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Or helos. Limited power, wobbly probe, and knowing that the loadmasters are making fun of your misses.

Guns can jam.

Which is one of the reasons why the 11H retention is so high

That's about $223k for a O-4. Everything I have found shows that it is subject to CZTE so if you could work a dip in the AOR the month following your 12 year point you could take the lump sum and it could be advantageous. Edit: Nevermind. It's 2.5 times a single months pay.

The F-15E should have used a gun shooting down those Iranian drones. To update the above post: there was an F-16 that shot down an Iranian drone in 2009 with a gun kill.

The last A/A kill was in June. Last FW SAM kill was a MANPAD against an A-10 in 2003. Last US RF SAM kill was HAMMER 34.

You're still going to run into issues with ICAO. Good luck getting to the AOR when you can't transit the airspace.

Because some CDUs are still using 386 processors through a 1553 databus

You don't like the Flightradar24 plots of our ISR or NSAV aircraft?

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2017/11/03/thunderbirds-jet-landed-too-fast-skidded-off-wet-runway-in-june-crash/ "A Thunderbirds F-16D crashed in June when it landed too fast, skidded off a wet runway and overturned in the grass, injuring the pilot, according to an Accident Investigation Board report released Friday."

Maybe this is just the Stockholm talking but when the COAs that are briefed for the AFSOC transition include curtailing the HH-60W order and increasing the CV-22 order it seems a lot like stealing assets.

Or even if CAF assets are in position, JSOAC keeps primacy for the CV-22s make the pickup. Reference the hullabaloo the JSOAC guys raised after the HSC bros made the pickup of the King Air crew outside of Erbil. The bottom line is whether AFSOC will dedicate specific aircraft and crews solely for PR alert IAW CFACC guidance.

Take the fat one

I think that AFSOC is trying first and foremost to get GA and the tankers. I feel that there is a reason why the HC-130 has kept pace with most of the MC-130 modifications and kept the space for the second CSO. GA are already a AFSOC-lite asset in the CAF and adding them to AFSOC will allow them to plus up even more. IMHO AFSOCs modification of the CSAR-X KPPs shows everything that they care about the CSAR mission set as a stand-alone core competency. That modification, allowing the H-47 to compete (4 hours mission ready to 4 hours "flight" ready) after realizing that the PAVELOW sunset would leave them with a capability cap, set the stage for the LM/Sikorsky protest and the eventual cancellation of the contract. This leads the AF to contracting the HH-60W entering service in 2020 having fewer capabilities than the MH-60M that came into service 13 years prior.

In 2013 I had to have a PRF for Captain that was never used, now in 2017 I had to get a PRF for Major together...that won't be used.

https://www.afpc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1309786/air-force-announces-100-percent-promotion-opportunity-to-major/

For one the 9mm was not a US sidearm caliber until the 1980s.

It was also helpful that the 106th used state level Title 32 (or so I've heard through the bro network) rather than ACC activation to get to Ft Hood on Saturday morning, and on alert by the afternoon. Moody took a bit longer to get into the area.

Because we're hurting for sweaties more than pilots (at least in helos).

Time to get the YAL-1 out of the boneyard

It's a kinder, gentler Baseops.net

Posted.

Serbia is considered a second world country.

Assessment of this is on the Air Dominance blog on SIPR.

The flat rate is for the specified time at each location. Each new location resets the clock. Also in Scenario 1, depending on when you got your orders amended you would have the 75% rate since you "planned" to be there for only 179 days. Ideally you would get it amended on the 179th day and have only 4 days at 55%.