View Your Pipeline Strips
API Strips
View the beginning phases of Naval Aviation
Start the journey towards those wings of gold with the API characters
Primary Strips
View the Primary phase of training
Follow the adventures of Doerr, Red Knight, Shooter, Boomer and Ranger
NFO Strips
View the struggles of being a NFO
Look at life from the backseat wtih Warbuck Duck, Cosmic Cat and Saberhawk
Helo Strips
View the strips of being in the brotary training
Learn how helos fly with Eightballer, Vigilant Eagle and Hellion
Multi-Engine Strips
View multi-engine strips
Fly asymmetrically for leg day with Wise Owl and Stingray
Jet Strips
View pointy nose jet training
Feel the need for speed with Redhawk, Eagle, Tiger and Golden Eagle
94. YASSS
You all know that feeling… it’s the one where the instructor happily comes over ICS saying “Alright, take us home” and you realize you made it through without a screw up. Just don’t blow it on course rules, champ.
93. STOP…Boarding Time
We’re pretty certain they’re still mad about the government shutdown, so leave the submarines at home for at least another decade or so.
92. Killjoyride
Doerr may be able to reach escape velocity, but he can’t escape the same type of questions that haunt every pilot…
91. NAMI WHAMY
NAMI… They are the bouncer of flight school and they live for body shaming. They’ll separate you from the pack and then decide your fate…
90. Be Gentle
You’ve done all the prep work you can do. Everyone has heard the rumors about this IP, but he can’t be THAT bad.
88. Back in the Day
Back in the day, linemen used captured lightning bugs to taxi us across the freshly grazed fields for takeoff…
87. Tuned Out
After hearing the same briefs every day for months on end, one can only imagine how often instructors tune students out. Don’t despair, little doers and friends, for this is an opportunity. Mention Thor when briefing weather. See how many “meows” you can squeeze in. Throw in lyrics from your favorite song. Most importantly, never, and I mean NEVER, say unicorn. Note: Doerr Comics is not responsible for ready room unsats due to obnoxious briefs.
86. Flight School
Looks like Red Knight is getting the flight school experience… Just apply the techniques and you’ll be fine, right? All the gouge and books tell you exactly what to do, so how could you possibly pluck this up? Maybe if you reread NATOPS you’ll understand flying better.
85. Book Issue
The excitement of that first trip to book issue is matched only by the abject terror experienced as you leave. The weight of the books seems small compared to the task of reading through them all. Fear not friends! Before you know it, you’ll be turning those books back in and moving on to the next school. Of course your first stop will probably be…
84. Stached
Very few make it through the program without having a long wait somewhere between phases of training. While waiting around, you do the one thing you can do to prove to everyone you’re an aviator: grow a mustache! Now you don’t have to tell everyone you’re a pilot, though you still will. Here’s to the original aviator comic who doesn’t need a ‘stache to prove he’s a pilot. It would hide that Top Gun gorgeous face of his and we can’t have that.
83. Intent to Kill Time
You just debriefed, cancelled, or left muster. You’re on a mental high and pumped up. The sun is shining, plenty of hours left in the day, and you’re feeling great. Somehow in your drive home you received 42 notifications on your Facegram, Instachats, Snapbooks, Tik-Taks, Grindm and Whatever app you use to meet people (we promise we won’t tell). I guess productivity is relative. Going through all that needs to happen at some point… why not do that for an hour or 7?
82. Solo Selfie
We are in no way promoting this activity or saying you can get away with it. But when you allegedly do, don’t go posting your selfie around. Not only do we all know you’re not supposed to, but anyone else in the flight program skips past your posted picture faster than a smoker does the tobacco cessation course. #ProtectThisAirspace
81. Avenge the Attrited
With Endgame around the corner, we couldn’t pass this up. Unfortunately, the nature of flight school requires some people to be cut, and there’s always an ebb and flow on the needs of the fleet and the numbers in the program. After you’ve assembled your study buddies and downtown groups, you are bound to have a good friend attrited. Fear not, Doerrs… They are in a happier place. Maybe with a bold pair of infinity stones, you’ll be able to make it through and avenge them.
