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Regarding PLC, one of my best friends went through it following college. We were freshman together when 9/11 happened and I dropped out and enlisted in the Marine Corps. He stayed and after his...

Well, here is nine months later Ben is still with the Harrier squadron at Cherry Point...one was disbanded. He is up for promotion to Major. Has mixed feelings, he won't be a junior officer any more....

I am a little hesitant to post this, so please do remove it should it be out of bounds in any way. You Marines on this board were my lifeline when the recruit dad was reaching out for sense of what I...

Ben is on his first deployment as active duty...he deployed to Iraq as a Reserve. I think I mentioned that he has billet as Air Officer, which means is in on non flying status. He got underway in...

There is a wealth of information here. Do you hav thetraining matrix?

Captain.

Ben completed training and is now qualified as an aviation forward observer. He well be assigned to a battalion out of Lejune for his first MEU in a few months. They had to fast track hm to get this...

Have not posted in a while. Not a lot of news to share. But Ben has gained enough experience to be lead on some of the training. And he is also getting trained for a future deployment as a forward...

He said the training was good, but they were confined to base, which makes for long evenings. He was hppy to get some more qualification fulfilled.

Ben has had a session with his CO and the bottom line is that he wants to stay in and the Corps want to retain him. He was told his probable course for the future and it is what he was looking for....

Well, I had the meeting with the staffer from local office. I gave him a couple of weeks to respond, then today I called him. It was a most unsatisfactory conversation. He gave me boilerplate and...

No doubt, I would! I did meet with a staffer from my Congressman and I asked him not attach my name to my request for a progress report. The integrity of the Squadron Commander is what just would not...

My concern is the propublica piece I linked to that calls into question the official investigation.

It has been suggested to me that my even mentioning this might have negative repercussions for my son. Any thoughts? If there is even a chance, I would delete the topic.

Found it...1600+ pages
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https://news.usni.org/2019/09/26/marine-investigation-into-fatal-fighter-tanker-crash-off-japan

This piece from Japan Times seems to indicate that the report has been released.
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It's out. The article i linked has quotes. Perhaps they had to do a FOIA to get it. I have emailed one of the authors. If he replies, maybe he has some info.

I have looked for the report of the investigation but cannot find it. If anyone can, I would appreciate a link.

That was a major point for the squadron commander as he alerted his chain to multiple ticking time bombs. When Mattis made SecDef I had such high hopes that rooting out non-hackers might just be...

This is my first in the Aviation forum. My participation has been limited to the Parent forum "Recruit dad here." My son is currently assigned to VMA-542 at Cherry Point. When I began that thread,...

Being a Mustang, he knows all about the NCO's and has none of the "know-it-all" attitude. He's wrapping that big west coast exercise and looking forward to hetting back to home base ASAP.

Ben reported to the fleet in June, remaining at Cherry Point with VMA-542. The transition has been a little slow. The squadron is deploying later this year and their training began before he...

Thank you kindly. As I have said before, I am grateful for this board and the input that y'all made. Esp in the early days, when I knew pretty much nothing, It was easy for me to keep it going. So, a...

No danger of his forgetting that.

Ben has been flight training for over three and a half years. Hard to believe how in WW2, the were putting kids in planes after just a few weeks. Next big thing is a training detachment to Yuma at...