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vincent p. norris wrote:
Also, you'll have to talk to an officer to get the full story, but I do believe USMC officers have 2 jobs at all times. ..... Few, if any, pilots in the USMC have flying as their sole duty When I got my wings in 1951 and joined a squadron at Cherry Point, I was promptly made the squadron's Navigation Officer and Intelligence Officer. It prolly won't ever, realistically, happen, but I'd welcome the chance to go back with you, fifty-whatever years after your arrival at NKT, and my twenty- ... ... ... eight years after arrival, and compare notes on what it was then, then^2, and now, twenty-plus years after I left there. OJ III [Who suggests that you were lucky that 1951 was *long* before Marine, or any other service's, squadrons needed a Drug and Alcohol Abuse O, or SNCO.] -- OJ III [Email sent to Yahoo addy is burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast] |
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Ogden Johnson III wrote:
"Mike M." wrote: Here are the figures for a PFT: [Skipped] I forget the time frame but I believe their basic was 3 months just like enlisted but the TBS was 8-9 months as opposed to our MCT (combat training for non-infantry) was 3 weeks. So in total, your minimum basic training will be almost a year. And that's before you go to your A-school to learn the job you'll do. Dont know the numbers for Navy but I believe them to be much, much shorter. So do you want to spend a year learning how to drill, land navigation, water purification, squad tactics and fill out paperwork? Or would you rather just get it over with and start working? Enlisted training has varied over the past 50+ years in durations, if not concepts - shorter during VN, longer before and after. Now it is, sort of, back to pre-VN structure. 12-week training curriculum + a "Zero week" of 3-7 days depending on time of year/training load at the MCRDs for screening, shots, etc. Followed by a four-week "infantry" training course for Marines of all MOSs [that "Every Marine is a rifleman" thing - in the late-50s/early-60s it was called ITR] before going on boot leave and then on to their "A" school MOS training. [The 03s {grunts} now have an "A" school of their own, the School of Infantry. In my day, their post-ITR training was at the tender mercies of their Company Gunny, Platoon Sgt, and Squad and Fire-Team leaders.] snip In 1970 (8 week boot camp), it was still called ITR (Infantry Training Regiment), but the O3XX's then went to BITS (Basic Infantry Training School), then Staging (4 weeks?) then Nam. I don't remember if non-03XXs went through Staging before Nam or not. Joe -- OJ III [Email sent to Yahoo addy is burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast] -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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It prolly won't ever, realistically, happen, but I'd welcome the
chance to go back with you... Are you going to Kitty Hawk in December for the celebration of the Wright Brothers' first powered flights? I've been going every year and I'll be there again this year unless the wx is below mins or there's severe icing between central PA and NC. I'll be at "The Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society" banquet in the Comfort Inn at Nag's Head on Dec. 16, and at the various "happy hours" after that--but mostly at the Naval Aviation group. I pay my respects to the others-- the Daedalians, the Air Force, the First Flight Society-- but they're nice and sedate (boring). The Naval Aviation party is so much better even some of the Air Force guys end up there. but I'd welcome the chance to go back with you, fifty-whatever years after your arrival at NKT, Damn near sixty years. I first arrived there in late summer, 1946, fresh from Parris Island, and became a radio operator on an R5C-1 in VMR 252. I was astonished! No one stuck his nose right up against mine and yelled at me! And they let me go in town on weekends! I thought, "I might get to like this!" and my twenty- ... ... ... eight years after arrival, and compare notes on what it was then, then^2, and now, I'd be delighted, if you're going to be there. I'll be staying at the Comfort Inn South, Nag's Head, headquarters of the MWNFMS. twenty-plus years after I left there. I left for the last time in July, 1954. OJ III [Who suggests that you were lucky that 1951 was *long* before Marine, or any other service's, squadrons needed a Drug and Alcohol Abuse O, or SNCO.] Right! vince norris |
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vincent p. norris wrote:
It prolly won't ever, realistically, happen, but I'd welcome the chance to go back with you... Are you going to Kitty Hawk in December for the celebration of the Wright Brothers' first powered flights? Sigh. Right when the Navy always wants every piece of assigned work due by mid-Jan in early, so that they can virtually shut down, like the rest of the gummint in DC, for XMas/New Years, and a two-week recovery period. Still, I've saved your post and the idea, in case a miracle occurs and I somehow get free. -- OJ III [Email sent to Yahoo addy is burned before reading. Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast] |
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