@insanebikerboy good gouge, thanks for sharing. Too bad the knowledge doesn’t flow back.
3 Sierras plus a squadron of Romeos can handle that
Taking anything more than ONE pax is really challenging for a romeo squadron.
AF helo rescue squadrons are a part of ACC (air combat command), not AFSOC. Some PJ RQS units fall under AFSOC, but the hardware units don’t. They have in the past but not currently.
As to sending Navy guys as a liaison, yes, there are Navy guys flying with some AF helo units. It’s not a career enhancing assignment for the Navy dude and very little, if any, lessons learned from the AF are fed back to the Navy.
As to sending Navy guys as a liaison, yes, there are Navy guys flying with some AF helo units. It’s not a career enhancing assignment for the Navy dude and very little, if any, lessons learned from the AF are fed back to the Navy.
@insanebikerboyToo bad the knowledge doesn’t flow back.
I'd hope this exchange is continuing.
Couple of random thoughts-
1) we are talking about PR/CSAR as in 1990s era requirements. We may lose a ship that leaves half of the crew in life rafts. Not something a pair of 60s can fix. Does PR become an LCS racing forward after locating survivors via MQ8?
2) We did fight our way across the Pacific with DDs in PG. We can have surface ships cover SAR if other missions are needed for the helos. We seem stuck in a paradigm that PG shall be a helo.
3) There are options to keep the capability- that is why we had HCS-4/5 back in the day as true reserve squadrons. It can be done again.
4) Unless we spend a lot more money on the CMV22s, they will not be able to support the mission creep.
5) Intra CSG transfer can be optimized. I can’t count the times I brought some one to the CVN because they didn’t do their dental check up before they left home port. Also, ship COs are notorious for demanding extra log runs to get their parts faster (and then they are late setting flight quarters). Their plan while good for the ship doesn’t make logical sense for everyone else and would make an outsider from Amazon or Fedex think we are idiots.
That's a matter of misguided policy. I presume you'll agree that people shouldn't be airlifted between platforms during deployment for "dental readiness" unless there's a dental emergency.I brought some one to the CVN because they didn’t do their dental check up before they left home port.
Lessons learned make it back to NAWDC, and maritime lessons make it to the USAF...
Brett, I agree completely. And yet these kind of things as well as cybersecurity awareness training compliance numbers seem to be more important than actual war-fighting capabilities lately. Checks in the boxes. "Red alert, update your NFAAS NOW!!!"That's a matter of misguided policy. I presume you'll agree that people shouldn't be airlifted between platforms during deployment for "dental readiness" unless there's a dental emergency.
The amount of bandwidth leadership expends on dental readiness vs the time a lack of dental readiness actually impacts the mission should be the subject of a CNA study to expose the extraordinary misprioritization of resources expended on this issue.
This is the same service that requires every mobilizing reservist to take THREE damn physicals before boots on ground. Yes, three. I know there were early-GWOT issues with folks showing up with pacemakers and stuff, but let's price out the cost of doing all this pain train for every mobilizing SELRES instead of trusting that someone with a current PHA is, you know, deployable.That's a matter of misguided policy. I presume you'll agree that people shouldn't be airlifted between platforms during deployment for "dental readiness" unless there's a dental emergency.
The amount of bandwidth leadership expends on dental readiness vs the time a lack of dental readiness actually impacts the mission should be the subject of a CNA study to expose the extraordinary misprioritization of resources expended on this issue.
Lessons learned make it back to NAWDC, and maritime lessons make it to the USAF...
Now that HSC is downsizing, I'll bet money those positions don't do much to help a guy make DH or command. A lot of guys are going to get screwed in this.It’s also heartening to hear those positions may not be the career killer they once were
Given that HSC is downsizing, smaller ponds for talent and stovepiped career tracks generally aren’t great for managing human capital. Can the Navy combine HSC and HSM squadrons - or at least allow pilots to go more freely back and forth between them?Now that HSC is downsizing, I'll bet money those positions don't do much to help a guy make DH or command. A lot of guys are going to get screwed in this.
It's too bad that Naval Aviation doesn't have a way to use "greybeards" like this. USAF calls em "line dogs" and the CV-22 pilot I work with was bemoaning the fact that because he didn't make command he may have to go back and be a random O5 who flies a bunch and makes sure the JOs are keeping the popcorn machine full.Now that HSC is downsizing, I'll bet money those positions don't do much to help a guy make DH or command. A lot of guys are going to get screwed in this.