CH-46 Being Fazed Out, Osprey Being Fazed In

My son's MOS (assigned job specialty) is a CH-46 frame mechanic... but rumor has it that these guys are being switched over to the Osprey, as, they are the new standard. The hope is that my son will be one of those switch-overs. Here are a few of my thoughts on it. The Marines and Air Force are the only branches so far who are utilizing it... more will be bought for them as they faze out the CH-46s. 

My son's reservist job is up at Edward's Air Force base, where they have some stationed... chances are good they will want to train the next generation of Osprey mechanics and have them get hands on these machines.

CH-46E - 6152 Airframes
6152 Helicopter Airframe Mechanic, CH-46
MOS Type: Enlisted Primary

N23E2X2 Aviation Warfare Apprentice Training (AWAT) Course taught at Marine Aviation Training Support Group, NAS Pensacola, FL

N23WSG2 Aviation Structural Mechanic Core taught at Marine Aviation Training Support Group, NAS Pensacola, FL

N23WSH2 Aviation Structural Mechanic Organizational Level Strand taught at

Marine Aviation Training Support Group, NAS Pensacola, FL

M05WNU1 H-46 Structural And Hydraulic Systems Organizational Maintenance taught at CNATT MARUNIT, MCAS New River, NC

C-603-3419C, H-46 Structural And Hydraulic System OMA Course

Some Video & Pics from My Son's Graduation from MCRD - A New Marine Is Birthed

"Display run" prior to hanging out with family on Family Day

(Dom-Diego) Family Day Run from Papa Giorgio on Vimeo.

Dismissed - Family Day

(Dom-Diego) Dismissed from Papa Giorgio on Vimeo.

Lining up for graduation formation

(Dom-Diego) Last Formation for Boot Camp from Papa Giorgio on Vimeo.

Dismissed! This is the LAST order Dom will hear from his D.I. (Drill Instructor)

(Dom-Diego) Last Order from Drill Sgt. -- Dismissed! from Papa Giorgio on Vimeo.

I will be gone for about a week

I did change and add some stuff though... to keep you busy. In the left-hand column I joined the Prager & Medved boxes with other "Pundits & Personalities." I added many Milton Friedman videos via LibertyPen, more to come of Stossel, Sowell, Williams, and others.

I am going down to San Diego to pick up a Marine.

Halfway Through Crucible -- Hardest Time for Prospective Marines (personal request)

We are in a prayer chain, and for the entire Crucible family and friends choose and hour to pray. We have Tues., Wed., and Thurs. at 4am. If any of you just wish to lift up these young men of Golf Company down in San Diego... all prayers accepted. You can pray not only for these young men, but also for the Drill Instructors and others in command, the families, and also for the prayer warriors. You should keep all our men and women in prayer normally, but if you want to throw my son's name up there to the "Big-Guy," no-harm-no-foul. Its silly, but I am teary eyed in pain for him to finish the task placed before him... because I know how much he wants it.

The Crucible is about half over. Tomorrow is that 10-mile hike/hill that is a legend in Marine lore that is found in a couple movies. So I have included one of the many great chapters that warriors can pray from in the hope that you can pray from it as well for these young men starting out in the task of serving their country.

His name is Dominic, and he is in the third row, 7th in as the camera pans right with that row in clear view.

Platoon 2142 from Papa Giorgio on Vimeo.

91 You who sit down in the High God’s presence,

     spend the night in Shaddai’s shadow,

     Say this: “God, you’re my refuge.

     I trust in you and I’m safe!”

     That’s right—he rescues you from hidden traps,

     shields you from deadly hazards.

     His huge outstretched arms protect you—

     under them you’re perfectly safe;

     his arms fend off all harm.

     Fear nothing—not wild wolves in the night,

     not flying arrows in the day,

     Not disease that prowls through the darkness,

     not disaster that erupts at high noon.

     Even though others succumb all around,

     drop like flies right and left,

     no harm will even graze you.

     You’ll stand untouched, watch it all from a distance,

     watch the wicked turn into corpses.

     Yes, because God’s your refuge,

     the High God your very own home,

     Evil can’t get close to you,

     harm can’t get through the door.

     He ordered his angels

     to guard you wherever you go.

     If you stumble, they’ll catch you;

     their job is to keep you from falling.

     You’ll walk unharmed among lions and snakes,

     and kick young lions and serpents from the path.

     “If you’ll hold on to me for dear life,” says God,

     “I’ll get you out of any trouble.

