Some of us refer to you by other names too....Jarhead, bellhop, etc. come to mind. But of course we're Navy.........
Thief comes to mind as well.
Brett
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Marine Aviator Philosophy: Marine first, aviator second?
- Thread starter Steve Davies
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Thief comes to mind as well.
Brett
Marine officer first; Naval officer first ... whatever does it for you, to use the vernacular.
But when they join up on my wing or set foot in my cockpit ... they had better be an Aviator first ....
But when they join up on my wing or set foot in my cockpit ... they had better be an Aviator first ....
Oh contraire, mon frere.... (What purpose did they serve? Other than to remind us that we were "in the sh!t", probably not much; I would have ditched the helmet quickly if I found myself walking.)
MasterBates
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That being said, ditch the cover if you are bobbing around in the drink waiting for the helo to come. That retroreflective tape is the easiest thing to see at night.
Right. "Kinship" be damned .... as the VMFA-112 Cowboys wore them because they thought they looked ... "cool" ...
My squadron actually has an unenforced but written SOP that all aircrew should wear helmet covers. When I asked why, I was told that it is to help avoid scratching the canopy glass with your helmet during zero, neg-G, or lateral maneuvers. Additionally, apparently some of the WSO's raise their seats as high as possible to get better vis over the instrument panel or of their 6.
You don't have a paygrade yet
Puh-leeze. If that were true, everyone (in both services) would wear them, especially since that reflective tape is just like 40-grit sandpaper.
Not a ding on you, just the morons in your command who justify their SOP with such a weak rationale.Brett
Ahhhhh .... *sigh* .... be still my beating heart .... reminds me of the good 'ol days of pressing STUDs' faces, heads, and lips against the interior canopy glass all the while when doing the un-doable in the TA-4 ...
Perhaps they should have worn lip covers ... ??? Or at the very least -- chapstick ???
Ahhhhh .... *sigh* .... be still my beating heart .... reminds me of the good 'ol days of pressing STUDs' faces, heads, and lips against the interior canopy glass all the while when doing the un-doable in the TA-4 ...
Perhaps they should have worn lip covers ... ??? Or at the very least -- chapstick ???
Wasn't it part of the passage into manhood to bang a stud's (or shitbird B/N's) helmet off the canopy hard enough to either crack the canopy or the helmet?
