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Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation (Part 3)
- Thread starter Top_Gun_1_0_1
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Be fair. It's shitty AND overpriced.
It is funny how much this has changed. Back in the 80's the O' Club was the place to be...well...depending on the base.
Tailhook helped kill that along with a few other factors. A few O'Clubs we still worth hanging out at but usually were in TDY locales and not home bases with Fallon, Kadena (except Friday nights, when it had an all hands country night), Iwakuni and even Bahrain having decent ones.
Ahhhh...Tailhook. An epochal dividing line in Naval Aviation History.
One that has much less impact than when I first got in, since there are only a few folks left in the Navy from the era before that. This was made clear recently when the only guy in my unit who was on active duty then, which is full of old dudes, tried to explain to a USAF SSgt who was born in the mid-90's just what the heck Tailhook was.
My neighbors wife is a teacher (4th grade) and one of her students asked "why is the save button is shaped like that?" So,explaining tailhook sounds more fun than explaining floppy disks to new guys one day. Or telling the internet on the boat is worse than dial up, and they'll ask what dial up is....
O'Clubs hung on as long as you couldn't wear bags off base. Usually they were the only other option besides "last nights leftovers" and "shitty fast food". Now that you can go out in town...
The I-Bar in North Island is a great place for a beer still, and Fallon of course is great. The one at South Whiting (Aces) could be decent with some work put into it (may be a project of mine).
Other factors: Mixed hands clubs. (No one wants to drink with their chiefs or first classes). Also, recently I saw a random DUI checkpoint at the gate going off base. Granted, no one was drunk, but when the limit is below .08 on base (is this a rumor?) people were spooked and already low attendance at the club dropped.
Other factors: Mixed hands clubs. (No one wants to drink with their chiefs or first classes). Also, recently I saw a random DUI checkpoint at the gate going off base. Granted, no one was drunk, but when the limit is below .08 on base (is this a rumor?) people were spooked and already low attendance at the club dropped.
What base? Whiting?
Yeah, the e-mails and texts about it spread like wildfire (we are talking about the DUI checkpoint, right?). We asked the then base's Master Chief if they would be doing those again, and to his knowledge, they hadn't even done them and didn't expect they'd continue. I haven't seen it done since, but for anyone that's been to NASWF, they know that the DOD cops and MA's treat security there like they are guarding the UFO's found in Area 51. (Good example: I once stood wing CDO, had got off that stupid SAPR watch for the 34 Sailors that live on base, got to sleep around 0400, and got a call at 0600 saying they found a single door unlocked on base and I needed to get there ASAP. I told them I needed at least another hour of sleep and I'd get there around 0730 in PT gear, and sure enough the TW-5 building was guarded off with a watch posted and they made me inspect every single room and sign off nothing had been disturbed or stolen. I told them I refused to sign, since I had no idea what the rooms were supposed to look like or what belonged where, and ended up signing but making that note. I went over to the base security office to see the instruction, and sure enough it was there that I had to do it.)
It was that way when I was there earlier too, a bit seasonal with summer being more popular and helped by some squadrons that held Friday afternoon AOM's there.