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Where do you go or how do you get access to the UTD(T-6) other than when you are scheduled for it?
Thanks
When you get to your flight, after your first sim where they introduce you to the UTD, you'll be able to call over and see if there are any open during a time when you aren't flying/simming.
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many seem to avoid them because perhaps they feel RPAs are ineffective or inglorious.
False. No one avoids it because of that. Most people are well aware of the great capabilities they bring to the fight, but most pilots are pilots because they love flying.
Most avoid it because it is not fun, is (usually) mind-numbingly boring, and is not flying.
but I see them as an emerging technology whose capabilities aren't realized because pilots are too afraid of losing their jobs and just want RPAs to go away.Also false. The people operating UAVs have pushed our current technologies to the limit and are doing a great job; better things are on the way, but no one is limiting what we can do in the fight. The limitation is that what we currently have fielded only goes so far.
It's too bad there has to be such a schism in the AF regarding pilots and their RPA counterparts.I take it you're talking about the 11X vs 18U divide; the real schism exists only between those who can carry out the mission, and those who cannot. Just as with pilots, there are good UAV operators and there are bad ones. It is actually beneficial for the 18U field to succed, in the eyes of the current pilot, because then less pilots will be pulled to UAV assignments. There are other issues, but it isn't one of caste.
The reality of the situation is this: being an 18U is the best desk job in the Air Force. You are operationally oriented, you affect the war on a daily basis, and then go home at night. If you have no ambition to actually fly in an airplane, it's great. If you think you might have the slightest notion to fly in an airplane, but are worried you might be in UAVs anyway, take a path through pilot training and at least give yourself the 80% chance of flying in an airplane, then do your best. Luck and timing will work the rest out. Either way, no one is out there holding back because they don't like their job.
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its the way of the future man, the AD boards are looking for 70+ and rotc is looking for about 65 pilots, i think we will see that within the next 20 to 40 years UAV's will be major contenders on any type of battlefield. I mean look at what they are already capable of.
Apparently they're doing a good job of pitching the best desk job in the air force. You know what, go for it; that'll hopefully help the people that would like to be flying instead of operating.
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i currently am facing this dilemma. I am assigned to be a logistics officer (another black hole career field i hear right now) when i graduate in may. However i still want to fly as i did not get a pilot slot out of rotc. I think though that being associated with some sort of aviation field has a better chance at progressing to a actual flying position then rather having a job that has no association with flying. So i sit here at a dilemma. Do i apply and run the chance of being selected or do i take my pretty nice logistic base assignment and try to apply down the road to UPT.
If you want UPT, then wait and apply at your station. Going 18U isn't going to get you to UPT.
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Anybody have any more details about this?
It will be MQ-1s. They are standing up their cadre in the next month; some good people are going to be out there. Las Vegas might not be for everybody, so if you want something different that isn't Clovis, you could go live in Warrensburg or Sedalia.
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The reason a "DG" is important ...
Right, but let's be honest: it's still ASBC, who gives a crap? I wouldn't put any weight behind it; it's like winning the special olympics. DG of your FTU, now that I might pay attention to.
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Put the blue koolaid aside for a minute and answer some honest questions;
If they were drinking the blue koolaid, they'd want everything to be a UAV...
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Given the concern for bad leadership killing your hopes, I find this article strangely appropriate. Mods can move/delete if they disagree (Edit: not challenging your authority, just confused on whether this fits the category).
The Perfect Stimulus: Bad Management
Though most of my immediate bosses were entirely reasonable and competent, theorganization at large was riddled with hamster-brained sociopaths in leadership
roles. Surely, I thought, this must be a problem that exists no place else on
Earth. Otherwise we'd all be living in caves and holding long meetings on the
feasibility of using sticks as stabby things
Warning for BQZip01: Scott Adams challenges your dominance in the PowerPoint field:
I was so good at designing PowerPoint slides that my coworkers called me "TheNatural."
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C-130s and CV-22s from Cannon are trying to expand their night low level training from the standard LL routes to almost all of the mountainous parts of NM and CO, so it is more like Afghanistan. Residents are already complaining about the impending noise. Who knew anyone lived in NM to complain?
Kathleen Dudley plans to throw herself into fighting the Air Force should commanders choose to move ahead. A writer in Mora, N.M., northeast of Santa Fe, Ms. Dudley said she and her husband were eating lunch on their deck recently when a military aircraft screamed overhead, flying so low "that we were looking into the eyeballs of a pilot bearing down on us.""I was terrified," she said. "You don't hear or see them until they're upon you, and then it's like being in a war zone."
Give me a break.
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I wonder how many RPA LTs won't get promoted, regardless of potential to serve in higher grade?
