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PA finally captured a good photo of a range fowler: https://www.mildenhall.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1920555/usda-creates-program-to-protect-predatory-birds-airmen/

Pretty long compilation of data/people-search sites at https://inteltechniques.com/data/workbook.pdf for those who want to opt out of the low-hanging fruit databases. Introducing uncertainty into public records is a bit more involved - PO box/UPS store/etc. for mail, trust/LLC for house/car, etc.

How do the touchscreens work out with the pressure suit gloves? A few AFEs have ordered special Nomex gloves with touchscreen-sensitive fingertips

AF flying squadrons generally ensure the CO and DO (XO) are not both flying / in crew rest at the same time in case of leadership questions, etc. For flying ops, there's an ops sup (CDO equivalent) scheduled and generally a duty ops group commander / deputy (commodore equivalent) who has the...

Exactly. Post 9-11, everyone wanted to reduce terrorist attacks/casualties (not directly comparing COVID deaths to 9/11 deaths). If Homeland Security or state police - with a mandate to drive these to zero - proposed mandatory tracking apps on everyone's phones (to be checked when you enter an...

The Air Force has a (very low) number of dual qualified pilot/flight surgeon (pilot physician program): https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/af_sg/publication/afi11-405/afi11-405.pdf. They can be set to combatant or non-combatant (Geneva conventions medical) status for a deployment...

South Dakota never locked down; some local school districts did close. Sitting at 40% of ICU beds and 80% of ventilators available https://doh.sd.gov/news/Coronavirus.aspx#SD

Economists and epidemiologists should both be consulted as SMEs. That way cost of shutdowns (both in $ and additional deaths, poverty, etc). can be weighted against the value of life saved, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#United_States as well as estimates of lower sales, etc from...

If it was they probably would have removed media player from the image... quite a lot of valid uses for it (playing strike videos, streaming VTCs/etc. in JOC type environments

Would the existing fines/penalties for false 911 calls cover these situations? Especially a few publicized by the police PAO would deter that kind of stuff. Or publicized SOP that the 911 dispatchers are allowed to not dispatch if there's no probable cause in the call? Hangup, open line etc...

One idea - not an entire fix, but consider a libertarian approach of cutting the number of laws - or at least those considered criminal - to reduce the number of interactions with citizens that could turn negative, and give police more time for community involvement or major crimes. For example...

I don't think that watermark was in the original movie...

Not necessarily. Getting your SF-86 stolen from OPM is a lot easier than OPM releasing it in response to a CCP warrant.

The China argument isn't Chinese warrants, but Chinese hackers. Technologically, the claim is you can make a message/storage/etc. provably secure from anyone but the user that holds the key (for some definitions of provably). If there's a "backdoor", the offense vs defense track record of cyber...

Watch out though, people will take it beyond surfaces

The public health professionals may not be wrong, but the problem was not listening to a balance of all their SMEs - economic, constitutional law (for some of the measures now being challenged, etc.) The 100% public health / disease containment answer may be to shut down everything, but the...

Last year's AF suicide statistics showed a higher rate among aircraft maintenance and security forces. While these career fields have higher ops tempo,. etc. driving stress, another is the intense support structure/identity from work/peers. When an airman seeks help, and gets pulled off the...

Could adjusting FAR language on IIMC reduce the disincentive to ask for IFR (vs trying to fight WX to avoid an emergency/perceived violation)? Wonder if that will come out of the NTSB on this.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/middleeast/plane-crash-iran-intl-hnk/index.html

The DoD recognizes state drivers licenses (for non-commercial size vehicles). A regrettable number of military die/are injured in motor vehicle accidents, but we mitigate it through MP/MA/SF spot checks to ensure licensing/registration, and the usual chaff of CBTs etc. What if we adopted a...

Dan, be careful with the laser discussion. The only USAF flying units to use the microwave laser draft are not actually RPAs, but manned units spraying chemtrails all over - here's a cockpit photo: Make sure that's really what you want to do before you apply.

Question from the AF side...generally as soon as someone is charged with something on the civil side the command will start LOR, referral OPR (adverse FITREP), put their career/PCS/etc. on ice even before waiting to see if they're convicted. Does Navy policy generally require waiting for the...

