[NKP_Vet]

From the incompetent Hagel as Sec of Defense, to major theater commanders that are not combat pilots, how low can the US military go with Obozo as commander-in-chief. So once again, a non-pilot with no combat experience whatsover will be the next Commander of the Pacific Air Command.

[Chode]

gonna wear the man hat too???

[CivilWarBrewing]

Once again, Barry is playing politics with our security. And this will LOWER morale, too, but THAT’S BEEN BARRY’S MISSION FROM DAY ONE.

[jim999]

So. Whether warranted or not, how many good pilots and others will decide to retire or just hang it up because of this appointment.
She may be the best person in the history of air warfare for the job, but the fact that Obama’s trolls picked her is an automatic 6 strikes against her.
I guess we know where the attack is going to come from......

[Cold Heat]

Past time for a coup.

I still have some modicum of hope..

[sten]

i knew it was going to be a woman before even clicking the link

but you can assured... she’s aligned with the left

expect to see more of this in all leadership ranks across all branches

El Supremo Douche needs the military to be Douche friendly

[lonevoice]

We are so screwed.

[Portcall24]

Interesting people think she came from the AWACS community. Fact is she started as a wapons cntroller at Homestead before she went to AWACS. We are called wapons controllers, Ground Control Intercept (GCI) cntrollers or Tactical Radar Controllers. In Vietnam our job was to take fighters from the base out to the Forward Air Controller (FAC) and bring them back. You had to vector them around the artillery and try to keep them out of the worst of the weather. The F-100’s had no radar so they well appreciated what we did. We also did the tanker join-ups for the strikes going into North Vietnam. Sounds simple but can be fun because you turn the tanker in front of the fighters in the anchor so the fighters can minimize their turning before they go to the target. In AWACS they do they same thing only sitting in the back of the E-3. I have no idea where she got her medals. The late Colonel Moody Suter used to grumble because he noticed that weapons controllers had little upward progression and most were separated by the time they made Major. That’s because the battle management jobs went to rated officers. In spite of the fact that the controllers had been doing battle management almost their entire careers while the pilots view of the world was from the cockpit. Moody was the creator of something called Red Flag at Nellis, Warrior Prep in Germany and other similar activities. I can tell you that the entire time I was involved with the people who matter most (fighter pilots) had nothing but respect from them for what I did. An example is that the Aggressors at Nellis use controllers as their extra set of eyes in dog fights and do something called close control where the controllers can give break turns and other energy manuverability calls.

[SunTzuWu]

Bookmark.

[DoodleDawg]

(And no combat experience)

Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and George Marshall had no combat experience prior to World War II and as I recall they turned out all right.