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Well where are you going to sing those rape songs? Therefore Squadron Bars enable rape songs which caused rape, so squadron bars cause rape.

You mean heritage room? With SAPR and all can't have bars because they cause people to rape.

He briefed us when I was at GRACC a little while back. I believe he's the chief of the SAAM cell (or one of the other planning directorates) at TACC.

The McChord VML list came out today, 8 RPAs alone, 50% of the assignments (rest white jets).

Probably went out on Thursday or Friday at 1700. So everyone won't find out till tomorrow morning.

JQP with great timing, nails it again: https://www.jqpublicblog.com/one-airmans-view-open-letter-to-the-sarc/

That's good to hear I think the F-35 cluster is making us paranoid of break through technology.

From the article Clark linked, obvious there are valid counter arguments (like azimuth with the anti-ice fluid covering the window). But he makes some good points about how we did it at the dawn of the jet aviation with slide rules for the first time ever. "I have yet to have a boom operator give me a justification for this new virtual boom operators system. If aircraft contractors say it will cost way too much to physically attach a boomers station to a 767 then the USAF should ask them how they did it with ease at the dawn of the jet age with the KC-135, and then again with the KC-747 in the 1970s, and then again with the KC-10 Extender in the early 1980s? What magic wand did Boeing and McDonnell Douglas have back then and where on earth did that magic wand go because we really need to find it. It seems as if with the loss of that wand, our drive for simplified, low-risk procurement solutions based on proven systems and successful practices was lost as well. Also, consider that Boeing will elaborately modify their commercial aircraft for military needs. Huge radomes, massive antenna fairings, weapons bays and just about any other modification you can imagine have been done to Boeing airliners over the years. So grafting a rear window onto the a 767s tail seems like a small request in comparison. Why change a proven, robust, and known system that has safely worked for over half a century? 3D goggles can break, stereoscopic cameras can go dark and control consoles can malfunction, but a window is always on. I am sure Boeing and Airbus have some big cost analysis describing how somehow such a system will save the USAF money over decades of service, but really, that is very hard to believe as it requires new training simulators, lots of high-end hardware to install and maintain, and most importantly, development time and money. In actuality, those reasons may be exactly why this new aerial refueling interface exists in the first place, because it will it will mean big development, support and upgrade dollars for defense contractors for decades to come, something a mechanical boom, some levers and window cant provide."

True but this is a system which uses those multiple camera angles to make the 3D view for the boom. Just wondering how well this new technology will work out with the same problems you experienced with the window.

Any chance of Breedlove, don't know much about him personally but he seems pretty straight shooting when it comes to issues with Russia and our policies. But he also seems too straight shooting for the political level.

And what's the probability of those cameras getting covered in anti/deice fluid or dust & dirt and being unusable?

I think that happened to Nsplyr.

Rog, beaver's pictures aren't showing up for me.

This wouldn't happen to be the shirt? https://www.zazzle.com/the_defensive_egg_tshirt-235104359434540833

Did this in the sim my last two quarterly phase sims, had crews from several bases including PACAF and east coast bases. Now integrating them across different MDS's built by different contractors, good luck.

Great post JCJ, enlightening to say the least.

If they share the same networks and routers sounds using only firewalls to separate the two then I don't see this being outside the realm of possibility. For the record I have no idea how these systems are set up, just going off the news article (yeah I know never trust the media).

"Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., said some critics have called for the costly development project to be scrapped. “However, we are past that decision point. We just need to make this program work,” she said" Just need to make it work...even if it bankrupts us, great logical thinking and way to sell your soul.

She lost me when she brought her "white, christian, male privilege" BS into an otherwise decent commentary. We don't need diversity of gender or skin color, we need diversity of thought. I've had great commanders from that demographic and bad ones, I've also seen good and bad commanders from other demographics. If those are the only people who stay in long enough to make those ranks then that's the way it goes. The army has been trying for years to recruit more minorities into the combat arms branches but continues to fail miserably because the demographics they seek have no interest in those areas.

17D, Yes more space would help, since I don't have a desk to call my own and am constantly TDY. 100MB is beyond absurd, Yeah if I had 1GB we'd probably complain, but when one email attachment fills my inbox and at the the same time my old AOL account has 1000s of emails going back years, it's laughable. ETA: 17D thanks for taking the time to answer questions even with all the gripes being lobbed your way, I've learned more about cyber clusterfuck in the last couple days than I ever knew.

Dammit that was supposed to be an upvote. ^this, 17D if you can answer only one question please tell me why my free gmail account allows me 15GB of space but I only get whatever the ridiculously small amount through the AF.

This is hilariously true and sad.

No idea what you are talking about, but from the sound of it I'm sure we'll experience the fun shortly. Care to give the inside scoop?

We were all "young and dumb" at one point in our lives and did dumb things; running away, traveling half way around the world, and joining a group of known psychopaths is not being "young and dumb" and if that is their version of it we don't need that in our countries.