Boomer6

What you just said is* what the guade/reserve does, including the reserve units that teach IFF/FBF. They're high time IPs teaching guard/reserve babies how it's done. Bruh... The EX was also supposed to have a Sq replaced in 23. Don't drink the big 3 Kool aid. If all the guard/reserve units had to do was sit ONE and intercept Jim Bob in his cessna then sure put some Limas on a T7. The threat is far more advanced than that, and armed aircraft manned or not might not even been the answer. However, ONE is only a part of what these units do for AD. If you make them non-deployable AD will suffer. Not to mention we need them in the big fight. Guard squadrons aren't only getting F-35s because their politicians know how to deal.

It doesn't take a black border with plaid clearance to realize taking, let's say 30% on the low end, of your guard/reserve fighter pilots flying combat aircraft and putting them in an armed trainer is a terrible idea. The majority of your experienced fighter pilots live in the guard/reserve, especially these days. Not to mention you'd have to have a two seat "F7" for this, since four eyes are the only sensors you're gonna have in an armed trainer hunting CMs with nothing but a heater and hope in your heart. If we're coming up with pipe dreams I'd rather we use armed UAVs (thinking loyal wingman-esque but not necessarily stealthy) for ONE missions (minus DV protection). Give the reaper guys somewhere to go after AD and let your fighter guys focus on the big fight. At least we wouldnt be putting two dudes with 4K hours between them in a go-cart to go play heehaw and the fuck around gang.

So instead of having combat capable aircraft and pilots with many years and a few thousand hours in said aircraft, you're advocating to take those pilots out of their fighter and put them in a non-deployable armed trainer? I'm sure AD units wouldn't mind back filling the deployments these units wouldn't be able to fill. I guess we could send these armed T7s in as cannon fodder if the balloon goes up, since there wouldn't be time to retrain them back to the fighters they left. Costs and consequences for sure...

Did M2 transition 🤔..?

Guard dudes leave for OTS with set dates for all required training from OTS to their MWS (usually). It's not a fast track, they just do all their waiting prior to going to OTS. There's definitely an argument to be made that some guard babies get passed when they wouldn't have made it if they were AD, especially on the fighter side.

Recommend going Guard.

If the glove don't fit you must acquit! Am I right. How much $$$ you pony-up for the Rashaun Jones defense fund?

You're a regular ol' Johnnie Cochran for miami

Yeah dude, definitely don't congratulate them on a nice 5-ship missing man...

This is my kind of immigrant.

We signed the UNCLOS treaty but the Senate never ratified it..

Yeah, Huggy said person, which excludes the need for a WSO..

Not getting caught diddling an E is a pretty low bar. Photo evidence submitted at Ratner's trial:

Once again I'll disagree with Ratner and do it in a less verbose fashion. Finding the right guard/reserve unit is an absolute game changer. This isn't just work for everyone and it only takes one or two bad leaders on AD to be the difference from the best 20 years of your life to 10+ years of "fuck this shit..." I know a number of CAF dudes that have had similar experiences. I've been there myself. That being said, there are guard/reserve units that have all the things AD should have (good leaders, commaraderie, purpose etc.). Good luck.

While I disagree with the first part of Huggy's statement, reference cold war era single seat fighters that had nuke missions, the long mission part makes sense. That being said, if pilot homeboy is asleep I'd rather not rely on HAL, Goose, or someone that couldn't get into UPT (no offense) flying/monitoring the most expensive aircraft since the space shuttle whilst possibly starting WWIII. Definitely precedent for having 2 pilots unless one of them loses their shit whilst carrying nukes though...