What's wrong with the Air Force?

[Sua Sponte]

4 hours ago, LiquidSky said:

Can we please stop giving Boeing contracts? 

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/02/05/boeing-pushes-back-t-7-plans-due-to-faulty-parts/

KC-46, new VC-25, T-7... When was the last time they gave us a solid aircraft? 

You mean like the KC-30 that dropped a boom in the ocean?

[Biff_T]

On 2/5/2024 at 5:49 PM, Sua Sponte said:

You mean like the KC-30 that dropped a boom in the ocean?

Did they find him?  

[Swizzle]

That's like a 1,000% VA disability - yeah?!

PTSD, tinnitus, belly flop trauma...the list would be huge!

[Sua Sponte]

On 2/15/2024 at 9:13 AM, Biff_T said:

Did they find him?  

Since the French built it, his bailout kit included a white flag to waive. He was easily identifiable.

[Sua Sponte]

On 2/15/2024 at 11:09 AM, Swizzle said:

That's like a 1,000% VA disability - yeah?!

PTSD, tinnitus, belly flop trauma...the list would be huge!

The VA found this comment not to be service connected.

[uhhello]

Army slashing 24,000 troops from end strength.  To better fight the next war.  Probably doesn't have anything to do with the recruiting issues ongoing.  

[Biff_T]

On 2/27/2024 at 10:42 AM, uhhello said:

Army slashing 24,000 troops from end strength.  To better fight the next war.  Probably doesn't have anything to do with the recruiting issues ongoing.  

The slides are now green sir. 

[Swizzle]

3 hours ago, Biff_T said:

The slides are now green sir. 

And manning is 100%  

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(But don't ask for a Manpower study)

[gearhog]

Edited May 16, 2024 by gearhog

[HossHarris]

7 minutes ago, gearhog said:

She’s a pretty shitty chief diversity officer if she(?) doesn’t list her pronouns in her signature block ….

[FourFans]

Thanks for the reminder of why I retired instead of staying.

[Danger41]

I think getting bent out of shape about this stuff is the gayest thing you can do. No one cares.

[HeloDude]

If only we had this a few years ago, then we wouldn’t have failed in Afghanistan.

[gearhog]

3 hours ago, Danger41 said:

I think getting bent out of shape about this stuff is the gayest thing you can do. No one cares.

Who's bent out of shape? There's a whole spectrum of concern between being apathetic and being bent out of shape. I believe acknowledging a problem exists is the lowest level of concern one should have.

I'd rather debate a room full of Marxists than one apathetic individual.

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Albert Einstein.

[HuggyU2]

On another forum, a Navy NFO stated there are some USAF jets with A2A kill silhouettes painted on them, from "kills" in exercises.  Can anyone confirm this?  Signs ridiculous... but in the AF of today, I can't rule it out. 
if true, probably part of some DEI program? 

[SurelySerious]

On another forum, a Navy NFO stated there are some USAF jets with A2A kill silhouettes painted on them, from "kills" in exercises.  Can anyone confirm this?  Signs ridiculous... but in the AF of today, I can't rule it out. 
if true, probably part of some DEI program? 

I thought there was an A-10 that gunned a raptor in an exercise that had the silhouette, but I feel like putting it on the side of the A-10 was part of the joke. Could be unrelated.

[StoleIt]

32 minutes ago, HuggyU2 said:

On another forum, a Navy NFO stated there are some USAF jets with A2A kill silhouettes painted on them, from "kills" in exercises.  Can anyone confirm this?  Signs ridiculous... but in the AF of today, I can't rule it out. 
if true, probably part of some DEI program? 

Granted, I'm just a lowly herbivore but I think simulated kill silhouettes are beyond dumb.

But here is the Navy doing it in 2009:

 

The pesky Germans in 2012 (and I don't believe they have any sense of humor):

 

But while we are the subject, another Growler just showed up with this:

https://www.twz.com/air/navy-ea-18g-growler-sports-puzzling-mi-24-hind-kill-mark-overseas

[di1630]

I don’t think any USAF silhouette is more than a joke if it’s not up holding tradition…but any tradition can be trumped by DEI such as the unilateral renaming of the F-35 demo pilot to something that sounds cooler. Tradition be damned.


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[HuggyU2]

So what was Mach before?

Not the first time: F-22,demo pilot a few years ago had his name changed for his 2 year public gig. 
 

And the Blues have done this a LOT. 

[Lord Ratner]

Yeah, I mean when someone's callsign is FAAC, you can't exactly expect them to keep it in a public position. 🤣😂

[di1630]

So what was Mach before?
Not the first time: F-22,demo pilot a few years ago had his name changed for his 2 year public gig. 
 
And the Blues have done this a LOT. 

Her given name was Crisis.

It happened real quick when she got to Hill.

She’s cool, doubt it was her doing but it’s very hush hush as to how/why it happened.




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[busdriver]

Crisis wasn't a kosher name?  Or PA just wanted to church it up?

[ClearedHot]

Not from an exercise...I can assure you.

[Standby]

1 hour ago, ClearedHot said:

Not from an exercise...I can assure you.

I count 63 bodies, but I thought the wedding only had 54 casualties?

[ClearedHot]

2 minutes ago, Standby said:

I count 63 bodies, but I thought the wedding only had 54 casualties?

Each stick figure represents 10 kills, otherwise the entire plane would be covered.  No comment on the Wedding Party, except to say Prox (airbursting), 105MM's are great for cleaning off a ZU-23/2.  This reflects one rotation for this aircraft (probably 5-6 months), in the Mid 2000's.