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...meanwhile, in the Air force...

Good luck with that. They control the purse strings, they have all the power. Fortunately, the current leadership team seems to realize that a lot better than the previous one did and at least is trying to communicate with them, as opposed to the idiocy we witnessed under Skeletor v2.0 with the end around Eielson "draw-down" that was a BRAC in all but name that they didn't bother to talk to anyone in Congress about before trying to execute. But you aren't getting anything done without working with, not against, Congress. Exhibit A for this: if you are talking seriously about a BRAC as being an option for cost savings anytime in the next decade, you don't have a clue. Congress will not be authorizing another BRAC anytime soon. If Pierre Sprey was running things we would have a fleet of nothing but daytime only no radar fighters armed with nothing but two Sidewinders and a Vulcan. He had some good ideas, but like most zealots, he took them way, way too far.

Agree with your assessment of the JSF program... I'd just be cautious waiting for the "Fighter Mafia" to save us all from this disaster. The entrenched and dogmatic vestiges of the Fighter Mafia club and its legacy are what have led us to this point. The club let in people who couldn't see the bigger picture, became obsessed with the preeminence of tactical fighters versus any other form of airpower, and shackled the AF to prohibitively expensive programs that now have little in common with the archetype upon which they were based (F-15/F-16). The same points were true of the "Bomber Barons" who ran the AF prior to and during Vietnam. Their tried and true model failed as well... the difference is that Vietnam was a more compelling catalyst for reanalysis of the AF and it's platform/capabilities composition than OIF or OEF has been or ever will be. It's going to be hard for out-of-the-container thinkers like a Boyd to find any friends in high places to support their experiments since nothing has forced a changeover in leadership. I think that the AF's answer to the strategic problems at hand will, unfortunately, continue to remain a tactical solution. The fight over getting rid of the A-10 is just that - a discussion of tactical relevance versus the one we should be having about strategic necessity. The sad part is, selling the A-10 down the river to pay for the F-35 is the manifestation of trying to solve the strategic problems at hand with the same old solution. In the end, it is just substitution of one tactic for another (and I might add, one of questionable credibility).

Because the JASSM doesnt have a nuclear warhead. Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk

Can't wait for the "Child Pornography Prevention and Response" CBT to make its way into my ADLS account. Fahhk.

There's a good chance he was referring to the AGM-86B ALCM. The AGM-158 is not an AGM86B. B-1s aren't carrying the AGM-86B.

If he hadn't debriefed he wouldn't be prepared for going out there in the first place!

In my experience, about 3 days after the 7th time you've called to complain.

I think he's trying to say congrats on VSP, but for some reason it came out with a hint of douchebag. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Enlisted VSP has nothing to do with Officer VSP, which applies to the majority of folks here.

Cool dude. Since we don't do that in KC-135s, you can put your fighter boner back in your pants. Unless Azimuth recently started instructing at the B course, that is... But I doubt it.

We had a fixed wing qual guy once upon a time. He did fine in the end, but struggled a bit initially. Helicopter flying and army flying didn't transfer seamlessly to airplanes and AF rules. Weird. Once he got his cranium wrapped around the AF and airplane ways of things he was fine and his previous experience helped some. Navs were much worse. Wsos were slightly better and tended to go out into the CAF and do fine. Hard to unfuck a nav though.

Tactically irrelevant. You need a new hero.

And I suppose you have some sort of "final solution" to this problem?