80. Believe Pill
Top of the mornin’ to ya lads and lasses. It’s every functional alcoholic’s favorite holiday! You’ll likely do what you do every weekend, but now in all green
79. Selection Wheel
Top of the mornin’ to ya lads and lasses. It’s every functional alcoholic’s favorite holiday! You’ll likely do what you do every weekend, but now in all green
78. Last DoR Comic Strip
Top of the mornin’ to ya lads and lasses. It’s every functional alcoholic’s favorite holiday! You’ll likely do what you do every weekend, but now in all green
77. MX
Top of the mornin’ to ya lads and lasses. It’s every functional alcoholic’s favorite holiday! You’ll likely do what you do every weekend, but now in all green
76. St Patties
Top of the mornin’ to ya lads and lasses. It’s every functional alcoholic’s favorite holiday! You’ll likely do what you do every weekend, but now in all green
75. I…Don’t Know…
Well sir, that… ah… I mean it comes down to… and you know, the clouds… ummm runway in use… and uh if Mars is in retrograde then… ah…
74. False Idols
There’s always a bigger fish. In every portion of the training pipeline, the students at the next stage seem like gods…
73. Paint Happy Grades
Today is the day! You’ve been waiting for this for a long time. For some crazy reason, the Navy has decided to let you fly that 5 million dollar plane by…
72. Livin Da Dream
Today is the day! You’ve been waiting for this for a long time. For some crazy reason, the Navy has decided to let you fly that 5 million dollar plane by…
71. No
Today is the day! You’ve been waiting for this for a long time. For some crazy reason, the Navy has decided to let you fly that 5 million dollar plane by…
70. Form Callsigns
Form flights are a unique opportunity to fly close with your buddies. More importantly, however, is the choice of your tactical callsign for your flights…
Navy Ospreys?
Congrats to the first batch of navy tilts. Enjoy paving the way for your platform’s entire culture, or just take notes from the Marines and get weird.
69. Dirty Bird
While the world may think we are professionals that are locked on 24/7, that is mostly not the case. Before the next strip, this had to come first…
68. Can I Join?
All students have helmet fires, coming in all shapes and sizes. A helmet fire is a phrase which here means the inner turmoil one has inside their mind…
67. Don’t Do It
Here’s a shout out to all the Spouses of Student Aviators out there for keeping our Student Aviators in check and keeping it together.
66. Furlough Woes
Joke’s on them… looks like the coasties and ATC don’t really wanna be here right now. Do they have to make it hard on each other though?
65. Semper P-aid
Lords of 12 miles from the coast, they save people from storms, make drug busts, and do it all while still remaining extremely relaxed for the most part…
64. Brolo Ballin
There is no greater bromance moment in flight school than completing a Brolo. Nothing better than a dynamic duo riding up in to the sky…
63. How Do They Fly? Pt 1:Magic 8 Ball
The helicopter is a fantastic beast. After learning aerodynamics and how a standard fixed wing aircraft operates, Helo Advanced slaps you in the face and laughs at your naivety…
62. Rudolph?
I think one above MIF could get you on the nice list. Just ask your local Santa grader and he can check it twice for you.
61. Night Before Checkride
Twas the night before Checkrides, and in each little nook
All the students were studying, every face in a book;
The pubs were tabbed and each map was laid out,
In hopes that they’d memorize each term without doubt;
60. Santa
I think one above MIF could get you on the nice list. Just ask your local Santa grader and he can check it twice for you.
59. Kooky Comms Pt 2
They know who you are, but who can resist a snarky comment when you violate the #1 rule of Aviation? Stay cool on the radios my friends.
58. Legend Has It
Long ago, the Aviation Gods created a universe of mystery and fear. A false reality meant to challenge the heroes daring enough to step in to the domain…
57. That Feeling
Let’s all be honest here… The BASH report is always going to be medium. Funny how some birds like to live dangerously and surround airfields just waiting to gift you with a PEL and incomplete flight.
56. BASHd
Let’s all be honest here… The BASH report is always going to be medium. Funny how some birds like to live dangerously and surround airfields just waiting to gift you with a PEL and incomplete flight.
55. Happy BASHgiving
Let’s all be honest here… The BASH report is always going to be medium. Funny how some birds like to live dangerously and surround airfields just waiting to gift you with a PEL and incomplete flight.
54. Safety StandDown BINGO
Now you can actually enjoy a safety stand down and expect fun/responsible/safe activities (drinking) afterwards
53. Be Normal Pt 2
Our corpus cousins make us look normal. I thought that was impossible.
