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The HC's primary role in an MCO is giving gas to the RV. That said, there is a lot of growth in responsibility coming with respect to C2. I would personally like to see the Kings become the experts at the AMC role. After they get that down, there's a push from HC leadership (even currently) to push towards RMC and an offensive weapons capability. All that said, money's tight and they got slaughtered in the VSP/RIF a couple years ago. So most of the current IPs didn't grow up with senior captain patches running around. So in some sense they're starting from a clean slate, both the good and bad that go with that. If you went that route, you could be in a position to provide an outside the box voice and make an impact, but that's really up to you.

I know, but getting both sides of that fence to really comprehend what is required of the other side is sometimes difficult. Basically the T-Zo gap is fucking bullshit, either you're a team or you're not.

The problem is the non IC dudes didn't really understand what the IC dudes went through and vice versa. I was cut from an IC program while I was a frosh, so I got to see a bit of both sides. I also remember one of the most physically demanding PT sessions I experienced as a freshman was led by our IC football players. Our uppers basically told the footballers that they were just leading PT, go. The end result was an incredible appreciation for the amount of dedication the IC guys have for being the best. Counter to that most of the IC guys got to see the difference in their peers performance when you have positive motivation (the footballers were extremely motivational despite demanding a grueling standard of performance) versus negative. In the end, I never really experienced the so called T-Zo gap my freshman year. We were all banded together to "stick it to the man" one team, one fight. Fuck them, we're going to ALL make it through and there's nothing THEY can do about it because collectively, we're better than them.

Doesn't the NGA already mail a DVD with all the FLIP on soft copy along with the Pubs themselves? It'd be a pretty easy change to just stop mailing the paper pubs and send a couple DVDs to use on a stand alone computer that you'd use to update the iPads. As far as the green photo gel to make em NVG usable: using the black/white conversion setting along with the filter made it tolerable as long as you didn't look directly at the screen, but a no-shit NVIS filter is the way to go in my opinion if you're doing anything tactical. Bonus: modern NVIS filters don't totally dork up the screen colors, just tint them slightly and there's thin stick on film available nowadays.

It ain't one, it's most rescue guys. The default in rescue is "yes I can."

Well gunners are border line retarded, so they actually add to the overall cost to the Air Force as I have to buy a second marker set of crayons to brief to them. So I'd say that FEs are more valuable but less costly, average value is incalculable. I mean how do you put a value indicator on a guy who will happily charge into a hot HLZ with you, who's only thinking about how many Hadjis he's going to get to kill?

It depends, are we talking about flight engineers or gunners?

No it wouldn't. Passing min standards does not equal excelling or showing anything approaching leadership. If they meet the min, fine but that doesn't mean they get to brag about what they've done without someone calling them on their shit. If multiple A-10 patches have said she wasn't all that impressive I'm inclined to believe them. FWIW I'm not saying she needs to be a bad ass pilot to be a good representative, it's the fact that she's trying to link the two herself and she apparently lacked the former.

Dude, most of the CAF gets what Space provides. So much so that there are briefings given about what would happen if all our space assets went away and it isn't pretty. I think you're letting your chip get the better of you, I will happily mock a space dork about being a dork but I know what he actually provides and I am grateful for his efforts. More on line with this thread, you guys need to be allowed to develop your own culture that rewards excellence. The WIC model is a damn good one, but you guys need to make it fit your world. Only you guys can really figure out how to make it work but I don't think wearing flight suits will really help.

The issue is that she's using her experience as an A-10 pilot as a qualifying mark for her to be a congressional leader. Except there is little evidence that she showed any leadership while she was flying the A-10. Hence my question about Sandy 1 qual. If she was merely saying "I served as an Air Force officer" that would be one thing, but she's claiming combat leadership based on her time in the Hog that isn't warranted, further to that she also can't claim SME experience that a Sandy1 qual would indicate. To sum it up: she's saying "I was a fighter pilot!" And my response is why should I care?

Was she a Sandy 1?

I couldn't listen through all of that interview. The amount of self aggrandizing mewling was amazing. For the younins out there, I don't care if you're a female or whatever, if you excel at your job you have my backing.if you suck expect a lot of shit, that's all there is to it, be good.

Check right 30 degrees to avoid the mountain. You mean the mountain at 1 o'clock? ...........

Erie he looks like John Brown, cheers to Capt Crawford and RIP John....

ACC sup to 202v3

I'm curious why such a strong response? It seems like a reasonable idea for the more permissible environments, so obviously you know something I don't. Educate a rotor-head?

We teach a similar maneuver in AHC, if done correctly it's energy neutral, that obviously wasn't.

WTF really? TACC/any other desk sitting non-aircraft flying REMF job having mother fucker vs an aircraft commander?

Guess the VBZ is a bit pricier these days (MSRP of 900ish). On another note a double barrel 1911:https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/03/12/arsenal-double-barrel-1911/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheFirearmBlog+%28The+Firearm+Blog%29

Ruger 77/22 VBZ. I don't know what they actually go for these days, but I got one decades ago as my first .22. With a match trigger installed it's awesome. 100+ meter shooting with a .22 is a blast.

The 706 motor is creating a lot of problems with part durability as was mentioned. The Air Fore will never buy off on the 160th's solution which last I heard was to just just replace things more often, not cheap when you're talking about the transmission. Unfortunatly I think we really do need a larger helicopter, the Blackhawk just can't carry enough specialized equipment and still pick anything up. The 101 does have some strange limits with regard to nose up attitudes at low altitude due to the first thing that hits the ground is the tail rotor, oops.

Bring back TASS?

The clearing barrel/unloaded weapons insanity is coming from the Army.

This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Not to mention the procedure requires pulling the trigger! Just leave them loaded all the time and people would treat them as if they're loaded instead of being some paper weight they have to haul around.

Jesus, are we really bitching about who deserves more "special" pay?