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Anyone know what we do during that ~1 month period between our RNLTD and IPT class start?

Ouch. Bummer. I had heard of some ANG ASOSs shutting down/changing mission, but didn’t realize it was that heavy.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/04/14/air-force-looks-to-cut-nearly-50-of-tactical-air-control-party-jobs/ Was proposed several years ago. Sounds like Lawman is seeing it actually happen

Part of the restructure to the Division model and the cutting of what has been explained as extraneous support requirements that don’t fit in the post coin LSCO model. Brigades have basically lost their Aviation staff support and with it that commanders primary advisor on how to use air. What is at the division is extremely limited (both in size and in the case of my division intelligence). We will not have forward placed air control parties outside of only certain Special warfare communities. What we’ve gotten to keep is essentially a deep targeting coordination capability not close air support in the traditional sense. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Huh? What have you heard that I haven’t?

https://www.twz.com/air/russia-testing-shotgun-armed-yak-52-trainer-aircraft-to-down-ukrainian-drones

Every time I walk by her caricature at KLIT, I hope someone has added horns and a Hitler stash to her fucking mug on the wall.

Trash Panda. There, feel better? 😁

He won't

No DIBS!

What level will he get retirement for?

I hear she smells like sulphur...

Evil demon Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Well, I guess that’s one [emoji640]-star pension that DoD won’t have to pay. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Can you imagine if this bitter old @unt had been elected. Now she thinks only a DNC female can be POTUS.

Not fired because now retired, but still in a world of self-induced sh1t: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/retired-four-star-us-admiral-convicted-on-corruption-charges/ar-AA1F53M2?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=16dacbfb21d24cd397e8bb219d52d4e7&ei=14

Only if POTUS can zip line thru the ramp from a 747 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He will infil via HALO to all future events. When his feet touch the ground, he'll light up a Marlboro red.

This might be racist?

There is a massive gulf of use between being naked on the ground and where you are considering strike capable ISR. The ground commander owns his/her scheme of protection, and we are increasingly empowering them for a host of reasons to be capable of that on their own. 1. Your service is taking JTACs away, so that’s helpful. 2. The democratization of effective weapons to provide that overhead search and strike particularly while mobile is increasing every day. 3. Sometimes I want protection and recon security to do just that and not get sucked into strike. That was one of the primary reasons we didn’t arm group 3 ISR when the question was there. It’s why Apache is a terrible recon platform. It’s also why there is an argument to maintain the 19 series because Infantry sees every thing as a nail when we have them the recon security tasks and drones to perform them. What you should have said is any time we have troops on the ground there should be an effective fires/strike capacity to achieve immediate overmatch with the expected threats. Same reason we make those guys truck a Javelin and mortars around when we know we can probably get air if we scream loud enough on the net. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Some of you guys have never been around Rangers and it shows… It wasn’t a gunnery until Dave chased you around the sleep area doing the “would you ____ me” tuck. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We were doing an iron swap and happen to be going to the same place that a "team" (6? dudes) needed to get to, so we loaded up their ISU90 with "you don't want to know what's in there" and headed to the ME. Load announces on initial climb out, "Yo, you ain't gonna believe this, dudes are stripped down to speedos and are playing some form of tag, oh wait, shit dog, there's a swinging dick. Dudes are nuts, I now I can't unsee nuts. I guess its some form of strip tag?" The play by play had us rolling to tears. LM had a calling in standup.

And since Trump likes a show, tactical arrivals and departures. Maybe pickle off some flares. Oh, and airshow smoke. And sparklers! And big ass speakers blaring Ride of the Valkyries. Oh, and he better pimp that ride. Wheel well LEDs, spinners, etc.

I find the irony quite thic with Tapper and his book, "exposing" the Biden decline when he was fully a player in it. He's spinning his part. As for who was running the nation, imo, it was the primary gatekeepers, Jill and Chief/Dep of Staff and a few read-in die hard staffers.

It's amazing to watch how Democrats who get red pilled are ostracized by the true believers. It's like leaving a cult.