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Drastic is an understatement. A Kurdish state in the current political climate is doomed to failure. They would be landlocked and surrounded by Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq now united as enemies because forming Kurdistan would require taking land from those four. Air bridge would be their only resupply, and that air bridge would require overflight from enemy countries with quality A2AD. Not a defensible geographic position. Complicating that picture, we are still NATO allies with Turkey. When the PKK commits another attack inside Turkey they could activate article 5 and require our assistance in “defense” against Kurdistan. It would be awkward. I like the Kurds. They gave somewhere around 10,000 lives in the fight against IS. Turkey was complicit with IS. They aren’t our friends. That said, we’re still in an alliance with Turkey. Right now we can provide covert assistance to the Pesh. If we support statehood, would we provide overt assistance for the Kurds against our NATO ally, thereby degrading the Alliance to the advantage of Russia? How would that play politically for POTUS? It’s an untenable situation with no good answer. I don’t want to abandon the Kurds but I also don’t want to fight a war against a NATO member for their independence. Scratch that, I’m game for fighting Turkey. But I’m finally mature enough to have SA on the reasons we won’t.

Regarding bolded above... North DFAC at KAF has better than “decent food.” I’ll wager it’s the best chow hall in any AOR. They have 6 kinds of espresso. They have a dude who walks around handing out samples of grilled meat. They have a RipIt slurpy machine with 4 flavors. Don’t undersell it man! I’m not someone who likes KAF, but it’s a damn fine chow hall.

I think it’s well past time to GTFO.

They have great cat videos.

Yes, you are missing a bunch.

That’s what we’re all asking each other since the 11 MDS series specifically allows you to fly without gloves worn.

When are you giving us an ETP so we can continue not wearing gloves?

That’s a bit harsh, although maybe I’m in the 90% and this is how I find out 😬

Thanks for posting. I’d never read that. Interestingly, according to that guidance the “1/xx shop chief” strat is valid, while the primary strat AFSOC uses appears invalid. We use a YG (year group) strat method and think it’s the bees knees, but other MAJCOMs apparently have no idea what it is. The whole system is so dumb.

Sorry bro, that’s unfortunate news.

So you guys don't plug in the puck, you just pair it? I don’t even know how it would plug into an iPad. We’ve been flying with squadron issued iPads and squadron ForeFlight accounts paired via Bluetooth to a Bad Elf puck since 2013. Works great.

My squadron issues Bad Elf pucks for this exact purpose. It’s a Bluetooth pairing. Just enable Bluetooth on your iPad and sync the device. I much prefer it to stratus.

Totally irrelevant if the SQ/CC is an evaluator. Stan/Eval is a commanders program. in your situation, I’m guessing the Q3 was for “airmanship” or some other catch all which is intentionally vague to allow the SQ/CC the discretion to Q3 as he sees fit (or is ordered to by his leadership). Fighting that is extremely unlikely.

that’s just awesome

I don’t think killing Iranians is an appropriate level of response for them shooting down a robot. One of the advantages of RPAs is we can lose a few. Had they killed aircrew, let’s start collecting scalps. This is a perfect time to respond with non kinetic cyber options. Or non lethal kinetic options if those can be identified.

Good advice, although a bit ironic given your various posts of the past few hours.

Hosting someone to Q&A a thread is an interesting concept. We could do a reddit style AMA except over a few days so the responder has time to actually think about replies. Good idea! Unfortunately the rest of this post is less constructive. I gave you some feedback bro, take it or leave it. Cheers.

If your first statement is true, feel free to leave. If the second is true, does your posting style help? This site is a great tool to mentor and learn from others. I’ve received more help here than I have via any AF sponsored mechanism. My unsolicited feedback: you are needlessly confrontational and a braggart. Present yourself differently and I’m sure you have constructive contributions to make.

I didn’t know that B1s had deployed continuously to execute CAS missions since 2001. I thought there were years when they weren’t a player in the stack. I’ve only seen them on station a few times. Learn something new everyday. Regarding the OP, there are a surprising number of ground folks who think IR strobes can be seen by aircraft irrespective of frequency spectrum limitations. I think pre-deployment training isn’t as joint as it should be.

Has the B-1 been doing CAS continuously for 19 years?

Sounds like your words are important because they represent action. Doubt that would play well if every charge was always declined. The USAF is talk no action regarding QOL improvements. Don’t believe them.

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Valid. He’ll just come back with another user name after this plays out predictably.

I understand you are passionate about your opinions. Reference the bolded section- If that were happening you’d see rescue prioritized. But it’s not common, so they aren’t. That’s reality of how it works, regardless of what “should” happen. I’m not defending short sightedness, just acknowledging human nature. Do you think the AF rescue community has appropriately adapted to maintain relevancy in low intensity conflicts which have defined our last several decades of war?

I hear versions of this often about a lot of AF mission sets. Money is a finite resource and priorities shift as situations change. That’s just life, and all communities must adapt to changing realities or be left behind.