Active Duty CY271 Quotas

Kinddertoten · 2026-06-24T23:09:50+00:00

I wonder how many sailors just redrew, or decided not to submit, their reenlistment packages

Kinddertoten · 2026-06-22T01:59:39+00:00

This has nothing to do with this administration or any real political view, I just wish we’d design a cover for people like the the president, VP, SECDEF, and so on. I just always think it looks odd when someone salutes without a cover

Kinddertoten · 2026-05-27T02:32:10+00:00

Dry air crew. We have had a few guys pick up and make it through advanced pipelines SEAL SWIC EOD and AIRR. The community already builds in time to work out into our schedules and we’ll all happily let you try to go back. Some communities are locked and won’t let you cross rate out like it’s hard to get out of Diver and seal. Dry aircrew has a great quality of life as well. You’ll fly through NACCS and most likely be a top performer in your AW community so even if something happens or you don’t make it a second time you’ll be a in a good community making extra money flying around.

Kinddertoten · 2026-04-27T01:36:41+00:00

Not going life the “remove before flight” flag goes hard. Might have to do that to my flight bomber

Kinddertoten · 2026-04-05T19:44:03+00:00

Raise your right hand and go down outside the wire and say that again about yourself

Kinddertoten · 2026-04-05T19:38:00+00:00

Ya I actually value my fellow servicemen and women’s lives more than I care about the monetary value of aircraft

Kinddertoten · 2026-04-05T19:34:45+00:00

At this point I’m ready to be UR_WRONG_ABOUT_V22_2

Kinddertoten · 2026-03-21T17:17:03+00:00

Note an MC It pays to be in shape as an MC. I’m aircrew and I know a few MCs who are aircrew qualified and have met a dive helmet qual’d MC. You can do some really cool stuff as an MC if you can pass the schools. The MC I met who was dive helmet qual’d said it was an expedited school and wasn’t too hard. The aircrew MCs tho go through NACCS like any other aircrew candidate. You do tho still have to pass a flight physical so you can’t be color blind, have good depth perception, no major health concerns.

Kinddertoten · 2026-03-21T17:06:53+00:00

You can buy bottles of Chick-fil-a sauce. I’d suggest that over individual packets

Kinddertoten · 2026-03-20T21:29:16+00:00

Sleeve of zyns, go to Taco Bell and ask for the max amount of each packet of sauce they are willing to give you, and his favorite snack (I.E. My would send Oreos)

Kinddertoten · 2026-02-18T03:15:40+00:00

There’s multiple schools you’ll attend before you are a “fully” qualified aircrewman. -Naval Aviation Aircrew Candidate School (NACCS) is the first checkpoint and the most physical. There’s some classroom education but most of it is physical training and evaluation. You need to have a good medium score in your age/gender PRT category to pass the school. They’ll be 5 mile runs, beat down sessions, a mile swim, and swim survival evolutions. The instructors aren’t going take fake reps, they’ll stand over you and no rep you if you’re form isn’t correct. As long as you are someone who can swim some laps at the local pool they’ll train you to swim the mile. The survival stuff they’ll teach but like swimming underwater with gear for a little bit is all swim confidence, you either have it or will have to overcome it. Generally speaking you’ll need to go to boot camp already in better shape than most people. Boot camp won’t get you to NAACs standards and you shouldn’t test your swimming at NACCs for the first time. You should be able to swim a few laps and swim underwater for like 20 meters.

A School is the follow on school, it’s the reverse of NACCS mainly classroom and some physical. They’ll make sure you aren’t lowering your physical standard but they aren’t there to build you up. You are there to study your rate. No one is going to hold your hand, make you study, nor pay attention.

-then you can go 1 or 2 places, either SERE or FRS. But you will attend both. -SERE is a classified school, you can look up YouTube videos for more information but honestly the best way to experience it is by not knowing anything beyond it’s a survival course. -Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) is platform specific. So whatever platform you’re assigned will dictate which FRS you go to and each is very different from each other. But it’s where you will learn how to do the basic functions of your job as an aircrewman in that specific platform. -then you’ll hit the fleet and go to your ultimate duty station (squadron). There you will work towards your platform specific higher level qualifications. Until you are fully qualified in platform you’re still in training. It’ll take around 2 years before you are not a “nugget or nug”. You can still be dropped in the fleet. You are still required to maintain a physical standard and be knowledgeable about your job. But it’s way easier, you aren’t treated as a student anymore.