Probably none, but I know of some good Do Not Promote candidates; I'll keep you posted.
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Jango needed a friend on the board to back him/her up, so he/she thought it would be helpful to create another alias "redmammal," thinking that no one would figure it out. Because no one has ever done that.
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When is your enlistment up? Send out a save the date, I can't wait. One more hurdle we won't have to jump over to get the mission done. Cut all this "I'm for the mission" crap, you've already described earlier in this thread you won't flex to help the ops out.
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And talk about being replaced...can't replace me with a UAV.
http://www.autotalk.com/audi-autonomous-tts-pikes-peak-4791/
http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2008/08/13/fully-autonomous-buses-head-for-france/
Troll the troll.
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As of 01 Oct, the Nellis club will only be open Wednesday and Friday.
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wow I just got an email asking if I wanted to change my assignment from Creech to Whiteman.. I thought about just replying with "FVCK YOU" but decided AFPC probably wouldn't like that. Anyone headed to preds might want to be on the look out for an AFPC screw job to put bodies at Whiteman
It probably won't make much of a difference, really.
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apparently some jackass didn't like your additions and undid them......The PC monsters are at it again
or not....did u do the brilliant little when boxes????
Whether those changes were kept or not, please direct your attention to reference 6.
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I would like to see the statistics that show any decrease in safety due to non-reflective belt usage.
These stats probably don't exist. I can imagine them pulling up Band Of Brothers, scrolling forward to Moose Heyliger being shot by friendly forces, and saying, "if Moose had been wearing one, it wouldn't have happened."
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I had a friend that maxed everything and ran an 8:30...got an 87 because of waist measurement.
He ran 1.5 miles in 8:30, and lost 13 points on the waist? I'd have to see it to believe it.
Edit: dyslexia
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U.S. Judge throws out piracy charges against 6 Somalis who attacked Navy ship
A judge on Tuesday dismissed piracy charges against six Somali nationals accused of attacking a Navy ship off the coast of Africa, concluding the U.S. government failed to make the case their alleged actions amounted to piracy... Defense attorneys argued last month that the Ashland defendants did not meet the U.S. legal definition of piracy because they did not take command of and rob the Navy amphibious dock landing ship. Jackson agreed in his ruling, finding that the government "failed to establish that any unauthorized acts of violence or aggression committed on the high seas constitutes piracy as defined by the law of nations. Jackson, who issued the ruling from Norfolk, wrote that the government was attempting to use "an enormously broad standard under a novel construction of the statute" that would contradict a nearly 200-year-old Supreme Court decision. -
You have an ACLU subscription?
No, I have a Wall Street Journal one though.
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ACLU and CCR recently lanuched a legal challenge to the military targeting American al Qaeda members.
Awlaki vs. Predator: Other lawyer-types say : "American members of al Qaeda aren't merely criminal suspects. They're active enemy combatants who can be targeted like other terrorists."
It's a subscription-restricted article, so here's the text; I thought it was interesting. As for the ACLU, WTF.
Awlaki vs Predator, WSJ; August 13, 2010
By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. AND LEE A. CASEY
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) recently launched a legal challenge against the president's right to kill al Qaeda operatives. If the suit is successful, it will undermine the Constitution's separation of powers and make it virtually impossible for the United States to successfully defend itself with military force in the future.
Since 9/11, the courts have increasingly encroached on the legitimate war-making powers of both the president and Congress. Federal judges now scrutinize the president's determinations regarding the detention of enemy combatants and pre-approve wartime electronic intelligence-gathering operations. But the courts have not yet claimed the right to review the president's decisions regarding whom to attack, or how to carry out an attack. Such determinations are at the very core of the president's power as commander in chief.
Lawyers from the ACLU and the CCR are mounting their challenge on behalf of the father of Anwar al-Awlaki. Awlaki is an American citizen whom the government believes was connected both to al Qaeda's abortive effort to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, 2009, and to Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army major who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, last November.
According to published reports, President Obama has authorized the use of Predator drones against Awlaki, who is believed to be based in Yemen. Because of this, the ACLU and the CCR will soon argue in court that Awlaki is a "civilian" located thousands of miles from the "battlefield" in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that he is entitled to due process before he can be attacked. "President Obama," said the executive director of the CCR, "is claiming the power to act as judge, jury and executioner while suspending any semblance of due process."
The president is doing no such thing. Like his predecessor, Mr. Obama is fighting a global war against al Qaeda and its allies, who remain determined to strike the U.S. wherever and whenever they can. The battlefield is not limited to Afghanistan or Iraq but may extend to anywhere al Qaeda and its co-belligerents operate, as has always been the case in wartime.
