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Me or them? It's an equation so garbage in garbage out, but there are work arounds that do start dwelling into OPSEC. The laser is just my best range source, not my only one. Hoss, for ######ing Christ dude. Everybody gets replaced. The Sandy guys said exactly what ever hog guy is saying when it was their turn. The 111 guys said it about the mudhen, the 14s said it about the Rhino. The A-10 will someday go to the boneyard, the question posed is are you so irreplaceable either directly or by augmentation to make it worth it to keep you or start that process. If the whole world revolves around a gun nobody else has and the ability to get lower and slower and live in the WEZ of half a dozen systems light years ahead of the Gainful and Shilka that were top of the line when you were built then you'd better have something world beating, not just a different way to skin a cat. Standards, I'm a maneuver platform not CAS, different doctrinal standard. Surgical is the pro word of the day, if I shot the way I've observed you and any other strafing fixed wing did I'd go to jail. When you've got JAG and BSOs trying to fry guys because he had rounds land on the other side of a fence it's infuriating to watch hammer pound away at a compound or see you guys strafe the ###### out of a target area and everything around it.

when your round has a 4m burst radius you don't need 300 of them in a beating zone.

Your gun has a wider dispersion at 1200 meters than mine does at 1700 (12m vs 3x3m mean dispersion). You can pull that off open source. It's math dude.

No I'm saying anything physically bolted to the aircraft datum line starts off inherently less accurate than a system with full range of authority in az/el with a weapons processor that makes those compensations for you. Same reason my gun is more accurate than any of my helo brethren. Cobra doesn't have as expensive a Weapons Processor, and DAP shoots the same gun fixed from 1/6 the distance so they can hit accurately. Tell the truth do your gun scores get that way because your system is better than everybody else or because you spend so much more training working on it. And what I'm saying is if people want to leverage the future of the A-10 off all the good it's done in the last ten years, they need to realize there are dozens of other aircraft capable of doing the same job and there are ideas out there OV-10X/A-29/etc that are better suited to this conflict than even the Hawg. The people who think its gonna be pivotal to have the mud fighting down and dirty monster in the next war that has an actual FLOT though really need to go talk to some people about threat systems out there because that method of employment just got ridiculously more dangerous.

Statistics. I can kill a BMP with a 10 round burst from 1500-1700 meters and expect 5 of those rounds to hit the front glasis. Fixed gun iron sights vs a turret with a weapons processor and constant laser range, it's technology man. I'm more accurate than any of my Rotory wing competition either. I've been to Spangdalem and got the brief on how you shoot.... That line up the symbology buddy marking crap.... I'd go to jail if I did that.

Ok as one of those Apache brethren I'm gonna ring in here. 1. Nothing in our current fight reflects any manner of how we would be employed in a fit against any kind of force with near parity in firepower. We are aerial QRF, and so is CAS in theatre. 2. What does the A-10 drop at all of the other horses in the stable don't. Besides that bitchen gun you got, there isn't a weapon you carry that somebody else can't. 3. All this crap on desert storm and the great impact of whatever platform... That fight was 24 years ago. That fight predates 2S6, SA24, Gauntlet, and a host of other deadly ass shit that will literally bend over and rape any platform out there that gets in its WEZ titanium bathtub or no. Standoff, low observability, lots of expendables (which are getting less and less effective) is gonna be critical when you can buy a weapon with 4 fold better Pk than the weapon systems our aircraft were designed to take on. Observations I've had... I've been in the stack with Hawg... Other than that inaccurate (by our standards) gun they don't bring anything crazy awesome to the fight that couldn't be carried on another aircraft or a low cost idea like have been proposed. Your not there any longer because as the tanker orbits get fewer and firer between your on station time is offset by your slow cycle time in the yo-yo. You don't have a sensor that permits any better vid than the other aircraft (similar to how we have better eyes than the 58s). Will you be missed at Air Shows and by people with a place in their heart, sure. But the same is true of the Tomcat, and the sky didn't fall down when it was retired.

Why don't they start with making leadership stop distributing info via white board and see if that improves anything before they murder an hour of the duty day playing kindergarten.

