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What’s your role in the exercise? If you can help/train, fine, if not, it’s BS. My sq was TDY at a base during a ORE...base told us not to interfere, DO said “we’ll participate in full chem gear etc” so that he could look good.

Can you articulate for those of us outside the loop on this one?

Doubt it but maybe if you can make the case it’s usaf quality equivalent which from my experience with foreign nations safety programs vs USAF, they have very little in common other than the name. Bangladesh May be the exception.

You sure it’s “the” Tweak?

If you look hard enough you can find a pattern to claim just about anything. Don’t fall for the propaganda. I know well-educated successful upper middle class minorities who have it better than 90% of Americans that have been convinced they are victims in a systematically racist country. Because they’ve found a “pattern” and they can justifiably compare 2018 New England to 1968 Mississippi. Some people just want to complain and be victims. Most of us are tired of it.

I’ve met some great pilots who escaped their UPT fate by going ANG so I know that many capable pilots are in heavies/ISR etc who would do just fine in fighters. One guy I met was a bomber to RPA to UPT to ANG F-16 and he was doing just fine. Back in the late 90s a bunch of c-130 types switched to F-15C’s and Hogs etc. I also know helo to f-15e/f-18

I ran into this issue when I took the 50% up front of the bonus. Otherwise, not a bad problem to have when you are making that much money.

There is no shortage of skilled, qualified people wanting to get to the U.S. I’ve been asked numerous times by European co workers to help them look into paths to immigration for them (pilots) or family whom they in 2018 want their kids to have a better shot at economic success. The American dream is still alive. We get to be picky about who we let in...we SHOULD be picky. I’m not a Trump fan but let’s face it, 69%+ of Americans think those countries are sh-tholes. I applaud his honesty. Zero of my liberal friends are rushing to sponsor and lodge African immigrants, nor do they in reality want those migrants moving in next door. They simply want to feel good #emotionalliberalactsofnothing and attacking trump gets some anger out.

No, in those jets designed for visual lookout and maneuvering you can easily/quickly descend if you need a better view and see where your pod is looking to verify outside your nice bubble canopy possibly aided with a HMCS. They “could” have the same issue but Chances are they “would not”.

So not to knock the bone, it’s done some great work but it’s got some HUGE drawbacks in anything other than a simple bombs required on coords scenario and this is why 5 dudes are dead. Every jet has strength/ weakness but a strength of the hog other than having all the nice technology designed for CAS is you have diverse weapons. So when there is a question of “is this the right target” you can send a marking rocket or do 2-ship “hit my IR mark” tactics. These type of options provide steps to break the chain of errors if a JTAC is overtasked/wrong. So if you have a JTAC who needs a pod and maybe a BOC, bone is fine. If you need complex deconfliction (read the CAS definition...it’s not 99% of Afghanistan) then you want a aircraft with the tools, weapons and training to do it. Again, not knocking the bone, it has done some fine work but every jet has its limitations. The A-10C has terrific avionics designed for the mission...some features were a result of lessons learned where feat happened in the past. F-16 block 30 is a CAS machine compared to other blocks. Strengths and limits.

How custom? We had a reputable builder build a house we designed and had no issues with a VA loan.

No issues in Italy. No mods required, SUV and smaller will do 90% of roads.

Huh?

Which airframes are in the running? USAF only? Given a super hornet got the first “actual” a/a shot in about 20 years and 16/15e’s were actually tasked with DCA, genuinely curious the metrics.

Saw a new Raytheon Trophy F-15 video. Question: what is the “real” criteria for winning the Trophy? Ie the metrics they use.

Damn, what’d the rest of us miss.

The best interest of the USAF is to have everyone slugging it out giving 169% because they think they have a shot at being the MFWIC someday. It works in a lot of cases. I know guys who have been repeatedly denied entry onto the HPO track yet they keep begging for their beatings. Imagine if OPR’s were honest...dudes would be jumping ship even more often when they realize they aren’t going anywhere early on.

Yep, dudes in reality about your 6 year point you should be able to take stock of your future in the USAF by what type of strats/push you are getting/have gotten. It pains me to see dudes not realistic with their lack of push at that point and still think they have HPO potential. I see people volunteer for some truly sh-t jobs/deployments/TDY’s thinking it’s the boost they need but in reality they are working twice as hard for half the results. I’ve seen a few buck the trend and get on the HPO track late but the personal cost was enormous. This is my experience looking back over 15 years and seeing how peers and subordinates ended up in the long run vs indicators early on.

The USAF is managed by fvcktards who with their years of AU schooling couldn’t lead a Lt to a strip club. None of this surprises me. Sad to see some good dudes working the issues hard only to see them hosed by the inept leadership above them.

Which incident?

Not true. The F-22 5th gen capes were used a few weeks back to penetrate hostile Afghanistan airspace and drop GPS guided bombs on poppy processing facilities. Rumor has it the targets were highly defended by pitchforks and shovels.

Hacker, can you break down the scope clause and associated issues for dummies like me who don’t speak airline....yet.

Again, very rarely in Europe is the choice in favor of actual capability. The German Air Force is literally as worthless as tits on a bull.

Sorry, $87.27.

The easy answer is most European countries simply don’t care much about A/G and are clutching the Cold War A/A emphasis mentality. Most would be shocked at how poor the A/G capes are across the board. French and brits are the best but still lag us. Most would be shocked at many of our other allies in the A/G spectrum. Sad part is they don’t know how low their capes are because they are a solid 30 years behind in some areas. All they know of CAS is OEF so imagine how they think of it as a mission. CSAR...non existent. But they think they know what’s going on..on paper at least and that’s what matters.