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Air Force secretary calls for biggest buildup in squadrons since the Cold War.....
washingtonexaminer ^ | 9/17/2018 | Jamie McIntyre

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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To: Williams

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.


21 posted on 09/17/2018 1:51:30 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: TADSLOS

How many planes are in a squadron?


22 posted on 09/17/2018 1:52:29 PM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: caww

If we are not going to use planes to protect our border why do we need more? Better yet, why have any?


23 posted on 09/17/2018 1:58:45 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: caww

Build the wall first.


24 posted on 09/17/2018 2:01:26 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: caww; All

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.”

Read:
http://www.dodig.mil/reports.html/Article/1604392/air-force-space-command-supply-chain-risk-management-of-strategic-capabilities/


25 posted on 09/17/2018 2:11:30 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Yo-Yo

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?


26 posted on 09/17/2018 2:39:08 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: alloysteel

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.


27 posted on 09/17/2018 3:05:00 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: Williams
It wasn't just the Kenyan Communist: the GOP went along with the sequester, remember?

The Uniparty prefers to pay off their donors and buy votes than to take care of defense.

28 posted on 09/17/2018 3:17:42 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: alloysteel

I was stationed there in the early 60’s...I loved it!


29 posted on 09/17/2018 3:30:14 PM PDT by FrankR (IF it wasn't for the "F-word", and it's deritiives, the left would have no message at all.)
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To: FrankR

Re-open Kincheloe!


30 posted on 09/17/2018 4:15:51 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: laplata

For fighters, usually 20 to 24.


31 posted on 09/17/2018 4:31:36 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

Thanks, J J.


32 posted on 09/17/2018 5:02:37 PM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: caww

Got to get out in front of the new Space Force ...


33 posted on 09/17/2018 5:20:22 PM PDT by x
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To: DuncanWaring

Re-open Plattsburgh !


34 posted on 09/17/2018 5:54:31 PM PDT by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: Yo-Yo; caww; Jet Jaguar
Second, thanks to the early 2000s fuster cluck of taking rated pilots out of cockpits to put them in air conditioned trailers 'flying' drones,

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.

35 posted on 09/17/2018 6:25:38 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: caww

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.


36 posted on 09/17/2018 6:42:37 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: DuncanWaring; caww; Jet Jaguar
Re-open Kincheloe!

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.

37 posted on 09/17/2018 7:12:40 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Yo-Yo

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.


38 posted on 09/17/2018 7:37:58 PM PDT by BatGuano
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To: caww

What did they ever do with Pease AFB in New Hampster?


39 posted on 09/17/2018 8:51:53 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: FrankR

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.


40 posted on 09/18/2018 3:32:07 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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