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Naval Aviator Slots- HELP!!
Guess I shoulda stayed out of it, huh?
"J.D. Baldwin" wrote in message ... In the previous article, Harriet and John wrote: (I'm given to understand that nowadays another factor in the pipeline "input and throughput" - Training Command jargon - is the impact of Lasix surgery eyesight correction which substantially increases the pool of 20-20 candidates.) Lasix is a medication for people with high blood pressure and other cardiovascular problems. LASIK is an acronym for a popular eye surgery to correct vision. LASIK will disqualify you absolutely and irrevocably from any kind of military aviation. The Navy, at the moment, is performing PRK, a completely different and much older kind of eye surgery on some candidates who are then eligible for SNA status if correction to 20/20 is successful. -- _+_ From the catapult of |If anyone disagrees with any statement I make, I _|70|___=}- J.D. Baldwin |am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also \ / |to deny under oath that I ever made it. -T. Lehrer ***~~~~----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Naval Aviator Slots- HELP!!
Hillary - there are always many reasons and one of the 1st ones you get
with these kinds of lists is that your future hubby simply missed the quota, that is the list filled before he got into the final cut. Sounds to me he has some immediate options "after" he gets his Reserve Commission - and remember the Navy is cutting the Reserve forces drastically to the point there will be no aviation reserves down the road so the mix-mash of who's and what's may just put him in the wrong place. Before he graduates he may want to see if the USAF will take him in a interservice transfer, but the USAF is cutting 44,000 yet again being at the bottom of the pile may help here. And then he can pull a George Bush, that is look to the National Guard for an appointment but the Guard is not the "skaters" dream job anymore, it is the tip of the spear - hence he may have a good chance to fill a billet within a year or so and then after graduation he can pursue (at great expense but great value) his commercial license while he serves in the Reserves of the Navy and holds a day job. The aero crap and whatever mean nothing if he can pass the flight perception and spatial orientation tests and has the attitude of a killer - so he will then keep pressing. The academics will start to count if he gets to Test Pilot school, but he has to get his feet pointed first. Pursue commercial and military flying at the same time, make them overlap and twist together until something fits. if not buy XBot or Playstation. Keep your eyes and hands safe - stay in shape and don't let up. wrote in message oups.com... Any advice given on this subject is much appreciated!! Just an hour and a half ago we received the news that my fiance was not on the unofficial list of names of those students who had received the Pilot and NFO slots. He attends the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York which is one of the federal service academies. He has worked his butt of to get great scores on all the tests for the navy aviator slots. Unfortunately we receievd the bad news today. He's trying to get over his disappointment but this is really getting to him because this has been his dream since he was a little boy at one of the Aircraft shows. Upon graduating this school in June he will be a commissioned officer in the Naval Reserve however I know he will still long to be a naval pilot. He has a great gpa, was the Company Fitness Officer so he passed all the physical test with no problem, went on pilot internships, and scored 7/9 on the avaiation test, which i hear is suppose to be really well. Is there any hope of getting in from this point on? |
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Naval Aviator Slots- HELP!!
I remember those old NAO wings. In some ways I like them better than the current NFO wings (but they're cool too!)
An interesting note: While BNAO School was the forerunner to VT 10 not all early NAO's went through it. In the late 1950's a number of enlisted aviation types were detailed into NAO duties until enough junior officers could be procured for fleet duty. A few were promoted to chief warrant officer and continued into the commissioned ranks. This was a "band-aid" fix until enough JO's could finish the training pipeline. Still...there were a few others who became designated NAO in a somewhat irregular fashion. My father being one of them. Dad entered the Navy in 1958 through OCS at Newport. Given his college degree the Navy figured he would be commissioned in the Supply Corps and serve on destroyers. An afternnoon out at sea convinced my father that these navy higher-ups had made a grave error in judgement. He managed to get orders to air intelligence school and spent time at NAS Anacostia and Jacksonville. There he was introduced to Naval Aviators (in those days that meant pilots...and nobody else!) and got orders to pre-flight and VT 14 in Pensacola area (always got the various fields mixed up). He did well in academics but experienced deafness during ascent and descent. Dad appeared before a board and was basically told he was physically unqualified to continue, but he could have his choice of community type as an intel officer and even offered him duty with the then ENTERPRISE Pre-Comm unit. He looked directly at them and said, "I want to FLY NAVY!" The board members looked at him wondering if his hearing issues extended beyond the cockpit. However, one officer said...that still might be possible if he was willing to accept orders to Argentia, Newfoundland, Canada flying Barrier Patrols in the North Atlantic in an Airborne Early Warning Squadron. At this time folks were going through the NAO training course in Corpus Christi, but as one board member stated..."you've been to enough navy schools, it's time you joined the fleet." Being a serving naval reserve ensign Dad didn't really know what AEW Barrier Patrol meant or really understand where Argentia was (nor did he particularly care) he found himself flying WV 2's with VW 11. And it's just as well he went along with the plan because it was in Argentia where he met Mom! Less than a year into his Argentia tour and after many LONG patrol flights navigating (without the privilege of wearing wings!), a detailer from BUPERS came and gathered all the young reserve ensigns and explained what bleak prospects they had....except...the navy was actively trying to "grow" NAO's and they might want to consider this option. It sounded like a great idea to Dad and about six months later he had orders in hand for FAETULANT in Norfolk, with follow on orders to VP 30 in Jacksonville. He actually earned his designation as a NAO (B/N) in Norfolk and received authorization to finally wear the wings after arriving in Jacksonville. It wasn't until he arrived at his first operational VP squadron that the term "TACCO" distinguished NAO's in the maritime patrol community from other NAO's. He recalls the change in designation from NAO to NFO sometime in 1965 while he was a member of ship's company onboard LEXINGTON. As a youngster I remember him wearing the NAO wings while stationed at NAS New York (Dad recalls the new wings coming available in 1968 with a year for folks to make the transition). Regardless, by the time we arrived at NAS Brunswick in 1970, he wore the NFO wings. Personally I liked the old NAO wings. Dad wore several different versions depending on what uniform was worn. I suspect two of the versions were "unofficial." For many years he had on the wall a simple small shadow box with the three different versions of NAO wings that he wore with the words, "The End of An Era" typed in between. |
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