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Where is this not having to deploy coming from?

My contention was with the "Nonpecuniary Considerations Affecting Air Force Pilot Retention." Specifically the points that increasing the number of pilots to reduce ops tempo would adversely affect readiness, proficiency and capability. In the final portion of that section you make the point that a longer commitment helps create a more stable force, yet we've only just started into the gap between 8 year and 10 year opportunity to get out. Based purely on the original purpose of ACP, you're right the Airlines aren't the great deal they once were and ACP isn't really needed. On the other hand, we don't really know what the effects of broader ops tempo increases AF wide will be until 2010. The brunt of extended deployment burden is being born by pilots not yet eligible to get out. But based on the hit the heavy community took from VSP, there is plenty of discontent to go around.

Dude, tail wheels aren't the in-conquerable beast that many claim. I'm sure a tail wheel helo is a bit different, but still....

His first proposition is probably correct, there is not a large threat of the airlines pulling away fixed wing pilots. That said, AFPC's VSP bungle hemorrhaged mid level IP types from multiple heavy communities. So we might have a new gap in experience. That said he makes the claim that two policies have resulted in a more stable pilot force: More pilots produced out of UPT -So this may help deployment rates, except out commitments have gone up since the plus up occurred in 2000. -On the topic of more pilots to reduced ops tempo, we shouldn't forget that more pilots either means more aircraft to keep them proficient, or less flight time. We all know we aren't getting more aircraft, get used to flying a sim I guess. Longer commitment (10 years starting in 2000) -Since 2010 hasn't gotten here yet, know one knows how this change will affect the stability of the pilot force. Typical myopic AFPC type thinking. Didn't we predict this same logical failing would be used to support killing the ACP? For someone with so many degrees, he made some awfully obvious mistakes.

I will pistol whip the next mother fucker who says Reynold's number, and god help you if you bring up Laplace transforms.

You forgot scorching grass LZs in that dust out I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin

I feel left out of the poo flinging, so I'll add this... If you can't hover, you're queer. Go helos, you'll sleep better at night knowing that you are a superior pilot, better looking and over all a better human being than those stuck wing weirdos.

Wow, MD i need to be good friends with you if that happens.

Ironically enough, I think Sprey has fallen victim to the same thing that he advocated against previously. He's unable to see outside of his personal frame of reference.

I have a Stag, and it seems to be good to go, but I've only put 500 or so round through it. It does not have M4 feeds ramps and it's only a 1/9 rifle rifling pattern. A lot of AR-15 snobs go on about gas key staking, and will tell you that anything other than the Colt method is bogus. Looking at my rifle and the way Stag staked the gas key, I can't imagine it coming loose ever, but whatever.

Whoever gets to "deploy" to Souda, you suck and I hate you. That said, Kandahar is actually pretty good as far as desert bases go. We were basically shunned by big blue there, and did our own thing. There are so many various nationalities there that you can get away with just about anything and the food was pretty good (06 time frame). Yes, they mortared us frequently, but the upside was that we got left alone, no sock nazis, no reflective belts and no visits by O-6+ with nothing better to do. We wore civilian hiking boots, two piece flight suits (after big blue had already told us no) and ball caps and no one cared. Nothing like being able to do the mission without being hassled.

No matter who wins this election, there will be funding cuts to the DoD. We have a huge deficit, and both want to reduce it. Politically, it's not possible to cut entitlement programs, the easy kill is reducing military spending. However, they both want to increase the size of the ground troops, so expect them to get some AF money. One of the major expenditures for personnel is medical costs, so I could imagine more out of pocket costs, tricare, etc. I'm just thinking out loud.

Yes, 13 well trained shooters can dish out some pain, but enough to have strategic impacts? And ones that require a four hour delivery time versus 12?

Thread Revival, looks like another year or so of delay... I give up, can we at least fix the Hawk then? CSAR-X Delay

Seventh page is mine!!!!!!!!

We need to start a good grassroots effort to allow us to paint nose art on the back. Obviously, there's no way in hell they'll let us put anything racy on the back and wear it in uniform. BUT, as an example what would be wrong with all HH-60 folks being allowed to paint the standard Jolly Green Patch on the back. I'm thinking if every community came together and came up with a design that paid tribute to heritage, and was totally PC and optional, what would be that problem with authorizing it? I think we might actually have a shot at getting that passed. Am I smoking crack?

I've heard similar unused wire claims from crew chiefs, mostly they thought it was due to clipping old problem wires and running new ones without removing the old ones. That and TO changes to the way things like AHHS are wired.

Not the Deid, but I got the distinct impression from my last desert right start that it wasn't for the fliers in the room. We were only present to act as a talking point for the boss to the support types in the room.

Ace, the drop pod idea was actually starship troopers

Did I miss something? Since when did a lack of the ability to launch Marines into low earth orbit have anything to do with not catching Bin Laden?

Be very careful dc58, what you're describing sounds suspiciously like a straw man purchase. If he lives in Cali, he can get an AR they just look ridiculous.

If I were you, I'd buy one of the scary black guns. If Obama gets into office, I wouldn't be surprised at all about a renewed assault weapons ban. That's what I did.

filthy, bravo.... let's hope that more of our kind can weasel our way into positions of authority, and hopefully un-fuck our Air Force.

I'd throw the damned ADF in the trash if they'd let me. Hell, MX doesn't even bother to keep them functional.

So how many pounds of unused wiring are in these things? Not counting 718 that is.