     I’ll give you the best of care

     if you’ll only get to know and trust me.

     Call me and I’ll answer, be at your side in bad times;

     I’ll rescue you, then throw you a party.

     I’ll give you a long life,

     give you a long drink of salvation!”

My Son's Platoon (graduation is soon)

Platoon 2142 from Papa Giorgio on Vimeo.

Granny and grampy walked into the lobby of the Mayo Clinic for a checkup and spotted a piano. They proceed to get down with their bad selves. They've been married for 62 years and he'll be 90 this year.

Uplifting Story of the Day

Coulter, Cosby, and the View

One wonders if the View ladies would be so hard -- equally -- on other “acolytes” who hold top the same points, first Ann Coulter.

Now, I wonder if the same disdain would be held for the following person, would Whoopie give a grilling like this to Bill Cosby? Atlantic Monthly article, “This Is How We Lost to the White Man:”

...“Understand me,” Cosby said, his face contorted and clenched like a fist. “Men? Men? Men! Where are you, men?”

Audience: “Right here!”

Cosby had come to Detroit aiming to grab the city’s black men by their collars and shake them out of the torpor that has left so many of them—like so many of their peers across the country—undereducated, over-incarcerated, and underrepresented in the ranks of active fathers. No women were in the audience. No reporters were allowed, for fear that their presence might frighten off fathers behind on their child-support payments. But I was there, trading on race, gender, and a promise not to interview any of the allegedly skittish participants.

“Men, if you want to win, we can win,” Cosby said. “We are not a pitiful race of people. We are a bright race, who can move with the best. But we are in a new time, where people are behaving in abnormal ways and calling it normal … When they used to come into our neighborhoods, we put the kids in the basement, grabbed a rifle, and said, ‘By any means necessary.’

“I don’t want to talk about hatred of these people,” he continued. “I’m talking about a time when we protected our women and protected our children. Now I got people in wheelchairs, paralyzed. A little girl in Camden, jumping rope, shot through the mouth. Grandmother saw it out the window. And people are waiting around for Jesus to come, when Jesus is already within you.”

Cosby was wearing his standard uniform—dark sunglasses, loafers, a sweat suit emblazoned with the seal of an institution of higher learning. That night it was the University of Massachusetts, where he’d gotten his doctorate in education 30 years ago. He was preaching from the book of black self-reliance, a gospel that he has spent the past four years carrying across the country in a series of events that he bills as “call-outs.” “My problem,” Cosby told the audience, “is I’m tired of losing to white people. When I say I don’t care about white people, I mean let them say what they want to say. What can they say to me that’s worse than what their grandfather said?”

From Birmingham to Cleveland and Baltimore, at churches and colleges, Cosby has been telling thousands of black Americans that racism in America is omnipresent but that it can’t be an excuse to stop striving. As Cosby sees it, the antidote to racism is not rallies, protests, or pleas, but strong families and communities. Instead of focusing on some abstract notion of equality, he argues, blacks need to cleanse their culture, embrace personal responsibility, and reclaim the traditions that fortified them in the past. Driving Cosby’s tough talk about values and responsibility is a vision starkly different from Martin Luther King’s gauzy, all-inclusive dream: it’s an America of competing powers, and a black America that is no longer content to be the weakest of the lot. ...

Although Cosby blames racism primarily (remember, he thinks AIDS was an invention by the white man to kill off Black Africans), he says the main catalyst behind the black family failing is the destruction of the black family (an evil plot of the embedded racism of course). An interview on Meet the Press is telling, look at the stats at the beginning of the show from Cosby’s book:

It sounds like the same message, but if a black man says it, its alright? Okay, Here ya go:

Black & Right blog:

After decades of banishment to housing projects, inferior public schools, lured dependence on social programs, targeted abortions, and glamorized the gangsta' lifestyle, thanks to Barack Obama the left has now discovered the fact that there IS a black America not doing so well.

• In 1950, at the height of the Jim Crow era and despite the shattering legacy of slavery, the great majority of black children — an estimated 85 percent — were born to their two married parents. Just 15 years later, there seemed to be no obvious reason that that would change. With the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, legal barriers to equality were falling. The black middle class had grown substantially, and the first five years of the 1960s had produced 7 million new jobs. Yet 24 percent of black mothers were then bypassing marriage.

As this is in the Washington Post, this is supposed to be a news flash?

Dad... I'm Watching You