That's unfortunately my problem. If there was a clear delineation of when you can and can't bring a 30 round mag into state lines e it wouldn't be an issue. Unfortunately when you read those isolated but very painfully stupid articles about somebody entering a state and suddenly finding themselves facing a felony charges because of interpretation by a prosecutor or the local county sheriff.... I just don't want to be that guy. There will be a date on when I came into state and when my property came with me so it's a bit harder to play stupid/coy about it.

I'd really like to see the damn law overturned though. I pcs there in 4 months and after 3 years not having my guns I don't want to leave the fun ones because of some bullshit 15 round limit.

Yeah that was fun to see in his joint speech with the Swedish PM. "This is all a formality because I want them to agree with me, but ill do it anyway." Great well then ###### it just go ahead and own it.

I'm majoring in Art History/theatre!

god dammit auto correct....

Get every ticket you can online before you get there. London is the busiest tourist city in Europe, and when I went on Earth because of the upcoming Olympics.... They have lines to stand in, to get to buy tickets, and then you get in the main line for the attraction. Madam toussards wax museum for example was a 5 hour wait if you didn't have a ticket, 2 hours if you did. Also the city metro pass will get you everywhere fast. Best subway system I've ever seen in Europe or the states.

I've seen a couple younger enlisted soldiers hemmed up for stuff like that including hosting web shows. Usually it's a result of stupid financial decisions and a trash pair of 19 year olds who don't mind her getting up on the pole/spreading on video. It falls in adultery and conduct unbecoming pretty easily so long as the command wants it too.

CIF on every Army post.... Phone call on DSN Me: hi I'm PCS'ing and need to do a partial turn in... retired E8: we only do turn it's by appointment... Me: great when can I set up an appointment? Passed over for E9 dipshit: we don't take phone appointments... Me: so can I just walk in his afternoon? Fungus feeding of the dead corpse of the military civilian work program: No we are closed in the afternoons now because of manning. Me: so when do I actually come in and make an appointment? Asshat who runs his warehouse hovel like he's king of all the canteen cups: We can't see you without an appointment.... And then the room went black from rage.....

If you are ever in Scotland, find an Innus &Gunn. It is quite easily the most amazing beer I've ever tasted. They age it in old whiskey/rum barrels depending on dark or lite and the weakest beer they make is 6.8%.

I don't know why you need a guy whose job is to be the gym towel boy.... Seriously do you guys not have E2s and such in trouble? Additional duty for infractions in discipline short of ucmj action should be more than enough at any base to cover the stupid shit like putting a dude at the gym for safety reasons or keeping the grass cut at HQ. we have 24 hour gyms down range at nearly every major FOB I've been too, and they are always locally "owned."

Roll Tide?

The couple times I've had somebody suggests we just tie down the fleet instead of going through the trouble of hangering them for forecast winds (typically some new E4) I show them a picture on my phone of a pair of wings still chained down with the middle of the plane missing and tell them to go find somebody with a tug license.

What kind of wind restrictions/taxi limits do you guys have anyway?

Far as I know he just had to pay some transfer fees/taxes. Me I'd have a hard time not flipping it and putting a down payment on a house.

One of the Saudi students at Rucker handed his stick buddy the keys to a 4 month old M5 when he finished the course.

Anything she can get parts and service wise either buy through the PX or have shipped to her PO Box. Just getting an oil change on the economy in Germany will run you a few hundred dollars.

Ive got as much sympathy for them as I do for all the Contractors that spent the last however many years making 6 figures to manage a Warehouse full or Water Bottles with a staff of 8 at Bagram thinking that job was gonna last forever.

Your out of your mind. ACU has the feeling of cardboard and the issue t-shirt is unwearable in theatre because it melts to the skin. The reality is somebody somewhere fell into the digital fad with ACU and let somebody sell them a bag of goods. "Don't worry, with modern digital tech the colors won't matter. This will confuse the eye and you'll blend right in.... It's like that movie Predator." And then checks were signed and the Army believed it could wear 1 color scheme everywhere and look smart. Now after a decade of ass pain the "new uniform" info is trickling out, we will get Rees different patterns. One woodland, one desert, and one for garrison. Should be great to see how much that issue bag costs the average soldier in the days of sequestration.