Lawman

Point of order… body cams like dash cams have been more of an assist to police in action than they ever have to finding the bad apples and line cops have wanted them for years. Dash cams were a godsend as well. A whole lot of videos stopped or corrected legal action in complaints by people because they closed the your word vs mine problem. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

For the room, no they don’t “lose missions to” ARSOA… However, there are mission sets and habitual relationships with customers even down to individual flight leads absolutely matter. There are customers out there who simply won’t call anybody but certain people first, and a crap OR/availability rate is not going to help you move that needle. And with that you do get a chance to miss out more often, or get pushed back from the lead to a supporting cast. Even amongst 160th there is a pecking order and D/1 is at the center of the universe for a lot of the super cool guys partly because a lot of those super swoopy units were not doing nightly raids riding in 47s over in Stan the last 20 years. There home station training some super cool thing. For all the talk of little birds being the most amazing thing or DAPs I more often than not had convention guys supporting me and likewise flew more support as a 64 guy because there was more to go around. In years time there was less opportunity to do it for real in the national mission force because nobody would crack the glass on that item. There were also customers I never saw simply because the way they did business wasn’t really compatible with our MDS. Likewise there were groups that would pass up the 1st Bn guys because they knew they could bring more ass to the fight in the Murder Bus. Sent from my iPhone using

We told the SAP guys to turn the thing off regarding Regiment. Should work fine now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If say a good way to look at it would be trying to walk into an acquisitions request to say replace the C-130… You tell the contracting companies that you demand double the speed, 1.25x the payload, increased survivability, same stol performance numbers but quieter, etc…. But I’m not going to let you make the aircraft any more complex to keep and feed or give you personnel in addition to what you already have. Need another crew chief or avionics guy or some special stand that isn’t in current inventory or doesn’t go to the field for some reason? Go F yourself. That is how the Army is tackling FVL. We want revolutionary capability at no additional effort and it’s going about how you would think. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s why it’s not for us. The Army needs to stop speaking out of both sides of its mouth on its expectations. We can’t continue to chant “further & faster!” while we simultaneously try to treat our aviation like tractors. If it can’t live in the dirt for prolonged periods of time we can’t use it. It’s not a we wouldn’t like it, it’s that we are suspect to the ground guys before we ever ask for money and we already spend too much for them. If it can’t live at painted rocks in NTC it can’t be what we buy. Same reason Comanche was a pipe dream. Like I said I think it’s cancelled before it reaches first unit increment, and all the tech we developed for it and for FVL-Heavy (the new one starting now) end up going into 47X and 60Z…. And FY31 you see the 64F make its first flights. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Army recently sent a bunch of people from OPMD (manning and personnel assignments design) to work with Marine CV units as they figure out what the first V-280 units are gonna look like…. The resulting impressions were not liked by leadership. I give Valor until FY28 before it’s cancelled. The Army wants Ferrari performance but a Toyota maintenance footprint and they are quickly finding out that isn’t possible. Defiant was even more of an insane overreach. It’s as big if not bigger than a 47 and you can’t physically access whole portions of it without special cranes and catwalks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s called “Big Mike’s” now. And for those that hadn’t heard yet…. The cinder block shame cell formerly known as Teasers burned down today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Trump should just give it to Elon on day 1 to force the critics to admit all this crap is a sham. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Unfortunately those didn’t always end as one sided incidents. Hacker can give specific details but one of those blue in blues led to a follow on that killed 3 Joes in an M270 MLRS that was mid-ID’d and struck as a result of Air Defense screwing up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s one of those weird job where despite having a higher GT score requirement to assess to it, it’s viewed as a dead end branch so it attracts very little talent. The talent that is there is typically the network guys who put it in link or get the Sentinel up on the feeds for CPCE not the actual air defenders that run the system. You’re not going to meet somebody at West Point sticking Air Defense in their branch priority sheet, and that’s been true for decades. This is one of the reasons when we have these discussions about CUAS in the air littoral and the big Blue guys push back like “that’s an Army job,” I’m here reminding you that you really don’t want to leave these people alone here if you want to live in that space with them after they “figure it out.” Systems like Coyote being good examples that should scare the hell out of all us manned platforms from and aspect of authority to launch and ability to discriminate. For us the TTP is going to be don’t go anywhere near anything with an M-SHORAD or Patriot (or any BLUFOR in the dark really) because frankly we have as much trust in them being able to tell I’m not a Hind as the Eagle drivers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m just going to remind the room, this would happen more often if the Army had more give a shit with its tactical air defense. The only reason this isn’t happening regularly is we just don’t have that many Patriots in service. Plan accordingly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

MACE That program can do more to bring not just your sims but the ground and wider battle space into a shared environment faster than any other thing available, but because it didn’t start as some PMs pet project it’s like god damn kryptonite every time we put it up to leadership. Somehow it’s ok we made the guys at Palantir billionaires overnight and F me when Anduril goes public, but BSI that’s somehow verboten. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They (the delusional that think what Novosel does is a well oiled machine) aren’t interested in hearing what the other services do. If they were I wouldn’t be asking for this information informally through a social media forum to then take as talking points to the Senior leaders forum. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes. Some overzealous people have it in their heads that we can get more dollars and serve more “customers” to consolidate a basic entry rotary program under one roof at Novosel. Then the idea would be to push people to follow on advanced airframes and mission sets and back to their respective services. This would coincide with divestment of the Lakota as our entry trainer to a new trainer or possibly 2 platform solution. I’m firmly in the 2x platform camp on teaching the basics of rotary wing flight in something like the R66 then moving to a more capable aircraft to replicate tactical and national airspace flight training as an intermediate lead in. That way when we put you in a chinook or a 64 we aren’t having to spend much more expensive blade hours teaching the fundamentals of formation flight. When it was brought up that what we qualify as complete in comparison to our friends at Whiting as well as the entry training fixed wing programs that preceded other services rotary phases you got this confused look from people that they wouldn’t just adopt our shitty model. We also do absolutely 0 mission planning in our advanced airframe training syllabus but we tell units when they get this new winged pilot that they are “mission ready.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is good stuff. A month ago we had a group of senior aviation leaders who were incensed at the fact that there was resistance to the Army making Rucker into a joint rotary wing center of excellence. “What do you mean the AF & Navy aren’t on board!???” Some of these people are so delusional about their position in the universe or how little we actually train it’s terrifying they are in charge. We’ve been screaming for a decade that our training model is inadequate and units are echoing the same. Don’t give me a “qualified aviator” that I have to teach all the basics to again and who’s only qualification seems to be able to ride along and not turn the aircraft inside out by accident during normal procedures. Right now we make pattern familiar pilots, who have just enough instrument knowledge to execute an emergency recovery badly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk