Posted on 09/17/2018 1:01:54 PM PDT by caww
he proposed addition of 74 new combat squadrons to the Air Force would be the biggest increase in the service since the Cold War and is specifically intended to counter growing threats from Russia and China.
“We must see the world as it is. … We must prepare,” Wilson said. “We have returned to an era of great power competition."
Wilson acknowledges it will take time and additional funding to acquire the aircraft and recruit the pilots and additional personnel crews, but she called the planned expansion “an obligation to our countrymen.
“We aren’t naive about how long it will take us to build the support and the budget required for the force we need,” she said. “To face the world as it is, with a rapidly innovating adversary, the Air Force we need should have about 25 percent more operational squadrons in the 2025-2030 timeframe than the Air Force we have.
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Yeah, I was going to say in my post Thanks for all this dilemma, this uphill battle to regain our military edge much less superiority we absolutely need belongs to Obama, and the damned Democrats that supported, and still support his assaults on our country, our freedom, our way of life. Damn the Democrats, and Damn the RINO’s.
How many planes are in a squadron?
If we are not going to use planes to protect our border why do we need more? Better yet, why have any?
Build the wall first.
Maybe the Air Force should prioritize securing our Military Defense satellites?
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/08/adversaries-could-have-fiddled-with-us-satellites-dodig/
September 16, 2018
“WASHINGTON: If Chinese and Russian spies have been doing their jobs well, they might well have been able to compromise some of America’s most important satellites, including the missile launch detection birds known as SBIRS.
A report out today from the Pentagon’s Inspector General says that Air Force Space Command’s failure to safeguard its supply chain means that “an adversary has opportunity to infiltrate the Air Force Space Command supply chain and sabotage, maliciously introduce an unwanted function, or otherwise compromise the design or integrity of the critical hardware, software, and firmware.”
In 1968, naval air was taking-in 70 people each week for AOCS at Pensacola. Today, the Navy takes in a few candidates every so often for OCS (AOCS was closed in 2007). Just where are the new airmen coming from for 74 new squadrons?
By most indications, the Air Force does not plan to re-open any bases for the B-21, even if they get the “full order” of 100 aircraft. They will simply add more facilities/ramp space at Whiteman, Minot and Barksdale. Of the three, Barksdale will probably be the tightest fit. I remember when the base had Buffs, KC-135s, KC-10s and reserve A-10s. Parking space on he ramp was at a premium.
The Uniparty prefers to pay off their donors and buy votes than to take care of defense.
I was stationed there in the early 60’s...I loved it!
Re-open Kincheloe!
For fighters, usually 20 to 24.
Thanks, J J.
Got to get out in front of the new Space Force ...
Re-open Plattsburgh !
Since RPAs (drones) came into being, I think initially, the USAF took rated pilots out of the cockpits, to be RPA pilots. Now, the USAF takes people off the street, (or ROTC, or the USAF Academy) commissions them, and sends them directly to RPA pilot training. My son is one of them.
Last I heard, the USAF was 1,500 pilots short. I think a few retired USAF Officers, were involuntarily called back to active duty. The USAF will have to pay pilots more, but I think another issue, is to remove the career irritants that drive the pilots out.
I knew a USAF Academy graduate, who was a fantastic pilot. He was so good, that even as a full Col, he was still flying T-39s, as his normal job. Later, they made him commander of a transportation squadron. This is what drives them out.
By the way, as a USAF enlisted man (E-7) we had career irritants that almost drove me out too, but I managed to survive long enough to retire.
Space squadrons probably don’t have very many aircraft assigned. A special operations squadron might have 3 or 4 C-130’s. Combat Search & Rescue... sounds like Helo’s to me. Tankers... that will be some aircraft, but probably some of those would be ground support. Bottom line, other than the B-21 coming on line, I don’t see an extraordinary number of new aircraft here.
How about KI? Yuk. When I came back from fighting the Cold War, I was given 7 choices to go. KI, Wurtsmith, Myrtle Beach, Homestead, Beale, Travis, and I think Malmstrom. I put KI, Wurtsmith and Malmstrom dead last on my dream sheet. In 20 years, I managed to avoid Griffis, Plattsburgh, Loring, Pease, KI, Wurtsmith, Selfridge, Ellsworth, Grand Forks (my home town) Minot and Malmstrom. Fortunately, I got Travis, where I retired out of, and stayed 30 years in California, till I couldn’t take the libtards anymore.
Note to Wilson...
You are faced with another “Cold War” type buildup like the early 1960s. You need to train thousands of pilots in a short time and will be faced with losing them to the airlines.
Be ready for the challenge or you will go down in flames.
Thanks to the Kenyan Usurper, we are in deep shit, militarily.
I must reword the first sentence...WE are faced, etc.
What did they ever do with Pease AFB in New Hampster?
Had a piece of paper saying I was going to be stationed at Loring...back in ,84.....packed out and cleared base housing and a few days before heading NE (from Altus, OK) got word it was canceled (final decision to start shutting things down must have come in around then).....ended up in S. Korea.
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