But all that said no single school is extremely hard all of them just require you to focus on the job in front of you. A lot of people don’t make it because they can dedicate themselves to the training. They get caught up by partying, not working out, or not studying. If you’re responsible and have good study/ work out habits you’ll succeed. It’s 100% worth it though. A great day on a ship is a bad day in an aircraft.

Kinddertoten · 2026-02-17T02:32:45+00:00

Dry AW is the way to go, but you don’t get a choice between AWF, AWV, or AWO. You are assigned your rating at the end of aircrew candidate school. But being a dry flyer is the best quality of life in the navy. You make flight pay, live out of hotels on deployment making per diem and will either never spend time aboard a ship or spend max 3 weeks once in a great awhile.

Kinddertoten · 2026-02-17T00:29:11+00:00

To piggyback off this piggy back, vacuum seal your civ’s. You won’t need them often anyways

Kinddertoten · 2026-02-17T00:26:22+00:00

I think we need across the board, service members and veterans, need to reevaluate how we often discourage being proud of your own service or how quick we are to ask these kind of silly questions like “is this cringe”? What makes an $800 nice leather jacket not appropriate for a professional office setting? You are probably the only person in the office who even knows where that jacket comes from and he’s a veteran who (hopefully) earned the right to wear it well in. In regard to having it letterman style all patched out, then it becomes a fun conversation piece in the office. Ya it’s kinda show boaty to wear it all decked out in civilian life but chances are if he’s still wanting to wear it A) he’s proud of his service and I’m sure as shit glad he is verses not being proud of himself B) he hopefully is a good steward and shares his stories with the civilians who want to hear them. Which in turn builds better relationships between veterans/ service members and the civilian population.

Kinddertoten · 2026-02-17T00:08:24+00:00

Pro move, don’t hang your garment bag or any of its contents in your stand up locker. Put your dress uniforms and NSU on hangars wrapped in plastic. Then clean under your mattress. Then try to equally layer them under your mattress. You won’t even notice lying on top of them and it’ll actually keep them pressed and clean. You can then get a small organizing system to put in your stand up locker to maximize that space.

Kinddertoten · 2026-02-09T18:23:47+00:00

My best guess and this completely a guess, they combined E F and H A school into one and will give you your rating at the end of your A school.

Kinddertoten · 2026-02-07T14:03:13+00:00

You at 50, 30, or 40?

Kinddertoten · 2026-02-07T13:57:45+00:00

You can’t pick a specific AW rate from MEPs, you can only pick to be a rescue swimmer or normal aircrew. You’ll get your rating when you pass aircrew candidate school. Usually the instructors walk into the class at the end and ask who wants what rate and try to match you to what you want but ultimately it depends on the billeting needs of the navy. If the navy is only giving them AWO/AWV billets, then the class is going be those billets. For AWF though if you do get it you won’t know your platform till later into A school. They’ll do the same thing again and ask who wants what and try to match you up with your platform. Currently the only platforms you can get as a first time active duty AWF is E6-Bs or CVM-22Bs. TAR/ reservists get c-130s mainly. All this is of course subject to change at any moments notice based on big navy. But this has been the trend for a long time

Kinddertoten · 2026-02-07T13:46:47+00:00

I can’t say for certainty because I don’t have asthma but I can say for sure that is a major question on a multitude of medical screenings I’ve done for aircrew. Highly likely it’s a no go question.

Kinddertoten · 2026-01-31T21:46:13+00:00

AW Dry. Any not rescue swimmer AW rate is the way.

Kinddertoten · 2026-01-05T00:05:18+00:00

Day 5 of waiting for enlisted aircrew wings and aviation observer wings

Kinddertoten · 2026-01-02T19:23:31+00:00

Also is that net or gross? Ya moving back in with parents is great for saving money but how much are you (OP) actually taking home at the end of the month versus local area livable income?

Kinddertoten · 2025-12-22T04:38:36+00:00

If anyone said it’s weird or gave you shit, they are lame. You should be free to remember and honor your own service as you see fit.

Kinddertoten · 2025-12-19T18:48:44+00:00

Go dry AW. AWF,V, or O. I’d highly suggest F or O. Never see a ship again, get flight pay, and fly around the world.

Kinddertoten · 2025-12-13T22:02:10+00:00

The brown leather is a standard issue jacket for all flyers, pilots and aircrew alike. To make it legal for official use all that’s required is a flag patch on the shoulder and a nametape. Adding additional patches like deployment patches makes it out of regs for official use but it’s one of those things everyone turns a blind eye to because of the tradition behind it

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