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Kenny, I don't disagree that Kung Flu should be the standard nomenclature...However, I think an argument could be made for: Sweet and Sour Sicken Wumonia Bat Soup Croup Flu Man Chu Communist Lung Herpes

Or a maintenance group... Since there are a lot more of them, and they are in close proximity while working on planes.

This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but in the face of a widespread pandemic, how is training and flying mission essential? Especially at an AETC base...everybody needs to take a knee for 14 days. I keep hearing “hack the mission, get after the mission”...gonna be kinda hard to do that when some ops group somewhere develops an outbreak of this stuff.

But where - and I don't presume to have any answer - is the line between being smart and fighting this and absolutely wrecking our, and the world's economy? Is a repeat of the 1930s worth the culling of the human herd that most likely will happen anyway? I write that knowing that I'm in a higher risk of not recovering group due to age. This isn't the Black Death. It's a deadly form of influenza that will likely get 100s of thousands worldwide not 100s of millions. Where's the line? More importantly, to my anyway, is where is the line regarding keeping our Constitutional system alive and mostly well? (pun intended). Gonna need more bourbon. And Pop Tarts...

delayed it. still jumping to the reserves.

No thanks; separating because I have no faith in the AD Air Force’s talent management, so not giving them the opportunity yet again.

first things first man you're ####in with the worst i'll be stick pins in ya head like a ####in nurse

Separate but related, it will interesting to see how big the baby boom generated from the industrialized world's self-isolation will be. Will replace all the morts plus some, I bet.

Brabus, I 100% agree. It's frustrating being "key personnel" and still doing the grind with reduced support while other functions are staying home. In the end that's what we all signed up for though.

Not unpopular opinion. Note: I am an AETC IP Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Pathfinder program seems to produce personnel that are competent at being a general's aide.

That's what she said. ----Michael Scott

For fucks' sake (yes, all the fucks), it's called the Kung Flu.

And we are closing out that show too... You act like there is an assumption we will just take the billion dollar deployments of units from the Stan and CENTCOM and transplant that to PI, African, etc... If it didn’t justify assets yesterday it won’t suddenly get the billion dollar stack we’ve become too accustomed too in recent years. We are broke, we are tired, we have to reset the military and buying stuff that would have been useful 12 years ago for a fight we are leaving isn’t going to be a big hit on the hill. It will lose its fight when people are asking to replace 25 year old armored vehicles or upgrade/replace a 45 year old 707 series of support aircraft that will be critical to a near peer fight. If your operation doesn’t justify all the help from ARSOA, U-28s, and AC-130s right now yet their mission still goes on, you’re crazy if you think there will suddenly be a JUONS that justifies AFSOC buying a bunch of light attack. Outside AVFID there is no and will be no appetite to put this thing to work. We are scaling back our SOF footprints because we desperately need too so what mass customer demand do you think is going to demand this, because they are the reason for its existence. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hate to break it to you guys but any and all desire at this point to spend money on this will die in approx 12-14 months. Afghanistan is over. The primary customer for this aircraft requirement is done doing missions. Every day that continues you move further and further from your single biggest example of justification. Nobody will care about building this capability for the next mired quagmire war. All the focus will go right back to the big war thinking and acquisitions and the best we can hope for is somebody saves all these power point briefings on a drive somewhere and is in the CSAF and others office on Day 1 of the occupation and rebuild in Venezuela/Sudan/whatever banging it into their heads we can’t afford to consume the F35 fleet flying it around for 10 years doing XCAS against Toyota’s with PKMs on them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We've bought a whole 2 of them...cool. How long did it take to get this far? Whether it is a SOCOM operation or not this project is years delayed and will get so mired in more red tape that it will never reach full potential/operation. I foresee the AF sticking its hand in the acquisition of the jets and slowing it to a crawl eventually forcing its cancellation.