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I don't pay an annual subscription to BO.net to have the drama shut down just when it's getting good... Sent from my Vitamix 450x Professional using Tapatalk

It was my understanding from my handful of brainwashing sessions that we are currently flying, fighting and winning in air, space and cyberspace...

I see you've found the secret to long term wealth.

Don't assume I care what the difference is.

$4 for misspelling comma.

I say bring it on. It is a different enough battlespace to warrant its own specialist force. What would Billy Mitchell do?

Ram, stop being a pussy. And go get me an Ensure... after you get off my lawn, you pussy.

What do you think about a Space Corps? https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/u-s-lawmakers-formally-propose-a-space-corps-air-force-1796352188 Recently released concept video from congress:

I believe you'll get about 20-25 hours in the T-6. It's all with an IP, so you should be able to log all of it.

There is also a former Tomcat RIO who is currently a FedEx Captain. He got much of his time by buying/owning a light twin while he was stationed out at Miramar and CFI'ing and prepping separating front-seaters for ATP checkrides! Regarding the T-6 time as a UCT stud, I say 100% valid to log both as dual received and total time.

Someone make Ram a General. He's ready.

Nevermind, found the answer to my question:

Yes to all of those last three posts in my opinion. I say cyber and space go there own way but we also double up on the importance of the joint and specialized missions mentality. It will complicate things, but it will also allow each organization to have a better identity and focus, something I think has been rather vague since the end of the cold war. It would be nice for the Air Force to refocus itself on combat aviation and distance the association with the space cadets and cyber nerds (gotta love em though). There would be a lot less "nonners" in the ranks and I think the average airman would be more proud of the Air Force identity and uniform. Back to a sense of humor though, what the hell kind of rank structure and basic training/field exercises would those guys do anyway?

This is the problem now with our most basic way of organizing our branches of the military by domains, everybody's mission(s) overlap into someone else's domains at least a little bit and lot sometimes. Domain(s) are probably past their time in the way we organize and assign forces/missions. I would say reorganize more on the way you carry out operations or the type of operations: conventional / special / strategic / hybrid. Conventional - traditional kill people and break things with kinetic energy / explosive force and soon directed energy in mass and overt formations. Special - focused kill people and break things with aforementioned means but in small(er) units, clandestine methods typically and executed from different political circumstances or authorizations (often). Strategic - usually and hopefully only promising to kill people and break things with nuclear weapons, monitoring from space the threat of attack with nuclear weapons and I would add now monitoring for major or national security threat level cyber attack and responding in kind or in defense. Hybrid - light(er) conventional military capability usually done for humanitarian / stabilization or for LE support.

I really don't remember the details, but I've met at least two Navy S-3 NFO's (WSO's) that parlayed their NFO time into something relevant and were hired by a Regional airline. If I can recall who it is that knows them, I'll see if I can get the details and post it. I also know a Tomcat NFO that is a pilot for a Major airline. I'll have to ask him how he got his time, since the Tomcat didn't have a stick in the RCP. If you have your FAA PPL, I believe you can log it. Hacker? I figure you might know the answer on this one better than me.

so you're loading up at these bargain prices then?

Starting to get a little personal, here. I think this segment of the thread has run its course... Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

Group or wing?

It isn't that simple. Going to a C-M, even if you are 100% certain of being totally innocent, is a very risky endeavor. A C-M doesn't have the same standard of conduct that a civilian court does. In a C-M, charges can be added, changed, or modified at any time during the proceedings, so basically once you open the door up, anything and everything that is discovered during testimony is in play. You can enter a C-M charged with one thing, and exit convicted of something else entirely depending on what came up during evidence and testimony. Remember that the UCMJ does not include a presumption of innocence, and depending on the charges, has different standards of evidence and conviction than what we're used to in the civilian world. Plus, a conviction at a C-M is a federal conviction, while an Art 15 isn't anything at all in the outside world. Add all that up with the witch-hunt environment which we know exists in the USAF with respect to some topics (like sexual assault, particularly), and that is the makings of a potentially very bad situation for someone accused and being offered an Art 15. During my career, I had the "opportunity" to pay a large chunk of money to two different, very well known and talented former SJAs (and now high profile civilian attorneys) and they both heavily, heavily suggested taking the Art 15 rather than risking a Court-Martial.

Got to watch the HUD video today, deff worth hitting up your intel shop, just for the pure "f**k ya!!" Factor.

So why aren't there more T-6 Class As?

Fly yourself to karate lessons? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Found a picture of him and his wife. * You guys do realize that is Kelly McGillis on the left...*

"Viper Pilot" by Dan Hampton. One of the few books about military aviation in recent years. I'm not a big reader but I really enjoyed it. Even went out and got "Lords of the Sky" by him after I finished it, about the history of the fighter pilot. About a third of the way thought but so far it's good. Through* damn autocorrect

I always thought the Air Force was the one place where equality and fairness actually meant something. Boy was I wrong. I knew this all along after I sat in on my first court martial. I thought if the kid who was being court martialed had a REAL lawyer he would walk free. If your defense counsel breaks out a PowerPoint presentation you should fire him/her or expect to be found guilty period. I told the Lt Col for JAG I will not be apart of another court martial due to the AF being just as biased as the civilian court system. He told me the WG/CC really wanted me on the board. I told my CC it's biased to his face too. The proof is in the pudding: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/07/black-troops-much-twice-likely-punished-commanders-courts/102555630/