FlyingGator
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I hope that’s true.
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Top Gun 2
- Thread starter danpass
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“Wardroom” Enough said.
FlyingGator
Member
Let me clarify my position here:
Top Gun puts naval aviation in the spotlight it needs. It is a great film, and it helps fill the overwhelming manpower shortage we face right now.
My issue: when everyone and their grandmother wants to be a pilot, bad apples slip through. Qualified people who are dying to be a naval officer are turned away due to the temporary surge of applicants, which majority of whom just want to take a couple pictures in a cockpit.
My whole position is that, people who are winged or even graduate OCS should be Naval Officers/Aviators for more than just the looking cool part of it. People should want to step up and help the junior sailors, people should want to serve their country. People shouldn’t be there because they want to go blow shit up looking like Tom Cruise. That creates a liability.
Top Gun puts naval aviation in the spotlight it needs. It is a great film, and it helps fill the overwhelming manpower shortage we face right now.
My issue: when everyone and their grandmother wants to be a pilot, bad apples slip through. Qualified people who are dying to be a naval officer are turned away due to the temporary surge of applicants, which majority of whom just want to take a couple pictures in a cockpit.
My whole position is that, people who are winged or even graduate OCS should be Naval Officers/Aviators for more than just the looking cool part of it. People should want to step up and help the junior sailors, people should want to serve their country. People shouldn’t be there because they want to go blow shit up looking like Tom Cruise. That creates a liability.
You claim that you’re a former MIDN and current fuck-up. Sounds like a regression to me. Why should a bunch of winged aviators give a fuck what you think? Opinions, assholes, et cetera, et cetera . . .
FlyingGator
Member
Yeah, the fuck up part is just because I failed a class. Felt like shit when I made my account lol. I was a MIDN but i left because I couldn’t use my degree in the navy with the options I was presented. I’m a Drone Systems Engineering major, and all my advisors said “you can’t go straight to drones from flight school”. So I was like “fuck it, I’ll apply to fly drones.” Granted I still want to lead, and help wherever I can, it’s just that I feel like I’m wasting my 4 years of education to not make use of my degree and forget everything I learned in my 10 year commitment.
OK, you just confirmed you have no idea what the hell you’re talking about, so kindly STFU and GTFO. The recruiting, screening, and flight school process doesn’t break down with a surge in applicants. If anything, it’s strengthened, because when twice as many qualified people apply, each step in the process can only select the best of what they get.
Go through my post history and you’ll see why I’m a vehement critic of Navy HR bullshit when that’s a thing. But your posts ain’t it.
As someone else who got punched in the face and had to salvage a career (which I did), this is not the way to go about it. You’re pontificating to a bunch of people who have been there and done that about the things they have been and done, based on your take on a Hollywood movie. This is absurd.
Stop and analyze how much of this is your own emotions versus the reality of Navy Air. No one can ever tell you that feeling your emotions are wrong, but we can for sure question the way you choose to express them in public.
FlyingGator
Member
Yes sir.
When you said “this is not the way to go about it” do you mean I shouldn’t have resigned?
I can’t make your own choices. I don’t know because I wasn’t there. I’m saying your take on how a movie is going to affect CNATRA’s ability to screen and assess aviation candidates is ridiculously uninformed.
AIRMMCPORET
Plan “A” Retired
More quality sailors in the enlisted mess than you’ll ever be, oh that’s right you quit, so you’ll never know.
FormerRecruitingGuru
Making Recruiting Great Again
Where’s Jon Taffer?
SHUT THIS (thread) DOWN
SHUT THIS (thread) DOWN
Um, Yeah....no...thanks for the input.
Side note: I had several friends attend the early sneak peek at NASNI, and they all loved the movie. They said the in flight scenes were awesome. I can't wait.
