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    USAA

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    46 minutes ago, Kenny Powers said:

    Is USAA not the go to insurannce company anymore? Ha e others here found better rates with another company?

    To be honest, I havent shopped rates in probably 15 years.

    We’ve switched to Geico on our auto insurance and a local agent for homeowners.  
    USAA is not competitive at all for rates anymore, it’s pretty unfortunate really.  

    USAA

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    So now USAA is getting out of the investment business.  I received notification that all of my investment accounts have been switched to Schwab and Victory Capital.  The whole reason I started a Roth IRA and some college IRAs is so that they’re all consolidated.  I guess that’s not the case anymore.  

    No more investments, high insurance rates and high loan rates; USAA is really starting to suck!

    The new airline thread

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    New guidance from our wing (so theoretically from AFRC):

    “All airline pilots will self quarantine for 14 days after any trips.”

    So the options are to conduct no AFRC duties or telecommute if you’re able to. These are definitely interesting times!

    AF Light Air Support Aircraft

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    Posted · Edited by Tank

    On 3/22/2020 at 12:59 AM, Jayhawker said:

    Certainly seems like Advisory forces are the future, but I just don't see how getting extra A-29s helps the OADs' missions. Sure, the 2 they have right now will be used for training the CAAs, but unless we start exporting Tucanos to Niger and other PNs that don't already have an Air Force, we won't be able to use them in support of any Advisory mission. The whole idea is to assist existing military forces, not bring our own military in under the pretense of advising, like we did in Viet Nam.

    I mean, Army SF can get away with operating in PNs, but it's a lot harder to hide what you're doing when you've got your roundel on a gray aircraft.

    Many North African countries such as Nigeria, Tunisia, Kenya, Bakino Faso, Mauritania, etc. are receiving a light attack aircraft variant via Foreign Military Sales or a direct purchase to either replace their aging fighter aircraft (F-5, Alpha Jet) or to obtain the new capability.  
     

    The plan is to train, advise, and assist these countries and not bring our own militaries aircraft to support them but use theirs.  
     

    Armed Overwatch (not the 2x A-29s) is a plan to directly support the U.S. OADs in these third world countries where there are no 4th and 5th gen fighters and where we as the U.S. are presently requiring the support of other countries (such as France in Niger).  

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    AF Light Air Support Aircraft

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    28 minutes ago, Lawman said:

     

    And we are closing out that show too...

     

    You act like there is an assumption we will just take the billion dollar deployments of units from the Stan and CENTCOM and transplant that to PI, African, etc... If it didn’t justify assets yesterday it won’t suddenly get the billion dollar stack we’ve become too accustomed too in recent years. We are broke, we are tired, we have to reset the military and buying stuff that would have been useful 12 years ago for a fight we are leaving isn’t going to be a big hit on the hill. It will lose its fight when people are asking to replace 25 year old armored vehicles or upgrade/replace a 45 year old 707 series of support aircraft that will be critical to a near peer fight.

     

    If your operation doesn’t justify all the help from ARSOA, U-28s, and AC-130s right now yet their mission still goes on, you’re crazy if you think there will suddenly be a JUONS that justifies AFSOC buying a bunch of light attack. Outside AVFID there is no and will be no appetite to put this thing to work. We are scaling back our SOF footprints because we desperately need too so what mass customer demand do you think is going to demand this, because they are the reason for its existence.

     

     

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    It’s not AFSOC purchasing these aircraft, I’ve mentioned that 6-9 times already!

    It’s SOCOM purchasing them and mostly being flown by AFSOC.  SOCOM doesn’t want another Niger incident and the OADs operating in Africa want and need more support.  

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    AF Light Air Support Aircraft

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    5 hours ago, Lawman said:

     


    Hate to break it to you guys but any and all desire at this point to spend money on this will die in approx 12-14 months.

    Afghanistan is over. The primary customer for this aircraft requirement is done doing missions. Every day that continues you move further and further from your single biggest example of justification.

    Nobody will care about building this capability for the next mired quagmire war. All the focus will go right back to the big war thinking and acquisitions and the best we can hope for is somebody saves all these power point briefings on a drive somewhere and is in the CSAF and others office on Day 1 of the occupation and rebuild in Venezuela/Sudan/whatever banging it into their heads we can’t afford to consume the F35 fleet flying it around for 10 years doing XCAS against Toyota’s with PKMs on them.


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    Hate it to break it to you but there are other AORs that SOCOM and AFSOC have been working in and concentrating on other than Afghanistan that Big Blue hasn’t even really cared about (I.e, AFRICOM)...

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    AF Light Air Support Aircraft

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    1 hour ago, YoungnDumb said:

    We've bought a whole 2 of them...cool.  How long did it take to get this far?  Whether it is a SOCOM operation or not this project is years delayed and will get so mired in more red tape that it will never reach full potential/operation.  I foresee the AF sticking its hand in the acquisition of the jets and slowing it to a crawl eventually forcing its cancellation.

    The 2x A-29s purchased for AFSOC have nothing to do with the SOCOM Armed Overwatch purchase.  
    The A-29s are for CAA training.

     

    You are right though, the 2x A-29s have taken way too long and the funding got cut down to only enough for the purchase of 2 of them.  

    AF Light Air Support Aircraft

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    2 hours ago, YoungnDumb said:

    This program is never gonna happen.  The AF will keep kicking the can down the road until Congress gives up

    Luckily for us the 2x A-29s to AFSOC and the 2x AT-6s to ACC have already been purchased.  
     

    As for AFSOC Armed Overwatch, it’s a SOCOM initiative and not USAF, so they’ll be no “kicking the can down the road”.

    The new airline thread

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    I think this will all blow over by Memorial Day.  
    Something else will happen that will divert the media’s attention away from Covid19 and people will start traveling again because they won’t want to cancel their vacations or give up their fun.  
     

    *Maybe Epstein died of Covid19...*
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    Brown Nominated to be Next CSAF

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    6 minutes ago, BFM this said:

    So was Welsh.  Lots of hopes were high.  And he decided to front load a RIF and then cash in all of his chips trying to park the A-10.

    So was Gen Goldfein but all I can remember about him presently as the CSAF is a Rapid Fielding Acquisition Light Attack Experiment that went no where and the AF song becoming more politically correct.   
     

    Most CSAFs were great Squadron, Group and Wing Commanders but the unfortunate part about CSAF is that they have to wade through the political crap in D.C. and we rarely see any real change for the better.  

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    CSAR to AFSOC? What do the customers think?

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    7 hours ago, Magnum said:

    In the past few decades I've been incredibly surprised at the creativeness and originality of the USAF's naming convention for new aircraft.  I might be going out on a limb, but any one think the 6th gen will be named one of the following?

    Eagle 2

    Lightning 3

    Mustang 2

    Millennium falcon 2

     

    I like the sound of the Thunderbolt III

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