else in the wardroom, so it was confirmed.

Don't try to go somewhere to improve you selection chances. It doesn't work. Want to improve your selection chances? Study your ass off!

 

[scoober78]

OK, so two of you heard the same story from someone who thinks they know why they got their second choice. Who told this person how the decision was made? If it didn't come from the CNATRA folks who do selections, then its just heresay.

Did you read my post???? Is my name joboy? Do I post out my @$$? If you'd like details then PM me.

Bottom line...there is no point trying to game the selection system. Period. The end.

 

[kejo]

Don't try to go somewhere to improve you selection chances. It doesn't work. Want to improve your selection chances? Study your ass off!

Bingo! The week I selected out of VT-2, 18/20 got helos...half from corpus!

I think this whole argument is somewhat pointless because it changes sooo much just week to week, you can't possibly say that going to one place or another or one squadron or another is going to help you get what you want. It's entirely up to you to study...and of course the needs of the Navy, etc.

From a purely social standpoint, you can just look at this thread. It's 50/50 who loves/hates living in Pensacola vs. Corpus. I spent almost two years in Pensacola and had a great time while I was there because I refused to mope, got off my ass and found fun stuff to do.

Moping...not that anyone here is...but I definitely knew the type :icon_tong

 

[insanebikerboy]

Wow. Then how did you find time for your Soap's .... ????

I had a buddy of mine in Corpus tape them for me

 

[Gatordev]

I say Corpus, but then I'm from Texas and somewhat biased. I'm surprised by all the "Whiting...flew thru primary" vs "Corpus....took forever blah." A friend of mine from API went to Whiting while I did Corpus, I'd soloed in HTs before he was done with primary at Whiting. Whiting has A LOT more sims than Corpus, we had only 5 when I was there and one hadn't been accepted yet.

The hold-up you're hearing about in Corpus is fairly recent and pretty significant.

 

[Cavt]

There were a couple of guys in the HABD training today that just got back from Corpus, took one guys 9 months to get through, now this may just be me, but I would rather have done the 4 1/2 months it took me at Whiting and been a little more stressed out sometimes than had multiple weeks where either I didn't fly or I only flew once. I was always more stressed when I wasn't flying than when I was flying every day since I had time to sit around and what if myself to death and worry about not having studied enough.

 

[e6bflyer]

What makes you say this? Very true. But how about this to blow your mind: Go to Corpus and you might actually do some of Primary here, too. Who knew?

Shhh! Don't spoil the suprise!

 

[Cavt]

GatorDev...You have my attention...please enlighten us??

 

[SlickAg]

Corpus is sending people to Whiting to do forms.

 

[HokiePilot]

Corpus is now sending some form partners every week to do all of their form flights at Whiting. The first group left Corpus yesterday. I think it was two pairs from -27 and one from -28. Supposedly 27 is farther behind and will be sending most pairs.

Also, with the better summer weather, it seems that Corpus is picking up. I checked-in in mid April and am just about to solo. This seems to be similar to my friends who went to Whiting. We are also sending a det. out to Las Cruces starting in September to help catch up.

 

[Cavt]

jesus christo....thats just nutty

 

[A4sForever]

Corpus is sending people to Whiting to do forms.

Nothing "new" ... Meridian sent STUDs back to P-Cola and VT-4 without night flying and formation to do night flying and formation in VT-4 .... and P-Cola/VT-4 sent STUDs on to Texas without Basic Jet CQ, betting on the come that they would CQ "later" in Advanced ....

Can you say ..... the more things change ..... ????

 

[Gatordev]

Corpus is now sending some form partners every week to do all of their form flights at Whiting. The first group left Corpus yesterday. I think it was two pairs from -27 and one from -28. Supposedly 27 is farther behind and will be sending most pairs.

Also, with the better summer weather, it seems that Corpus is picking up. I checked-in in mid April and am just about to solo. This seems to be similar to my friends who went to Whiting. We are also sending a det. out to Las Cruces starting in September to help catch up.

What he said. And I'm still waiting to hear more on the Las Cruces det, which has the potential to be more nutty, but we'll see where that goes.

 

[scoober78]

What he said. And I'm still waiting to hear more on the Las Cruces det, which has the potential to be more nutty, but we'll see where that goes.

Why "more nutty"? Seems like there ought to be some pretty good lessons learned floating around considering that it is the same det site we used last year. Do you mean something else?

By the way...granted its only a student perspective...but my feeling was that det was well run and went a long way to making me a better and more professional aviator. My .02

 

[othromas]

My Primary experience in Corpus was exactly the opposite of what almost everyone else has had. I just checked my logbook, and I started flying here on 10 AUG 06, and finished exactly five months later. It was pure luck, though--my onwing always had a good plane, so no ACNAs in FAMs, the weather rolled in during the BI sims/flights and my RIs. Otherwise everything just worked out. I also finished a good month before everyone else in my class; definitely atypical. Yeah, I know, tell me how atypical I am, Scoob, Master... <grin>

I'm starting to wonder if they're going to clamp down on the pipeline at API or just start sending more studs to Whiting. The weather has not been great down here; we've gotten more rain in the last couple months than people have seen in years, and combined with the maintenance issue they had a little while ago, it seems like they're really far behind.

If I were going to do it all over again, I would choose Corpus hands down, though I probably would've lived on the island in a house and gone out more in Primary. Florabama and I did not get along: between the drunk people playing demolition derby with my parked car, my dick of a roommate and his shitty (literally) dog, and breaking my leg, I was just ecstatic to get out of that place.