52. Death by CAI
Death by PowerPoint is child’s play to the ruthless monotony of the cruel flicking through CAIs. These computer aided instructions seem critical at first, conveying information you must glue to the forefront of your mind. The poor souls in primary do their best to get through and retain even a couple of the slides. Once you hit advanced, the CAIs aren’t less important, you just can’t seem to remember why you gave a pluck about them before. Just try not to cramp up while you click 4 hours of lessons down to 20 minutes.
51. Birthday Ball
“Today, you are Marines. You’re part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother.”
50. Fall back
Daylight savings nightmare. Get your 8 hours of sleep everyone.
49. MIF or Treat
MIF or treat, shut my beak. Comment something not too bleakIf you don’t, that’s not neat. I’ll receive one more pink sheet…
48. Spooky
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
47. IP Are You Okay?
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
46. How Do You Sleep At Night
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
45. Pluckit
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
44. You Have The Controls
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
43. Basic
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
42. That Familiar Feeling
One of the greatest lessons taught throughout all of flight school is this: You know nothing, SNA Snow.
41. There’s No Way Part 3
When there’s a hole, there’s a way
40. Self Loading Baggage
The FOs have had it with our buffoonery. Welcome to the Doerr Nation you map masters and kings of the comms. Sit back and enjoy the ride, moochers.
39. Primary Math
Math may not be my strong suit, but this seemed pretty simple to me… I can’t wait to watch them calculate DEGA.
38. Smonday
The horrible realization that you’ve done nothing for your brief tomorrow and you shouldn’t have gone to Seville two nights in a row.
37. Be Normal
Deep in the jungles of Naval Aviation Training, Doerr and his friends are on patrol as normal until they take pink sheet fire.
36. Attrition War
Deep in the jungles of Naval Aviation Training, Doerr and his friends are on patrol as normal until they take pink sheet fire.
35. Sick Patch Bruh
The latest Doerr shoulder patch has been released! Limited supply left! Go to shop.doerrcomic.com and get your hands on one now!
34. War Stories
You don’t know! You weren’t there!
33. K
You prepare to text your instructor and don’t want to make a bad first impression. After a hundred revisions, you send the text and finally get a response.
32. Shattered
You go into a brief thinking, there’s no way this can go wrong. Then one little upset just ruins the rest of the flight and your day.
31. The New Place In Town
Shoutout to the Corpus Crew at @mifological_creatures ! Need memes? They’re really the place to go!
30. A Lil’ Slow
Every squadron has its own pace of training and a “personality” is formed from that. Here with the primary training squadrons, we have our slow ones.
29. Witness Me!
Witness my solo! The feeling when you go up by yourself. You pass if the aircraft takes off and lands. How you walk away at the end depends on you…
28. You Tell Me
Hold all questions until the end. After everything’s been graded.
27. Ride That High
It’s always nice to get a good morale boost from anywhere
26. Freedom
Freedom always has a price
25. Safety First
Happy 4th everyone and a shoutout to the poor souls on duty! Hope you don’t have to deal with anything like this.
24. PFT to CFA
CFT: Back due to popular demand. Coming soon to a command near you.
PS: There’s no way we’d get sponsored by Chick-fil-A
23. Sleepy Thoughts
Happens every night… -.-
22. Never Again
Nope…never again
21. Regurgitate the FTI
How do YOU study the FTI?
20. Phoenix
For those on the struggle bus, this one is for you.
19. Don’t You Say That
The mysterious fleek. Instructors rave about it, but they also tell us how good we have it in flight school with minimal ‘sponsibilities. How we go home after a flight instead of flying another two Xs and fulfilling a billet assigned by the squadron. Come to think of it, we do have it good.
18. Replacement
There’s no way I can be stressed today. Students always hope they get the “ideal” instructor that isn’t as harsh in the cockpit. Then there’s the next best thing, the “MIF Monster.” You’ll pass as long as you don’t do anything stupid, but anything you do great, it’ll be a MIF.
17. Perspectives Pt 2
Had a Top Gun moment the other day. Everything looks so cool from the ground.
16. Resting Brief Face
Wonder how difficult it is to live with resting brief face. RBF doesn’t sound like a fun thing to have.
15. Safe for Solo
What did Han do to be redesignated as infantry?
This one is for all the Star Wars fans and for those that have seen Solo.
14. Student Marine Aviators
Check out how different strips view Marines in aviation training.
