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    Air Force allows beards & turbans and such

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    4 minutes ago, Guardian said:

    Job decisions are made in the Air Force to pick a particular sex or minority in the false name of diversity every single day. Largely to the detriment of the Military and its mission.

     

    Which means less effective fighting force to defend the country.

     

    But no big deal. China is about to wipe out a large potion of the population with their biological warfare designed super virus. So I guess it won’t matter much.

    Substitute SARS for COVID-19. Some super virus.

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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

    in General Discussion

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    45 minutes ago, 17D_guy said:

    In addition to this when manning is tight, and/or people can't sit ops (ex. pregnancy, discipline, etc.) the people who can get double duty.  Also, getting snowed in is a thing.  Finally, manning did get so bad I know a few peeps who got orders for back-to-back ops and just separated.

    Plus they had testing, and stan/eval exercises as well on top of sitting ops. So you could do 1-4 exercises a watch, then get called in to do a quarterly checkride or test.  Which may, or may not, match up with your sleeping pattern.  If you deviated at all from 100%, even for an "exercise" it was reflected poorly.

    Why the shit hit the fan on those bases for about a decade straight.

    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.

    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

    in General Discussion

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    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.

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    KC46 winglets?

    in General Discussion

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    Shit, SAC had a hard enough time convincing the Air Force to put new motors on the KC-135. The first KC-135R model rolled out in 1982, about a year after NASA flew the KC-135A winglet tests. By that time the oldest jet was 26 years old.
    I'll take the new motors over the winglets any day. Not to mention, the KC-135 never got a second ACM because it added too much weight and cut down on total offload capability.
    How often are 135s offloading everything (or at least within a couple thousand pounds)?

    The Iran thread

    in Squadron Bar

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    Executive overreach has been a problem but everyone knows Congress is not coming to the table in good faith.  They will stop at nothing to impede Trump.  This act by Congress is purely political.  
    I have full faith that Trump will find an ultimately peaceful resolution.  Iran is not some average middle eastern crap hole.  Persian culture is rich, Iran is a country of doctors, scientists, etc unfortunately hijacked by a fanatical Islamic regime.  I hope pro Democracy movements pick up steam and ultimately result in the overthrow of the Ayatollah.  Who knows, Iran could become a key ally. 
    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.
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    The Iran thread

    in Squadron Bar

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    The pax on the jet can tell the pilot about the ride but ultimately the pilot is in control, duly noted.  Now when the jet the lands the pax don't have to buy another ticket and without that the jet doesn't go, they have an input just not at every moment.

    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?

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    Saddle up for Kenya? Or Op Deny Christmas '13

    in General Discussion

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    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/

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    On Sunday Jan. 5, 2020, at around 05:30AM LT, the Somail terrorist organization al-Shabaab attacked Manda Bay Airfield, Kenya, also known as “Camp Simba”, a base used by both U.S. and Kenyan forces.

    The group posted 17 photographs showing their militants allegedly burning aircraft inside the base (one shows a fighter shooting a selfie next to a Dash 8 aircraft – more about this below), claiming 7 aircraft and 3 army vehicles were destroyed in the attack

     

    The Iran thread

    in Squadron Bar

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    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 Iran thread

    in Squadron Bar

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    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.

    The Iran thread

    in Squadron Bar

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    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

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