Double cycles are out. Triple cycles are so hot right now. Not even sure what you'd call our 8 hour flights in country...
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E-2/C-2 Life?
- Thread starter kappu411
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Double cycles are out. Triple cycles are so hot right now. Not even sure what you'd call our 8 hour flights in country...
Pretty sure when I flew OEF, it was a quadruple or quintuple cycle . . . I know we did one more than the pointy-nose crowd. Otherwise known as "ow, my ass hurts" or "the VA Spinal Clinic Profit Generator." Don't know if E-2 seats are any more comfortable that the ol' GRU-EA7.
I doubt it, but it sure does make a good fart/stink/sweat collector. I made the mistake of pulling up and readjusting a seat cushion once and got rewarded with an unholy aroma.
RadicalDude
Social Justice Warlord
Maybe in Japan fantasy land. In the operational Navy, COD guys have spent a shit load of time over the last ten years in Bahrain, which is not what I’d call “really cool.”
RadicalDude
Social Justice Warlord
Got the opportunity to do an OIR mission in the E-2. They let me fly up front and do some BMA control in the back. Pretty cool experience. But the seats fucking SUCK. Don’t know how the dudes in back do it for a whole deployment. Much respect.
Caesium
Blue is my favorite color
Really? I've heard that QoL in Bahrain is amazing. Was I lied to?
RadicalDude
Social Justice Warlord
Compared to what?
It sure beats the boat, but I wouldn’t describe any place in the Middle East as “amazing.”
In general Bahrain (like Dubai) revolves around drinking, 5 star dining, shopping and prostitution.
It’s way more amazing living in Villas with rental cars and massive Perdiem checks to blow on booze, companionship, high quality food and things to send home.
Depends on whether you’re flying out of Bahrain Int’l or Isa. The COD guys are at the former, so you live ‘in town’ with nice fat per diem and civilized comforts. Isa is more isolated and it’s like living on a base anywhere else in Centcom.
But yeah, pretty much anywhere ashore beats the Boat. Except Djibouti.
I know you've done at least 1 whole deployment but I'll fill you in on a few minor details, since you must have spent the whole time playing Dungeons and Dragons downstairs:
Boats don't magically end up in the middle east. They usually cross some sort of ocean to get there. During this transit, there are lots of cool places the COD guys get to go to as soon as they are in range. Places like Hawaii, the PI, Singapore, Korea, Okinawa, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Australia, Vietnam, South Africa, England, Portugal, and all over the Med. I'm sure there are plenty others but these are just the ones I've seen the CODs operate out of.
p.s. Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and UAE all have better food and hotels than anything you ever had on USS boat.
That’s debatable. Unless DJ has gotten worse very recently (which is tough to do since it’s East Africa)... it still beats the boat IMO.
It's definitely debatable. Your chances of getting malaria are very much less on the Boat; also less chance of being bitten by a tree snake or fast rat. On the other hand: your own private CLU and three Kenyan beers a day.
I'm just sayin'...anywhere else in the world the Navy could send me, if it was a choice between ashore or the Boat, I'd take ashore. The DJ...well, I'd have to think about it.
