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That sounds like the C-27 problem Effectively Leonardo wants obscenely amounts of money for sustainment of the airframes that didn’t go to the boneyard so they are ll essentially F’d. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

He flew the TA-50 as part of the initial search for a trainer to replace the 38. His statement was “it’s too much jet to be a trainer” and this was while we were watching the Phil’s receive their FA-50s. Now it’s likely to not only be the jet for the navy, but beat that clean sheet design with years of head start to actually doing its job as a trainer. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Oh I know an O6 I need to claim money from…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you can’t see the strategic vulnerability of the current supply chain given we are somewhere between weeks to single digit years from a real shooting war with CHINA, nobody here is gonna be able to help you. The Cold War victory did nothing but encourage us to outsource in ways we never would have. There is no point over the last half century where “hey let’s have the Soviet Union make all the _____ so we can buy it on the cheap” would have been an acceptable conversation either in a board room or in government. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Is it normal for manufacturers stickers to be all over your aircraft? I’ve seen data plates on mil aircraft but that looks more like an add. This looks what is really an N number airplane masquerading in a paint scheme for whatever potential customer or testing needs to be generated. Identical from a core airframe perspective but since it’s not like air tractor isn’t in foreign air forces they aren’t sticking mission equipment in it some Qatari or Phil Air Force General is just going to assume they get with their money. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It isn’t the jump pay that is costing, it is the associated tax on unit readiness to facilitate taking something like Brigade HHC full of non jumping MOS people to do their mandatory jumps. We don’t have a flying hour program funded to support a bunch of cooks and Hr clerks doing Hollywood jumps, though god knows I’ve burned useful blade hours supporting them. The crap the guys on jump status do for essentially drinking money and the misappropriation of unit training calendar time to facilitate is criminal. It is the Army of stuff like the Greywolf guys always coming down with a fully loaded Dornier full of “crew” every month to Zambo and providing the actual mission their with less seats than the C-12 for AMRs. We know why you’re here, and don’t pretend it’s to support for a critical mission. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think honestly the Chinese are readapting their strategy because of the decision last November. I think they figured there is no way Trump wins again. Everything seems to be suggesting the blockade/quarantine and dare us to do something while we dither and wither is the smart play towards reunification. It’s the only scenario where somebody can lose but we can theoretically be friends again later. Had Kamala won I think they’d have done that route expecting her to respond flaccidly if at all. Trump being who he is, I think now the shock and awe becomes more viable because he will test the blockade, and allowing us to respond on our own terms with all the forces in the region puts them at a disadvantage. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Every spring and every fall for the supportive weather. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Honestly as awful morally as the scenario is, a massive famine and mass death to the population is the cheap way out of the problem of solving for X here. That population is effectively traveling through time when the regime barriers come down. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Anybody with an ounce of economic sense doesn’t want reunification. There was a white paper done a little after the housing crises that talked about the amount of capital it would take to reunify using East/West Germany as part of its model. It was double digit trillions of dollars to fix the problem or we all just accept that one of the largest economies in Asia and a part of most global economic supply chains just drops off the map into oblivion like the war and nuclear exchange happened anyway. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Started building visualizations in Mace/Armor for that exact reason. It’s these old dinosaur retirees that think the old way is fine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

“Don’t talk about the deployment on social media… “ Also “Your families can find the times and specifics for the redeployment on the unit FB page.” I think my favorite was the PAO taking pictures of the Camp Alpha Christmas party with all the secret stuff on the walls. As for Tulsi… she was an MP. That’s the bar she cleared. How much classified material handling do you think she honestly did, I doubt she ever even had a token. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wickr won’t happen because, “it costs money.” Its a BS excuse when we’re paying registry keys for every other major software or app we use, but it was the exact reason given when we discussed making a transition off signal to it. My favorite thing about Wickr was the massive files it would let you push through it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not to mention the standing readiness of forces on the peninsula vs the wider active force. You’re 300 miles from Mainland China and one of its most critical economic hubs vs >3000. It’s like the author doesn’t own a map. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Which is the kind of logic this guy is trying to use to just keep all that crap out the infrastructure advantage and move all that combat power to Nebraska and Texas. PrSM is going to be part of the discussion of achieving dominance over the 1st Island chain just because of the fact you don’t need to resupply it at Sea or bring it back to regenerate it. Remember there are more HiMARS in just the 17th FAB than in the Marine Corps. There’s a reason they designed the things to fit in a cargo plane or on a container ship and keep showcasing that capability at exercises across the theatre. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Author is at best an isolationist attempting to hide behind a facade of budgetary justification and frame the argument that US Forces Korea exist behind glass separate of any other conflict or use. The author’s idea that the Army is not present in an IndoPacom fight is demonstrated ignorance of not understanding what that fight will actually look like or what previous historical fights in the Pacific were either. No, there will not be a Tank Division driving across open plains to achieve some sort of armored breakthrough, however the Fires and with it wide area security/control as well as the echelons of intel collection that occur resident to those Army formations will absolutely be at play in a conflict over the 1st Island Chain. And anybody that doesn’t think large scale ground maneuver warfare happened in the Pacific should really go take a look at WWII Burma or Luzon. The Marines will get the press but the reality is the Army will be the one that secures Islands because mass means something when you talk the scale of the pacific, and keeping those elements in 2ID that far forward grants a lot of reaction space and time made up. Same was true of WWII. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