The laws of war permit attacks on the enemy—including on particular enemy combatants—at any time and anywhere they can be found. The limitations on such attacks are only that American forces must comply with the rules of distinction and proportionality (which protect civilians and their property) and respect the rights of neutral countries.
It is this respect for neutral rights that prevents U.S. forces from attacking al Qaeda in the streets of Europe or anywhere else in a country that objects. The ACLU and others who assert that the U.S. is demanding the right to send cruise missiles against men like Awlaki in Paris or Berlin are flat wrong.
Yemen is a different story. Al Qaeda has operated in Yemen at least since it attacked the USS Cole there in 2000, and the Yemeni government has since cooperated with the U.S. (to varying degrees of openness and effectiveness). U.S. forces operate in that country with its tacit approval and have carried out a number of strikes on al Qaeda, including a 2002 missile attack that killed an American citizen thought to be al Qaeda's liaison to the "Lackawanna cell" of American recruits in upstate New York.
That Awlaki is a U.S. citizen gives him no special immunity from attack. The Supreme Court recognized this more than 60 years ago in the "Nazi Saboteur" case, Ex parte Quirin (1941). The court noted then that "citizenship in the United States of an enemy belligerent does not relieve him from the consequences of belligerency."
One of those "consequences" is that Awlaki can be attacked and killed by U.S. forces without notice and without a Miranda warning. Al Qaeda operatives and their relatives can't use the fact that al Qaeda is a decentralized, irregular and unlawful military force to claim "civilian" status. Put another way, combatants do not become civilians (entitled to immunity from direct attack) by refusing to comply with the most basic laws of war, which require them to wear uniforms and carry their arms openly.
Giving judges a role in the targeting process would violate the separation of powers. The Constitution makes the president commander in chief. Whatever limitations exist on that authority regarding how captured terrorists are detained and tried, the Supreme Court has never suggested that decisions on actual combat operations—particularly when and how to attack the enemy—are anything other than discretionary for the president.
Bringing the courts into the targeting process whenever an American citizen is involved would put an even greater premium on al Qaeda's recruiting efforts in the U.S. If American al Qaeda operatives are entitled to a judicial process before they can be attacked, they become instant human shields for all those around them. This is true whether they are on a conventional battlefield in Afghanistan or engaged in shadowy conflict in Yemen.
This effort is one of the worst causes the ACLU has ever championed. It should be quickly and definitively rejected by the courts.
Messrs. Rivkin and Casey, Washington, D.C.-based attorneys, served in the Department of Justice during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.
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ground controllers, who directly command their sensors and weapons... The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Precision Close Air Support (PCAS) program aims to develop a kit that enables joint tactical air controllers to take command of sensors and weapons on manned and unmanned aircraft to increase the speed and accuracy of fire support for ground forces.
Someone else will be dropping weapons off of the pilot's airplane? WTFO?
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We dont have Arm/Safe pins on Hellfires. Somebody told me the Navy has one for the Rocket Motor on theirs but that would surprise me since the M299 rail its self actually has an Arm/Safe switch on the front of it.
Preds do, and Hacker shacked the pin in the wing. One on the ball is for the laser.
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So what's the deal with now being able to track heavies out of ENJJPT, or any T-38? I know a guy who just finished -38s at Columbus and got -135s. Another friend just started T-6s at ENJJPT and got a briefing where they basically said "ENJJPT is no longer just fighter/bomber or UAV." Dunno the details though...can anyone enlighten me? What's the reasoning? Doesn't make much sense to me...
New Fitness Rules
in General Discussion
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AFI 36-2905 is governing. Run administration covered in Attachment 8, on page 62:
A8.1. Course Requirements for 1.5-mile timed run (2640 yards/2414 meters) and 1.0-mile timed walk (1760 yards/1609 meters)
A8.1.1. Establish a standard course of accurate distance that is as level and even as possible.
A8.1.1.1. If a typical 6-lap track is used:
A8.1.1.1.1. For a 1.5-mile timed run, it should be 440 yards per lap; or 6 laps on a 400-meter track plus an additional 46 feet for 1.5-miles.
A8.1.1.1.2. For a 1.0-mile timed walk, it should be 440 yards per lap; or 4 laps on a 400-meter track plus an additional 31 feet for 1.0-mile.
A8.1.1.2. Course should have limited exposure to traffic, should not have a continuous incline/decline or rolling hills; avoid slopes exceeding two degrees. If using a road course, where possible, start and finish should be at the same location.
A8.1.1.3. Clearly mark the start and finish lines (and half-way point for road courses).
A8.1.2. Trained personnel will monitor participants, ensuring all members complete entire course and are continuously observed for course completion, safety, counting laps if required and recording run times.
A8.1.3. Indoor track may be used during inclement weather.