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Navy cutting pilot training by 13 percent in Pensacola, elsewhere
Navy cutting pilot training by 13 percent in Pensacola, elsewhere
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2843471 {EXCERPT} WAVY-TV, VA - 1 hour ago PENSACOLA, Fla. The Navy is cutting back pilot training because of high retention and low attrition rates and the looming retirement of some aircraft...... U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully reproducing copyrighted material. In abidance with our laws this report cannot be provided in its entirety. However, you can read it in full today at the supplied URL. The subject/content of this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of the distributing Library. This report is provided for your information and discussion. -- Otis Willie, 1Lt, US Army (HD, Ret.) Military News and Information Editor The American War Library, Est. 1988 http://www.amervets.com Or our phone number dot com (13105320634.com) 16907 Brighton Avenue Gardena CA 90247 1-310-532-0634 Military Webmaster Site Link Request Form: http://www.amervets.com/linkreq.htm Military and Vet Info-Exchange/Discussion Groups http://members.aol.com/warlibrary/share.htm |
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1 hour ago PENSACOLA, Fla. The Navy is cutting
back pilot training because of high retention and low attrition rates and the looming retirement of some aircraft. BRBR Nuthin like a lousy economy and hurtin' airlines to keep people in. P. C. Chisholm CDR, USN(ret.) Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer |
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Well, the low attrition rate was due to the fact that the training command
stopped attriting people because we needed them. The Navy could not get enough people to want to aviators. One possible answer is that "Topgun" has lots its recruiting appeal. Maybe we should get a new movie called TST (time sensitive targeting). It could feature an airplane holding over head Iraq for 6 hours and still recovery with all of its ordnance. Sorry for the sarcasm, but the cold war image of the military is a little out of date with the new generation. -Moe "Jim" wrote in message ... Pechs1 wrote: Nuthin like a lousy economy and hurtin' airlines to keep people in. P. C. Chisholm CDR, USN(ret.) Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer And how many times has that circle gone around and around? |
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Michael- It could feature an airplane holding over head
Iraq for 6 hours and still recovery with all of its ordnance. BRBR Hey, a traps a trap!!! P. C. Chisholm CDR, USN(ret.) Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer |
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Michael- It could feature an airplane holding over head
Iraq for 6 hours and still recovery with all of its ordnance. Sorry for the sarcasm, but the cold war image of the military is a little out of date with the new generation. BRBR C'mon Moe. I guess you weren't in when training anchorages and about 70 traps for an entire cuise(7 months) was the norm. Sailors/Aviators belong on ships, ships belong at sea. What could be better than flying off a boat, doing your job, gettin' some green ink? Is the new generation so soft that they whine about doing their job, not always training for it? P. C. Chisholm CDR, USN(ret.) Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer |
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Pechs1 wrote:
Is the new generation so soft that they whine about doing their job, not always training for it? P. C. Chisholm CDR, USN(ret.) Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer Well frankly yeah.... While it seems more prevalent in the ground pounders as of late. The numbers of stories of folks who seem be like Goldie Hawn in "Pvt. Benjamin" And joined the Navy with "Golf courses and the private rooms", seems higher than 10 years ago. Welcome to the Oprah/ DR. Phill/ soccer playing/ alergic to peanuts/ never open a book thanks to Google generation.... :-[ |
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Sorry for the bleak outlook. Just passing on some feedback from former rag
students of mine. It is a different generation of aviator. As for me, it is what they pay me for and supporting the guys on the ground is indeed a noble task. My commentary was more on the Nintendo generation and their perceived lifestyle of naval aviation. -Moe "Pechs1" wrote in message ... Michael- It could feature an airplane holding over head Iraq for 6 hours and still recovery with all of its ordnance. Sorry for the sarcasm, but the cold war image of the military is a little out of date with the new generation. BRBR C'mon Moe. I guess you weren't in when training anchorages and about 70 traps for an entire cuise(7 months) was the norm. Sailors/Aviators belong on ships, ships belong at sea. What could be better than flying off a boat, doing your job, gettin' some green ink? Is the new generation so soft that they whine about doing their job, not always training for it? P. C. Chisholm CDR, USN(ret.) Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer |
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MICHAEL OLEARY wrote:
Sorry for the bleak outlook. Just passing on some feedback from former rag students of mine. It is a different generation of aviator. As for me, it is what they pay me for and supporting the guys on the ground is indeed a noble task. My commentary was more on the Nintendo generation and their perceived lifestyle of naval aviation. There's no fundamental difference in the genetics of this generation and the one that kicked butt in WWII. Humans don't evolve that fast (and don't evolve at all in Georgia). The only difference is the world they grew up in. And it's hard to criticize them for responding to their environment when we're the ones that created the environment. Make both sides jump through time machines going the opposite directions and we'd be spending our hours playing DOOM IV while they whine (?) about us. If the chips are down, they'll step up just like always. |
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In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 8 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:49:02 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.47.145.161 X-Complaints-To: X-Trace: fe10.lga 1106499499 24.47.145.161 (Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:58:19 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:58:19 MST Organization: Optimum Online Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com rec.aviation.military.naval:86221 Pechs1 wrote: Nuthin like a lousy economy and hurtin' airlines to keep people in. P. C. Chisholm CDR, USN(ret.) Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer And how many times has that circle gone around and around? |
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