Steve Holt!

Well, at least they're adhering to the new 3-09.3's min info gameplan requirement. So we got that going for us

I resent this statement. I may be a functionally retarded kindergarten monkey when we fly, BUT I DO MY JOB SIR.

I only need 5 more...

I'll put that on the board as the objective the next time we go to war. Be just good enough for the ground commander. I'm sure they'll dig it.

If only we had an airplane designed to prevent Russian tanks from pushing west into Europe..

I get to wear pajamas to work?

Lol, they steal your shit and force you to give them money. You don't need the club to have a drop party, been my experience that you can do a better shindig by having an after party at someone's house or east berlin or wherever the cool kids hang out these days. Plus you don't have to worry about the Monday morning bleed-over from all of the O-5 and O-6's watching your festivities like a hawk. YMMV

This. We had similar problems with getting not terrible beer and the club. We were required to use the club and required to purchase a minimum amount of crap (I think some food and a keg or two.) Our class just decided to min run the club festivities and give them as little money as we could and have a get-together after with everything we wanted. If you attempt to just show up with your own kegs and play the Lt card, it's been my experience that they will take your kegs. They'll feed some line about how you can get them later after the party and never give them back.

I don't know man. The airplane I fly has 3 autopilot options. Altitude hold, altitude and heading hold, and the third option, and they don't do much to make me a better or safer pilot, except maybe to help out when I need to get some snacks from my pocket.

The secret to get these guys to leave you alone is to never break eye contact. And moan.

Figuring out how many aileron rolls you can do before you go through the moa floor. 12

But it really hurt when they cut all those teeth out of my facehole..

Apparently Congressmen are showing up at the WWII museum to show how outrageous the whole thing is. One of them even took the time to chastise a park ranger for it.

Get the LPA in there

Pilsung.

Yes. Sort of. They pulled the studs out of the OSS and made a whole new squadron for them. Something about the OSS at upt bases being large enough, generally, to be counted as a group. And for what it's worth, they seem to make this statement every 6-9 months and nothing ever comes from it. The first two hours I ever spent on active duty were in a meeting about not being able to say so to speaks.

Lawman: My question was directed at you. I've seen what the hog can do with ccip solutions, hars and iron sights, and I've seen hog pilots shoot with all 3 of them with the same level of accuracy. I guess it was a slightly loaded question, I was curious if you could still argue a 9 sq meter accuracy at your ranges without having nasa spaceship computers doing the aiming, since that seems to be the jut of your "the hog is a terrible platform" argument. 'Cause having to rely on all that stuff to get weapons off the jet would be a hell of a hindrance to your platforms effectiveness, wouldn't you agree? *edit* Also, dude, I don't think HOSS is upset by you thinking the hog should retired. The hog is an old and tired jet, and I wouldn't mind seeing a new A/G fighter built with the same level of care and design and purpose as the hog was back in the 70s, built with the same ideals that were put into the hog and flown by a community that gave a shit about the mission as much as the current hog community.. I think HOSS is upset by the fact that you seem to be full of shit.

Just curious, how accurate are you guys when your lasers and whatnots don't work? Are you still allowed to play or do you call it and go home? Let me know if this question puts us in weird opsec problems and I'll take it down

The hog is capable of a level of CAS well above what's been needed in Afghanistan over the last decade. The first gulf war I think is a better example of the reason the hog was created. Everyone's always keen to jump on the green and blue shit bandwagon for the future of the A/G bubbas, which I think is why "the bone is the best CAS platform to date." That's a lot of investment in a lot of systems that have to work right to get the job done. There are already plenty of stories of dudes who end up putting bombs in terribly wrong places when everything works normally, what happens when their colored shit doesn't work

Right? That's what we're going for here? https://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20130918/NEWS/309180022/Air-Force-s-top-enlisted-Roll-call-back

Someone questions your thesis and your immediate response is to insinuate all pilots are bags of dicks because of it? 32 years of service and working on a masters eh? Fooled me.

Between the two, I'll take my chances with the drone..

I'm with these dudes. A month before you go to IFS, go to their website and print out bold face and ops limits to memorize on the shitter. When you get there they will explain what the words and numbers mean, but if you know them already it will make your life easier. They will fill in the rest. A month before you start UPT, memorize the words and numbers for bold face and ops limits. If you want to be super push it up you can probably find a blue suiter sim guy who is willing to take a bit of time and explain to you and your buddies what the words and numbers mean, or you can wait till you start and they will explain it to you, and already knowing them will make your life easier. Same story on my end of CFIIs and dudes with thousands of hours struggling through instruments and 0 hour guys who were able to get by alright. It comes down to natural ability and your willingness to put in however much time you need to supplement however much natural ability you have. Which for most dudes in UPT is a lot of time.

They had us take a FACT at IFF that was somewhat similar. It was different from the original weight lifting one at Laughlin but was somewhere along the lines of what you describe - a lot of cardio and not much else. We did some situps, high knees, squats, and some other shit. There was no maximum score, there was only "recommended" numbers and it was like 40 of each. You couldn't pass or fail to test so everyone just did the minimum number. It was a joke of a test. The dudes administering it said the same thing. I guess AETC was trying to revise the test so they were trying all sorts of weird shit and, since it hadn't been decided how to give the test, they couldn't actually make it count for anything.

https://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/466762/bagram-pilots-save-60-soldiers-during-convoy-ambush.aspx I think this article is a good argument against yous guys advocating for a total RPA air force