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My comments were more aimed at content vs delivery. While I'm a big fan of an intellectual "eat what you kill" environment, and the ability for me to, on my own initiative, get smart on something, there's still a role for formal training and specialization. In some ways, AF Intel has it a lot...

No posts in this forum for a while, so I thought I'd stir the pot some.... Just got back from 8 glorious days at Nellis, where the flowers are in bloom and the ballet is in fine form. But I left with a bad taste in my mouth, for once in an intellectual (and not literal...) sense. Got to...

Would one of you helo dudes with recent Iraq experience and an active SIPR or JWICS account drop me a PM? I need a question answered that can't be addressed in this forum. Free beer if you're local to DC.... -Milhouse

When I was there last (Fall 02), the Marines in 902 prior to us had built such a large fire in the grill that it had melted/scorched the awning. Must have been quite a sight.... ONW was a thoroughly enjoyable little war...

There's something odd about that place. When I cross the border into the state, I have an uncontrollable urge to take off my shoes, steal something, and sleep with my cousin.... :icon_tong

Mike DeLong, who was Deputy CINC during OIF, had an interesting response to this issue in the Early Bird yesterday: http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070427508926.html Essentially, he says that West Virginia politicians were the ones really pushing the "hero" aspect, which Army public affairs...

Provocative article in this month's Armed Forces Journal titled "A Failure in Generalship". http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2007/05/2635198 Essentially, the author (an active duty Army officer, and deputy commander of the 3rd ACR - i.e., no chairborne commando) calls the general officers...

Bring donuts. Lots of them. The good kind. I'm not kidding, either - we Reservists, as a rule, are serious about our donuts.... :)

What I thought was interesting was the utter and complete lack of Japanese general aviation as a factor when planning low-levels or operating in MOAs. In Japan in 2004, there were 700 GA aircraft; by comparison in the US, there are apparently ~220,000...

A close up on our way up to the Blue Route in Hokkaido in 2005; next to the low levels back in the Cascades, one of the best out there...

My favorite quote dealing with this and other issues from the test community down at Pax was a play on the EA-18Gs tagline "Two proven systems - One Flexible Design". "Two proven systems - one flexible design - plus a whole lotta other stuff."

As they bravely run away from leakers...? :)

Interestingly, there was a 2-star (!) in my class, (which made it very easy to determine who was the senior man in the life raft....) and he was expressing the same issues to the ASTC Director as I was picking up my NATOPS jacket. 10 words from a 2-star are worth 100 pages from the DIRCOM...

Just finished swim/phys refresher yesterday, and for the first time got to use the Airsave vest with the low-profile flotation collar (LPU-36). We've flown with the gear for over a year now, but this was the first time I was in the water with it. I used to think the SV-2, while not the...

Those nifty new E-boards do have a USB port, and those OIF missions are mighty long..... :) My personal contribution to in-flight entertainment was getting taking my PSP with me, and hooking up one of the Belkin FM transmitters to it; by draping the transmitter on the scanner, you can couple...

There's been porn on SIPR in the past, I can just about guarantee there's porn somewhere on SIPR today, and there will likely be porn on SIPR in the future. (The article in question dealt with Japanese networks, not necessarily SIPR, but the analogies are there.) It's not supposed to be...

I think we can all learn something from this... Japanese military leak due to porn Classified data on the US developed AEGIS radar system was compromised when Japanese officers swapped computer files containing pornography...

..with ejected brass. As a left handed shooter, firing any black rifle is something of a pain, since I'll occasionally take a casing in the cheek or eye. (Always a reason to wear safety glasses when shooting.) I saw an ad for these guys in the American Rifleman...

It's been 3 years and 49 weeks since I was last in swim/phys (I'm going again in 2 weeks...) but I seem to recall getting yelled at about valsalva on the ascent. Descent, absolutely, but not on the ascent - easy way to blow out your eardrums. My google-fu shows plenty of citations about...

Pugs: $20 inbound via Paypal... :) In all seriousness, though, we can all hypothesize any number of reasons why someone like George P might choose to pursue the route he has. Even if his motives were purely selfish and along the lines of "enhance future political viability", I can't say...

I drove over to Andrews AFB, raised my right hand, and presto! Instant naval officer. Look up "the easy way to a commission" in the dictionary, and there will be a hyperlink to the DIRCOM program. :icon_tong The DIRCOM intelligence program is really designed for three groups of people -...

You can also talk to reporters.... (from Sat's Early Bird: http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20070317497990.html) Text removed by mod due to copyrighted content

I thought he did an excellent job of articulating the rationalist (as opposed to wacko) arguments for disengaging on the ground in Iraq. He's obviously no dummy, and did a good job up against 2 of the bigger loudmouth chowderheads in American politics - Perle and Delay. I was impressed by what...

NAS Brunswick is indeed being BRAC'd, but they don't want to lose the East Coast SERE school capability / capacity. So the baseline plan is to move the SERE school facilities to Portsmouth (NH), and keep the existing facilities at the actual field location unchanged. Below is the extract from...

Easy there, stud - a$$ talking is a core competence in the intel world.... :icon_tong Without delving too deeply into the geekery here, there is great uncertainty in what the actual dose on a nominal 400 day Mars mission would be. That's because we don't have a lot of data on cosmic ray or...

For better or for worse, there's actually almost no contest among the people who do this for a living; robotic science missions are inifinitely preferable to manned missions by just about any metric usable. The only metric where manned spaceflight comes out ahead is in the intangible of...

