Here's a motivating picture:

An E/A-18G Growler. That's the ideal airframe I want to fly, and evidently not many guys choose electronic attack over fighters, so my chances are decent at getting assigned this airframe. 

There has been a recent release about Navy Nuclear Power School instructors allegedly cheating on their qualification tests. While some people are equating it to the Air Force's missilier cheating scandal, I really don't think it is anything close to say the Navy has just as bad of a scandal on its hands. Think about it: the Air Force is dealing with a scandal of around 100 commissioned officers in charge of the ultimate weapons of mass destruction: Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missiles. These officers have allegedly been involved in things from drugs while on duty to cheating on their qualification tests in proficiency to fire and operate the missiles. That's a big deal. There are serious issues with the strategic defense portion of the Air Force and the scandal, including complacency, mission relevance, narrowness of promotion pipeline, but mostly (and most disappointingly) a sheer lack of integrity. 

The Navy is dealing with senior enlistedmen (not commissioned officers) that were offering new instructors the answers via their home computers (which is also a leak of classified information, since all Navy nuclear power information is classified) to the qualification tests. That shows a huge lack of integrity among these individuals. It's an utter disappointment to see this lack of motivation and integrity among the military's senior enlistedmen, especially those charged with training this nation's officers that will go on to operate nuclear reactors in submarines and on aircraft carriers. So fundamentally these are both huge issues, but in practicality the Air Force issue is much worse because this occurred at an operational command where the leadership, who by the way were in charge of the most deadly weapons on Earth, sets the example that is only corrosive to a command and leadership structure. To me, that is a shame.

Anyways, today I woke up and saw that we had gotten about 5 inches of snow overnight, on top of what we already had on the ground. And now we have a big storm moving our way this weekend. I have never prayed so much for spring to arrive.