Hey there, my name's Arin. I am a prior service Marine. I got out of the Marines in March 2014 after a 5 year enlistment as a UH-1Y Huey Crew Chief/Door Gunner. I was stationed on Camp Pendleton, and deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 for 7 months. My units were HMLA-267 for a year, and then my last 3 years I was with HMLA-469 Vengeance. Spent a lot of time working in support of SOF units, primarily in Afghanistan. We provided CAS for a few ODA's, MSOT's, SEAL Teams,; inserted and picked those guys as well as Australian SOF dudes, and Airforce CCT's up in both devil & winter zones. Then finally we provided escort constantly for Air Force CSAR MH-60's, known as "Pedro".
I stumbled across ShadowSpear while perusing other forums for information about USAF PJ Indoc and pipeline info. After getting out of the Marine Corps I immediately moved to Bend, OR to start attending college, pursuing a degree in Aviation, and attaining all of my Helicopter Pilot Ratings. I am nearly complete with my Associates and am now a Commercially Rated Helo pilot working on my instructor certifications. After much deliberation with my wife, but mostly myself, I decided to go back into the military. I decided the Airforce is the best choice, and am looking to become a PJ. I've done a lot of work with PJ's, have a few friends that are pararescueman, and I have the utmost respect for those guys. I've seen them fly into some of the most hostile zones under crazy amounts of small-arms fire, sound cool as fuck on the radio, to pick up some Afghan Soldiers that were blown to shit and still saved their lives. Also during a sniper-team insert, our helicopter took fire and browned-out and we rolled down a hill. Who came to us to pry my still-alive pilot out of his seat, and then recover two Australian operators who had been crushed? The PJ's of course. They have a tough as shit job, and sometimes deal with some exceptionally shitty-shit, like them prying my buddies bodies off some mountain side in the Himalayas a few weeks ago.. But they do it better than anyone, and they don't complain. So that's where I want to be these days and am committed to doing anything to get there.
I apologize for the short novel, and sounding like I'm sucking PJ's dicks, but on the other-hand it would be my honor ;) Anyways, thanks for reading it and I'm glad to be in this forum now....
I stumbled across ShadowSpear while perusing other forums for information about USAF PJ Indoc and pipeline info. After getting out of the Marine Corps I immediately moved to Bend, OR to start attending college, pursuing a degree in Aviation, and attaining all of my Helicopter Pilot Ratings. I am nearly complete with my Associates and am now a Commercially Rated Helo pilot working on my instructor certifications. After much deliberation with my wife, but mostly myself, I decided to go back into the military. I decided the Airforce is the best choice, and am looking to become a PJ. I've done a lot of work with PJ's, have a few friends that are pararescueman, and I have the utmost respect for those guys. I've seen them fly into some of the most hostile zones under crazy amounts of small-arms fire, sound cool as fuck on the radio, to pick up some Afghan Soldiers that were blown to shit and still saved their lives. Also during a sniper-team insert, our helicopter took fire and browned-out and we rolled down a hill. Who came to us to pry my still-alive pilot out of his seat, and then recover two Australian operators who had been crushed? The PJ's of course. They have a tough as shit job, and sometimes deal with some exceptionally shitty-shit, like them prying my buddies bodies off some mountain side in the Himalayas a few weeks ago.. But they do it better than anyone, and they don't complain. So that's where I want to be these days and am committed to doing anything to get there.
I apologize for the short novel, and sounding like I'm sucking PJ's dicks, but on the other-hand it would be my honor ;) Anyways, thanks for reading it and I'm glad to be in this forum now....
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