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| Leadership: American Fighter Pilots Give Up | |
| 2018-04-09 | |
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| Posted by:3dc |
| #14 At some point they are going to have to remove the redundancy between the branches. It made sense when money was super-available because of the cold war but now? Do we need air arms in the Army, Navy, Airforce and Marines? |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2018-04-09 23:05 |
| #13 ...And like #2) Mike, this just makes me sad. My family were US Navy vets and my Dad worked as a civilian at OCAMA, Tinker AFB, his last project was helping to get the AWAC program into production. So, like looking at a crumbling mansion, sad... |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-04-09 17:24 |
| #12 It is a pity that the USAF has a purpose other than providing careers for REMFs isn't it? Complicates things when you actually have to fly the planes, right? Much less paperwork if they just sit there and get polished when they start looking dirty. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-04-09 17:16 |
| #11 a Navy ship Speaking of that, check the satellite views of the Mobile AL shipyard on the Mobile River between I10 and Government St. Pointy nose boats! Drove right past'em. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-04-09 16:56 |
| #10 SPOD, they might as well be a Navy ship the way you describe it! HAHA |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2018-04-09 16:39 |
| #9 They seem to want to not want to get their hands dirty. They don't want to fly close air support. They don't want guns in their fighters They want to launch missiles from a zillion miles away. Dang, what are they good for anyway? Just a bunch of pampered techies with expensive toys and no killer instinct |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-04-09 15:02 |
| #8 They need to work to get out of the ego and into the fight. "But the ascots? Can't we at least keep the ascots? Pretty please???" |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2018-04-09 14:21 |
| #7 They removed the warrior ethos from the AF. High rise hotels and golf courses. They need to work to get out of the ego and into the fight. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2018-04-09 11:48 |
| #6 ...Air Force separated from the Army under the National Security Act of 1947. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-04-09 11:46 |
| #5 Yes, the symptom began to appear in 1947. Posted by Besoeker What happened in 1947? Alien spacecraft crashing in New Mexico? |
| Posted by: jpal 2018-04-09 11:14 |
| #4 ....something radically wrong with the Air Force itself. Yes, the symptom began to appear in 1947. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-04-09 10:12 |
| #3 "While the first wave of air force leaders (until the 1970s) were bomber pilots, and the next wave were fighter pilots by the 1990s the next wave consisted of technocrats and bureaucrats." Anyone who has followed the Air Force Academy soap opera over the last quarter century knows that there was something radically wrong with the Air Force itself. |
| Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 2018-04-09 09:15 |
| #2 ...Every single word was truthful, and the commentary exactly what I expect from StrategyPage. Direct, to the point, and honest. And it tore my heart out. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-04-09 04:33 |
| #1 Oh, I thought by the title the John McCain tradition was back. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-09 00:44 |