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  1. Hacker
    For historical perspective, a similar discussion to this, re: capabilities, took place back in the mid-90s when the F-4Gs were retired and replaced with HTS pod-equipped F-16s. The "wild weasel" Viper even today still isn't as capable as the F-4G was, but that hasn't stopped the HTS Viper from being the operational SAM hunter for the last two decades.
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    Nice vapes!
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    This won't end well for these guys: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article98900847.html
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    The civilian world seems to care about these things substantially less than the military, so I doubt it.
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    Never thought I'd have my position classified as "betting on RPAs"....but I suppose that is correct. Can't teach a Mission Planner anything, I suppose. Gobble Cock.....ptooey!
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    Let's remember that the last time there was a fighter crossflow ('97-'99), the CAF was quite dissatisfied with the performance of a large number of guys who crossflowed. So much so that, at the time, they said "never again". Yay! What's old is new again! I was in IFF, F-15E FTU, and my first fighter squadron with a handful of crossflow guys circa '99, and the results were, unfortunately, mixed. Everyone made it through IFF and FTU okay, but when it came time to tactically employ jets and become flight leads out in the operational fighter world that's where the cracks really showed. A few guys did great, and unfortunately more guys didn't, even so far as never getting back to a fighter assignment after that initial one due to that initial assignment performance. As I've posted about on baseops before, these were all great dudes and officers, but their "hands" and (to use a Navy term) "headwork" weren't quite as strong.
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    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commensurate
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    That's precisely my point; there are many folks that -- quite ignorantly -- see the mere remote piloting capability as single-handedly being the one attribute that makes one air vehicle more awesomer than another. It is inevitable that at some point there will be an unmanned vehicle that is quite capable of substantially better HAISR than the Deuce...but that won't be exclusively because the vehicle is not manned.
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    ....but.....but......but.....its UNMANNED! UNMANNED is BETTER! I sincerely wish I could rep your post more than just once, HF. Thank you.
  10. Hacker
    ...deleted.... Screw it, not worth the effort on an internet forum. Enjoy the Gobble Cock kool aid, iowa.
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    Gun Talk

    Hacker replied to VL-16's topic in Squadron Bar

    PSA has aways been a crapshoot, but I've been lucky 99 times out of 100 with stuff I've ordered from them over the last 5 years or so. Never had anything out of spec, but this year I bought one of the Freedom stainless barrel uppers and the flash hider wasn't installed all the way (at least it was indexed properly...just not all the way down on the crush washer!).
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    Isn't this the kind of opinion we scoff when we hear it from non-flyer fanboy "journalists" like Tyler Rogoway? Thinking one aircraft is awesome or crappy based on....pictures of it? No direct experience with it?
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    FEB waivers for IFF and fighter FTU washouts only lead to ACC multi pilot aircraft; generally RC-135s, E-3s , EC-135s, or (less often) B-1s or B-52s.
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    I ran the FEB program for IFF washouts at Moody back 10 years ago, so I have handled a few waivers in my time. @ViperStud has it correct -- the "waiver" is something that the WG/CC (technically, the Convening Authority for the FEB) offers the pilot. The pilot is offered to waive his right to have a board hear his FEB in exchange for having his fate decided by the local WG/CC. That outcome -- at least in AETC world for guys who are all ready winged and fragged to fly fighters -- usually involves reassignment to an ACC heavy of some sort. In other situations, as @xaarman pointed out, guys with ratings previous to their current training (e.g. Navs going to SUPT) can be offered the FEB waiver, and the waiver will result in them returning to their previous rating.
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    I think it depends on who you are speaking to. Back 10+ years ago, CSAF Johnny Jumper was crapping on all of the space geeks who were fapping about space-based-radar, saying "we are an effects-based service, not a platform-based service."
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    I got mine about 2 weeks before my actual date of retirement, while on terminal leave.
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    Just for the record, they were aileron rolls.
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    Sod them all....
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    I toasted last night to a Shooter down, from a former Shooter.
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    Gun Talk

    Hacker replied to VL-16's topic in Squadron Bar

    Be very careful with this; the ATF ruling from about 18 months ago leaves the door open to you getting in a whole heap of trouble if you don't "manufacture" the lower using tools/machinery that you personally own. To wit: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/ruling/2015-1-manufacturing-and-gunsmithing/download Note the overly general terminology in the last section of the document, especially the phrase "unlicensed machine shop".
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    Hmm, and here I was sure there were Vipers in the air at the same time I was dodging SA-2s, -3s, -6s, -8s, Rolands, and 37 and 57mm AAA in Iraq in March and April 2003. I guess not, though. Thanks for clearing that up. You Viper dudes all turn your Air Medals and DFCs back in yet?
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    First off, it is not ususual for a FEB final determination by the 4-star to take 4-6 months. Remind your bro that FEB findings are only recommendations, and the Convening Authority for the FEB and the MAJCOM 4-star are free to concur or nonconcur with that recommendation and determine just about any of the possible outcomes for the respondent. In other words, just because the FEB recommeneded your bro be retrained to a different airframe, that doesn't obligate leadership to do that. Second, FEBs have nothing to do with retention in the service. For an officer to be kicked out, he has to go to a Board Of Inquiry (a.k.a. a "discharge board"), which is an entirely separate process from an FEB. Even if an officer were to lose his wings at an FEB, the 4-star would have to initiate an entirely separate process to start and execute a BOI. BOIs are a whole additional legal process that takes place in a courtroom with another panel of senior officers, etc.
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    FWIW, the term is "Unlawful" command influence. Depending on the situation, it can be a very serious charge leveled at a Commander. That being said, ADCs also know that going to a Court-Martial is a very risky proposition if there is anything else in the respondent's history that could possibly be a detriment. Unlike in a civilian court, charges at a C-M can be modified, changed, or added to pretty much at the whim of the Government. While defense to a particuar charge may be relatively air-tight, the Government has the potential to go for the throat on something else (which is minor and unrelated to the primary event), especially if it is one of those catch-all charges like "conduct unbecoming" or "dereliction of duty".
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    I wish I could up-vote that post more than once. Excellent words and perspective.
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    Many of the best pics from this thread are no longer linked....f'n internet.
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