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I'm not even saying I have an issue with it. Just saying that it kinda struck a nerve with some crewdogs in the Buff community. But yay, heritage...

No we don't, but it IS a bomber that will be crewed by some of the same crewdogs that had friends on RAIDR 21. Just saying that some have said it hits close to home.

I know there's a segment of the Buff community that does not feel the same way. Some say it looks like Big Blue has no SA and that they tagged an aircraft with the same callsign as a jet that crashed and took the lives of six men with it.

Yup, got a thumbs down about a week ago.

Alright, got one of my Minot brothers looking for it. I'll let you know what he finds.

I'll get in touch with some Minot bros. I haven't seen it floating around Barksdale, but the northern tier bubbas seem to have them periodically.

Like stay the hell out of Southern California...

The fact that we're even having this conversation and that this thread has gotten to three pages a) frankly terrifies me and b) really makes me shake my head about the sad state of affairs we've gotten into lately.

And here I thought queep was about to go away....color me not surprised that they found a way to make SOS in correspondence even more painful than it already was.

Dude, I did one night of cramming for the AFOQT, took it, and my PCSM went from a 55 to an 89. Pilot score went from a 65 to a 92. I'd do a little studying and go rage through it. I'm sure you'd do fine.

I know of one, maybe two very crusty, very senior Lt Col Buff IRs that would even begin to know how to do this. We as a community don't have the equipment or the knowledge. That being said...Laser ring INUs have made this more or less obsolescent. I don't need a GPS to be accurate.

Notifications for the 913th at Little Rock and the 179th at Mansfield are out as of this week.

Two Major's boards in one year....maybe all those VSPs/RIFs/etc weren't such a good idea, huh?

Make sure you're checking out guardreservejobs.com Lots of postings on there for various units.

Last bomber actually shot down was probably one of the D-model Buffs going into downtown Hanoi during Linebacker II. I know of at least one G model that took an SA-2 hit during Desert Storm, but the crew and jet made it home.

Welcome. Why don't you tell us about yourself?

Anybody hear back on this one?

B-52H Ops Tempo/Deployment- Stable. 18 months home station, 6 deployed, although with the Buff now back in the fight against ISIS this paradigm might change. Deployments have been to Guam alone for the past decade. A generation of Buff guys grew up knowing nothing but golf, scuba diving and snorkeling as their "deployments". What the future holds remains to be seen. In an Ops unit, if you're at KBAD you can expect to see Minot twice a year for STRATCOM exercises. Throw in an occasional Red Flag and 30 hour round trip flight to some far off corner of the globe and that pretty much completes your sight picture. Morale- not bad and getting better. Leadership varied wildly by squadron and wing, and I've seen the worst and the best. Small community, so you get to know each other pretty well. Getting back into the fight has done a lot to give some of the queep some meaning. I'd say it's also pretty family friendly. Work days are what you make them. Some people pull 8-5 and do fine, while others live to work. YMMV. Advancement- if you want to advance in the Buff, you're pretty much destined for WIC. The pilot portion of the community is currently getting pillaged to backfill all the 11F white jet slots so if that's your cup of tea, chances are good. Airframe outlook- Boeing says we've got longevity into the mid 2040s. Like our Bone brethren, we're going through a fleet-wide upgrade called CONECT which is really beefing up our communications and giving us data link capability. A new radar and possibly new engines are on the horizon . Location- do you want to melt in the summer or freeze in the winter? Louisiana or North Dakota are your two options.

The good news here is that the Buff is now in combat. It'll be a minute or two before most of those crewdogs are eligible for Striker Vista, but I think having both the non-LO bombers in the fight will eventually help smooth that transition.

Bet the A-10 bubbas are pissed...they're the real "Attack" squadrons. Just ask them, they'll tell you!

Yup, I think that's am ambitious plan. And just about the time they get to be useful, Global Strike's going to say, "Tour complete, go requal in your previous platform". Not sure what they have in mind for a timeline, but I think at least four years would be optimal.

They should be relatively knowledgeable about the threats in general. Since the Bone's defensive stuff is much more user friendly, I doubt they'll have issues. My worry for the Buff guys going to the Bone is fitting in from a credibility standpoint. You take a guy who's been flying really nothing more than Lancer sorties and the occasional CBP deployment and you plunk him into a squadron where even most of the LTs have combat time. Tough sledding, if you ask me. The Bone guys coming to us will probably have a leg up on your average run-of-the-mill offender, as we're only qualifying them in the offense seats. Just get ready for a culture shock when you go from 1980s tech to 1960s.

True, but now that we've more than doubled the number of available bomb squadrons to pick up AFCENT taskings...I think four months makes more sense. My first trip to the island was four months, and that felt right. Six months is a drag, tropical island or no. An even better answer, to me at least, is do what we did in the late 80s/early 90s- park a squadron out there. We've already got a detachment out there now. Maybe you don't put twelve tails there, but four-six with periodic swaps to keep the corrosion issues low.

It's a sad state of affairs when an O-6 thinks they can not obey a directive from the CSAF. "I know Gen. Welsh said this, but I know better, so get your master's done or you're not getting a DP".