eddie said:.......in other words "kill off the SWO community" by 2050.
2050 ?? .... why wait ??? My Momma told me to never put off until tomorrow something that you can do today ....

eddie said:.......in other words "kill off the SWO community" by 2050.
That's fine. Then the aviators will have to do what used to be the SWO's job. Your tours will go like this....SWO JO tour (1 year), Flight school, RAG, fleet squadron, SWO tour (3 years), shore duty, disassociated sea tour, SWO DH tour (3 years and screen for XO/CO of ship), squadron DH (screen for XO/CO of squadron), SWO XO/CO tour, shore duty, squadron XO/CO tour, and onward.eddie said:My friend told he he wanted to go to the Academy to drive the submarine-aircraft-carriers that would comprise the whole of our future Navy. Those should replace everything else (in other words "kill off the SWO community") by 2050.
SteveG75 said:Replacing single seat F/A-18C's with single seat F-35C's. Where do you get your info?????
RetreadRand said:Sir,
Did we not already validate the siginificance of NFOs to the Navy in another thread this week? and I think we all unanimously agreed that without NFOs there could not exist a Naval Aviation in its greeatest and purest form.
heyjoe said:.....And why are you addressing him as "sir". He has evolved (or devolved) into a MEAN OL' HA'OLE MAN ...you aren't even on same wavelength addressing him that way...maybe "your eminence" or something like that...
A4sForever said:Yeah, no problem-O Retread (and I will go to my grave believing Retread meant well -- I'm just a cockeyed optimist) ... but thanks for backin' me up, anyway, Joe ... and I always DID think that a good B/N or RIO was worth more than the proverbial 200# of gas. Saved my butt more than once ....![]()
But redirct for Retread: "eminence" is much too exalted ... I am a humble man.
Da Kapena will do nicely ... it's 'Moke for ... well you figure it out.
If that doesn't do it for you how about the old standby: BWANA ... ???
[SIZE=-1]SYLLABICATION:[/SIZE]bwa·na
[SIZE=-1]NOUN:[/SIZE]Used as a form of respectful address in parts of Africa.
[SIZE=-1]ETYMOLOGY:[/SIZE]Swahili, from Arabic ’abn
, our father : ’ab
, bound form of ab, father; see![]()
b in Appendix II + -n
, our.![]()
God those headseat packs on thier belts are huge. Remind anyone else of this?Schnugg said:
Schnugg said:
Steve Wilkins said:No, it's true. NFO's as we know them are going away. By 2014, all NFO's will be forced to transition to SWO.
Steve Wilkins said:No, it's true. NFO's as we know them are going away. By 2014, all NFO's will be forced to transition to SWO.
Steve Wilkins said:I just wandered in here one day. They tried to kick me out, but I just keeping coming back.
Steve Wilkins said:I just wandered in here one day. They tried to kick me out, but I just keeping coming back.
You may be on to something.Schnugg said:I wouldn't mind SWOs if they were like aviators.....