Clark Griswold

Commute worthy podcast on the draft Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Not pushing an agenda but posted for context and information Ukraine ‘Conscription Squads’ Grabbing Men off Streets to Fight in War: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/10/06/ukraine-conscription-squads-grabbing-men-off-streets-to-fight-in-war-report/ Like it or not they’re probably reaching a kind of culmination point, whoever becomes POTUS, recognize this and find an acceptable resolution Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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No LORAN is not exactly what I’m imagining https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN I’m thinking of a station, probably stationary or in a tight and unchanging orbit, actively measuring BRA to another station keeping its heading/altitude/speed, doing trig and telling the receiver in 0.69 seconds input this position as your origin point and nav from there This system would be mostly silent except for maybe its radar and have to have some freq hopping encryption to transmit as required, unpredictably to its users for their nav updates and not give the baddies something easy to target Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Some 20 lbs brain has probably already worked this out but a C2 node or radar facility could push an update in a degraded nav environment if they had positive contact with a receiver(s) and the receiver held course/altitude/speed and updated accordingly when they overflew the pushed update Military application is obvious but I wonder if the commercial world could get this worked out with CPLDC or ACARS Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

C-27J could do this also, overflying known lat long and could do a radar offset update off a known location Honeywell avionics IIRC and then I guess the J model Herc could I imagine Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Had a UPS dude in the JS yesterday and he mentioned this from his recent flying in the ME, they were spoofed and GPS said they were over Cairo when still over 200+ NM away, they reverted to VORs and confirmation of track with ATC, don’t let those radio nav and dead reckoning skills atrophy… Article posted at drudge with no pay block: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/electronic-warfare-spooks-airlines-pilots-and-air-safety-officials-60959bbd

Being gone a few months you start to get perspective… probably in a few years my thoughts will clarify further but in a simple sense the AF is too cerebral. Too much brains not enough balls, too much studying not enough sports, too much nerdiness not enough jock and too many avenues for rank, attracts and incentivizes douchebaggery. There’ll be no pull back in this from the AF unless the other services culled their shoe clerk herds and unnecessary offices in like kind so that the AF wouldn’t be at a disadvantage in the DoD relatively as an institution at the Joint level. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

IDK, maybe this guy has a point… https://www.amazon.com/Grounded-Abolishing-Studies-Conflict-Diplomacy/dp/0813165571 But seriously WTF?

That was a good video I like that, the Magician’s Choice, the illusion of a real choice Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If only… the nuclear option would be to offer early release if said students aren’t in a training program by 6.9 months… IRR, Palace Chaise, IST, whatever… but I digress… While at the beginning, flying the mail by the AAC, went bad, Air Mail Scandal, having a small utility fleet owned by the AF and chartered specifically to support the Joint Force, Federal and State agencies in contingency and routinely… fly pax, cargo, mail, etc… regularly and on demand for that which doesn’t require a t-tail or Herc, pick an existing regional jet (175, 220, 72) and fly from strategic areas with concentrated gov customers who would use the service, send pilots there if an FTU isn’t available at a reasonable time from graduation, get about 600 hours time and rotate them out to their FTU… the money would come from divesting old iron that in reality is no more survivable than adapting a civilian aircraft to this role, an adapted aircraft still in production would be a helluva lot cheaper to operate and sustain

Our strategy is organic synergistic transformative multi lateral culturally aware inclusive innovation that will allow holistic and sustainable development thus deterring nihilistic sociopaths with WMD and massive advanced military capabilities. But on a lighter note, I’m not sure our current form of government populated by ever less impressive elected officials and aloof permanent bureaucrats can form a consistent strategy to meet the challenge of the rising authoritarian civilizational states of the East. We change the crew every few years and we wonder how we can’t get on course let alone stay there and that course is not one that the majority seem to want. Another lament on the state of the democratic republic in the West with no obvious answer but I fear as inept and inefficient as our adversaries sometimes are, their relentlessness may prove decisive versus our system. But… we have to get busy building an arsenal to win in several places at once, seriously develop homeland defenses and prepare and convince our people why we should. Not holding my breath but posting on BO

