Breckey

Substitute SARS for COVID-19. Some super virus.

No. Reference nsplayr's comment above.

To piggyback: I explained this back in the cheating scandal thread but evaluators are not instructors. Also you are (or at least were) only an instructor/evaluator in your sub-position. You could go from being a deputy evaluator and qualify as a capsule commander and go back to the bottom. Many people try and get evaluator/OGV as quickly as possible because it gets them off of alert and onto a desk job. The checkrides are in their simulators. In 2014 (last time I had good data) the fuck-your-buddy mentality was strong with the evaluators because their effectiveness as an evaluator was how poorly people did on tests/evals. I hear that some of it has changed but there is a reason some missile squadrons have 2-3 FGOs including the CC/DO.

Short answer, yes. The alerts are sat by mostly first assignment personnel. Most try and cross train or separate, not necessarily because of the schedule but because of the job. Most guys assigned to ops squadron work 4-6 alerts per month. Alerts are 24 hours long but do not include travel and pre/post briefs so the alert shift is two duty days. Also missileers haven't sat alert near the silos since the Titan II was retired in the 1980s. The MMIII has the capsule (or missileers) dispersed from the actual silos.

There's more info on SIPR on the CSAF daily ops brief.

They didn't use an HH-43. As Jim Moulton would say: 2 demerits.

How will you be able to plot a threat call from MOJO if you can't fix-to-fix?

Because the bigger engines created adverse aircraft handling that they used software to fix since they couldn’t change the design.

How often are 135s offloading everything (or at least within a couple thousand pounds)?

The problem is that some communities won't release people who aren't the Golden Child to staff, ergo@pawnman

Congress hasn't been in good faith for over a decade. Just look at the requests for Obama to have a new AUMF for the ISIS fight. Nobody on either side of the isle wanted to put their name on a "vote for war" that may end poorly like the one for GW II. It's easier for them to not do anything and blame the Executive rather than actually do their job and legislate.

Yesterday's resolution by the House is Congress not wanting to buy another ticket unless the pilot tells them where they are going. The passivity of Congress with respect to the Executive's ever expanding justification to use military force over the last 19 years has drastically changed the paradigm for the worse. The "all associated forces" blurb was never in the 2001 AUMF, however Congress' lack of enforcement has condemned us to an endless series of conflicts. Congress' attempts to reign in the AUMF have been met with accusations of wanting the terrorists to win or not protecting America. ISIS in Libya is not going to attack the US anytime soon, why do we continue to spend treasure to play whack-a-mole?

As long as I can still rummage through the piles of old MiGs then we're good

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794517031/satellite-photos-reveal-extent-of-damage-at-al-assad-air-base At least 4-5 accurate hits on tents/hangars

Not every base has PAC-3s. Army ADA units have been cut quite a bit since the end of the Cold War.

I think it's on the canopy

Al-Shabaab attacks Kenyan SOCOM base destroying at least two aircraft. https://theaviationist.com/2020/01/05/somali-terrorist-group-attacks-manda-bay-airfield-kenya-destroying-u-s-shadowy-surveillance-aircraft/

What ever happened to the CSAFs "do what make sense" directive?

Another thought experiment: can the new deployments, which are ostensibly due to increasing tensions with Iran, be for greater then 60 days without a new AUMF from Congress? There is little legal basis for the AUMF for Al Queda and 2003 Iraq would cover any kinetic strikes against Iran. While the President has the authority to authorize military action vital to national security, strikes against a sovereign nation should be approved by at least the ASCs if not the whole Congress.

The Green Beret charter is basically to conduct unconvential and irregular warfare. That was their plan with MACV and working to disrupt the Soviets if the the Cold War kicked off in Europe. I'll concede the attacking the embassy part.

Would we be pissed if Iran killed the SOCOM/CC in an Yemini airport? I feel as though our policy with Iran is rapidly becoming something like the domino theory from the 50s-60s. Being in a constant state of conflict since the 1990 has lost our credibility in the region. Let the regional powers figure it out. We don't need to have our hands in literally everything in the ME

There is a video of the Texas church shooting today where an old guy smoked the perp from the other side of the room with one shot. Doesn’t happen often but today a good guy with a gun prevented another Auckland or Sutherland Springs massacre.

It's the English spelling. TOTALLY different

The missile men are still in the AF. The SF are getting all of the space weenies.

The problem is that C-17s never had anybody to tell them to put down the landing gear