Yet not a word about the senior service.
Posted on 11/22/2010 12:11:55 PM PST by neverdem
The Air Force’s strength is in delivering ordinance to the target. The ordinance should be at the basic level of physics. Reducing insurgents and problem countries to their basic elements is the final solution. Use it.
Perhaps when they go to build AF bases they should start with the runways and maintenance buildings instead of the golf courses.
I'm not hostile to the USAF. I served 12 years in it. But the corporate culture has to change.
/johnny
Ping to LucyT. FYI
Ping.
Yet not a word about the senior service.
My Respect for the Air Force does not require me to accept what you suggest.
Years of nation building and teaching democracy was never supposed to be the mission of my Marine and Army brothers.
The USAF is hardly unappreciated or under funded. Every since the branch was started with a break from tradition, they often lead in change. I am not sure they will be the first branch to become gay friendly, that's just the way the bets are being placed.
We are being pennywise and dollar foolish by not going forward with the F-22 program. Not only is Gates and Obama responsible, but Juan McCain gave them political cover by coming out in support of the buys of 187 planes earlier this year...
Bring back MAC,SAC and TAC would be a good start. McPeak was a bonehead.
A friend of mine worked in the Pentagon in the late 80s. I recall him saying the USAF was p!ssed that, unlike everything else, it couldn’t buy tradition.
Your comment may apply to heavy drivers but in the CAF I know of very few pilots who do much but fly and take care of their units. Most normal days are at least 10 hours and often run into 12 hours. Support troops have been cut back by ridiculous numbers and the pilots fly plus run the units and all the administrative work. Most of these guys are making just above minimum wage if their compensation is divided by the hours they work.
The guys on the line and in the wings work their butts off to keep airframes older than they are in the air and sweat bullets to baby the planes to keep them combat ready.
The USAF has blown the procurement mission on the F-22 costs and the F-35 pace and cost, blew it on the tanker contracts as well. Procurement and project management is f’ed up in a major way. Heads should roll in a big way starting at the top.
Maybe the support shoe salesmen in the AF play enough golf to register but the country club atmosphere is gone from the CAF. Your quip is not appreciated.
The Navy is also becoming hollow. Programs that are failures — LCS, DDG-1000, EP-X, CG(X), F-35, smallest number of ships since 1933, San Antonio class disaster ... we are going to get our asses kicked come next war. But that’s ok because unions will still be gettng billions from the Democrats.
Too bad the the fighter jocks took control when ACC stood up and trashed much of what the Air Force was about. They had to have cheap looking leather jackets and scarves rather than building a solid military background that reveled in the traditions that started back in WWII.
I believe Stargate SG-1 has been the USAF’s most successful recruiting tool.
I find it simply insane that the AF has paid tens of billions for the development of the F-22 and F-35 (Have they delivered ANY F-35s to date?). Also, from many accounts, the F-22’s competitor, the YF-23, was the superior aircraft but politics chose the winner.
The ground campaign in Operation Desert Storm in 1991 lasted four days.
"My Respect for the Air Force does not require me to accept what you suggest."
You can look it up. He confused the ground offensive of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 with the ground offensive of Operation Desert Storm in 1991 which was called off after 100 hours. I checked before I wrote my initial statement.
Then listen to a Marine that was on the ground over there.
100 HOURS ... that's how long the ground war lasted.
40 days and 40 nights ... that's about how long the Air Force rained bombs like the Iraqi's were Noah's contemporaries ....
Thank God for the Air Force as they made it a LOT easier for us on the ground.
I noticed that too. The 100 hour war it was called.
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