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FY12 STA-21 Applicants

PRICE311USN

PRICE311USN

(NAC/AW)
You guys are getting serious! Good conversation though...a personal statement comparison would be a good topic starter...
On a lighter note, Lets Go Cardinals!
 
David M. Holland

David M. Holland

East Meets West
Christopher McGuire said:
Won't change a thing. I'll stay Navy as long as I can on whichever side I can. If you are applying for an officer program simply because you're tired of being enlisted then shame on you. You're doing it for the wrong reasons. While being an officer contributes to personal gains and is perfectly normal to want, the main focus should be the Navy. I know I will be able to accomplish more as an officer, but if I stay enlisted I will be proud to do contribute as much as I can just the same.
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By Navy, do you mean doing a good job and keeping a vigilent watch? For me there is no such thing as a main focus. Only a time for doing something. When the time to move on from being enlisted to whatever, no matter how much you like being enlisted, you must start liking something else, I.E, retirement, officer, hockey, sandwich, beer, harmonica. You will know when the time is right. Move forward. Staying diligent should be common place. With this in mind your life is only so long......
 
DiverDan

DiverDan

US Navy Diver
Lui said:
We do need to use our people sometimes. We do not need to all of the time. There are many missions that are worth the risk of life. There are even more that are worth working a non working Saturday. This is not true for every mission. If anything it is the exception more than the rule. You keep saying that we wouldn't need our people without the mission. That is true. However, try doing the mission without the people. Like most things in life a balance needs to be found. If you put your mission above your people 100% of the time your setting yourself up for failure.
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All I said was the priority is the mission. Trust me, you'll work that Saturday before they worry about hurting your feelings. Even that is Mission before People. Don't know what the disagreement is about. I agree it's a balance but there is more weight on the mission's side of the scale.

I have a bad habit of coming off pretty blunt sometimes so please don't take it the wrong way when I say this but you seem to be nit-picking my statement a little. If you disagree with me and think People > Mission then that's fine, everyone is entitled to their own opinions and leadership styles. I'm speaking from experience myself, I've been in charge of several people in a combat environment in Afghanistan outside the wire. I've had my experiences that shape the leader I think I am... we've all had our own and all got to where we are because of them.

I don't mean to say you're wrong, but I do disagree and hold on to my lessons.
 
johnnyfive

johnnyfive

FY12 STA-21 Selectee (NFO), WINGED AVIATOR
They make the whole thing so secretive. Why can't they put out quotas after July 1st? I don't see the harm in that. At least then, we have some meat to gnaw on.
 
DiverDan

DiverDan

US Navy Diver
johnnyfive said:
They make the whole thing so secretive. Why can't they put out quotas after July 1st? I don't see the harm in that. At least then, we have some meat to gnaw on.
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Sometimes quotas aren't enough. Some years a program has 4 slots and only 1 filled.
 
johnnyfive

johnnyfive

FY12 STA-21 Selectee (NFO), WINGED AVIATOR
Yeah, I noticed in FY10 NFO had 25 slots and only filled 24. There were 30 qualified, so I guess that means 6 qualified but didn't make the cut for another reason.
 
M

Ms. PACMAN

New Member
TheCzar said:
Just got the new Navy Times in the mail... Not what you wanna see on the cover lol... here is what is in there about the aviation community.

"At worst, according to a recent doomsday projection by House Armed Services Committee Republicans, the Navy could lose 50 ships, more than 7 percent of the force and the carrier variant of the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter."

"The triservice F-35 is on nearly everyone's potential spending-cut list. Crenshaw said he thinks the Pentagon should "pick a version and everybody gets it'" But he also thinks the program is too far along to simply cut, particularly given allied purchase commitments. "

"In the aviation arena, readers advocated killing the problem plagued F-35 joint strike fighter - or, at a minimum, eliminating the Marines' vertical-landing-capable variant - and buying more proven F/A - 18E/F Super Hornets."

Now this has been chopped and para-phrased so please read it for yourselves, just wanted to give you guys and gals the scoop! And besides this is all speculation, no one knows anything yet...View attachment 10207
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I am actually on the ship that is testing the F35 right now and there are rumors that the marines might pick up the F35C and fly for the carriers. Just some thing that I heard from a few of the squadrons that are here to test the jets. The marines are keeping the STOVL though and they will be flying with the big deck amphibs.
 
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