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I appreciate that you lap up IRGC bullshit and continue to run your mouth about things you have no knowledge of. Seriously, is your side hustle as a contractor for IRGC PA? Take a break bud, you need it.

War is foggy, nuanced and without 100% perfect execution. There were some things discovered after the fact that won’t be discussed here. Bottom line, it was an unfortunate event, but it was not a purposeful targeting of a known, non-military target.

I can’t answer your “who’s more strict” question, but it sounds like you’re 26+, don’t have flight experience, have a medical issue that you may even have to fight to get a class 3 FAA medical, haven’t even remotely started the process (no AFOQT, etc.) All of that honestly adds up to highly unlikely to get a slot in the ANG. If my understanding of your situation is correct, I would not put in the money and time to go after that route. AD off the street (e.g. OTS route) is also very competitive, and I think you’re probably way too far behind the timeline on that path as well. I wish I didn’t have such a tough answer for you, but I think you need the truth before you sink a ton of money and effort into something that is very unlikely to happen. If you were 22, then you’d have time. Consider civ flying options (assuming medical stuff works out) - there is a lot of cool flying out there, the mil does not have the market cornered on that.

Yeah I suppose it could be incompetent leadership, but much of the time it feels more purposeful - the classic “milking” the contract. The engineers are not stupid people, and most of my experience has been positive with them (e.g. they care and really try to make things work). So the fault lies with management/leadership…or rather, they seem to view all of this as a feature and not a bug.

51st state - Runs from Mexico to Canada and from the Pacific to 69 miles east of the coast. Problem solved.

It’s not incompetence on industry’s part, it’s the plan to generate and sustain maximum profit. The incompetence is the gov’s speciality.

Pretty well…until we took a break.

Oh weird, the IRGC, effectively a terrorist organization, can’t be dealt with via diplomacy or ignoring them. Shocking.

Sample size of one school (unrelated to AF training) - vast majority of young CFIs suck (and we’ve ran through a lot in the last year, hired from all over the country). Their work ethic and maturity are significantly lacking is the best way to sum it up. Now add in their complete lack of experience and unwillingness to acknowledge that - it’s a recipe for bad decisions and poor instruction. I can only imagine this is plaguing these AF-contract flight schools. UPT is, for all the valid BGCs, vastly superior to a standard flight school, especially when trying to produce military pilots at scale.

Maybe, but this very thing also was extremely close to happening (all the work and most of the staffing had been done to make it a thing)…and then the A-10 resurrected itself for the 5th time. Based on that, I think it’s decently likely they will implement something like I stated, BUT it won’t be with years of overlap. The most likely will be a core group of dudes trained (who knows, maybe they’ll make another XYZ TASS) and they will propagate to the current CAF while it gets added into B courses and normalized on RTMs. This will take longer than desired, but it will happen, and we just have to hope nothing goes down during the conversion period…and if it does, America will make it happen, even if under less than ideal settings.

Change block 30/40 DOC statement to reflect CSAR as primary mission - could be done this year if they wanted to. Has nothing to do with force posture. And ironically, Korea would be a likely place to conduct CSAR if that war ever occurred.

It’s the Navy way.

The Rhino is a great jet, but also unnecessary for the task at hand when the AF already has a lot of Vipers, planned through 2047, a SPO, etc. From a program and financial perspective, it does not make sense to procure Rhinos…as good of a jet as it is.

Some Guard squadrons, Kunsan, Osan, Aviano - start it right now. It can be done without any more iron or new squadrons activated. This is the easy button for big blue, but they still won’t do it.