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A look at a C-130 aerovac crew in support of the Marja Offensive. http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/journal/docs-temp/375-yon.pdf

On 60 Minutes tonight: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6228919n&tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel Sounds like a similar situation to that safety video recovered from the pilot that tried to climb up a mountain past his operating altitude, and stalled out trying to turn around.

The AF has a squadron that does exactly that (6th SOS), but is that a role or consideration for the MAW?

The Air Wing does. How long would it take to build, train, and deploy (and then integrate into existing airops) a COIN squadron? We're starting a drawdown in a year or two. You can accelerate it with an increase in cost, but the very argument for a COIN platform isn't that it delivers something...

Amusing economist obit: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15543398&fsrc=nlw|hig|02-18-2010|editors_highlights

SWAG, but their gear looks pretty standard issue; that's the tipoff is my guess.

Why new? I'm a happy Forester driver, and the 2009 model is a huge improvement in rear legroom from previous models. It's a handy, fun, practical little crossover. I wouldn't bother with the Outback unless you expect to be carry backseat passengers regularly. The trim is nicer, though.

Me + tabbed browsing at work = ridiculous Are you talking about a portable (self-contained) installation?

Just looking at the first page I see nothing but JV cheerleading for phrogs. It's stupid whether it's coming from an E-1 or a retired O-6. That said, MCCLL has some good stuff on the nuts and bolts of MV-22 integration.

Balance

:icon_roll Never mind that Baradar and Abdulmutallub are incomparable (I don't think the Pakistanis know Miranda) , Miranda rights aren't exactly protection from execution.

That's the EFSS, isn't it?

Gates axed the second prototype but continued it as a research program - hence ALTB vice ABL.

It's web-san's way of "encouraging" you to pay up.

Don't hurt yourself contorting this into a sodomy issue when it's homosexuality you have a problem with. Slippery slope - you're right, if only we'd prosecute all those damned hetero sodomites, the gays wouldn't even be on our radar. I guess you found the solution.

If this is a terrible time to be deliberaing this, then why has Mullen been pondering this in depth long before the SOTU? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/politics/04mullen.html?scp=3&sq=Mullen&st=cse The writing's been on the wall for quite some time.

And since when does that matter? His job is to be an advisor, not a mouthpiece.

So, your assertion is that the troops support DADT, and assuming that they do, that should dictate the advice of our leadership? I'm of a mind that doing what you believe to be right, regardless of the popularity, is leadership, but what do I know. What he said was "you set the policy, we will...

The F-110/F100 is not completely analogous, though, as both aircraft were initially single-sourced for the engine by P&W, and a competition for a second engine introduced only after problems emerged with the F100. The F-35 has enough budgetary problems to deal with without the added costs of a...

I am real surprised by the decision to terminate the C-17 line; it seemed like the sort of support we sorely need from the AF these days.

It's for a second contractor (GE/Rolls Royce), and it's nothing more than pork.

goes to congress today Early purported final version; I'm sure a more official version will be posted later. Summaries are already in the news. http://www.scribd.com/doc/26120037/qdr-feb-2010 Discuss

I feel like the kid who's been told the family can't afford the latest game console. Incredibly disappointing, but at the same time we do have a ridiculous deficit.

Hey, I've been out of school for a few years. I meant specifically letting a male and a female share rooms (which is new to my alma mater); but yea, co-ed bathrooms have been pretty common in colleges too. Movement was a poor choice of words - there's been a trend.

Umhmm, so show me where colleges are segregating their housing by sexuality- these are the same 18 and 19 year old's, right? There's a movement in some schools to allow co-ed co-habiting by request, but for the most part we're throwing straight and gay students in the same double and expecting...

So for those of you who are insistent on separate facilities for homosexuals, do you avoid public locker rooms because there might be homosexuals gazing at you while you change (and don't pretend you're immune on-base since retirees, dependents, and civilian contractors are allowed in) Where's...

You can read a lot of it online. It's pretty good; though I don't like it enough to subscribe.

The difference is more significant; the Osprey has roughly half the disc area of a CH-53.

Uh, isn't he an NFO?

You know, there's a graceful way to exit (like Coco), and then there's keeping a literal countdown clock to "freedom". And he calls himself a Naval Aviator. Obnoxious.

IBT the lock that followed the last thread about an officer that went into the motivational speaking business. Internet Marketing......heh. Too bad he's not at a squadron to catch shit for this.

Unfair comparisons have been drawn to the 1989 San Fran quake, which killed some 63 people, but the epicenter was 70 miles away from town vice 16 in Haiti. A more apt comparison is the 8.0 quake in Sichuan which killed some 70,000. It was poverty, not culture or government, which aggravated the...

Yay for flair!

Why can't the Army provide transport for the Marines with their trucks? I mean, a truck is a truck, right?

What is the difference between an Army humvee and a Marine humvee? It's a machine, not a trinket to be hoarded and guarded.

Seeing as how the E-6 replaced the EC-135 some 20 years after the KC-135, probably not.

Definitely Tapatalk. AFAIK from the screenshots, TouchBB doesn't have a latest posts feature; you have to go forum by forum, which I never bother to do. I'd probably rather surf on safari since "New Posts" and the front page were my most often hit links. Tapatalk does. And there's a free...

Damn.....yes. No experience with either so I'll hold off on voting until I've had a chance to at least play with the free version.

Only you would make resolutions ..... for others Not bad though

resolved, thanks!

The layout is kind of jacked up (yes, very technical diagnosis), and specifically there are bullets randomly laid out all over the website. This occurs on both Chrome Beta on OSX and a completely reset, cache cleared Safari.

Sounds like an LED. Not exactly earth-shattering.

How is pork (funding going to his State) a bribe? It may be distasteful to the rest of us, but he's certainly doing right by his constituents.

Bruce Schneier on the hack: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2009/12/securitymatters_1223

I'm too tired to remember where I read it (early bird maybe) but in the last few days there was an AF Colonel who wrote an op-ed lambasting his service for being slow to warm to the idea of limited effect small precision munitions. There are a lot of interesting small munitions under development...

On the other hand, he's killing them in a much more personal way. Direct action raids have gone from 20 in May to 90 in November. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-afghan-special-forces16-2009dec16,0,2135079.story?page=1

So regulation of shared airspace and radio spectrums is socialism?

Pretty cool form flying: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html#photo18 Sullenberger made it too.

And trying to prematurely legislate one interpretation of the killings by using awards for the deceased is a pretty low way of making a political point.

Gunner Eby has been pushing this for close to a decade now and there are Marine tests that have established that an auto AR has a vastly higher hit probability than a SAW.