Clark Griswold

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As the Guard (Air and Army) are technically independent militias could they not implement this policy on their own thru legislation of their own state legislature? Need a lawyer lurking on BO to answer this… Funding then would be the key / crux but really there’s a middle ground… It would be a Goldwater-Nichols level legislation but allow Guard units and their States to redesignate themselves as strategic only forces, self funded by their state and OTE’d in coordination with DoD (negotiated not directed) This would principally be done IMO to have mass available if the feces hit the fan and we needed a lot of platforms of relevant capes but also affordable at scale to deliver fires/effects/deterrence and a large conventional ground force to reinforce a more robust force AD has new shiny toys and high speed low drag dudes, ANG/AG has a lotta good toys and capable troops kept at a simmer who can reinforce, deter and in theater conflicts defeat independently some threats (contingency in Venezuela, European regional assurance mission as an examples) leaving AD with less to budget for and an affordable back up to call on This force or construct would also take on roles the AD may not want and keep those capabilities ready if called on: Light Strike Armed Recon, Light Air Mobility, Pilot/WSO training, etc… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

JF-17 cosplaying as an F-104 Good livery IMHO Switching gears LM stealth tanker concept

Concur again The Russians and Chinese have it right, you’re always at war/conflict it’s just a matter of how much at any one time - info/economics/espionage to grey zone to kinetic to nukes - all or some of it ongoing all the time While I get the idea the practical implications are not possible I’d rather see outsiders breaking into the political system with military experience try to make the chattering and administration classes uncomfortable with a modernized draft for basic military and infantry training with a period of eligibility of call to service and mandatory musters / drills / exercises Not AD service unless needed but required to train and be eligible for call up I think that has a chance of being enacted (low) and would accomplish the intended effect of putting all of society into the situation where the real question of whether or not a mission is worth it would be debated along with also seeing the costs in their yearly taxes Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Concur I think I get the sentiment of the proposed bill but the reality of our force structure makes this a nonstarter The bill itself really only refers to the national guard and I think you can infer the intent as no more national guard for long term stabilization missions but if it were actually enacted I think the ANG would get roped in Still the idea of raising the bar to make overseas adventures to filter out poor choices by politicians is intriguing My 2 cents would be to make all overseas operations of the US military funded explicitly by a set formula on individual tax returns with a progressive tax rate, $0-50k at 1% of your AGI, above $50k to 150k at 1.5%, etc… the problem is that feedback mechanism of actually seeing and feeling the financial costs have been negated by intermingled money (revenues and deficit spending) by the federal government Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Saw this on Breitbart https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/14/tim-sheehy-backs-bill-prevent-national-guardsmen-being-deployed-fight-foreign-wars/ If passed which I think it would not would cause the ANG to be questioned why it is needed then as its capabilities it has would be very difficult to access Thoughts? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We’re probably free-ish now but trending in the wrong direction, they (the UK) are in the stick shaker we’re just a few knots above it, Jan 6 rioters and MI militia dudes entrapped by FBI would be some of our examples of not right what they were doing but Fed LE made it worse / exacerbated it Freedom is sometimes a shit sandwich you have to eat when you see people you disagree with / personally despise doing / saying lawful but awful things you hate but it’s better to eat that turd sandwich than the alternative Choir preaching complete Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is the UK still a free country? Disregard any opinions on Paul Joseph Watson but just consider the fact of a FB post not calling for violence getting you jail time, IDK but if the mother country of the Anglosphere can become this horribly culturally mutated I think we have reason to fear

Airplane porn, PC 21 in USAF colors

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If the T-6 is getting longish in the tooth and they want a single trainer in the AF to earn wings in then why not switch to the PC-21 for UPT? More capable than a T-6 but cheaper than the T-7 GA training for basics, throw money at it to get quality CFIIs ($150k+ a year with longevity bonuses), PPC to AMEL training w/instruments PC-21 syllabus focused on acro, form and mission training (comms, timing, procedures, etc). Mo’ power and performance but affordable enough to run 1500 studs x 60 hours T-7 for IFF, Aggressor, T-birds and ANG light fighter program / FMS T-6s transitions sts to an RPA companion training aircraft program, RPA pilot training program, staff flying program, utility aircraft Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My guess is after this as yet hypothetical GA aircraft training phase and on to the T-7 there would be a sim and FTD to build up the synapses for fast jet experience, I don't know this for a fact but the T-7 probably has more reasonable speeds than the 38 with larger, modern wings, fly by wire and such for transition from descent to approach / pattern speeds. Will it rage all the time at 300 KIAS going from A to B below 10k, maybe but methinks it can go slower than the Talon and unless higher than required speeds are used as a stress inducer it will be in the pattern in the 200+ something like a T-45 is my guess. That's faster for sure than a GA but probably not a bridge too far for most. I see your point that GA is slow pitch softball and there about to start getting 75+ mph pitches but at some point they gotta jump in the deep end. Truth. As an airline guy but retired now if you got a base at or at a reasonable driving distance from ATL, CLT, DFW, IAH, PHX, DEN, MIA, etc... you would get the ARC to man this with zero issues but you would need an equal or greater exchange of missions / jobs for those bases you mentioned... my unsolicited suggestions would be to put bombers back at CBM and an RPA / AFSOC mission DLF, END not sure but if king for a day I'd put two aggressor squadrons there with a GCI unit, call it good.