13. Givin’ her all she’s got!
We need more brain power! There’s just so much going on in your head, there’s gotta be more little Doerrs assigned.
12. Fam 1 Fun
It’s either you survive your first flight unscathed or you’re covered in puke. Bring ziplock bags! Just in case.
11. O-2 Seniority
Based on real-life events. Coast Guard students usually come in as Lieutenant Junior Grades (O-2s) and are usually assigned as class leaders. Luckily for her, I was a 1st Lieutenant (O-2) that was in the class with her and claimed I was senior (which I was). At least she recognized 😛
10. Backseat Pilot
On a flight to San Diego, I could finally be at ease without thinking about being at the controls. The pilot did ok, but there were some rough patches and I’m sure he’ll do great on his next approach.
8.5. CO’s Notes: Revealed
There’s no way the CO would look at the comic, like it or even respond back. But he did! What made it even better was The Landing Strip found us and gave a shout out!
9. There’s No Way Pt. 2
A lil’ birdy told me an Instructor told the solos “There’s no way you’re going up. There’s no way.” Only issue was that the baby birds didn’t know of Doerr Comic, so he corrected them.
8. CO’s Notes
Every CO is different and the one at the time always asked for one good (up) and one bad (down) about Primary flight training at VT-2. He always wrote on his notepad and we always wondered if he actually wrote in it.
7. There’s No Way
On a bad weather day, you and your waiting buddies are constantly debating if you guys are going up. You wish for the best and think “There’s no way.”
6. Perspectives
Every big-eyed student yearns to fly. What most people don’t know is that a lot happens inside the cockpit. Once you look past the tears and yelling, flying is pretty cool though.
5. Ground School
Students are expected to know everything by the time they get to the cockpit. Unfortunately, we don’t know anything.
4. Roll Call
Students are expected to know everything by the time they get to the cockpit. Unfortunately, we don’t know anything.
3. Kooky Comm Calls
It never fails. In our head, we have the most perfect comms call ready to go, but once we activate that stupid switch the words get lost somewhere from the brain to mouth.
2. The Knights
Every time there’s bad weather, you would always see a waiting table full of Doers. There was never a Red Knight at that table because they would come in, and get told to go home.
1. The Claw
While waiting with others in the room, standing by or waiting for your instructor to pick you up was common. Most of the time, they didn’t wanna fly with contact students because they didn’t want to deal with newbies.
94. YASSS
You all know that feeling… it’s the one where the instructor happily comes over ICS saying “Alright, take us home” and you realize you made it through without a screw up. Just don’t blow it on course rules, champ.
93. STOP…Boarding Time
We’re pretty certain they’re still mad about the government shutdown, so leave the submarines at home for at least another decade or so.
92. Killjoyride
Doerr may be able to reach escape velocity, but he can’t escape the same type of questions that haunt every pilot…
91. NAMI WHAMY
NAMI… They are the bouncer of flight school and they live for body shaming. They’ll separate you from the pack and then decide your fate…
90. Be Gentle
You’ve done all the prep work you can do. Everyone has heard the rumors about this IP, but he can’t be THAT bad.
88. Back in the Day
Back in the day, linemen used captured lightning bugs to taxi us across the freshly grazed fields for takeoff…
87. Tuned Out
After hearing the same briefs every day for months on end, one can only imagine how often instructors tune students out. Don’t despair, little doers and friends, for this is an opportunity. Mention Thor when briefing weather. See how many “meows” you can squeeze in. Throw in lyrics from your favorite song. Most importantly, never, and I mean NEVER, say unicorn. Note: Doerr Comics is not responsible for ready room unsats due to obnoxious briefs.
86. Flight School
Looks like Red Knight is getting the flight school experience… Just apply the techniques and you’ll be fine, right? All the gouge and books tell you exactly what to do, so how could you possibly pluck this up? Maybe if you reread NATOPS you’ll understand flying better.
85. Book Issue
The excitement of that first trip to book issue is matched only by the abject terror experienced as you leave. The weight of the books seems small compared to the task of reading through them all. Fear not friends! Before you know it, you’ll be turning those books back in and moving on to the next school. Of course your first stop will probably be…
84. Stached
Very few make it through the program without having a long wait somewhere between phases of training. While waiting around, you do the one thing you can do to prove to everyone you’re an aviator: grow a mustache! Now you don’t have to tell everyone you’re a pilot, though you still will. Here’s to the original aviator comic who doesn’t need a ‘stache to prove he’s a pilot. It would hide that Top Gun gorgeous face of his and we can’t have that.
