Team loyalties are very strong. People get depressed/jubilant/furious when "their" team of perfect strangers perform a certain way in a kids' game. They attack other people for wearing the costumes of opposing teams. Now politics is a team sport. We can expect similar performances as long as this remains true
Hopefully someone bothered to look at the feasibility of adding AR requirements to IFF. I hear our tanker force is quite robust with lots of availability on their hands.
Boeing probably intends to sell the T-X to foreign nations as a basic fighter with basic fighter capabilities. If that's the case then an AR system makes sense.
Palace Front, you can apply when you establish a DOS, ensures you dont have a break in service and gets you 180 days of extended health care. That is how you handle the break in service without the DD 214
Probably really should say “T-38 Beale” because that’s exactly what it is...with the caveat explained in the U-2 thread as someone has already mentioned.