Yeah that’s a good point but if they’re going public eventually with that as a proposal then I think there’s hope how much is debatable This really is not crazy but the devil is in the details likely My two cents: 100+ hours for PPC with instruments 20+ hours for ME with x-ctry tng 30+ hours for acro, form and spin/upset recovery T-7 for 50+ hours Graduate Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I guess I’ll flip my script then… if it happens with enough hours I’ll order a big hot plate of crow and eat heartily Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

General aviation trainer to T-7 for all studs? As long as you get enough hours in either phase that can work Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Good on ya for fighting the good fight Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pennywise pound foolish AF… The answer is so obvious

I get it, the AF has 69 other issues but this is more important than it seems, it’s not just training officers to fly but training, evaluating and forming the mind set of who will be the leaders of the AF, if we phone it in for AMC, AFSOC, part of AFGSC, AETC as I guess some of these T-6 only studs will be FAIPs we need not be surprised when as we push thru the mass of studs thru this process, some of which will not be like the hand picked strong swimmers for these small group try outs, the likely problems we encounter Why is the Navy not giving up on an advanced ME trainer? The Army for their fixed wing qual is not cutting back hours. Why are the mins staying in place for ATP and other civ tickets? Even though they have more access to more and likely better advanced training devices, because flight hours matter, getting thru multiple phases of training matter, proving your skills in at least two different platforms matters Choir preaching and I know you understand the problem of half assing things If we really are this behind and don’t have the money then contract everything but a T-6 program to figure out who’s going single seat or crew. Get the big flight training programs like UND, ER, All ATPs, etc… close 1 of the SUPT bases, you’ll either save X millions and still get a better product than T-6 only or kick the hornets nest for Congress to come up with supplemental funds or allow the AF to divest programs to fund I’m all for out of the container ideas to do it better or be additive to UPT ref the program the Lt attended but ultimately it is about a year of training, X hours of flight and simulator training and academics, no matter how much advanced tech we throw at it, the studs today are about the same as the studs of the past in terms of intelligence and skills, they’re going to absorb it at about the same rate and you’re gonna need to observe them going thru about the same number of events to see if they’re who you want flying AF iron, we can teach a bit faster individual tasks but the overall building of airmanship still requires that time in the air Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah it might be just that but here we are. So we’re behind in production, fix it by making more of the same product not by cutting corners Choir preaching but we have the resources just not the leadership But if the Bobs are not gonna do the right thing then if a dude is going to a heavy guard / reserve unit, then to relieve pressure off the existing system, I could see those studs going to a different program with contract instructors, GA training aircraft and then winging. -PPL with instruments in a C-172 with G1000 glass -Acro & form program in an Extra 300 -ME training program in a Piper Seminole -Modest top off program with a Cessna Citation, type rating course at Flight Safety with 10-15 flights in leased aircraft None of the iron or facilities owned by the AF, almost all of it done by contractors and you could pay for it thru O&M. Run this program for 5 years while trying to unfornicate the situation SUPT is in (no T-1 replacement, T-7 late, T-6s need upgrade, etc…) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Follow on question What was AFSOC’s input to this? Did they echo AMC? Also, I wonder if this is just another effect of 23+ year GWOT repetitive ops particularly in the heavy community where it was the same deployment, same tracks, same arrivals, etc… in a permissive environment Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If only you weren’t so right… You gotta fight or post on BO . net… like the US Navy “reevaluation” of their basic SWO training programs after two ship collisions, it will take something probably to convince the Bobs Funny how I was thinking about this jumpseating home yesterday, the crew was young but sharp, on descent they trapped an error on approach, I think the FO had been flying the CRJ for a year he said and the CA I think for 4 years, now would in a situation with a dude with only the equivalent of T-6 only been able to back up his CA and trap the error? Maybe but methinks chance favors the prepared or well trained Anyway, to hell with T-6 only direct to FTU…

Yeah but I’m describing it to persuade that SES, CODEL, HAF staffer lurking in this thread that the insane COA being proposed is just that insane I’m not sure if MAF GOs have Stockholm syndrome and are just trying to placate the ACC GOs but this is fundamentally insane An institution principally built around manned flying aircraft and the aircrew that fly them is trying to lessen the actual flying training for the pilots that fly billions of dollars of planes and thousands of lives and the fleet of aircraft that make us different than any other Air Force in the world, our global air expeditionary capability Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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