83. Intent to Kill Time
You just debriefed, cancelled, or left muster. You’re on a mental high and pumped up. The sun is shining, plenty of hours left in the day, and you’re feeling great. Somehow in your drive home you received 42 notifications on your Facegram, Instachats, Snapbooks, Tik-Taks, Grindm and Whatever app you use to meet people (we promise we won’t tell). I guess productivity is relative. Going through all that needs to happen at some point… why not do that for an hour or 7?
82. Solo Selfie
We are in no way promoting this activity or saying you can get away with it. But when you allegedly do, don’t go posting your selfie around. Not only do we all know you’re not supposed to, but anyone else in the flight program skips past your posted picture faster than a smoker does the tobacco cessation course. #ProtectThisAirspace
81. Avenge the Attrited
With Endgame around the corner, we couldn’t pass this up. Unfortunately, the nature of flight school requires some people to be cut, and there’s always an ebb and flow on the needs of the fleet and the numbers in the program. After you’ve assembled your study buddies and downtown groups, you are bound to have a good friend attrited. Fear not, Doerrs… They are in a happier place. Maybe with a bold pair of infinity stones, you’ll be able to make it through and avenge them.
80. Believe Pill
Top of the mornin’ to ya lads and lasses. It’s every functional alcoholic’s favorite holiday! You’ll likely do what you do every weekend, but now in all green
79. Selection Wheel
Top of the mornin’ to ya lads and lasses. It’s every functional alcoholic’s favorite holiday! You’ll likely do what you do every weekend, but now in all green
78. Last DoR Comic Strip
Top of the mornin’ to ya lads and lasses. It’s every functional alcoholic’s favorite holiday! You’ll likely do what you do every weekend, but now in all green
77. MX
Top of the mornin’ to ya lads and lasses. It’s every functional alcoholic’s favorite holiday! You’ll likely do what you do every weekend, but now in all green
76. St Patties
Top of the mornin’ to ya lads and lasses. It’s every functional alcoholic’s favorite holiday! You’ll likely do what you do every weekend, but now in all green
75. I…Don’t Know…
Well sir, that… ah… I mean it comes down to… and you know, the clouds… ummm runway in use… and uh if Mars is in retrograde then… ah…
74. False Idols
There’s always a bigger fish. In every portion of the training pipeline, the students at the next stage seem like gods…
73. Paint Happy Grades
Today is the day! You’ve been waiting for this for a long time. For some crazy reason, the Navy has decided to let you fly that 5 million dollar plane by…
72. Livin Da Dream
Today is the day! You’ve been waiting for this for a long time. For some crazy reason, the Navy has decided to let you fly that 5 million dollar plane by…
71. No
Today is the day! You’ve been waiting for this for a long time. For some crazy reason, the Navy has decided to let you fly that 5 million dollar plane by…
70. Form Callsigns
Form flights are a unique opportunity to fly close with your buddies. More importantly, however, is the choice of your tactical callsign for your flights…
Navy Ospreys?
Congrats to the first batch of navy tilts. Enjoy paving the way for your platform’s entire culture, or just take notes from the Marines and get weird.
69. Dirty Bird
While the world may think we are professionals that are locked on 24/7, that is mostly not the case. Before the next strip, this had to come first…
68. Can I Join?
All students have helmet fires, coming in all shapes and sizes. A helmet fire is a phrase which here means the inner turmoil one has inside their mind…
67. Don’t Do It
Here’s a shout out to all the Spouses of Student Aviators out there for keeping our Student Aviators in check and keeping it together.
66. Furlough Woes
Joke’s on them… looks like the coasties and ATC don’t really wanna be here right now. Do they have to make it hard on each other though?
65. Semper P-aid
Lords of 12 miles from the coast, they save people from storms, make drug busts, and do it all while still remaining extremely relaxed for the most part…
64. Brolo Ballin
There is no greater bromance moment in flight school than completing a Brolo. Nothing better than a dynamic duo riding up in to the sky…
63. How Do They Fly? Pt 1:Magic 8 Ball
The helicopter is a fantastic beast. After learning aerodynamics and how a standard fixed wing aircraft operates, Helo Advanced slaps you in the face and laughs at your naivety…
62. Rudolph?
I think one above MIF could get you on the nice list. Just ask your local Santa grader and he can check it twice for you.