Not one of the prouder moments in naval history - there were serious incidents on both the KITTY HAWK and CONSTELLATION back in 1972. "Immediately following air operations aboard the Kitty Hawk on the evening of October 12, 1972, a series of incidents broke out wherein group of blacks, armed...

I was out at the IEEE Aerospace Conference this week, and heard an interesting presentation from NASA on what they call the "Constellation Program", which is essentially the future of manned spaceflight. To say it was an "optimistic outlook" is probably being charitable. It was a neat set of...

It's called "linear vection" - see the section under "visual illusions" (http://www.brooksidepress.org/Products/OperationalMedicine/DATA/operationalmed/OperationalSettings/Naval%20Aviation%20Medicine/OperationalAerospacePhysiology.htm), or exercise your google-fu and go hog wild. This happens...

The parts issue is certainly a challenge, but there may be a considerable supply. Take the ~120 PAA we have today, and subtract the Marines's 20. That leaves essentially 100 complete parts lockers, available for raping at will. It would be an interesting study for the logistics guys to look...

That was part of the "outside the box" thinking I was mentioning - and also the part that was (IMHO) largely unworkable. I won't post the details here, since it was primarily RUMINT - the whole RAG question, though, is illustrative of just how hard it's going to be for the Marines to keep a...

Word on the street has it that it may now be something like 2019+. I think the reality of the whole situation is starting to strike home in the Corp (:icon_tong), and they are starting to consider some other options to try and stretch things out longer. Some of the ideas are "outside the box"...

Amaze your friends! Clear the ready room! The Best Bean Recipe ever! OK, this one is not for the faint of heart, but is easy to make, damn damn tasty, and makes plenty of leftovers. It's got good fiber and decent protein, too (but not exactly low fat). It was also the winning entry in...

I love to eat, and my wife doesn't like to cook, so that leaves the ball in my court. Also, like a dog, I continually worry about my next meal... Three suggestions for you: 1) "Cooks Illustrated" magazine: One of the best sources out there for bulletproof recipes. The M.O. of this...

Some clarification: The original poster asked about "Navy intel through the Reserves". It wasn't clear whether the OP was interested in officer or enlisted opportunities, so I covered the mail by addressing both. I am a SELRES intel officer, and have been a 1635 from Day 1 - if new active...

That's probably a bit of an overstatement, at least for now. The original poster's question was about 1635s (or Reserve IS's), not 1630/7s. There are bunches of active and FTS guys getting tagged for IAs, but the dragooning hasn't extended into involuntary SelRes IAs, at least not to any great...

The operative phrase in a lot of cases is what they call "staff like access". If they give you a logon to their local computer system, and you can come and go as you please, in many cases you either have to get a poly, or sign a statement that says you'll take one when asked. Different...

Howdy Pugs! Unfortunately, they don't mirror the two forums (SIPR & JWICS) because of classification issues. I checked on the high side today, and of course they don't have either of the documents that were on the SIPR side. Since none of the Intelink powers-that-be have descended on me...

In another thread, a comment was made "If we just had a SIPR Airwarriors..." Not a bad idea, since (for those with access) it can be a good clearinghouse of information "from the horse's mouth." Since SIPR already has a similar setup to this forum, I figured I'd give it a try. From the...

Yep, that's it. A lot like here, where people jump in with all sorts of feedback on any given topic. The "signal to noise ratio" can be a bit low sometimes, but at least you have the advantage there of people citing actual sources, rather than Youtube or "My best friend's sister's boyfriend's...

They already do, more or less - look on the right side of the page, about halfway down. "Analyst Forum". Wouldn't be hard at all to build a thread (or set of threads) relevant to some of the things discussed here; many arguments could be settled with real genuine factoids. Of course, there...

I liked to take an MRE with me on the longer OIF flights; I seemed to have a lot of luck getting ones that had M&Ms in them. I ORM'd the process, then ate them anyway. :icon_tong Never did use the heater to warm up my entree though....

Depends on who you know. Dave North, former editor of AW&ST as well as former Naval Aviator, got one of the first non-USAF rides back in 1995 when he wrote a pilot report for the magazine (David M. North, “Control System Key to B-2 Flight Qualities”, Av. Wk & Space Tech, April 17, 1995...

I can't find my picture of it, but the Mirage 2000 guys have a patch that says "Lock up a Mirage 2000-D - When Pigs Fly!" The French are no dummies when it comes to advanced weapons systems; their choices on who they sell these things to sometimes leaves something to be desired...

Patriot doctrine places a lot of trust in "HAL" - let the computer and the software decide. There's more to meets the eye in this particular situation, and this isn't the right forum to discuss too many details. I'll bet that as the lawsuit proceeds the FOIA requests will pull a lot of the...

Things must have changed quite a bit since I was in DCO school (and granted, that was 8 years ago now...). We didn't get yelled at - and I mean no one even so much as raised a voice. We were *lectured* at a couple of times, but neither the Senior Chief nor the DI assigned to our class ever...

Yeah, I was bummed I didn't get to go play reindeer games and add to my copious 3 trap total. On the flip side, my liver can't handle hanging with the young guns anymore; or, in the case of our squadron, the grizzled old alcoholics.... (Yours can't be too healthy either...) I'm not sure...

So it was thicker-than-usual rain? :icon_tong

Interesting factoid: The only reason they charge $12 at Udvar-Hazy is so people don't use it to park when they fly out of Dulles. Charging that much apparently caused quite a bit of internal debate among the NASM folks when the museum first opened, but in the end they all agreed it was the best...

Flash is either wise beyond his years, has a photographic memory, or studies Title X in his copious spare time.... TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES Subtitle A--General Military Law PART II--PERSONNEL CHAPTER 35--TEMPORARY...