At least planks improve morale... https://taskandpurpose.com/navy-physical-readiness-test-planks

Ironically much of the AF weapons school is pushing the ability to spontaneously instruct/brief off a white board or a one slide tactical chart projected on screen, since many people just use the PPT as a crutch (modifying someone else's slide deck without understanding).

AF decided to take a different approach to O-4 retention: http://www.afpc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1309786/air-force-announces-100-percent-promotion-opportunity-to-major/

Many of the billets are pilot/WSO interchangeable; the problem is WSOs have a shorter commitment (6 vs 10 post-wings) so are more likely to be out by the time folks start hitting their staff windows. Machine's comment is right in a lot of cases - the billets don't even require a pilot, but...

On the AF O side, it's more used as a negative indicator/signal - a FGO who gets no medal, or an achievement medal for a PCS will raise questions as to why.

http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=101833

The AOC comment was likely directed at the extreme micromanagement of the air war (generals directly approving tactical decisions) that CENTCOM practiced for 15 years (and has gotten worse in OIR). The challenge for USAF/USN/USMC aviation is training to execute independently in the way everyone...

Unfortunately with the NSC/Pentagon directly controlling tactical execution and operational considerations, the 3 and 5 shops may not have any say regardless of how much BS they call.

I'd probably put capabilities vs platforms on the JTAR, that's just me though.

Another major reason is because the robot has a direct FMV link to the TOC (so the O-6+ can watch their AOR and approve strikes) and a direct line to the guys shooting the weapons (so the generals can 100% control execution at the tactical level).

Interesting... in many CONUS SAR situations a cell phone can potentially get you help faster than a PRC-90. And for combat, are these no more?: https://disruptivethinkers.blogspot.com/2012/05/lessons-in-how-ipad-changed-close-air.html (unless the squadron is getting them signed off as kneeboards).

Magnetic ruler - good for aligning lines and keeps your hand away from the board.

It was at night so that may have been a factor for RC tower. Fairchild tower didn't try to ID them since their base was 800 miles away. If you're asking why Ellsworth tower didn't try to ID them, I'd guess that training flights were done for the night (so the airfield was closed). Or the...

1. Sometimes. Where does the commanding officer get his RPA experience? 2. Depends on the RPA. MQ-1/9 perform plenty of CAS/strikes under the same ROE. 3. Sometimes. A long boring ISR scan mission can turn kinetic very quickly sometimes (many Hellfire shots are taken by the O-1 pilot / E-3...

We already have AI that can defeat an experienced AWACS controller. It's called "The first day of Red Flag".

Good allegory - to whom do we bill time spent on human trafficking CBTs and mass formations at 0700 Saturday when someone screws up?

We already did this... then we shot them all down:http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/2015/05/30/qf4-targeting-drone-last-flight/28015077/ in air-to-air missile tests. Now we're doing the same with old F-16s.

Don't underestimate CBU-103s... wait...

SM-3/6 are about the same size as a CALCM, wouldn't necessarily have to be an AMRAAM. Already been researched for Patriots: https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Patriots-for-Eagles-05376/

Air Force T-1?

For a couple years the AF had GS employees at each base to administer the tests - apparently people can be trusted to give checkrides to other AF members but not PT test them. Budget cuts a year or 2 ago got rid of the GS employees; now, each squadron has to detail several airmen each month to...

There would probably be HIPAA issues with incorporating PHA type information into FITREPs, etc.

Used to happen frequently at the Deid.

Interesting difference in service policy... the AF is pretty eager to hammer with Art 15s etc even if the DUI charges are dropped/not guilty/etc off base.

Probably because of the 2001 B-52 friendly fire incident when the JTAC's GPS reset causing them to read their own coordinates instead of the target for line 6. We always teach crew to plot target and friendlies IOT check that the line 8 distance and bearing actually makes sense, as well as...

Our intel O-1 sent out the daily readfile to wing leadership with the "vis recce of the day" picture of a Prowler and the answer listed as "EA-4 Electronic Fighter". Had a short talk with him about QCing stuff.

Depends on the airframe - WSO platforms (B-1/F-15E) regularly have WSOs as wing commanders (commodores) with the occasional general.