Yup Commute worthy conversation on the subject There’s a lotta good nuggets in this conversation, a good bit is well worn ground but what I found particularly interesting is the discussion he has on the spiritual preparation for sacrifice Xi has started, don’t see an American leader anytime soon giving a guns vs butter speech, or why Americans should defend the Spratly Islands, if intend to resist aggression by the PRC in the SCS, whoever becomes POTUS needs to make that speech now methinks Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If only king for a day or if we had a congressman who would drop a turd into that shoe clerk punch bowl… introduce legislation giving the AF 6 months to get studs into FTU or other flight training after graduation or make it a 2 for 1 reduction in their commitment for every day past six months till they get to flight training If there’s no cost to the Bobs there’s no incentive to fix the glitch Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They think she’s gonna win Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Another straw https://apple.news/Ah1TbsO1BSFqfvImaU72qjQ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fair enough, I think you argue in good faith. No doubt about the problem with accountability. I think it you could keep it under control and actually measurably accountable but I’m an optimist. I’ve made my point as have you so good enough for BO.

No doubt this would require more than one GO who had strong buy in and believed there was a deficit in aviator and officer development willing to either make the case for supplemental funds or slay someone's sacred cows to get what would be needed, I don't know of any who has made any statements to that effect, but I post what I think so maybe it will change a mind(s). As to execution and it getting FUBAR, quite possibly as it probably would not be in the ideal career development plan for a lot people on the path to power but the ARC could possibly be a good manpower source for cadre, if the program could be located near or at airline domiciles or other strategic / desirable locations. The admin and cadre are ARC, the customers are the AD. Owners are the GOs and investors are the CODELs who want the program in their districts. Keeps the streams from crossing and roles clear. I'll agree it has risk but we have to get out of the mindset of well it's out of the norm so screw it, the USAF is getting sclerotic and needs a good ol' splash of cold water in the face, instead of the change being less real flying, less challenging and varied opportunities, try to offer more. Pilot, 20+ years, AD and ANG, flying for a major right now. Heavy guy, lucky and blessed bastard who got to fly several types/missions.

Yeah but light a candle vs curse the f’ing darkness. It’s a long shot but maybe a staffer, CODEL, SES, O6, GO, etc… lurks on these forums and maybe you’ll cause one shoeclerk to pause and think, you gotta try… Yeah I see your point, non problem in the short term sense to shoe clerks but leaders have to be strategic thinkers, 3 moves ahead and multiple permutations, if they allow this BIT issue to go unaddressed vs using it as a chance to build a cohort of inspired and trained Os for the AF then we will have missed yet another chance to better and break the trend of an inevitably less and less varied flying training. If we are serious about getting out the stagnate paradigm that 20+ of GWOT has left in the mindset of the AF then this program could be one part of it. They have to see it’s not about bodies but the quality of the bodies, in mind, body and martial spirit. These people want to be military pilots and leaders, keep them going in that direction not sitting on their hands starting in their careers building up resentment.

We need this and we need retirees trained in it in case we need to fly a mission to the USVI… Seastar for training and little missions

If this training backlog from UPT to FTU is forecast to last for years (3 or more) then why not use their time wisely, develop the skills of your pilots and seed a large pool of your rated officers with exposure and training in missions they may not get a chance to later when they eventually go to their MWS FTU? There is money, it can be reprogrammed and we have resources for a Graduate Pilot Training program to absorb UPT graduates to develop the Line of the Air Force. Just as LFEs are not to train any one person, they’re there to train the overall force, this program would be basically the same thing. Build it to handle 300 to 350 students a year, list it as an assignment for the students to rank with their choices and let this program be the accumulator to help the training pipeline. Course length about 1 year. 4 different aircraft in the program based at 2 different bases, geographically separated, east coast and west cost. Train, support ops and participate in exercises to support the Joint Force. Some of this would take the place of what contractors do now, not much but some. West Coast Base X gets AT-6Bs and Cessna SkyCouriers. Light Attack, ISR, Light Air Mobility with ACE training and experience. East Coast Base Y gets Scorpions and T-1s. Aggressor, target simulation and light fighter training, Light Air Mobility support for passenger, cargo and courier services. This would not be cheap but not unaffordable

Yeah I could see that particularly with our rated officers, I hate to say it but there is a competing tension between developing a high skill and knowledgeable aviator in whatever MDS/Mission and developing an (eventually) strategic leader I’m not sure the AF culturally would accept open acknowledgment of this and allow during the foundation period of an officer’s career them to achieve a reasonable level of demonstrated competence (aircraft commander, 2 ship lead, etc…) and then focus on demonstrating their competence at leadership at the higher than tactical level (operational, theater then leading to strategic) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That checks with what I’ve thought, it’s a GO officers arms race

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