Moved to San Diego a few months ago and haven’t found a decent slice anywhere. San Fran is the only place in California I have had good pizza so far. Also, if there are any PGPers in the San Diego area I am taking pizza place suggestions (please help)
For the dude asking about being a pilot (or anyone interested), you can either leave law school and become a pilot or finish and become a pilot. A female marine in my class finished law school then switched over to flight school. You are already qualified on paper at least to become an officer just by having your college degree, you would have to go through the recruitment process by contacting an officer recruiter, taking the written test, go to MEPS (medical tests, vision (20/35 correctable to 20/20), and anthropomorphic measurements). You would then submit your package to a board, once accepted you would go to OCS (officer candidate school, 12 weeks up in Newport, RI), receive your commission as a naval officer, and report to Pensacola, FL for API (aviation pre-flight indoctrination, 6 week course in aero, engines, weather, nav, flight rules, and survival).
After API you would go to Primary flight training in either Milton, FL (usually the married people stay in FL) or Corpus Christi, TX. Primary is about 6-9 months of flying the Texan T-6B. You get graded on every flight and test and get ranked in your class. You then select your advanced platform (you put down what you want, but ultimately its needs of the Navy). Advanced tailhook (jets and E2/C2) is in Kingsville, TX or Meridian, MS, Advanced maritime (P-8) is in Corpus Christi, TX, and Advanced helos is in Milton, FL.
Advanced is another 6-9 months worth of sims, test, and flights, but at the end you earn your wings and go to the fleet. Overall, there’s plenty of downtime and hurry up and wait. I’m winging this Friday and it took 2 years almost to the day from checking in to NAS Pensacola for API.
Other random things: if you’ve never flown, the Navy will pay for you to get about 13 hours in a cessna before you start API at a civilian flight school
It took about 10 months from when I graduated undergrad to actually getting to OCS
Sorry for the way too long post, finished the syllabus a week ago and went from having no time to having all the time.
If anyone has any other questions about getting into the Navy or Navy flight school in general feel free to ask
Had a best friend breakup myself. Best friend was a girl and I’ll let you guess what lead to the breakup. Didn’t speak to each other for close to 2 years, but about a year ago I did something very out of character for me by swallowing my pride and we reconnected. Its actually like that period of time where we weren’t friends never happened, so there’s always hope if you want them back in your life.
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Just finished up too. Would definitely do it again, also did the accelerated version so only had to wear the trays for 5 days instead of two weeks
6am flight out? You poor bastard
I’ll have to check it out this weekend, NY style is exactly what I’m looking for
Cold pizza is the breakfast of champions, nothing will convince me otherwise
Moved to San Diego a few months ago and haven’t found a decent slice anywhere. San Fran is the only place in California I have had good pizza so far. Also, if there are any PGPers in the San Diego area I am taking pizza place suggestions (please help)
Gotcha, good luck man, and you are totally correct. This is why we have so many SAPR briefs (and can’t have nice things)
PostGraduateDolphin you’re a military dolphin??
Thanks man, where are you in the pipeline?
For the dude asking about being a pilot (or anyone interested), you can either leave law school and become a pilot or finish and become a pilot. A female marine in my class finished law school then switched over to flight school. You are already qualified on paper at least to become an officer just by having your college degree, you would have to go through the recruitment process by contacting an officer recruiter, taking the written test, go to MEPS (medical tests, vision (20/35 correctable to 20/20), and anthropomorphic measurements). You would then submit your package to a board, once accepted you would go to OCS (officer candidate school, 12 weeks up in Newport, RI), receive your commission as a naval officer, and report to Pensacola, FL for API (aviation pre-flight indoctrination, 6 week course in aero, engines, weather, nav, flight rules, and survival).
After API you would go to Primary flight training in either Milton, FL (usually the married people stay in FL) or Corpus Christi, TX. Primary is about 6-9 months of flying the Texan T-6B. You get graded on every flight and test and get ranked in your class. You then select your advanced platform (you put down what you want, but ultimately its needs of the Navy). Advanced tailhook (jets and E2/C2) is in Kingsville, TX or Meridian, MS, Advanced maritime (P-8) is in Corpus Christi, TX, and Advanced helos is in Milton, FL.
Advanced is another 6-9 months worth of sims, test, and flights, but at the end you earn your wings and go to the fleet. Overall, there’s plenty of downtime and hurry up and wait. I’m winging this Friday and it took 2 years almost to the day from checking in to NAS Pensacola for API.
Other random things: if you’ve never flown, the Navy will pay for you to get about 13 hours in a cessna before you start API at a civilian flight school
It took about 10 months from when I graduated undergrad to actually getting to OCS
Sorry for the way too long post, finished the syllabus a week ago and went from having no time to having all the time.
If anyone has any other questions about getting into the Navy or Navy flight school in general feel free to ask
Did he just disappear into a gallery night crowd or what?
Had a best friend breakup myself. Best friend was a girl and I’ll let you guess what lead to the breakup. Didn’t speak to each other for close to 2 years, but about a year ago I did something very out of character for me by swallowing my pride and we reconnected. Its actually like that period of time where we weren’t friends never happened, so there’s always hope if you want them back in your life.