Originally Posted by
E2CMaster
Training has been "Combined" in some form since at least the VN era.
Never heard it called "The drop" aside from the Zoomies in VT 31. And it was a zoomie only thing.
Concur...in my time as a FTS/TAR IP in Corpus (10 years) I have never heard anyone from an all Navy squadron (27/28) call it a drop...and only the USAF studs/IPs in the "combined" squadrons (31/35). OBTW, they're not joint anymore either.
I can't speak for the bizarro chuckleheads at TW-5.
IMO, we never had any sort of "event" when assigning a pipeline out of Primary because 60% of the studs went helos and half those guys were ****ed. I don't know if Master got drafted but seeing someone's face after an E-2/C-2 draft could be very traumatic
****ed= mad, upset, etc