ClearedHot
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Homestead AFB B-58's Fridays at the O'club Lingerie shows at the O'Club Everyone going through UPT flies the T-38 Roosevelt Rhodes NAS Patches on ABUs Humor -
Translation to herbivore brevity terminology; No Slugs = Howdy
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Given the current environment several folks will want to "talk to you", but I don't think they will ground you like they did in years past. As a select you've made the top 25% cut and people have likely been looking out for you. Once you decline, expect the support to evaporate. The danger as I do the rough math from the situation you described, they may PCS you to a crap job to finish your time. Obviously you will be on the list in to PCS in the fall of 2011, but you will have to decline in the spring, leaving you with almost two years of ADSC. How is your relationship with your CC?
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I truly miss those days… just killing the bad guys. Can we go back?
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From the man; 1. Cut services and support contractors by 10% a year, for the next three years. 2. Freeze on size of OSD/COCOM staffs for the next three years. 3. Freeze number of General Officers and Senior Executives at FY10 levels. Tasked DOD to provide plan by 1 November to eliminate 50 General Officer positions and 150 Senior Executive positions. 4. Consolidate all DOD IT services. 5. Freeze the number of DOD studies at FY10 level and develop plan to cut number of studies by 25%. 6. Review of all outside boards and commissions, as well as cut their budget by 25%. 7. Cut DOD intel functions by 10%. 8. a. NII and J-6 go away, functions transferred to AT&L. b. Cut Business Transformation Agency. c. Close JFCOM, JT Staff to assume duties.
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Wow...just wow.
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Asymmetric thrust is a bitch.
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Absolutely NOT true. The number of General Officers (and all officers), is prescribed by 10 U.S.C. § 525. that being said, Secretary Gates in a speech last month called for a reduction in the number of senior officers. It is convenient to make broad generalizations, but yours is void of fact.
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Whatever Cliff Clavin. I could really care less what you buy... I never said gunships flew TF...I said you don't need a radar to fly TF.
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DOD Identifies Air Force Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of four airmen who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died June 9, near Forward Operating Base Jackson, Afghanistan, in a helicopter crash. Killed were: Staff Sgt. Michael P. Flores, 31, of San Antonio, Texas, assigned to the 48th Rescue Squadron, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. 1st Lt. Joel C. Gentz, 25, of Grass Lake, Mich., assigned to the 58th Rescue Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Staff Sgt. David C. Smith, 26, of Eight Mile, Ala., assigned to the 66th Rescue Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base. Senior Airman Benjamin D. White, 24, of Erwin, Tenn., assigned to the 48th Rescue Squadron, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Him...Him
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Exactly...there are still a few great ones out there.
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TERPROM
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You do NOT need a radar...
ARGH...... Best gunship ever is NOT a C-130. Unsure why folks want to see an evolution in capability like you will with a C-130J, rather than a revolution like you would with say a AC-757. Why do we insist on a platform that keeps us squarely in the heart of most threat envelopes? With all the 757/767 airframes parked in boneyards around the world, why not put the sensors and weapons on a platform that can overfly a vast majority of current lower threats, cruise to the target are at high subsonic speeds, and has the unrefueled range to fly across the ponds. For the record, the C-130 platform WILL handle the GAU-8 vibration...as will a 757 with a beefed up floor. Christ, sometimes it is like pushing a noodle trying to get people to think 20-30 year sin the future. Trust me. with 3,000+ hours in the gunpig, I LOVE the 130 platform, but it is NOT the best solution for the future.
My guess, a force management issue for two reasons; 1. The RPV/U-28/RC-12 programs have consumed most of the extra fight pilots and an ever growing portion of UPT graduates. 2. There is most certainly a force reduction on the horizon, as the wars draw-down in the next few years and the budget crisis grows, there will be enormous pressure to reduce the size of the force and it will be difficult (but not impossible), to field this in large numbers, especially if the intent was to establish an IW wing (like I am in favor of). The disconnect that I see is the cost savings. SECDEF is putting a lot of pressure on the system to limit costs. CNXing the F-22 and other big systems, coming out (STS), in the press this week calling for a smaller pay raise for the military, and over the weekend more questions about the size of the military's TACAIR programs/fleet. Also, Light-attack fits what QDR and a lot of the thought coming out of think tanks, we will likely fight small wars for the next 10 years, light-attack makes sense financially, tactically, and strategically. CSAF said our traditional platforms will continue to provide the capability which will cost a LOT more, in some cases 10X the cost of light-attack. This story is FAR from over and I suspect there is a LOT more going on behind the scenes.
No shit...welcome to 1970... This thread has turned into a SNAPfest.
They would be better served to send them to Doyle Brunson's Poker Boot Camp.
Rainman, not sure how long it has been since you made a visit to Nellis, but "the room" changed under K-9. BLUF - Forced fun is no longer forced. CORE I first Friday still happens, but that is about it on the mandatory side. All the Squadron (division) boards, came down and a lot of old prints went up turning the place into more of a "Heritage Room". Drinking returned to the squadrons with the exception of as you pointed out, the GSU Squadrons. Not perfect, but not the days of old.
Lighten up Francis...it was a line in a poem.
I would just wash out the entire RPA WIC class... WIC - 5 LPA - 1
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