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    It's just learning to take off and land. It's a basic skill that ought to be (or could be) taught during initial qual. There is no amount of sitting at altitude that will correspond to the ability to launch or recover. Conversely, people in MCE could stand to learn a great deal by learning the LRE side. The 690 hour OG prereq to send someone to LRE was nonsensical.
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    The one with the accessories on the side instead of the bottom, specifically designed for a low ground clearance airplane? Too innovative for the AF.
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    An F-16 is advantageously area ruled so it doesn't have 690% more boat tail drag than any fighter in the last 69 years and doesn't need 40k+ lbs of thrust to do it.
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    Isn't that just nomenclature for trying to use a piddle pack on a pond crossing with a poopy suit?
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    JP-5 has FSII like JP-8.
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    There aren't any names in the publicly available AIB full narrative. The information would have to have been knowingly released upon request, reference my FOIA rant above. This isn't an SIB/AIB issue.
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    It is definitely not legal to release PII of personnel in overseas, sensitive, or routinely deployable units, even for a FOIA request. 5 USC 552 b 3 and 10 USC 130 b. It's a specific FOIA exemption. We get hammered for emailing a recall roster to our own personal email, and some legal team thought, "Give out names to the press when the law says not to? This seems right." Agree that there is no further public good that arises from knowing who the MP was.
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    Solid WTF to the fact that they released names of dudes in units that are overseas, sensitive, and/or routinely deployable. Protected from FOIA release under 10 USC 130 b? Who cares.
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    They stopped making the normal Airwolf a few year ago and went to the one with the rubber bezel, and now that isn't in production either.
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    Clearly, since Navs pass IFS. I'll spell it out for you: this isn't an FBO with a 152, or American Eagle. Being able to get an airplane off the ground and being good at tactics require an incredibly different amount of work.
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    People whose aircraft have tactics to fight other people trying to kill them may have more to study than loading an FMS and reading magazines.
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    It goes well with his triple thread post.
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    No, but awesome loiter only works if you're around to use it. Really at issue is his lack of sound logic and wildly inaccurate claims.
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    I did. The A-10 wasn't fielded just to kill some attack helicopter program as he claims. The gun was made to kill armor because in a real war dismounted troops aren't the bigger threat in CAS. And just because we haven't lost aircraft to enemy fire doesn't mean we won't given a near-peer adversary, and if that's his argument the AC-130 is hardly a better CAS choice. That guy doesn't know shit.
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    Air University is very confused by your statement. They're currently trying to apply a corporate management model to filter it so they can comprehend and actively listen.
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    Coffee. If popcorn and coffee aren't made, you're doing it wrong.
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    But they started it! Interesting Opinion Putin Did Americans a Favor: Ukraine is a wake-up call for what a post-American world would look like
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    Even if you stretch 4.5% of pilots by the 10% rule, it's still only 45% pilots.
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    without a map, nonetheless. //derail over
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    Requirements creep: the longer a program is in development, the more extreme it becomes.
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    China is probably fine with the US providing relative security for their AFG mining ventures.
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    So now we're not done at the close of 2014? WTF mate?
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    The range of an Apache isn't the first line of discussion here, it should be the way the Army allocates them: it would have to radically change, or else the range doesn't matter. They're organic assets, and the ground commanders aren't keen on sharing.
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