What's wrong with the Air Force?

[uhhello]

1 hour ago, arg said:

Fast forward to 35 min.

 

"We got us something tonight"

[Herkdrvr]

On 5/21/2024 at 5:54 PM, HuggyU2 said:

Nvm. I got the background. 

Are you at liberty to share? 

[Clark Griswold]

On 5/18/2024 at 6:18 PM, HeyEng said:

 

Good discussion but depressing news.  Thinking about it a bit maybe the future of the ARC fighter and potentially other communities is to be not exactly the same capabilities as the AD but relevant capabilities kept at a simmer economically to retain the surge / reserve capacity needed if the ballon goes up.

That is we need x capability but are willing / have to accept risk by equipping ARC units with light multi role fighters / platforms that we can afford in the total cost of ownership and train / operate with.

This capability would be a force (25 ARC fighter Wings) that fly a multi role platform(s) but specialize in mission sets (8 Wings A2A, 8 Wings Attack, etc…)

Less capability but relevant with the benefit of accessible, scalable mass 

Kinda the ARC returning to a semi-strategic capability but not when they were flying aircraft 2 generations behind AD

A mix of FA-50s, Gripens, maybe a modernized A-4, etc… 

[Day Man]

On 5/17/2024 at 1:27 PM, StoleIt said:

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

confirmed

[uhhello]

52 minutes ago, Day Man said:

confirmed

Why are we shooting down Blackhawks still?

[SocialD]

1 hour ago, uhhello said:

Why are we shooting down Blackhawks still?

 

 

Too soon.  

[ClearedHot]

On 5/23/2024 at 2:07 PM, arg said:

Fast forward to 35 min.

 

Damn ARG...got me all misty eyed and verklempt...I don't miss the AF but I do miss this.

[arg]

7 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Damn ARG...got me all misty eyed and verklempt...I don't miss the AF but I do miss this.

Wish I could've sent the smell over the interwebs

[ClearedHot]

12 minutes ago, arg said:

Wish I could've sent the smell over the interwebs

The first time I shot the 20MM's...smoke came up the flight deck and wrapped around the HUD...Murica!

[Biff_T]

On 5/23/2024 at 12:07 PM, arg said:

Fast forward to 35 min.

 

Oooooohhhhhhhh.   Direct hit.

[viperdriver1313]

I’m sure this will definitely help retention.

[dream big]

41 minutes ago, viperdriver1313 said:

I’m sure this will definitely help retention.

Should give something for the Chiefs Group to do, out here deployed they are an essentially having an OPT on base uniform wear. A fellow CC said it best: “if this is what we are focusing on while Iran is lobbing drones overhead, then we must be getting everything else right. If not, shame on us.” 

[brabus]

Hey chief, this is an easy fix, change the AFI to allow awesome mustaches and we’ll stop having “problems.” Fucking chiefs, do I have to do everything for these retards! (No offense to the awesome chiefs that comprise 0.0069% of the ranks…and are probably all in the guard).

Edited June 15, 2024 by brabus

[HeloDude]

But shaving waivers are abundant, and that’s cool…and last I saw, some of these guys don’t just have a super thin beard (ie can’t take a razor directly to their skin) but rather a thick beard.  They only get upset at the people they are now allowed yo get upset with in today’s culture.

[Biff_T]

Identify as a trans-Muslim.  You could probably get away with any hairstyle you want.  

[dream big]

https://www.acc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3809385/aim-high-acc-implements-new-inspection-requirements-at-all-wings/
 

This should get interesting, I haven’t done an open ranks inspection since I was a cadet. I wonder if other MAJCOMs will follow suite? 

[DirkDiggler]

31 minutes ago, dream big said:

https://www.acc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3809385/aim-high-acc-implements-new-inspection-requirements-at-all-wings/
 

This should get interesting, I haven’t done an open ranks inspection since I was a cadet. I wonder if other MAJCOMs will follow suite? 

AfSOC has already been doing this for the last couple months thanks to CAT 5.

[VigilanteNav]

Tony says all that needs to be said...

Solution in Search of a Problem - by Tony Carr - The Radar (substack.com)

[Lord Ratner]

1 hour ago, VigilanteNav said:

Tony says all that needs to be said...

Solution in Search of a Problem - by Tony Carr - The Radar (substack.com)

Isn't he the JQP guy? He's gotten even wordier, and that says a lot coming from me 🤣😂

[Sua Sponte]

11 minutes ago, Lord Ratner said:

Isn't he the JQP guy? He's gotten even wordier, and that says a lot coming from me 🤣😂

Impossible!

[HeloDude]

TLDR

[Swizzle]

2 hours ago, HeloDude said:

TLDR

BLUF: he has lingering emotional strings attached to Mother Blue and is angry she does dumb things. He attempts pursauesive logic to sway her irrationnal choice to no avail. 

[HeloDude]

12 hours ago, Swizzle said:

BLUF: he has lingering emotional strings attached to Mother Blue and is angry she does dumb things. He attempts pursauesive logic to sway her irrationnal choice to no avail. 

We have some mutual FB friends and several years ago I would see his social/political rants and my fiends’ pages —he’s a progressive leftist who truly believes that if you don’t agree with him then it’s because you’re stupid/not well educated.  He thinks he’s part of the elite because he went to Harvard law school post AF.  Let’s just say that if I agree with him on anything then it’s purely out of coincidence because he is a jerk, and that’s me putting it kindly.

[Swizzle]

10 hours ago, HeloDude said:

We have some mutual FB friends and several years ago I would see his social/political rants and my fiends’ pages —he’s a progressive leftist who truly believes that if you don’t agree with him then it’s because you’re stupid/not well educated.  He thinks he’s part of the elite because he went to Harvard law school post AF.  Let’s just say that if I agree with him on anything then it’s purely out of coincidence because he is a jerk, and that’s me putting it kindly.

I believe it, guessing he must be an idea driven man. The kind who lacks social skills and so focuses on ideas. So his human connectivity is centered about ideas.  The kind of boring conversionalist who only desires to discuss academic ideas with perfect solutions but rarily admitting the irrantional, realist ideas. And, then if your academic ideas aren't good enough he feigns interest or cut-and-runs so as not to go into his weakness - messy, irrational real life. And in the case of the USAF's monumentous agency cost blows a mental gasket. But no doubt that he produces great rational-centric arguments.

...could be wrong however. Back to a pint

 

Edited June 24, 2024 by Swizzle
Just to cover all the bases, maybe make a phone call!

[Danger41]

I don’t know the guy at all, but he’s like a lot of chronically online folks that think because they can bloviate, they are smarter than the average bear. Ironically, one of his more recent pieces clued me in to how he is just another in a long line of well intentioned dudes that just don’t get it.

He wrote an article recently about how when he was the deployed squadron commander and screwed up scheduling the rotator home for his squadron and had to tell them they couldn’t go home on time. The whole thing was a mea culpa about how he focused too much on the mission, lost track etc. This type of squadron commander (and eventual senior leader) has had so much AirPower theory and Simon Sinek crammed up their over educated ass that they forget that the main thing needs to be the main thing. All the servant leadership BS is self satisfying crap if you don’t do the actual effective work that folks care about. And that work is often not going to make it into the following years ACSC/AWC case study. It’s being brilliant at the basics.
 

Something something humble, approachable, credible, something, something. I forget.