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re: Attention Air Force flight line personnel: beware of propellers!

K.O.B.E. — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:07:28 GMT

It will be a cold day in hell before the USAF actually does something that goes against group thought. Purchasing aircraft that would actually be optimized to fight the current war is something that today's leaders are not prepared to do, because it means another project would have to get shelved for fiscal reasons. Buying a prop driven combat aircraft would also be a sin in the eyes of most current AF generals/col. Unfortunately the bureaucracy that is the AF will unwilling to commit to any drastic change, nor would the current procurement methods of "Big Blue" be agile enough to bring a program such as this on time and on budget.

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re: Veterans Day Salute: all who served but especially Master Sergeant Doug Welsh, Ohio Air Guard

rhartigan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:01:55 GMT

I met Doug Welsh back when Otto, besides being an AFROTC cadet, was also a CAP cadet and I was a CAP unit commander.

Many years later while I was herding a bunch of CAP cadets around Rickenbacker ANGB during an CAP encampment, he came up and introduced himself to our group perhaps because of Otto.

He didn't remember me, but my first comment to him was "Have you heard from Otto?". After that, he did his very best to talk to the CAP cadets about their options, their service to our country and what the Ohio ANG really had to offer them. He then took the cadets under his wing and gave them a behind the scenes tour that was not scheduled but well worth it.

My condolences to his wife Michelle.

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TPile » Blog Archive » Could Mercenaries Return as Pirate Foes? — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:49:45 GMT

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re: USAF news roundup: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Otto — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:08:21 GMT

This is a test of the Excalibur comments system. This only a test!

re: Time to start prepping to go home, folks, we are winning this thing in Iraq

Terri — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:48:49 GMT

Thanks for all your updates!

Have a safe trip home. I'm looking forward to hearing more about your time over there.

Thank you for your service!!

re: Our long national Air Force nightmare is over: Gates picks General Norty Schwartz as USAF Chief of staff

CJL — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:16:32 GMT

Hey Ed,

How goes it? Sounds like you are very very busy. I'm back from GE and trying to figure out what I want to be and do next. Just wanted to add my COMPLETE agreement as to Sec Gates' selection of Gen Scwartz to lead the USAF. I am so excited and pleased. He is such an awesome man and leader. God bless him, you and the USA!! vr, Connie

re: 380 F-22's for the Air Force? How about a little Irregular Warfare action instead?

Georgie — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:20:03 GMT

It's interesting, to me, that while the 6th SOS is always at the forefront of the irregular warfare debate in the Air Force, few actually present a plan for how the 6th SOS shoud grwo to meet demands. One of the SOF truths is that "you cannot mass-produce SOF after the emergency has occurred." The 6th SOS has grown from 100 to over 200 personnel in a couple of years. Thought of creating an irregular wing with the 6th at its core is a great idea...but, if that's not mass producing SOF after the emergency has occured, I don't know what is. So...maybe, one should consider that in a fickle military, where the budget will always favor conventional agendas, SOF will have to maintain a core capability and ALWAYS have to mass produce people when the emergency occurs, only to draw them down when the emergency subsides. It's the way things are, it's the way they've always been...check out the history of SOF in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. What we lack is a SOF training mechanism for mass producing and a plan on how to do it. And, having folks show up to AFSOC from other commands one day, get their AFSOC patch, and start flying SOF missions the day after their (flight only) training ends is probably not the right answer. The Air Force Special Operations Training Center is the right answer - the new AFSOC commander sees and has the right vision for it. I just hope AFSOTC lives up to its potential and that it expands its charter to encompass the training of all irregular warfare needs.

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