And you don't choose jets when you can choose helos :icon_tong
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
Well, now you can chose jets (pointy nosed ones starting in 2009ish) and go to Whidbey.Fly Navy said:You don't choose jets because of the places you can live dude.
Threadjack: When I got my Wings (?) we DID pick what we wanted to fly (kinda -- grades and needs of Navy) and where we wanted to go (kinda -- several bases ) ... i.e., at least there were a couple of choices on the menu back then .... .Fly Navy said:You don't choose jets because of the places you can live dude.
phrogdriver said:I'd rather save the money on the base and spend it on ballistic missile defense, that keep a bunch of bases open, hoping for redundancy.
At least the flying wx in Yuma/El Sweato is VFR pretty much all the time. Although it is about 150 degrees on the ramp, they do provide plane covers. Uhh....thats about all the positive I can come up with.I still can't believe Miramar is not on the list. There have been rumors for years about them closing it. If they closed Oceano and moved it to Yuma nobody would want jets. I can see it now what desert would you like. Fresno or Yuma.
A4sForever said:Minimal encroachment and good airspace --- that's what counts today.![]()
You go to the head of the class --- politics ---that's a given. Sometimes the politicians wear grey suits ... sometimes they wear Navy Blue uniforms with gold buttons.nittany03 said:And politics, politics, politics . . . .....
Sounds good anyway. :icon_smilA4sForever said:Oh yeah .... what's best for the country and national defense, too .... right??? Right ???![]()
Physicx said:If they closed Oceano and moved it to Yuma nobody would want jets.
I don't think so ..... Yumo .... I think he is Komusubi or Sekiwake at this point in time .....UInavy said:.......Maybe you'd be happier in Yumo?!?
UInavy said:I've got to continue this threadjack, because I'm curious. When those were the choices (A-4, A-7, F-4, A-6), what was considered the "prime choice?" Or was that not really a consideration? I'm thinking that single-seat attack would have been a pretty rough road to travel, but I can't imagine anything much more cool than what attack used to be.
Well, the A-7 guys will disagree with me (I've got a whole 11 hours in it --- LSO crosstrain) but it was a solution to a problem that didn't exist. They should have spent some money (a whole lot less than the A-7 program cost) and improved and bought more A-4's. The Marines loved the A-4 for CAS and the Navy loved it for it's reliability. The A-7 was designed to replace the A-4 .... but the A-4 outlived it.Fly Navy said:You don't hear much about the A-7. Lots of A-7 guys here though. How extensively was it used in Vietnam? Gulf War?