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I don't know, based on the incredibly exciting and not-at-all-dry-and-boring 6-9 hour contractor CRM brief every year, apparently it is.

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You have about a 96.9% chance of success at going AD AMC to AD ACC in RPAs.

There are multiple aircraft flying from any location. The busier ones require crews to be launching or recovering for 12 hours a day, 120 days straight, and the less busy ones are similar but less compact scheduling. No one deploys constantly; everyone flies MCE missions stateside. It's a compartmentalization like any other because the squadron environment is at the squadron and isn't like your home, and your home is at home and isn't like your squadron. You drive to work and then, like other professionals, brief the sortie, fly the sortie, debrief the sortie, and leave the sortie at work before driving home. Sometimes it involves having seen frustrating things, having seen graphic things, or having felt really good about some assistance you provided...the end state is all the same, though, it stays at work.

As backwards as it sounds, despite being 'closer to the action,' you get a lot less time doing any mission work while deployed. It's 96.9% takeoff and land, with some base defense if your deployed location requires/can accommodate it. You'll just be closer.

The acquisition cost is low now, the operating cost the AF shows people is low, but satellite bandwidth is expensive. Very.

Except none of them get along with the people in the next town, let alone 690 miles away.

True, but they play a different role, organic to Army commanders, than how the Air Force fleet functions (theater level asset under the Air Component, theoretically like any CAS or ISR asset). The enlisted/officer debate has gone on before, and there's no simple answer.

It would be a waste of a theater-level asset because it would be allocated to a ground commander who would put a 5km tether on it so no one else could steal it from him.

Must be one at HO since we're dropping orders for non-IP 1Lts to PCS to HO as FTU IPs at exactly 2 years on station from CH.

Nice. My school had a Sexual Violence Awareness CBT (Title IX requirement for registration), but it wasn't invasive. Frankly, the AF could probably stand to learn from it.

I think everything is pretty accurate except these two. Typically one 126.9 day deployment per assignment cycle unless you volunteer for another. I've never seen leave be that much of a problem, either, even when manning was lower than it is now. Our squadron worked with everyone who made reasonable requests, which sometimes leads to flying those 2 R days a month, so one of your bros gets some time off work.

That's a no-work zone.

There's a lot to be said for recognizing what does and doesn't transfer from your previous assignment to your new one, whichever direction you're moving.

This was totally expected, and I'm fine with it and glad to be back flying. I'm surprised anyone thought otherwise regarding the hours.

Right, I guess what I'm getting at is that there are smart people in that community and someone had to have done some critical thinking to realize at some point that the wavelengths seen through NVGs (to include IR pointers/strobes) are way different than what's listed for the Sniper IR range [in much the same way you wouldn't expect to see your IR laser designator in NVGs or TGP IR display], and then included it in training/pubs.

Thats the whole crux of this discussion, isn't it? To the planners, it fits; large PGM payload, hours of vul time, good communication ability, and NTISR. This is especially true with the drawdown of forces from bases in AFG. There are actually less CAS aircraft than there were a few years ago. MQ-9s are covering ATO fragged CAS taskings now also, but the B-1 has been part of the pillars of their plan because it's based outside of the country and it doesn't have to move out later.

No publication in the B-1 world describes the wavelength detectable by the Sniper? Questionable.

I'm not sure this is quite the same as the whole Ice Bucket thing...except that it plays social media with some #s. #BurnISISFlagChallenge

New AQ Franchise (Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent) Also Sets Sights on US Apparently before America and widespread democracy that allows people to practice the religion of their choosing, everyone was Muslim and they have all turned away since 1776. Clearly we can ignore the fact that there are 1.6B Muslim people, more than ever in history and 8 times as many as before American geopolitical prominence last century. Feeling a lack of attention al-Zawahiri? ISIS envy?

This conversation is for adults.

I personally cannot, but this is the blurb from the site for anyone affiliated to vouch.

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