I’d be interested to see exactly what they’re proposing. There are plenty of helos that can do non-combat SAR that are a lot cheaper to operate than 60s....like any of the proposed Navy trainers.
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I’d be interested to see exactly what they’re proposing. There are plenty of helos that can do non-combat SAR that are a lot cheaper to operate than 60s....like any of the proposed Navy trainers.
I thought most of the Station SAR birds were Blk I/IIs that weren't useful in the fleet.
That's depressing, as someone starting flight school
Are they upgradable to the current standard?
sorry, nomination for what?
It essentially means you will be a flight instructor for your first shore tour, FRS/HT/VT or otherwise. Weapons School or NAWDC as well.
Yeah, looking back at my squadron it was closer to 30% than 50%, you're right. Similarly, 30-40% from our sister HSM squadron. All but one of those that didn't though all wanted to continue flying and weren't given that opportunity.
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I'm an idiot and forgot to get it yesterday. I had today off and I'll get it tomorrow... hopefully.
I'd have to assume they were - they've done it to other ones at least. In the same missive (I swear I'll get it here soon), it also said the future ideal solution would be a "block iv" across the fleet so all the 60S's were the same.
As others have said in other words, helo pilots (and I assume VP) have to "nominate" for a follow on production tour. Fail to "nom," and you'll have some other opportunities, like Station SAR, or you can re-nom for the NROTC billets available in that cycle. It's basically a combination of your FITREP, flight hours, flight school performance, and CO's recommendation and then hoping Millington assigns you to what you want.
That sounds exhausting - hmmm in my day I just called my detailer 2-3 months out to end of tour and said "Hey I want to go to the HT's - what do you think" and I had orders the next day to HT-18.
To be clear, I've corrected it to more like 30-40%. I apologize, I had forgotten to count a few of the guys from my and my sister squadron.
Yeah... my peers are jealous of that haha. Now you start like 9 months out trying to detail into a flying job.
I was a squarely middle of the pack player in my first squadron. I shunned ground jobs that took real effort, or simply found more willing peers who would do the work. I flew flew flew and stayed in top 5 for flight time - and that was the sole basis of my selection to go to HT's. Ahhh this high stakes political competitiveness that you guys describe - begging for the praise and annointment of your skipper and XO seems less fun.