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There is no land component beyond portions of the map in a linear battlefield. Which is what Iraq was in 16-17. Again, my comment as to referencing spins. There were plenty of sections of the map where coverage doesn’t or can’t be readily made available, but we were will within the advertised circle of “we got this,” and were being flat told operating out there that if the call went out, the first asset to respond was gonna be an Army element 100 miles further East, because the guys who actually do this job couldn’t be bothered with the idea of supporting a named mission for those dirty Army people. Yes, having an entire portion of the Air Force advertise its self as “dedicated theatre PR” only to have the same said element tell the rest of the joint fight operating across those lines on a map to go F themselves when actually asked by the rest of the joint forces is unacceptable. If you are going to pretend to be anybody but the ACCs asset, then you damn well better be willing to accept all comers.

We had some missions where the plan was if an aircraft went down to spur ride people out of the recognized crash site and stash them somewhere/anywhere because fuel wasn’t available to fly them to a friendly location. This was next door to the big 60G footprint in country because we were basically told if any crap goes down, you are on your own, we have ACC missions to support over on this part of the map. I could get a B-52 to directly support our mission as a dedicated asset, but I couldn’t get PR. Between that kind of crap and seeing what the Italians did during 2 real live PR situations up north, nobody in our task force had any real faith in that side of the mission anymore.

As long as those power point generated circles with shaded filler cover the whole of the map, the people in charge don’t care what reality is.

Then here is the fact that anything UAS is going to be seen as “why isn’t this my toy!” by combatant commanders who aren’t getting enough assets right now. We don’t have enough UAS or operators to support the missions we are running. Where is this surplus of drones going to come from to suddenly generate OPFOR.

The only thing those guys brought of any use was the coffee shop they set up. We launched the ARF more than a couple times because they didn’t have their crap together.

Has to be a tape compliment with reflective properties for search and rescue while in the water. Which is odd... because Marines wear camo helmet covers and fly off some of the same boats.

Really? There isn’t? Because anybody that can look at a map and the power point slide depicting coverage circles of the Iraq/ISIS AO in 16-17 could see CSAR was about as in its ass as it could be and nobody seemed to have any give a crap in fixing that. You had the Italians pulling down an entire portion of the region and a whole other chunk taken care of by the Marines. I can only imagine how great the coverage is gonna be once double digit SAMs and Red Air are present in the problem. Probably a good idea to review the spins because I’ve seen plenty of them where a 60G or guys jumping out of a 130 weren’t going to be the plan of action. Fact of the matter is it’s easier and arguably safer when your enemy isn’t ISIS crazies to rescue you post capture or do what we did in previous conflicts get you after it’s over. We have people that do that for a living too, and fortunately we’ve invested a ton of money in them even if we haven’t in CSAR.

Thats because as the military tries to get back to that and out of the COIN mindset you’ve got very senior people at this point who only ever saw what that looked like as a 1LT if at all making decisions on what that training looks like. I watched a full bird Col tell the OPFOR to change what ADA they had in an exercise because Greyhound presented too many problems. Like day 1-3 we couldn’t support his ground elements because they wouldn’t give us what we needed. Day 4-6 everything’s awesome because these ZSU-23’s are a cake walk.... There are way to many senior military leaders who think it’s more important to keep replaying the scrimmages they know they can win and shine in the “look how awesome my guys are.... I made that happen,” game.

Other way to look at this is developing the brain trust of experience now to solve a problem that very well may be 10 years away. We got out Butts kicked in previous conflicts specifically because we didn’t look at emerging threats and continued to fight the last fight or ignore a real gap. Happened in the Air with MIGs over Vietnam, happened at Sea with minesweeping, and happened on land as we pursued the worlds best battle tanks and APCs for a standup fight while ignoring the IED. find the deadliest system we could encounter and match our best people against it until we figure out how to kill it. Otherwise F it let’s play the same exercises our dads played at NTC and Red Flag in the 80s and hope nobody buys or builds anything newer than SA-8/Mig29/T72. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Agreed. Erdogen doesn’t get to explain “why we broke up” to anybody but his people, but those people will buy his reasoning with far more trust than they will the reasons as broadcast by outside western media. They will simply see the “oppressive sanctions” and other negative motivations as reinforcement that Erdogens message is correct. The US is trying to bully them into acting the way we see fit. To the Nationalist/religiously conservative crowds that support him, that will be red meat to rally against us and push further power and influence toward the crazies. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Safe could be a relative term. Undoubtedly a lot of the issues would be eliminated by better MX practices. Same as it did with all the MI-8/17s we have operated by us vs the ones maintained an operated by *insert crap country here*. At one point we had US service members flying aggressor MiG-23s out in the desert as aggressors. If you read the accounts in “Red Eagles” that thing is an absolute death trap. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ricochet is the exact reason for sticking with 7.62 over .50 cal on door guns for the Army. The stand-off gains going to .50cal are minimal when you compare that guns likelihood to send rounds to the target, and then somewhere else at random. When you start throwing high cyclic rate like mini guns into it and the proximity of targets for an X landing (like dudes literally in the rotor disk) nobody wants to be the guy that shoots themselves/their wingman down.