61. Night Before Checkride
Twas the night before Checkrides, and in each little nook
All the students were studying, every face in a book;
The pubs were tabbed and each map was laid out,
In hopes that they’d memorize each term without doubt;
60. Santa
I think one above MIF could get you on the nice list. Just ask your local Santa grader and he can check it twice for you.
59. Kooky Comms Pt 2
They know who you are, but who can resist a snarky comment when you violate the #1 rule of Aviation? Stay cool on the radios my friends.
58. Legend Has It
Long ago, the Aviation Gods created a universe of mystery and fear. A false reality meant to challenge the heroes daring enough to step in to the domain…
57. That Feeling
Let’s all be honest here… The BASH report is always going to be medium. Funny how some birds like to live dangerously and surround airfields just waiting to gift you with a PEL and incomplete flight.
56. BASHd
Let’s all be honest here… The BASH report is always going to be medium. Funny how some birds like to live dangerously and surround airfields just waiting to gift you with a PEL and incomplete flight.
55. Happy BASHgiving
Let’s all be honest here… The BASH report is always going to be medium. Funny how some birds like to live dangerously and surround airfields just waiting to gift you with a PEL and incomplete flight.
54. Safety StandDown BINGO
Now you can actually enjoy a safety stand down and expect fun/responsible/safe activities (drinking) afterwards
53. Be Normal Pt 2
Our corpus cousins make us look normal. I thought that was impossible.
52. Death by CAI
Death by PowerPoint is child’s play to the ruthless monotony of the cruel flicking through CAIs. These computer aided instructions seem critical at first, conveying information you must glue to the forefront of your mind. The poor souls in primary do their best to get through and retain even a couple of the slides. Once you hit advanced, the CAIs aren’t less important, you just can’t seem to remember why you gave a pluck about them before. Just try not to cramp up while you click 4 hours of lessons down to 20 minutes.
51. Birthday Ball
“Today, you are Marines. You’re part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother.”
50. Fall back
Daylight savings nightmare. Get your 8 hours of sleep everyone.
49. MIF or Treat
MIF or treat, shut my beak. Comment something not too bleakIf you don’t, that’s not neat. I’ll receive one more pink sheet…
48. Spooky
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
47. IP Are You Okay?
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
46. How Do You Sleep At Night
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
45. Pluckit
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
44. You Have The Controls
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
43. Basic
OMG Shooter! Did you see what Doerr was wearing yesterday? Like… ew. I just can’t even with him. #hashtag AM I RIGHT?!?!
42. That Familiar Feeling
One of the greatest lessons taught throughout all of flight school is this: You know nothing, SNA Snow.
41. There’s No Way Part 3
When there’s a hole, there’s a way
40. Self Loading Baggage
The FOs have had it with our buffoonery. Welcome to the Doerr Nation you map masters and kings of the comms. Sit back and enjoy the ride, moochers.
39. Primary Math
Math may not be my strong suit, but this seemed pretty simple to me… I can’t wait to watch them calculate DEGA.
38. Smonday
The horrible realization that you’ve done nothing for your brief tomorrow and you shouldn’t have gone to Seville two nights in a row.
37. Be Normal
Deep in the jungles of Naval Aviation Training, Doerr and his friends are on patrol as normal until they take pink sheet fire.
36. Attrition War
Deep in the jungles of Naval Aviation Training, Doerr and his friends are on patrol as normal until they take pink sheet fire.
35. Sick Patch Bruh
The latest Doerr shoulder patch has been released! Limited supply left! Go to shop.doerrcomic.com and get your hands on one now!
34. War Stories
You don’t know! You weren’t there!
33. K
You prepare to text your instructor and don’t want to make a bad first impression. After a hundred revisions, you send the text and finally get a response.
32. Shattered
You go into a brief thinking, there’s no way this can go wrong. Then one little upset just ruins the rest of the flight and your day.
31. The New Place In Town
Shoutout to the Corpus Crew at @mifological_creatures ! Need memes? They’re really the place to go!
30. A Lil’ Slow
Every squadron has its own pace of training and a “personality” is formed from that. Here with the primary training squadrons, we have our slow ones.
29. Witness Me!
Witness my solo! The feeling when you go up by yourself. You pass if the aircraft takes off and lands. How you walk away at the end depends on you…
28. You Tell Me
Hold all questions until the end. After everything’s been graded.
