ANG Opening (UPT) F-15E

[Sapper!]

I saw this and wasn't sure which section it belongs in but I thought it may be worth a look for some:

http://www.142fw.ang.af.mil/careers/undergraduatepilotprogram/index.asp

 

[ryan1234]

I don't think they're a Mud Hen unit... rather a light gray eagle (C) unit. Just as a point of mission clarification.

 

[Sapper!]

I don't think they're a Mud Hen unit... rather a light gray eagle (C) unit. Just as a point of mission clarification.

I have NO idea what that means, sorry, i'm not an aviator! but to help myself and others out, could you explain? I just grabbed the info off the bottom of the job description as to what frame they said they were going to train the selectee on. Again my apologies.

Cullen

 

[BarrettRC8]

I have NO idea what that means, sorry, i'm not an aviator! but to help myself and others out, could you explain? I just grabbed the info off the bottom of the job description as to what frame they said they were going to train the selectee on. Again my apologies.

Cullen

Charlies are single seat, strictly air-to-air. Echos are two seat, and can do both.

 

[ryan1234]

I have NO idea what that means, sorry, i'm not an aviator! but to help myself and others out, could you explain? I just grabbed the info off the bottom of the job description as to what frame they said they were going to train the selectee on. Again my apologies.

Cullen

The F-15E is the Strike Eagle - I think there's only one Reserve component unit (USAFR) that operates them, and they're out of Seymour Johnson. They drop bombs on stuff to include helicopters in flight!

The 142FW operates the F-15C Eagle which is primarily Air Supremacy and Air Defense.

The Hack-meister can share some more info on the differences as the Strike Eagle was/is his baby.

Thanks for sharing the link though!

 

[armada1651]

The F-15E is the Strike Eagle - I think there's only one Reserve component unit (USAFR) that operates them, and they're out of Seymour Johnson. They drop bombs on stuff to include helicopters in flight!

The 142FW operates the F-15C Eagle which is primarily Air Supremacy and Air Defense.

I think the FTUs (333rd and 334th) at SJAFB utilize reserve component pilots and WSOs as instructors but not the fleet squadrons (335th and 336th). Hacker would know better than me though.

 

[FlyingOnFumes]

Charlies are single seat, strictly air-to-air. Echos are two seat, and can do both.

I remember reading somewhere that at Wright-Patterson AFB, the F-15 program office had a banner plastered that said "Not a pound for air-to-ground" during the development of the Eagle during '70s.

But I think lot of that had to do with the Air Force having been forced (as the late Col. John "40 Second" Boyd put it) a "salt water" (Navy) airplane as their last fighter... (F-4 Phantom II).

I wonder how they feel now with the "Mudhen" being presumably the USAF's most useful fighter these days...

 

[HuggyU2]

I wonder how they feel now with the "Mudhen" being presumably the USAF's most useful fighter these days...

I doubt there has been and F-15C Program Office in some time. The F-15C is dying quickly.

 

[FlyingOnFumes]

I doubt there has been and F-15C Program Office in some time. The F-15C is dying quickly.

They don't keep the program office open for the life of the airframe like the Navy does with their PMAs? Who handles maintenance / upgrade issues that creep up, then?