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Obviously Contact Time……

I wonder what charge code the instructor used on his time card for the tag team?

Too bad, guess another bro got the GO lobotomy.

It's been a few years but I recall hearing reports of the Israeli AF doing large strike package exercises in the Med. They would have strikers, escort, jammers, and tankers flying west a long way then turn around and fly home. If you measured the distance, flipped it on a map going east, you end up in Iran. Things that make you go, hhmmmm.

Several key surviving Iranian leaders have fled with thier families to Russia.

T38 Commander known for being a bro who can push it up. Ends up sleeping with a student who's lady parts have had more instructors inside than the average RSU. That somehow escalates to tag-teaming said student with one of the blue-suit sim instructors, where photos are taken just in case they'd forget the gay-adjacent threesome that put three separate careers in jeopardy. Then the sim IP mistakenly emails said photos to the base's most popular barber, who had more connections than Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood fixer. She deleted them, but when OSI "interviewed" the sim IP about a rumor that his genitals were flying CT formation with a certain commander in unauthorized airspace, he went off on a rant about that "dumb bitch" barber who is always spreading lies. OSI decided they might want to talk to the barber-they-previously-knew-absolutely-nothing-about, who told them she didn't really look at the pictures in the email and it doesn't matter because she deleted them a long time ago. But OSI decided to cast a resurrection spell on her inbox with their magical subpoena crystals, and sure enough the investigators suddenly had everything they needed. If you know any of the characters in this tale, please keep it to yourself. They all went through enough, especially the spouse and children of the eventually-jailed Commander.

He made a visit awhile back and had a 30 minute diatribe about the definition of quality in relation to UPT grads. At the end of it he said, "I mean do you want more pilots or what?" No, no I would prefer good pilots to lower quality/high quantity pilots. He could run for office tomorrow with how slippery he attempted to be not answering a direct question. What's comical is, if he and the rest of management are so confident this is the right way to produce pilots, why don't they have the balls to say, "yes we're going to produce as many as we can and quality will suffer."? Idk what he was like previously, but I can tell you a room full of crusty old IPs all thought he was completely full of shit.

You’ll dibs anything

I wonder what an Iranian boom operator looks like?

Well if we get 1500 pilots a year we’ll have lots of bodies and no iron… /sarcasm Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Realistically manned AWACS has zero utility in the PACOM fight, assuming full blown kinetic (and non-) hostilities. IBS, UAS, etc. were needed yesterday to fulfill the Tac C2 mission in that war.

If they cripple the Phantom fleet, maybe they can spare the Queen of the Tankers. https://theaviationist.com/2018/12/19/kish-air-show-a-unique-opportunity-to-see-the-worlds-last-flying-f-14-tomcat-jets-in-action-and-much-more/

With the demonstrated capability to do point to point tight beam large datalink, ask this question… What do you lose if the manned awacs gets shot down. Not in terms of money but in terms of personnel. And how deep is that bench? How quickly can you regenerate that, and where are you stealing from to do it. This is the same survivability discussion going on in the ground. Put the commander in a position to commander, but we can’t replace whole staffs if they get fragged, so we have to distribute/harden/extend/efc. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Let's not forget about the mighty KC-707. https://theaviationist.com/2025/06/13/israel-attack-iran-details/

I haven't heard this story, do tell.

Freddy is a smart dude who was a solid sq/CC - I hope he hasn’t strayed from that path. He’s also very data driven, so if objective data supports the shit show claim, at least old Freddy would do something about it.

I agree! It was a bad day and never should’ve happened. But calling it an insurrection doesn’t seem right either. We still don’t have all the facts, and people deserve to know the full story. If we really care about fairness and justice, we need the truth, no matter who it makes look bad. That’s the only way to stop something like this from happening again.

Makes sense. Sticking with what you enjoy and where you can lead is a good way to go. Appreciate you sharing your experience.

Interesting thought—manned AWACS with unmanned support could work like the fighter + CCA model. Biz jet mods for ejection and ACE are possible, but not cheap or simple.

Sounds like a CC who can't quite bring themselves to write the unvarnished truth. Too bad we don't have enough leaders willing to say "Boss, this plan will not work."

This shit is fucked.

reads like a carbon copy of what we sent up from Vance to 19AF in 2021-22...we/they, have learned absolutely nothing during the PTN/UPT2.5/FUPT boondoggle. I was a convert in the early days of 2.5, the syllabus wasn't perfect, but it was working. This looks to be headed toward monumental failure.