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Because it is impossible to clear for friggin T-38s. I get it "hurt durr fighter pilot" but the T-38 is not a fighter. It's a trainer flown by students who have no idea where they are, where they're going or what they're doing. When you congest the airspace with dozens of students in similar states of mental dysfunction it would be nice to at least be able to SEE the other airplanes.

Current brief (as of a few months ago) stated that this is EXCLUSIVELY a UPT/IFF T-38 replacement. There is no current plan to replace ADAIR, CPPT, or other T-38 roles. This of course may have already changed, but they're not planning a big buy on this airplane for now. And jesus tapdancing christ in a birchbark canoe.... what idiot decided to paint it camouflaged? Was it the same idiot who decided to paint the current T-38s camouflaged? They deserve to get their pecker kicked in.

Just wait until the end of the day, don't push it, you'll ruin it for everyone. At least, what is already not ruined.

Ten years? Where do you get that number? Given Mother Blue's procurement track record all of these aircraft/manufacturer's will be out-of-production/business by the time a contract is awarded and the first jets hit the ramp at the UPT bases. Perhaps they could time the arrival of the new jet to coincide with the T-38's 100th birthday ceremony.

Roll tide... War Eagle.. Go Dawgs. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Tough crowd and I learned English in the South with NASCAR. Y'all must be channeling my high school English teacher. Seriously though she was a great teacher. It's one of the downsides to typing as opposed to having a conversation face to face and not mention all the other non-verbal communication that gets lost in translation. More than a few heated exchanges on Baseops started that way in addition to typing under the influence. It was my attempt to denote a pause. I certainly wouldn't do that in official correspondence.

Think of me more as "Been there,done that, seen the repercussions" kind of guy, regs be damned. And I'm not your mother, I will not feel sorry for you if this is disregarded.

PM sent, not comfortable airing which might be considered dirty laundry on a public forum.

A younger dude here so maybe I could offer my 2 cents on why the big cultural shift for me. In the start of UPT I was stoked to go fly jets and get paid for it and could never understand why the older dudes always said they could not wait to get out. Fast forward to the end of UPT and I am already thinking of my indentured servitude of 10 years (experiencing terrible policy decisions and witnessing the best IPs pulling chocks because they couldn't deal with Big Blue anymore, also terrible Officers IMO getting promoted for kiss assery). But I remain optimistic and think maybe out in the CAF since UPT is AETC (grass is always greener...). Well get out to the CAF and realize things haven't changed that much in the terms of shenanigans in leadership. I have more queep jobs and assignments to do since we don't have the manning and that is more of an emphasis then flying and getting really good at your primary job as a pilot. Combine that with getting kicked in the junk by AFPC handing down some crap non flying gig or flying gig at some dump of a location. Also our FAM telling us (I'm an 11B) that our side of pilots is hurting as well and instead of having bargaining power since we are so few and far between that we will have more work and have less chance of doing some assignment we may want. So instead, we are now going to be stuck at Dyess or Minot for longer than we ever wanted to be there and there is nothing we can do about it. Add on top of that having a Lt Col DO black border patch telling me if he were in my shoes he would get the hell out at 10 and go fly for the airlines. I look for a reason to stay in the Air Force everyday but the Air Force always sends me back more reasons to go. So combine that with airlines paying 200k plus a year in a location that you want to live in, only doing your primary job of flying and not even a full months of work, guys don't have to ask themselves twice if Big Blue is the better gig. Side question. Anyone heard if they are going to open up this crossflow to fighters to the Bomber Bros? Leadership has not mentioned a word of it and I think it is to keep us in the dark a little bit so we all don't abandon post. All of us are 38 quald and I know a ton of people that would take the chance. I have a healthy reality check of the answer being no because Big Blue is hurting in the 11B community as well but anything is possible in this AF as we all know. Thanks again fellas!

Well... as long as Obama isn't on this forum.