How many military expected to go to majors?
01-13-2015, 08:39 AM
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A navigator is that person who converts a multi engine transport into a weapon of war. I did three years as a Navigator/EWO in B-52s. Then they discovered my parents had never been married and made me go to pilot training.
01-13-2015, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Grumble
Instantaneous power, two pilots to do it, no pain of aerial refueling... You guys should give the E-2 pilot bonus to the NFO's in the back that actually work for a living!
01-14-2015, 03:19 AM
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Originally Posted by maddogmax
The only NFO's that really bugged me were the ones who would brag that they had more traps then I did. (From the back seat of a F14)
01-14-2015, 03:31 AM
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My best WSO friend told me (yes, I really have one): Nobody tells their guidance counselor "I want to be the guy who sits behind the pilot".
Most of those guys are pretty cool, but I did talk to a retired O-6 who is fairly high in the food chain at Amazon. He said that they had an applicant who listed that he was an F-15E pilot on his resume. It just so happened that the Amazon guy was a former heavy and T-38 pilot in the USAF so he specifically picked this guy to interview so he could just BS about flying the entire time since he was tired of the standard interview crap. Immediately upon interviewing this F-15E pilot things seemed a little off, he was deceptive about where he went to pilot training and a few other things. Long story short is he was a WSO who listed he was a pilot. His explanation was that it was too hard to explain what a WSO does so he just put pilot on his resume to make it easier. LOSER.
Most of those guys are pretty cool, but I did talk to a retired O-6 who is fairly high in the food chain at Amazon. He said that they had an applicant who listed that he was an F-15E pilot on his resume. It just so happened that the Amazon guy was a former heavy and T-38 pilot in the USAF so he specifically picked this guy to interview so he could just BS about flying the entire time since he was tired of the standard interview crap. Immediately upon interviewing this F-15E pilot things seemed a little off, he was deceptive about where he went to pilot training and a few other things. Long story short is he was a WSO who listed he was a pilot. His explanation was that it was too hard to explain what a WSO does so he just put pilot on his resume to make it easier. LOSER.
01-14-2015, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by maddogmax
The only NFO's that really bugged me were the ones who would brag that they had more traps then I did. (From the back seat of a F14)
The E-2 Hummoles log all traps. Regardless of seat.
E-2 Pilots only log traps they flew. (half, maybe less if you are a JO and have DHs chasing some high trap count target).
My helmet bag has multiple centurion patches.
01-14-2015, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by E2CMaster
Yep. Lots of JO NFO Triple Centurions.
The E-2 Hummoles log all traps. Regardless of seat.
E-2 Pilots only log traps they flew. (half, maybe less if you are a JO and have DHs chasing some high trap count target).
My helmet bag has multiple centurion patches.
The E-2 Hummoles log all traps. Regardless of seat.
E-2 Pilots only log traps they flew. (half, maybe less if you are a JO and have DHs chasing some high trap count target).
My helmet bag has multiple centurion patches.
Top: 500 datum free hours
Logo: Box Lunch
Bottom: Launch, Lunch, Land
LOL!
P.S. I've got 6.2 hours in the right seat of a Hummer as a sandbag co-pilot. We got all the way from NASNI to Pensacola before it broke down. I spent the entire time trying to figure out which of the six radios I was transmitting on. Its the only fixed wing airplane I've ever been in that was MORE unstable than a helicopter.
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