And probably long overdue… Surface warfare officers will soon assume command of all amphibious warships, bumping naval aviators from their previous positions as commanding officers, according to a Navy memo. The April 24 directive, seen on Reddit and confirmed by the U.S. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Naval Aviators
About this one… Information warfare experts are increasingly in demand across the U.S. Navy, and in a move made this month, they’ll now be eligible for sea command. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro amended service regulations to create more command opportunities for … Continue reading
The perfect answer to what I did in the Navy… While flying in the Navy, we did some of the stuff we did. We didn’t do the other stuff we did because if we did do it, it was secret. … Continue reading
On Oct. 3, 2019, three P-3C Orions belonging to VP-40, coming from Souda Bay, Crete, landed at Lajes Field. The aircraft were the first P-3s belonging to the “Fighting Marlins” to perform a stopover in the Azores, on their way … Continue reading
I know we did this once, back in the day, and got away with it… I got a call from my squadron’s operations office asking if I would mind terribly going to Fort Worth, Texas, for an airshow over the … Continue reading
As the US Navy winds down to its last P-3 squadron, many of us look back on our time in the Orion and remember the good times, shipmates, and the many places we operated from… And we remember too, the … Continue reading
Back in the day, we ‘occasionally’ got to do some fun flying against our ‘adversaries’… Many times those flights originated from Kef. This is obviously nice weather, and you can see a couple of P-3s parked on the ramp. The … Continue reading
This is in tribute to yet another of my shipmates who died yesterday. We’d known each other since the 70s. He was another Mustang P-3 NFO, made LCDR, and did 30 years. Like me, he went back to work for … Continue reading
ASW and ‘other’ missions have a long history, going back prior to WWII… These guys were the original lowriders… Not a lot of fun there, probably somewhere in the South Pacific, WWII era. I ‘believe’ there is a raft just … Continue reading
When in doubt, follow the money… This is a long article, but well researched and with footnoted links. Pilot retention is an issue service wide, and becoming MORE of an issue in the Navy as deployments lengthen, with less time … Continue reading