As to my comment about Red Flag being thorough, it wasn't in any reference to Fallon, being that I've not done much flying there (aside from some small fighter weps scenarios and BFM stuff). What I liked about Red Flag is that it forced you to analyze a complex IADS network while designing a best fit EA gameplan providing protection for a wide variety and significant number of fighter/striker platforms, all the while dealing with the constraints of time and limited information. Addtionally, from an expeditionary squadron's perspective (as Dawgfan alluded to), these are the individuals we deal with in actual combat scenarios (not necessarily the Carrier Airwing). It's good to get a heads up on how they operate before we have to do so in a wartime situation. While it is true that the Air Force doesn't necessarily understand our business all that well, this doesn't preclude us from coming up with a EA solution that is well-planned, robust, and fully capable of keeping them safe whether they comprehend how we do so or not. Sometimes when we're back at home field and busy with our ground jobs, we brief a flight to go out and practice SACT or to go do a section low-level. While these flights are great fun, from a training perspective, the level of planning and execution is not the same as put forth to protect a 75 aircraft VUL where both the risk and the reward are much higher. That's all I was getting at.
To the point of the thread, looks like we should have a good showing! Thanks for getting the word out!
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