drewpey

You can try to distance the gunship from the "combat" heritage all you want, but the AC-119 project was codenamed "Combat Hornet". The Spooky and Spectre had their programs named differently IIRC, and it wasn't adopted for whatever reason. Is it ALL of the AFSOC heritage? Certainly not. Is it part of it? Without a doubt. I didn't name the projects, and neither did anyone who flies the planes now, but it doesn't mean we have any reason to snub what heritage is there just because it isn't deemed "cool". Many MDSs have nods to their predecessors in their aircraft or project name: PAVE, SENIOR, RIVET, etc. For whatever reason "Combat" was chosen by the folks back then for some of AFSOC's programs. It is what it is, get over it. I personally think we should name every AFSOC aircraft "Combat ____". Not for heritage's sake, but because of the unfathomable amount of sand it packs into peoples' vaginas.

He said "above the rank of O-4"... His point was that technology has a multitude of ways to streamline our daily processes and make desk work generally tolerable but because the old people in charge don't trust what they don't understand and are too lazy to learn, we will be forced to do additional work until guys like you get in charge.

Switch games. Starcraft players are treated like rockstars over there.

Toolbags making political statements in uniform become propaganda when marines.com was temporarily hacked... ttp://i.imgur.com/bijooSN.jpg

nsplayr pretty much covered it all for you. (except there isn't an EWO on the MC-P) No matter what airframe you go into as a nav/ewo/cso, you can expect to do a decent amount of mission planning, which results in multitasking different systems in flight to conduct whatever mission you're doing, while navigating (minding airspace), and probably working communications to someone. Different altitudes and airspeeds, but nothing too cosmic. Choose by mission.

with squadrons on a hiatus from flying of course the amount of checkride chaff is in sharp decline...why else would you need hardcopy?

Good. Never understood the move out from AFSOC in the first place. Seems like there are some redundancies to be eliminated in keeping it under AFSOC, especially during the budget crisis. Plus we'd be glad to have them.

Not all MUTE sites are created equal unfortunately. Some are nice and allow for good scenarios and debriefs, but many are just a guy visually pointing a dish at the plane. They are always threatening to close or downsize our ranges, and so more people crowd into the ones we have, so getting slots are difficult. Getting good ECM, terrain and challenging wx is easy in the sim, not so much in the ECM ranges.

Agreed. From an EWO standpoint, ECM training is always at a premium, and it's not always a guarantee that you'll be able to coordinate actual emitters. Flying against MUTE sites is good for currency, but shit for proficiency. Our SIM does a pretty good job with threats, which allows us to run very nice scenarios without airspace, MX or emitter availability issues. Also being able to add any weather you want to increase the difficulty of the scenario, especially since good instrument routes are few and far between.

USN - offensive/inappropriate - 350'+ phallic object - removed

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/08/navy-hazing-at-rock-island-ill-facility-involved-demeaning-sailors-with/ Navy Hazing gets out of control!

AF question answer priorities: 1. All of the above 2. The longest answer 3. The most general and non-committal statement (never choose an answer with "always") 4. The complicated answer that doesn't make any sense (because you didn't do the reading)

As a general rule, the further away I get from the 11-series, the fewer fucks are given. Sucks to hear you wasted time reading it though bro...

shrapnel

I'm trying to give you my advice, but you are taking it as a personal attack. The only topic you've started here was about transferring out of the C-130, and you opened it before you even started at little rock. If you went slicks by choice...you had quite a quick change of heart. I went through UNT many years before you and I saw the writing on the wall then...it's not like the J model surprised us all. I've seen one or two people transfer into AFSOC, and I will say the people who are eaten up about the mission before they transfer generally do well. Other people who finagle an assignment into our community for location, joint spouse, units being closed or other non-mission related reasons tend to not do well. Sorry if I'm being defensive, but with slicks winding down there's been a trend of AMC sloughing some of their worst to AFSOC and hording their best, and we've suffered heavily for it. From reading your posts your motivations to go to AFSOC tend to be non-mission related. I'm just trying to get you to realize that you need to have a brutally honest look at yourself and assess what your motivations are. Going AFSOC and then shortly thereafter realizing you don't like it (like you did with slicks) is only going to waste everyone's time. It's best for everyone if you slow down on this decision and make it right.

So a 1Lt in a dieing airframe, who wasn't able to get what he wanted out of UNT the first time around wants to transfer to a better job, but only if they give him a good location. Please tell me you didn't pitch that one to your commander. Here's the thing...there are probably 50 other guys in your position (hell, even more than that), with more experience who go to their commanders and are saying phrases commanders want to hear, like "Sir, I want to go to AFSOC, and I'm willing to go to any location to do so", or "Sir, I really want to vaporize terrorists, send me to ANY gunship available" etc. You aren't in any position to try to bargain or cherry pick anything. As a 1Lt you should have no stipulations. Why did you go slicks in the first place? Was it by choice or were you last in your class? If it was by choice, then you should have researched it better and seen the writing on the wall. If you weren't in a position to choose an aircraft you desired out of UNT, then you probably don't have any business in AFSOC. Either way, until you have a massive attitude change, I recommend employment elsewhere.

Not anymore... Weird there was footage of him being put shirtless into a police car...and now he's dead. Good riddance. I generally believe in the whole "innocent until proven guilty" until you start shooting at cops...

Could always go back to Pensacola to instruct.

Why only the U-boat? There's also the H, W and J model gunships. Not like the U boat is a dieing platform...but if you want to leave the old-and-busted, you might want to go for the aircraft that are getting the new-and-shiny. All that being said, between the MC, the AC and the U-28 that's quite a range of missions. What is it that you actually want to do?

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/military/top-story/report-lack-of-communication-contributed-to-eglin-airmen-s-death-1.114137

I saw that but this line is what concerns me: The curriculum consists of eight self-paced courses and four applied courses to be completed in the following order: Orientation and Introduction (ORIN), Leadership and Command (LC), Applied Leadership and Command (ALC), National Security (NS), Applied National Security (ANS), Warfare Studies (WS), Airpower Studies (AP), Applied Warfare (AW), Joint Forces (JF), Joint Planning (JP), Joint Air Operations (JA), and Applied Joint Warfare (AJW). 12 courses? Sounds a lot like an online masters program to me. I'd be interested in anyone's experience with the 6.0 program to find the path of least resistance.

Quick question about the whole ACSC thing... So one day when I'm told to get ACSC done in correspondence or whatever, it will be this entire distance learning masters program, or is there another correspondence course of just tests and reading? The AU site doesn't seem to mention any correspondence program that's not the masters program. Also I was told the WIC counts some towards ACSC in correspondence, but from reading the OLMP it seems like the WIC doesn't actually help towards ACSC, but just another masters program. I'm about to finish my diploma-mill degree and thought I would just be able to sign up for ACSC tests similar to SOS in correspondence when the time came...but the more I read into it the more concerned I am that I'm going to have to complete yet another masters degree program. If that's the case then I should probably do as others have mentioned and sign up before I send my diploma to AFIT and get it done when I've got time. Looking for some info...don't know much about this sorta stuff.

...until the next guy decides it's a good idea, and adds it again. As with everything in the military, this is just going to be one extreme of the swinging pendulum...

Thread revival! Anyone recently familiar with the squadron or the process of getting an assignment at the 390th?