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Random official talks out ass about meeting he doesn’t have front seat for. Go to Powidz right now and see the amount of money being poured into infrastructure on the front end of the EUCOM orbit. Remember this is the president that was celebrating the fact Poland wanted to build “Fort Trump.” That said there is absolutely no tactical necessity to forward base personnel in places with no strategic depth other than to use them as a pretext of “you killed our people! Article 5!” What we were leaving in the Baltics is specifically to telegraph visually and politically. It makes no sense militarily. Likewise to having a Corps headquarters in Poznan. Move that crap where it isn’t immediately needed to be evacuated in a shooting war and actually put it where I can do its job, Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s not what will cause a delay in release by the Safety Center. If (and this is currently happening with a couple incidents) there is an attempt at legal action by families naming the Army crew at fault then the tapes will go to a special withholding where they can only be used in evidence of the legal proceeding. The Army safety center will cooperate through the investigation but now have the added issue of releasing delayed for however long those legal proceedings go on. Theres a current tape that’s been held for years now because of a suit against the manufacturer for a fault in design and the associated crew recording and flight recorder data is held as part of the suit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I had a pilot call in “Im showing no indication.” Tower asked them to fly by and was furious when they realized it. Several ass chewings later, it was still funny. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cool, tell DAMO-AV. It’s 20-30 million to put it behind the glass, per MDS. That’s what it costs to open the proprietary codes in these old legacy platforms. Foreflight is not a program of record in the Army, and due to the requirement by the wider Army that we use ITN and the TAK architecture that exists we’ve spent a decade with units having to spend millions out of other budgets to get or keep foreflight in action. I love foreflight, but they (Boeing) have for the last several years repeatedly told both the conventional and special ops aviation community “we aren’t doing Apple, you’re a niche customer.” That is only just now starting to come around as a few people transition out, but we’re years away from fielding anything and the priority with all the budget tightening is a warfighter tablet, not something for a VIP unit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

With current Army hour trends that absolutely tracks within the normal. We don’t have 1000 hour deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as the norm anymore to skew the normal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The problem is the uneducated idiots spinning narratives will take that and just add it as a log to the big bonfire of “we’re becoming a dictatorship!” Anybody who honestly believes we are positioned or ready to conduct such an operation is outside the room with the current force restructuring and belt tightening going on with the force you would need to actually do it. We are cutting massive headcount’s in our brigade combat teams to make do with the new budgets. You don’t do that preparing for a war/occupation/rebuild that requires bodies and not bleeding edge tech. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Warrants classify into 4 specific career tracks, one of them being Instructor/Evaluator. IP is not an upgrade in the Army, it is a specific career progression. We have made RLO(O series) instructors on occasion, but it is usually tied to specific detail such as the exchange billet with the UK. It is normal, she would log PI even though she has a PIC rating, because she is being evaluated. Same is true of an IP evaluating the commander. The only time you get weird logging of a kind of dual PC condition is an IP conducting a check ride from the control station and a Stands pilot (IP upgrade) conducting a simultaneous evaluation from the bench or jump seat in a 60/47. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It’s not high, it just isn’t abnormal in a place where we no longer have 500-1000 hour producing deployments. That is her total time, not her time at her check for PIC. We have had a very artificially seasoned force from 2004-2018 or so. That just isn’t possible anymore. That count is absolutely in line with the aggregate average across the Army. Particularly for somebody assigned where she was prior. Right now it isn’t your counts that are the issue, it’s regularity of hours. Her total time means nothing if she was doing what has become all too common across the force and going 59 days between flights or not meeting minimums. That is now the new normal and it has eroded proficiency and slowed progressions. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No Though one of the things we’ve been messaging PM is to get the APX-123 ADS-B In to be supported by the avionics suite along with weather functions etc. The box will do it, but none of the fleet can inject it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That report is a crock. A 1000 hour standard used to be the norm for even thinking about sending a pilot to IPC. 500 hours for PC is in line with the current Army aviation average which all of us have said is not sufficient to call it anything but a Junior force. That retired mouthpiece should stfu. Stating the crew had thousands of hours is a gross over inflation. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They are. The reports so far the 60 appeared to be well above that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They have a solution for that. They just claim then invented whatever it is first. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I would hope the final game and the fact it was a fight the whole way stops the inane talking about how the 12 team playoff somehow didn’t find the true championship team. That was way better than some of the one sided A whooping we got in the BCS and 4 team era. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I mean in fairness, the fact they wear flight suits is a little stupid. Like when is the last time a GCS Caught fire? Just wear the utility uniform and call it good. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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