Its Official

Last of the Few ^ | 4 March 2011 | DJ Elliott

[DJ Elliott]

The approved Centennial of Naval Aviation video is out:

We are the most Aviation-centric military in the world. When people talk about Asymmetric warfare - I laugh.

The US Military is Asymmetric to all ather militaries.

What other army in the world has an aviation brigade in every division in addition to the corps/army level aviation? If the IA was building to true US standards they would need 17 aviation brigades with 64 squadrons to go with their existing divs. To the rest of the world [incl IA], aviation brigades are corps/army level assets...

What other marine corps pairs equal numbers of aviation bns with ground bns? Effectively the USMC is a 3 way split between BLTs, Squadrons, and support. What other navy has its entire structure based around carriers [CVN/LHD/LHA]? Most navies are doing good to have a carrier...

And on top of the air forces of those 3 services, WE ALSO HAVE THE USAF. As if we didn't have enough air. And our USAF has aircraft other countries can't afford.

The only countries that approach the US aviation strength are Russia and China. Both have ground-force components 3+ times as large as the US...

We are the Asymmetric Military - Radical Aviation centric compared to all others...

[DJ Elliott]

Theo decided to publish one of my e-mail rants. I was concidering a filled out version but, why bother? Those that know the US Military and Rest-of-the-World Militaries already know this. Those that don't either do not care or need to educate themselves to believe it. The US turning point was WWII. After that war we cut ground considerably more than air and have continued to gravitate towards an air-centric military since then.

[Talisker]

Air is good.

Space is better.

[DJ Elliott]

Owning the high ground has always been a military advantage. Owning space would put the US in a permanantly dominate position. Unfortunately, the politicians are more interested in pork and are not thinking long term...

[fhayek]

Air is good.

Space is better.

Both is best.

[Vendome]

Here is the link:

http://www.neptunuslex.com/2011/04/03/its-official-3/

[Vendome]

SWEET VIDEO!!!

[gaijin]

Wasn't this the controversial video that initially tried to make it seem as if minorities and women were responsible for EVERYTHING good in military aviation?

I heard people were PISSED AS HELL about it.

[DJ Elliott]

Thanks. For some reason the link dropped out at post.

[DJ Elliott]

Yup. USN Aviation Community is considering lynchings as its next step...

[Vendome]

No problemo.

Just another Free Service I Provide.

LOL

[GreenLanternCorps]

An excuse to post a link to one of my favorite videos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwi8m4SIejE

(And I’m an Air Force brat, with a brother in the Army.)