27. Ride That High
It’s always nice to get a good morale boost from anywhere
26. Freedom
Freedom always has a price
25. Safety First
Happy 4th everyone and a shoutout to the poor souls on duty! Hope you don’t have to deal with anything like this.
24. PFT to CFA
CFT: Back due to popular demand. Coming soon to a command near you.
PS: There’s no way we’d get sponsored by Chick-fil-A
23. Sleepy Thoughts
Happens every night… -.-
22. Never Again
Nope…never again
21. Regurgitate the FTI
How do YOU study the FTI?
20. Phoenix
For those on the struggle bus, this one is for you.
19. Don’t You Say That
The mysterious fleek. Instructors rave about it, but they also tell us how good we have it in flight school with minimal ‘sponsibilities. How we go home after a flight instead of flying another two Xs and fulfilling a billet assigned by the squadron. Come to think of it, we do have it good.
18. Replacement
There’s no way I can be stressed today. Students always hope they get the “ideal” instructor that isn’t as harsh in the cockpit. Then there’s the next best thing, the “MIF Monster.” You’ll pass as long as you don’t do anything stupid, but anything you do great, it’ll be a MIF.
17. Perspectives Pt 2
Had a Top Gun moment the other day. Everything looks so cool from the ground.
16. Resting Brief Face
Wonder how difficult it is to live with resting brief face. RBF doesn’t sound like a fun thing to have.
15. Safe for Solo
What did Han do to be redesignated as infantry?
This one is for all the Star Wars fans and for those that have seen Solo.
14. Student Marine Aviators
Check out how different strips view Marines in aviation training.
13. Givin’ her all she’s got!
We need more brain power! There’s just so much going on in your head, there’s gotta be more little Doerrs assigned.
12. Fam 1 Fun
It’s either you survive your first flight unscathed or you’re covered in puke. Bring ziplock bags! Just in case.
11. O-2 Seniority
Based on real-life events. Coast Guard students usually come in as Lieutenant Junior Grades (O-2s) and are usually assigned as class leaders. Luckily for her, I was a 1st Lieutenant (O-2) that was in the class with her and claimed I was senior (which I was). At least she recognized 😛
10. Backseat Pilot
On a flight to San Diego, I could finally be at ease without thinking about being at the controls. The pilot did ok, but there were some rough patches and I’m sure he’ll do great on his next approach.
8.5. CO’s Notes: Revealed
There’s no way the CO would look at the comic, like it or even respond back. But he did! What made it even better was The Landing Strip found us and gave a shout out!
9. There’s No Way Pt. 2
A lil’ birdy told me an Instructor told the solos “There’s no way you’re going up. There’s no way.” Only issue was that the baby birds didn’t know of Doerr Comic, so he corrected them.
8. CO’s Notes
Every CO is different and the one at the time always asked for one good (up) and one bad (down) about Primary flight training at VT-2. He always wrote on his notepad and we always wondered if he actually wrote in it.
7. There’s No Way
On a bad weather day, you and your waiting buddies are constantly debating if you guys are going up. You wish for the best and think “There’s no way.”
6. Perspectives
Every big-eyed student yearns to fly. What most people don’t know is that a lot happens inside the cockpit. Once you look past the tears and yelling, flying is pretty cool though.
5. Ground School
Students are expected to know everything by the time they get to the cockpit. Unfortunately, we don’t know anything.
4. Roll Call
Students are expected to know everything by the time they get to the cockpit. Unfortunately, we don’t know anything.
3. Kooky Comm Calls
It never fails. In our head, we have the most perfect comms call ready to go, but once we activate that stupid switch the words get lost somewhere from the brain to mouth.
2. The Knights
Every time there’s bad weather, you would always see a waiting table full of Doers. There was never a Red Knight at that table because they would come in, and get told to go home.
1. The Claw
While waiting with others in the room, standing by or waiting for your instructor to pick you up was common. Most of the time, they didn’t wanna fly with contact students because they didn’t want to deal with newbies.
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Your only legal addiction, Doerr Comic provides a fun and hilarious take on Naval Aviation training. The Doerr Team believes in improving the morale of all who help train the future of Naval Aviation.
Doerr Comic is owned by Off the Grid Games LLC
© 2018-2021 Off the Grid Games LLC