Any Active Navy Pilots?

McDiesel

McDiesel

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I would like your experiences how you got where you are. This is the career path I have wanted since a little kid.
 
McDiesel said:
I would like your experiences how you got where you are. This is the career path I have wanted since a little kid.
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Might want to try www.airwarriors.com for several answers. It's the forum for Naval Aviation but please, do a search first. This question has been asked before. As it is, I went through NROTC UCLA from 1988-1993 and earned a BS in Business. I was stashed at TOP GUN in Miramar waiting to start primary flight training. I went through API in Pensacola, VT-27 and VT-31 in Corpus Christit, Texas. Flew the T-2C Buckeye with VT-4 in Pensacola, Florida, gaining my first traps on the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of San Diego in July 1996. I later went to VAW-120 for FRS training to fly the C-2A Greyhound. I did two VRC-30 sea tours, an instructor tour with VAW-120, then flew T-34C's with VT-6 as well as being the OIC of the prep school for Royal Saudi Navy pilots. I'm now the XO of MSCO Korea with follow on orders to TW-2 in Kingsville to be an IP in the T-45 Goshawk. I've done four deployments, not counting my current one year assignment to Korea. That's it in a nutshell.
 
I graduated from high school in 2001, attended a part 141 civilian flight school for 2 years, started NROTC at Oregon State U in fall of 2003, commissioned in early 2008, did API @ NAS Pensacola in spring 2008, primary in VT-27 @ NAS Corpus Christi from summer '08 until jan '09 (flying the T-34C), then moved out here to NAS Meridian last winter for jet training (in the T-45C). I'm currently in VT-7, in the advanced/strike syllabus, about 2 months away from getting my wings......goin to the boat for Carrier Quals at the end of this month. Let me know if you have any specific questions, I'd be glad to tell you what I know (as would Bunk22 and rpfeif I'm sure)
 
McDiesel said:
I would like your experiences how you got where you are. This is the career path I have wanted since a little kid.
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You might also want to ask what they had to do after they got where they were. Could you press a button and kill anywhere from 1 to 1000 people?
 
bunk22 said:
Might want to try www.airwarriors.com for several answers. It's the forum for Naval Aviation but please, do a search first. This question has been asked before. As it is, I went through NROTC UCLA from 1988-1993 and earned a BS in Business. I was stashed at TOP GUN in Miramar waiting to start primary flight training. I went through API in Pensacola, VT-27 and VT-31 in Corpus Christit, Texas....
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Story time?
 
I did just under three years enlisted in the Naval Nuclear Power progam, then went to the U.S. Naval Academy. After graduation (1996), the nukes didn't want me back so I had to be a pilot (darn). Went to Pensacola in Feb 1997. Soon thereafter went to Corpus Christ, TX for primary flight training. Selected P-3s. Stayed in Corpus for advanced training. Went to Jacksonville in Summer of '99 to start P-3 training. After training, got stationed at Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine (now closed). First tour was in VP-8. Skipped shored duty in did another P-3 tour there in Brunswick. Got off active duty in 2006. Got hired by JetBlue and a P-3 Reserve squadron - VP-92 (squadron now decommissioned). Went to work for VR-62 flying the C-130. Flew that until...about a week ago. Been at JetBlue for 3.75 years and now doing "Individual Ready Reserve" for the Navy.

As a kid or even teenager, I never planned on doing any of this. It all just sorta happend. Lucky me.

Good luck in your endeavors.
 
///AMG said:
Damn, that would be quite the schwack :insane:
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No sweat. It's called a B61.

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