These ever shrinking fleets of non special capability sets have got to be killing us to maintain the infrastructure necessary to keep limping them along. The Navy has almost twice as many AB destroyers as the Air Force has B1s…. For an airplane with no nuclear mission. And no amount of “but just think of what we could maybe do with hypersonic!” is going to suddenly make it worth keeping. I’m almost convinced the Air Force has kept a couple of these sacrificial budget lambs (Hawg) around as long as they have because when they threaten to just cut it for something else Congress always orders them to keep it and somehow squeezes more money out of the couch cushions. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Divest now, not over a decade. And when somebody comes out screaming “but IndoPacom!” remind them that Bone is neither the sole means of providing nor the most survivable method of delivering strikes in that scenario. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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How many 6000 hour pilots do you think exist in the Army RW community? This is exactly why hour counts as a metric for experience are a crappy way of measuring as a metric. I had half to less than a third of the hours my peer group had following my first deployment, but 80% of my time was in the dark supporting actual missions not flying hardstand to handstand carrying ass and trash. Explain who is more experienced in that regime given those conditions. All bolting hour count to an experience label does is help delay young pilots from gaining valuable experience early as they are limited from participation while the old guys do the hard stuff. There is no way to simply produce a 6000 hour pilot and simply deciding that what was normal 10-15 years ago when we were all doing 12 on 12 off deployments is and forever will be the bar is just ignorant of reality. What was normal in 2007 wasn’t normally in 97 or 87 and somehow nobody had a problem with it. What’s the magic number where we declare a pilot “experienced” by community vote? The drone of attacking experience or inexperience does nothing but deflect conversation from reality which is people with oversight permitted this situation to operate for far too long either due to negligence or ignorance and it only became public when we burned a few aircraft in. A front office stacked with hours doesn’t change the math of the problem here or the negligence in our procedures to predict and review it. And I’d take recency over hour count any day which is a far bigger problem for my pilot population currently. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Where do you think 460 hours as a captain would fall within the current Army aggregate of experience? I got news for everybody, the days of 1000 hours in a deployment have been over for a decade. Her hours are completely in line with the average for her year group as well as the wider seen average across the combined Warrant/RLO company pilot population. There was nothing abnormal about this crew mix and as you said it was entirely procedural produced risk we had learned to live within and normalize. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Somebody find the white paper on the money spent going from F-F/A-F-22. That can’t have been free and it was entirely stupid. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Think about the first time you looked in a helmet mounted sight and saw the wingman or mission participant through link that was way beyond visible. That capability has existed in some form or another for a couple decades. TCAS is older than most of the pilots flying with it and only ten years younger than the oldest people flying commercial aircraft today. Systems like ITDS have demonstrated the ability to see further and through obscurants we can’t see through, and do it constantly but with coding provide queuing to the crew only when it’s relevant. You can take a picture and give it to your phone or social media and it’s smart enough to see faces and even identify them. This would be that principle but doing predictive analysis of other traffic so it can point where the friction will happen and disregard where it won’t. Imagine if you were that hawk crew and you looked up to see 3 bright light sources and didn’t have to guess which one ATC is trying to get you to acknowledge. Augmented reality isnt impossible, but it requires people to acknowledge that “see and avoid,” isnt adequate. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

That’s the point we’ve been making to counter. It’s like NVG is the sole solution therefore anything not working well in them is ignored. In this case they were even trying to insist there is a threat to Apache which isn’t flying with NVG as its primary sensor, it’s flying FLIR and doesn’t care anyway. And it has an unaided eye as well… There is no single solution to the issue and it’s one of the arguments we are making in the Army rotary community to fast track ITDS because of the amount of SA it can grant in addition to being a missile warning system. We did testing with seeing the category 1/2 SUAS… damn things are invisible in the day time with you know where they are beyond about 200-300 meters. The human eyeball is not sufficient to the hazards that are out there today, much less in a decade as we democratize the number of airspace participants. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk