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The Air Force Went Woke, Its Planes Won’t Fly
Frontpage Mag ^ | 2-22-2022 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 02/22/2022 4:29:29 AM PST by servo1969

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To: oldvirginian

Free Tibet!


21 posted on 02/22/2022 5:29:09 AM PST by bigfootbob
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To: oldtech

After Vietnam the USAF had up to a 30% down rate and that was considered horrible. We had more aircraft then than now, so at least we could get more airplanes in the air then. The ratings improved in the 1980’s and 90+% was achieved.

The USAF was experimenting with social justice since the 1960’s and it showed by 1980. Incompetence grew to ensure women and minorities were recruited. Men needed high ASVAB scores, women just needed the right plumbing and minorities the right skin color; they would get ASVAB score waivers.

It has only gotten worse by today.


22 posted on 02/22/2022 5:30:05 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: EEGator

“I don’t know if it’s true, but I recently read the F-16 defeated the F-35 in simulated air-to-air combat.”

Eyeball to eyeball dog fighting, I can see it happening easily.


23 posted on 02/22/2022 5:31:31 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Flick Lives

“The good news is that our pilots, for now, remain qualified, talented, and highly motivated”

True, but what is their motivation? To fly, and fly cool airplanes, but to eventually get out and fly for the airlines making bank.


24 posted on 02/22/2022 5:33:07 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

I don’t know about now, but I remember the F-16 was the most maneuverable fighter back in the day.
(I was young, so it might have been in a movie…)


25 posted on 02/22/2022 5:36:45 AM PST by EEGator
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To: servo1969

I have never been more disgusted and embarrassed by what the US has become.

I don’t feel patriotic in a communist country.


26 posted on 02/22/2022 5:38:16 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: CodeToad

“..Eyeball to eyeball dog fighting, I can see it happening easily...”

The F-16 is no slouch, especially when the F-35 pilot is wearing high heels. /s


27 posted on 02/22/2022 5:41:00 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: lgjhn23

I live near Tyndall AFB and run into F-35 pilots. They are sharp and motivated, but they wonder what is missing or what is flawed in the airplane. They get the intel briefings on enemy aircraft comparisons, but they wonder how much is just BS spouted by people who would never say an unkind word against the airplane the politicians get kickbacks to support. Pilots are also TDY here, so they have to stay until training is complete. Downtime sucks for them.


28 posted on 02/22/2022 5:47:11 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

There was an article on FR years ago with a howitzer company that also did not speak English


If it was a Marine company, your worries are over - the Top Marine got rid of Marine artillery along with tanks and amphibs - turning Marines into just another part of the US Army.


29 posted on 02/22/2022 6:01:06 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: CodeToad
The education issue is also a problem. How can uneducated people do the job?

Reminds me of my years at McAir. We sold F-15s to the Saudis, and they requested that the maintenance manuals be rewritten at the 6th grade level, because the 8th grade level they were written in was too difficult.

They were told "This is the most advanced fighter in the world, find people who can work on it!"
30 posted on 02/22/2022 6:01:33 AM PST by BikerJoe
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To: EEGator

F-16 defeated the F-35

one is a bomb truck and the other an air superiority fighter - guess which one is which.


31 posted on 02/22/2022 6:02:52 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: servo1969

It’s worth remembering that the navy started WWII without a working torpedo and nearly every aircraft in our arsenal was a hopeless joke.

Even without wokeness, our military is a cornucopia of perfumed princes in peacetime whose corruption is exceeded only by their incompetence. And wokeness has utterly institutionalized that corruption and incompetence to the point that the corrupt and incompetent are indignantly self righteous.


32 posted on 02/22/2022 6:03:26 AM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: CodeToad

Pilots wonder what is missing or what is flawed in the airplane


missing:
Survivability
Mission
Purpose

flawed:
Weapons
Maintenance


33 posted on 02/22/2022 6:06:47 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BikerJoe

I was part of a pilot training program for the Saudis. They were idiots. Royalty was passed no matter how bad they were.


34 posted on 02/22/2022 6:08:05 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: PIF

Cannon fodder infantry.


35 posted on 02/22/2022 6:08:25 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: servo1969

“You don’t know the anxiety, the despair, the heartache, the fear, the rage and the disappointment that comes with living in this country... every single day.”

The door of immigration swings both ways. Why are YOU still here?


36 posted on 02/22/2022 6:10:01 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (FB Jail for saying the gov't forces churches to accept fags who then molest kids.)
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To: servo1969
The woke Air Force brass don’t know the anxiety, the despair, the heartache, the fear, the rage, and the disappointment that comes from spending tens of billions on aircraft that don’t fly while the woke brass throw themselves pity parties and act like expecting them to win wars is racist.

insane.. our country has gone insane...

37 posted on 02/22/2022 6:13:14 AM PST by GOPJ (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: bigfootbob

At this rate we’re lucky Tibet doesn’t invade US!

I, for one, welcome our new Tibetan overlords.
Long live the Dalai Lama!!


38 posted on 02/22/2022 6:13:36 AM PST by oldvirginian (So if a cow doesn’t produce milk, is it a milk dud or an udder failure?)
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To: servo1969

“Tip of the Smear”


39 posted on 02/22/2022 6:14:19 AM PST by moovova
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To: PIF

Are you stating that the military thought the F-16 would be superior in an air to air battle?


40 posted on 02/22/2022 6:14:43 AM PST by EEGator
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