With the ANG contract background, I was convinced that the A-10C was feature complete. Does Wags’ comment give us reason to dream that a paid update would add content to the Warthog (versus a free graphics update)?
Sure would be nice to upgrade to a more recent A-10C block, get that sweet HMD + LITENING cuing action!
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heavy breathing
DCS:A-10C+ 
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Too late to the party !? ( I also missed the oportunity to ask something ).
But this is oc great to hear - ‘small step for avatar but great leap for combat sim world’
…oc right the last sentance is not that great 
Technically it should be called a Ready Room.
A typical brief for an “Event” (the bunch of planes of all types that are launched together) starts with Weather (from the ship’s METOC center), followed by an OPS/Intel brief by one of the squadron intel officers in the ship’s intel center (CVIC). Those two briefs are sent to each ready room about 2 hours prior to launch, via a secure close circuit TV system, controlled in CVIC.
After that, the aircrew flying conduct their own specific mission briefs in ther ready rooms.
It would be cool if they format this like the real thing.
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We are gonna need a brig…
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If I was a snarky person I might reply to that with, “I’m sure @Navynuke99 can provide us with some of his first hand impressions and descriptions of a carrier’s brig.” …but I’m not a snarky person so I’ll refrain from posting anything like that.
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This made me belly laugh. Exceedingly good work 
So I was friends with a girl in the print shop, who’s roommate (one of the photographers) was dating one of the MA’s (masters at arms, the shipboard hall monitors who supposedly were in charge of security, but always got their butts handed to them when running security drills against most shipboard departments, to the point where they complained so much that Reactor wasn’t allowed to play with them for security drills), and he was in charge of the brig, but never had much to do down there. Or so it seemed - he spent a lot of time hanging out on the mess decks giving out “speeding tickets” to people who’s uniforms weren’t clean or pressed enough for his liking, or their boots weren’t shiny enough, or their shave wasn’t fresh enough.
Needless to say, I despised him.
And I knew where the brig was, because we sent a couple of our dirtbags there TAD, but I never spent any time down there. But I know that when we had a huge rash of underaged DUI’s the CO was sending junior sailors there for 3 days of bread and water after they got masted.
@Hangar200, I’ll let you activate the Sailor Interpreter.
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Reminds me of when my father was in Afghanistan and an SGM was camped out at a PX in one of the major cities, handing out violations for stupid stuff like not short enough haircut, etc. He “caught” my father and tried “correcting” him… Until he realized he was talking to a COL. Backed down pretty quick after that!
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I love those kinds of stories.
Fortunately, said mall cop was the same rank as me, so I found all manner of new and creative ways to tell him to… mind his own business, and my upper chain of command had an incredibly short fuse when it came to people with nothing better to do trying to play those kinds of reindeer games, so usually said “speeding tickets” were torn up or lit on fire by our senior (Mustang) officers or master chiefs.
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We are getting way off topic, but I can’t resist the tangent. When I was an active duty E3, I had to swap vehicles one weekend with my dad, an O6, for one reason or another. Can’t remember why. When I got back to Ft. Monmouth, NJ, going through the gate the first time, the fun began with a snap to and salute after the wave through by the gate MP. Neither my dad or I had thought about the Eagle decal next to the usual officer indicator. Anyway, a couple of days later, I got pulled over for making a U turn on base where I shouldn’t have. The MP came to the window and snapped to with a salute and begin barking off why he had pulled me over. I was trying to get a word in to let him know that I wasn’t an officer, but he kept going with his respectful diatribe with his eyes locked over the top of the vehicle, a 1973 Monte Carlo. Anyway, as soon as he was done, he executed a perfect about face and marched back to his truck, never bothering to ask me for ID or let me say anything. The were two other E3s whom I worked with in the car and we all sat there laughing while he drove off. I was their hero for a couple of days. I hated giving that car up the following weekend, but I’m sure that my ass would have been grass had either the platoon sgt or worse found out. “We are all equal under the law, just some more equal than others.”
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THIS got me so much.
Sorry (sorta) for the continued off tangent trajectory, but this was demonstrated in a great scene from the PBS “Carrier” documentary series.
An undesignated sailor went to Dental with complaints of serious tooth pains, and was told to wait. Meanwhile, a Lieutenant showed up for routine dental recall and was seen immediately. The young sailor kinda shrugged at the camera, and said something to the effect of, “yep, there it is.”
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Did I know this happens? Yes. Have I seen it happen? Again, Yes. Did I ever do something about it? Yes, when I could. “No, no, I can wait, this sailor was here first.”
That said, there are some places…the base barber shops come to mind…where it is their policy, and it is posted. In those cases I went first / jumped the line.
The philosophy behind that is that an officer’s time is more consequential. When I was an O5 /O6 that was probably true. When I was an O1/O2? Not so much.
And now I am a retired O6 and at the back, back of the line…and I have no problem with that. 
Sea Story:
So I’m in the NOB Norfolk NEX, uniform shop–in the changing room trying on a pair of mess dress trousers (black). I happen to be in khakis. I put the trousers on and walk outside (in my socks) to let my wife take a look at the waist.
As I am walking back in to my changing cubical, I pass by a Mustang O1. Just after I pass him I hear, “Hey Petty Officer!”. I’m thinking, he couldn’t be talking to me. Again, “Petty Officer!” I realize that I am in a khaki shirt with black trousers, i.e. essentially a petty officer uniform. True, I am wearing Captain Eagles…but maybe he saw them as petty officer insignia…but I am wearing something like 5 rows of ribbons, a gold warfare device and a command pin…still…OK, lets see what he wants…
Politely but firmly, “Are you speaking to me Ensign?”
His initial stern look disappeared as he actually squinted to see my rank insignia better, to be replaced by a very confused look… then he waffled a bit of “Oh…um…I thought…um…never mind Sir.”
Now what was he going to tell me? That I shouldn’t have walked out without my shoes on? That I was out of uniform? Really? Technically he might have been correct but I know I would never have said a thing to a sailor, chief, or junior officer doing the same thing. Getting CINCHOUSE’s opinion trumps all!
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Emphasis added to the key word there. 
As a chief I had as an instructor in Power School once told us:
“Ensigns are like flags- they’re there to be seen, saluted, and otherwise ignored unless it’s time to begin or leave work.”
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He was a Mustang Ensign (I always looked for the “Didn’t Get Caught” ribbon) so I didn’t use my command voice…but you are correct, the word Ensign was emphasized…just as it was emphasized to me more times than I care to remember.
Your Chief was a wise man.
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