You can’t convince some loons, they’ve invested too much into it. Just look at the crazier people on JC. They’ve gone full Jade Helm, but because they got their crack from the recognized legitimate news outlets they can’t possibly be the crazy ones. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

After going to Angeles city, all my dad’s jokes about how guys assigned to the Philippines came back not right made a lot more sense.

Oh I don’t know. Seemed the “This Is MAGA country” attack and selective outrage by his critics was pretty relatable to the President... Until it turned out to be complete BS and those same people are walking back the narrative. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My whole family are union service job blue color Ohio/Penn democrats. Any time I open my mouth with what or why those people would possibly vote for Trump or sit out an election because of the complete scizm in the dem party toward extreme left loonacy the coastal loons all dismiss it as “your family must be racist or something.” No they were promised a bill of goods with Obama and none of it happened. Because to those people the most important thing for our government to be concentrated on isn’t social progress and global warming. It’s sound foreign policy for their deployed sons/daughters, it’s not trying to hobble manufacturing jobs through ridiculous cafe restrictions or corporate taxes, and it’s not telling s bunch of nurses if they think there are limits on when abortion becomes wrong they are evil, and it’s not telling a guy who worked as both a cop and a military officer he can’t have a gun to defend his family because he might be a mass shooter waiting to happen. Until the democractic party learns that lesson I’m more than happy to watch them get their butts kicked in the greater electorate. But it’s just easier to hit the button that dismisses loss to a person like Trump as part of some secret army of racists so they probably won’t learn anything.

Totally enjoying the screaming and cries from the DNC because a very electable centrist Democrat might run as an independent. The smartest thing democrats could do would be tell the fringe idiots like AOC to STFU and color and put Schultz on the ballot. He’d destroy any chance Trump had at holding an electoral advantage, but no they gotta find a way to win using the hardest method possible. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

High engine mounting etc won’t survive the requirement of something like “go to X Airbase.” We shouldn’t just stumble on to expeditionary capability, it should be designed in from the get go. We have had instances whereserious questions if C-130s could land on that field because to quote the airfield assessment guys, “sir, dirt would be safer than this asphalt.” We should ackoledge that most of our allies have spent little/nothing in infrastructure and this aircraft should be held to the same kinds of expeditionary requirement as the 130s that will be hauling their logistics tail into country.

Up to a sum on income, same as other non mil. It’s like first 180k or something. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So much Florida going on here.... https://www.leoaffairs.com/2-year-old-girl-surrenders-to-officers-in-florida-as-parents-are-arrested-for-armed-shoplifting/#utm_source=The%20Salty%20Soldier Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

America.... a country where an entire half of the population are “Islamaphobic racist white nationalists,” yet 1/3 of the people we resettle as refugees under Trump are scary brown people and Muslims. I watched a movie on VICE network last night. They literally have a commercial running that is nothing but a recorded phone conversation of an illegal alien pleading how she should just be allowed in. It is entirely a point of view within the progressive Democratic Party that the mere enforcement of borders is some sort of draconian holdover and we should just allow anybody in. Those people don’t accept the idea of checked immigration much less a wall. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This may surprise you, but the warrant community is full of prior enlisted. Infantry guys are like a weird mix of fraternity and homelessness. SOF guys are that amplified. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh no, I’m a total advocate of the Gold Bond video. Also I’m a huge fan of the medicated gold bond challenge for new guys. I (and a bunch of other “POGs”) just got a good laugh out of listening to a bunch of “super hooah” Rangers/long tabs nonchalantly talk about which lotion they liked to rub on themselves prior to a road march. Like wtf guys... this is up there with some other very weird stuff you should keep to yourselves. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

How stupid do I think the average person is?... Well there is this... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If we are going down this route... Diaper rash cream (the ones with a ton of zinc oxide) are apparently popular in some of the SOF circles for the inner thigh area and foot hotspots. That and body glide. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk