Friday, September 23, 2011

What is life as a Pilot like on a carrier?

I plan on joining the Marines as a Pilot, I Will be going to the Naval Academy and hoping to be stationed on a carrier at some time in my career. What is life like on a carrier for a pilot? What are their quarters like? Are you treated like any other officer or do you have special privileges?|||You life ain't much different than a Naval Pilot.You go to same training with them, however your squadron made up all marine pilots but some mechanic will be Navy, if you do good during your first duty station, and had excellent flight record could apply for Top Gun.





To be hornets i respect Marine officer more than Navy, because they usually are better behave treat enlisted either navy or marine better unlike some Naval Officer who too often point out rank. I know this since i work one deployment during service for the officer quarter and mess room. Quarter for squadron is not as good as ship's officer, because most of the squadron crew either officer or enlisted station in O3 level which can get a lot of noise when launch and recover aircraft. Quarter size is about the same as ship's officer, if you rank is Captain or below you will get roomate from 6 to 4 usually, Major and up can get 1 roomate, executive officer and up has his or her own room, not always the case but mostly are structure like that. The room are similar to some of the college quarter size, the bed is much smaller however. Officer has its own mess room and bathroom, which often they don't had to wait in the in line unlike enlisted. Also you get off the ship faster than enlisted, they call out officer first, ranking matter a lot in a ship than in the base.

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