[Track Selects and Assignment Nights]

7 hours ago, Polar Bear said:

How do you deploy if you don’t do the carrier?

Four of the Growler squadrons are "expeditionary," designed to cover down on land-based operations.

[The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)]

21 hours ago, Smokin said:

I check off all of those... so do I get to join some sort of "super-privilege" club that will get me VIP seating at games and do cool things like that?

 

[Russian Ukraine shenanigans]

47 minutes ago, Lawman said:

Go read some history on Soviet era Russification efforts in places like the Baltic states or Ukraine.

It might be pretty informative as to why a nation is willing to risk so much for a dire outcome vs take what they know in eventuality will be a pretty dire outcome.

Also read up on what a mismatch Finland was and apply that to the current situation. The reason Finland was willing to still accept violence as the outcome (and they didn’t see it going so lopsided at the time) was because they could look next door at what happened to their neighbors who submitted to the big bully’s advances.


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The parallels between the two courses of these two wars is truly remarkable, the key difference being that the Finns were utterly lacking in international support of the material variety. Ultimately, Finland agreed to a negotiated peace in which they ceded more territory to the USSR than the Soviets had initially demanded. Despite this, history remembers the Winter War as a "win" for Finland; the Soviets suffered lopsided casualties and considerable damage to their international prestige, while the Finn's maintained sovereignty and boosted their own reputation. Is it realistic to expect a better outcome for Ukraine today?

[Guard/Reserve timeline to UPT]

3 hours ago, BL_224 said:

Since we’re on the topic of SERE, I’m coming from the AD USMC to an ANG unit and have already gone through SERE with the Navy, does anyone know if that satisfies the USAFs requirement? Or will it have to go to USAF SERE too? 

AFI 16-1301 is the governing instruction, and for whatever reason, it has a specific carve out for USN/USMC refugees:

2.2.4.1.2.  S-V80-A may not be waived for cross-Service personnel who have completed US Navy East (FASOTRAGULANT-Brunswick) Level C or USN West (FASOTRAGUPAC-Coronado) Level C.

Don't ask me why...

[High flyer multi mission platform]

For once, it seems the Army has beat the Air Force to the punch...

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/09/armys-testbed-isr-business-jets-are-opening-doors-to-new-mission-possibilities/

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/11/15/experimental-artemis-aircraft-used-in-real-world-ukraine-operations

 

[AF Light Air Support Aircraft]

~20 million allocated between 5 companies for armed overwatch prototypes. Some familiar faces and some I had not heard of before.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/17/these-are-5-planes-vying-be-afsocs-new-armed-overwatch-aircraft.html

[Report on Individual Personnel]

Prior service USMC applying to ANG/Reserve boards, and I am now trying to determine the most equivalent document(s) for the USAF Report on Individual Personnel (RIP). Would anyone mind giving me a quick overview of what information is captured in a RIP? Bonus points if someone who speaks Marine and can translate. Thanks.

S/F