Tailgunner or crew chief?

[Alex7]

Hey guys,i was planning on ch 53 crew chief and everyone tells me its great.But i started thinking about being a tailgunner.i know basic duties of each but i'd like to hear from people what each does most of the time and which would be more enjoyable.I appreciate it

[Achped]

Tailgunner will have you sitting on a bucket staring at the desert making condition 1 and 4 every time you fly inside the wire. I never saw tail gunners though, just side.

Crew chief will have you yelling at guys like me because our seatbelts are ****ed up.

[Capital M]

Welcome back Cpl!

[Books]

Is tailgunner even an MOS? I thought it was just a billet carried out by other aircrew, kind of like anyone can man up for door gunner when there is only one crew chief on board.

Also, I have the AG contract field, and unless you're like me with connections, you can't be guaranteed a specific airframe. Most likely you'll end up on the MV-22. The word on the street is that all new aircrew are being shafted to the MV-22 and hardly anyone new gets training in CH-53E or UH-1N/Y, and probably nobody for the CH-46.

[phantasm]

Also, I have the AG contract field, and unless you're like me with connections, you can't be guaranteed a specific airframe.

Enjoy blowing your own horn huh? Something tells me that will stop soon enough.

[Books]

Enjoy blowing your own horn huh? Something tells me that will stop soon enough.

I'll blow your horn if the price is right.

[phantasm]

I'll blow your horn if the price is right.

Wow. Come talk to me when you get some salt behind your ears kid. I'm not a Marine, nor an official poolee just yet. But I have 5yrs of prior service. So when you've man'd up come find me and we'll talk about it.

[GSEMarine94]

Is tailgunner even an MOS?

there is no such thing as a "Tailgunner" in the Marines, the position is called an AO (Aerial Observer). This is not an MOS but as long as you pass all of the requirements, swim qualification (not the one in boot), vision, written tests and receive the proper amount of training flights you can earn the AO title and wear flight wings. You are not aircrew unless you have wings, thus being in the airwing does not qualify someone as being aircrew.

[Capital M]

Enjoy blowing your own horn huh? Something tells me that will stop soon enough.

8/24 heh heh

[Books]

So when you've man'd up come find me and we'll talk about it.

No need. I'll tell you up front that I'm cash only. Next time you're in New York and lookin' for a good time, you should drop me a line. They don't call me Cock Face for nothing.

[phantasm]

No need. I'll tell you up front that I'm cash only. Next time you're in New York and lookin' for a good time, you should drop me a line. They don't call me Cock Face for nothing.

Man I would love to be in boot and watch them break you. Your attitude is crap and you clearly have no respect. Your holier than thou attitude is going to land you in some deep trouble someday. I can rest assured that someone is going to beat you real bad one day, then and only then will you realize you've been a fool.

Good luck with your obsession with cocks. I'll be sure to write my DI friend at MCRD PI around 9/1 and inform him of your obsession. That should be fun for you. Until then, **** off kid.

[MarinesFTW]

From the looks of it Books you need to chill, your still a poolee you have nothing over any one here at all, your still at the bottem of the chain, and asking a nother guy to touch ur cock.. Well, they dont let gays into the military, think I should let ur recruiter know.

[GavinL91]

So what is the name for the mos that travels in a aircraft,delivers and recieves Marines,and travel to and frm combat zones,A name and a mos # would be cool.

(I need another choice if my 1st mos 0481 doesnt workout)

[FirstGen]

Man I would love to be in boot and watch them break you. Your attitude is crap and you clearly have no respect. Your holier than thou attitude is going to land you in some deep trouble someday. I can rest assured that someone is going to beat you real bad one day, then and only then will you realize you've been a fool.

Good luck with your obsession with cocks. I'll be sure to write my DI friend at MCRD PI around 9/1 and inform him of your obsession. That should be fun for you. Until then, **** off kid.

I'll let you know, I'll be there.

[Books]

Your attitude is crap and you clearly have no respect.

My attitude is fantastic and I have tons of respect for most people - just not for you.

I don't know you, you don't know me, but clearly you like making sweeping generalizations about my attitude and respect. I am an extremely motivated, hard-charging poolee. I am entrusted with my recruiters with a lot of delicate responsibilities incident to their own jobs that probably no other poolee has ever been trusted to do, ever. I didn't come off the varsity football team and my dad ain't no senator and I've worked hard to be the poolee that I can be, so the last thing I could really care about is for some person to make judgment calls on my character over the internet. Notice how I don't respond to you seriously. I am mocking you. I don't care if you were a guardsman or an 11B, your BS means nothing to me, and for someone saying I am "holier than thou", you really got a lot of sanctimony yourself for preaching about what is going to happen to me.

And if you really are that dense to think I am really interested in exchanging sexual favors, then I think it is obvious who is going to have a rougher time down the road. You take yourself too seriously.