SuperWSO

But not with the B-21s sortie duration. It’s not the special weapons driving the need, it’s time in the air without having to depend on a data link or HAL to keep an eye on things.

This is probably the most unintentionally funny thing I have read on Base-Ops in quite some time. You win the Rodney Dangerfield award.

Absolutely talk to the Guard. You can pick mission within reason. Try for a different mission set. ANG removes many of the active duty pain points and allows you to keep earning time toward retirement.

👆 what Huggy said. F-35 sorties from Israel were probably 6-8 hours, while US B-2 sorties were 37 hours. You need a second person just to cross check what’s going on after you exceed the normal crew duty day. To your point, AMC has discussed single pilot ops in the Tanker fleet. Most here on this forum declared that to be a bad idea. You can do any mission with one human in the cockpit. The latter part of my AF career was in Cyber, and I have seen what happens when technology fails or is denied/degraded/disrupted. That is why I would push to have any rated position on a B-21 and why I am skeptical of the reliability of CCAs.

The AFGSC/CC said “Unleashing the Raider’s full potential demands a complex blend of skills: airmanship, weaponeering, electromagnetic spectrum operations, sensor management, real-time battle management and agile replanning in combat.“ Could pilots go to EWO school? Sure. Do they want to? Hell no. It makes more sense to have two aviators working together providing different skill sets rather than having two people with the same training on the airplane, or making a pilot go through another year of training to be a pissed of PWSO.

"Over victor, Two's blind."

For years, pilots have been saying they don’t need a WSO, that function can be automated. If the AF can automate an F-22s wingman, then AI can also fly the enroute leg, hold a steady platform for the boom operator, and yes, land the airplane if required. CCA program makes the case that the B-21 could operate just fine with a pilot and WSO. Standing by for the hate.

Good news, good times are here again! Our biggest problem as a service has been solved. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-callsigns-nametags-morale-t-shirts/

Little late to comment but thought it worth noting. My dad and most of the other fighter guys I ever met who flew during that era had another name for him. He was universally known as Steve “Asshole” Ritchie.

New jet, new day. Space Force leaders stop wearing “spings”, compare Space Force to the Marine Corps as warfighters: discuss. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/small-uniform-tweak-change-space-force-culture/

Over the years, I’ve seen numerous discussions here about the potential impact of Cyber on warfighters, the threat posed by China, and what the AF and DoD should do. i highly recommend anyone interested in the current focus on 2027 and beyond should listen to a podcast called “To Catch a Thief.” There are 9 episodes and it is well worth listening to, especially if you have more than a 20 minute drive to/from work. If you can’t muster that much attention span, just listen to the last episode. Nicole Perleroth worked for the NYT, and reminds mo of the stories of a conservative being “a liberal who got robbed.” check it out, you should be able to use it for PME credit or CEUs if you have any computer certification. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/to-catch-a-thief-chinas-rise-to-cyber-supremacy/id1798267956

I stayed in a different AFSC than I started because I enjoyed the mission, had an opportunity to lead, and felt like I was making a difference in my corner of the AF. I retired after 26 years when my family situation changed. Eventually everyone gets out, even the CJCS. You either get out when you decide to or when the service tells you to.

Come on, it’s not like we let our adversary buy large plots of land adjacent to our military facilities… wait… it appears new information has just been handed to me. Fuck.

The article doesn’t mention it, but the VPAF is already buying T-6 Texan IIs from Textron. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/pacaf-first-us-aircraft-vietnam-t-6/

Ukrainians were taught of or remember the holomidor when the USSR killed up to 7 million in the 1930s. They also know what the Russians have done in places like Buca. That’s why I shake my head at people in this country who think we can negotiate a peace settlement. We can stop supplying weapons, and they will continue to fight with sticks and rocks if that’s all they have. If you know the Russians plan to kill yiu, there is no benefit to surrender. Might as well die fighting. I don’t know if Taiwan feels that way, but they can see what happened in Hong Kong.

I’m a military brat and started with USAA. They were great back in the 80s and early 90s. We had multiple houses and auto through them. First strike was in 2006 when they would not insure a new house for the price we bought it, they wanted to insure it for about 30% over. They fought us on reimbursement when our military moving truck rolled over during a PCS. We dropped them for home but kept auto until our next move when they were about 30% higher than Progressive. We dropped USAA and haven’t looked back. They were high priced and provided shitty service. Another story, USAA almost tanked my buddy’s home sale. Buyers insurer insisted on a new roof. Sellers company insisted roof was fine. As buyer and seller were about to part ways, they asked, “who do you have your insurance with.” Both were with USAA.

Two months might be a record. It’s normally tough to go from rock star to “loss of confidence” that fast. So what’s the word on the street?

Conspiracy theories all fail when you realize that POTUS couldn’t keep secret the fact that he had an intern blow him under the desk. Two people knew that, pre-social media and it became public knowledge in under 2 years. There is no way we are getting frequent visits from extraterrestrials and keeping it quiet.

The part that bothers me most about this incident is that it was Microsoft that screwed up and left this information exposed. The AF transitioned to Office365/CHES at considerable cost because it was going to put "the experts" in charge of the system. Now we've centralized all our eggs into one cloud-hosted basket rather than spread out across the DoD network. Although it is way more expensive, at least it is still grossly insecure. 🤡

Clearly an amateur. Everyone knows you shoot your watch.

National Enquirer - “ F-22 Pilot with two kills seen purchasing 150 Mylar balloons at Party City”

Seems like we just discovered balloons are “always in the notch”. Now that NORAD is turning off the filters, I think there are going to be a lot more scrambles to check out radar anomalies.

Filthy, I believe you’re having a hard day, and I don’t know why, but if you need help, ask.

I came here looking for USAF commentary, and I’m disappointed. 1. No Frank Luke references. 2. No one said 4 more and our intrepid balloon buster is an ace. 3 Finally, Dos Gringos told us years ago, that when targeting Chinese, “On Tuesdays it was heaters only, Wednesday BFM.”

High altitude balloons.