Boomer6

The author suggests, in a roundabout way, that an option to making this happen would be that ROK could develop nukes. A country under the US nuclear umbrella who signed the NPT, would then vote to leave the NPT so they could protect themselves absent of our full support? Not sure that's a great idea. If this happens, what is Japan going to do. I mean maybe they re-write their constitution and stop being a defense force in preparation for us leaving their country as well. Or do they cozy up to China expecting us to continue a retrograde from the Pacific? How about the Philippines...all those shipping lanes. If we author a peace deal giving parts of a sovereign country (Ukraine) to an aggressor and then leave Korea, that would probably make the CCP very happy. I suppose a counter arguement would be, let's pull all of our forces back from INDOOACOM because if we don't we expect them to be attrited rapidly by china. At what point do so we stop, 1st island chain, 2nd, mainland US?

Fair enough. My contention is I don't think the time/money that would be invested in additional non-standard civilian quals is going to adequately increase the airmanship enough to decrease the number of dudes "crashing at the end of the day." If the goal is to prevent guys from killing themselves in admin phases of flight, then I'd recommend adding a lot more night flights, more robust unusual attitude training, and more complex EPs. Also, I think some simulator based training with a lot of radio chatter forcing studs to pick out key information that could kill them (like clearing civ traffic to land on the same RWY you're inside the FAF on) to increase SA on comms would help a lot. We've probably all seen a lot of close calls like this that were saved because an experienced dude was in the formation/flt deck. Listening/processing comm is something I don't think we do a good job training to. To this end, my personal opinion is speed is the great equalizer. Fast airplanes force proper task prioritizarion at an expedited rate. If we can get kids thinking fast early on they'll benefit whether they go fighters or heavies. Which is why I'd rather see IPT put some kids in high performance aircraft instead of seaplane/STOL aircraft. Last point. Hope is not a valid tactic. I don't want to spend tax payer money on civilian training we hope will increase airmanship. We've got 60+ years of fast jets in UPT. We know if you can think ahead of the jet in a task saturated environment then your airmanship is better than someone who can't. Thus my proposal to put them in some high performance civ aircraft instead of a seaplane.

Wrong on both accounts. Are you/were you a fighter pilot? I've taught quite a few dudes with a lot of non-standard civilian experience prior to UPT. Those dudes had average progression in UPT/IFF/B-Course. I've seen more ppl with broad civilian experience wash out than those with no prior experience. In the CAF I know a lot of dudes that have received the quals mentioned. Cool experience, and airmanship I'm sure is better. Does it change their tactical abilities, no. The correlation between the disciplines are too far apart to provide meaningful impact tactically for fighter dudes.

For guys going fighters I think a seaplane qual, helo qual, STOL etc. doesn't buy very much. Will their overall airmanship increase, sure, but will that significantly increase their ability to employ, no. I'd argue F1 drivers (the car not the jet) are a good example of the progression the AF executed (until recently) in fighter training. We start with slower acft and rapidly progress to solo flights in high performance acft. F1 drivers do the same thing, and I don't see them in a CJ7 doing rock crawling contests because it will make them a better driver overall. I need students to have a single seat mindset and to think at a minimum of 350KTs when they get to B course. If you think the heavy/afsoc etc. communities could benefit from non-traditional quals in UPT then I'll take your word for it.

The number of times I've wished I had acft MX experience is pretty high versus the number of times Ive needed seaplane experience. Unless Clark gets his wish and we buy a fleet of the spruce goose, I think having pilots with MX experience is going to be useful when it kicks off with china.

Not of sea planes or hot air balloons.

If it's not crazy it's fucking retarded at best and poor stewardship at worse. Let's waste more tax payer dollars on additional quals. A hot air balloon license would increase their airmanship, plus we can use it to weed out the idiots. If we're gonna waste money I'd rather we have them all get an A&P.

Can't tell if you're being facetious or not. Seaplane training, really?

How many helo dudes did she cheat on you with? Where's Biff..

You're thinking of chang/bashi/gearhog/torqued. 4 chaches in one.

I'm saying being Eskimo bros with Biden could/would be worse. At least HCM was a patriot for his country..

That's exactly how it works.

You fucked Jill Biden? Gross.

Eskimo bros with ho chi minh? That sounds worse than the viet-clap she has.

Can you or CH explain how DoD is to blame for all the shit with fat amy? I can't help but want LM to burn for all the bullshit we're dealing with, but I'm not privy to what the gov is responsible for in that dumpster fire.

If any of that has a chance of getting done I think it's during the current administration. I'm hoping DOGE and SECDEF commit on Lockheed/Boeing/NG/Raytheon as soon as they get done culling the fed work force.

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Your future mayor, probably.

Poland has vipers and is under our nuclear umbrella...

When he invaded Georgia he didn't continue into Turkey. I also don't equate election influence, which we do/have done as well, to knowingly attacking a country that will trigger WWIII. A war like that would risk his hold on power and that's what I think he cares most about. I've got no problem assisting Ukraine, but that's not because I think he's going to invade a NATO country if we don't assist.

Do you think Putin equates invading a country that is not a part of NATO as the same as invading a NATO country?

You know, all this fuckery is getting insufferable. However, I can't imagine having to deal with this crap and be a liberal in the military. Between uniform inspections and Trump's EOs it must feel like the apocalypse cometh.