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Attached below is the INSURV Quick Look report for the KENNEDY at the time of the incident in question; I'm not practiced enough in the reading of these things to look for any nuances (subtle or otherwise), but it is pretty damning.

Although we're right to be jealous of the availability of miscellaneous crap to our AF brethren, they were just using Google Earth. (See attached.) I am jealous of their big color plotter, though - imagine the gigantic kneeboard cards you could print with one of those! :icon_smil

My best guess is that this is a reflection of some long-simmering "penis envy" (so to speak...) from within the 1630 community. Keep in mind, though, that just because the DNI wants it doesn't mean it's going to happen - these things still need to filter through the bureaucracy. I'm betting...

From an email that went out across the Navy intel community this week; I just wish I could see all the submissions....: Subject: INTEL qualification Pin All, The DNI is in the genesis of moving the "PQP" program to a PQS program in order to facilitate one of the requirements for an...

He's clearing his action because the "slinky" is the freakin' magazine spring(!); I think he's having some feed issues.... :icon_smil

What's the big deal here? Klaxon goes off, you wake up, rub the sleep out of your eyes, authenticate your message, turn your key, go back to sleep / await imminent destruction. Piece-o-cake.

Did it look like this?

Bottom line? We suck. Our acquisition process is as broke as broke can be. (To use poor grammar and risk the attack of the AW Grammar Nazis...) The Air Force may be bad in the acquisition department, but honestly, we're worse. Airplanes, ships, subs - doesn't matter. Kelly Johnson...

A couple of weeks ago, I went to the premier at the National Press Club here in DC. (It pays to know people...). It was very interesting to hear David Simon (the producer, same guy who did The Wire) talk about the making of the show, as well as to hear from Evan Wright (the author). I've...

Ebay - no shit. You can find all kinds of stuff on there, including swords. I too am appalled at how much uniforms are costing these days - had to buy my first set of khakis in 7 years since, strangely, the ones I have seem to have shrunk...

Looks like the Iranians nuclear work is paying off in unexpected ways...

We got issued some of the DRIFIRE t-shirts. As far as wicking goes, better than cotton, not as good as the true polypro. Since they were free (my favorite price!), I wore them as a base layer while in Afghanistan this past winter. They are kind of on the thin side, though. You're right...

Furlongs per fortnight have yet to fail me...

Dumb question, and yes I did try searching.... How do you post pictures so that you don't have to click on them as attachments? I thought I was smart enough to figure this out on my own, but I must have had nibbled a few too many lead paint chips.

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Boeing Tanker Protest: Reading the Entrails... OK, so it was a crappy night of television, even with 141 channels. So I say "Why not read the GAO decision upholding Boeing's protest of the tanker award?" Since I too have reached the end of the Interweb and was bored, I said why not? Ahh...

I figured that you did - otherwise you probably wouldn't have been invited back! :)

Probably be a nicety if you let folks know you're going to use the flash - otherwise unexpected really bright bursts of light inside the aircraft might cause, uh, concern....

They sell them at the gedunk inside the TOPGUN building at Fallon. (Or they did when I got mine there....)

This about sums it up.

Sorry to be a c@ck-tease, dude... Update: I placed a "Comment & Discussion" Word doc in each folder. I also changed the permissions on the folder, so now anyone should be able to upload anything they find. I *think* people should be able to modify and then re-upload the "Comment &...

Took slightly longer than I thought, but it's done - there are now Airwarriors shared folders on both JWICS and SIPR. Background: Enough interesting threads pop up on this site that would be useful to continue in a more secure environment, but OPSEC obviously precludes that option. It would...

Good piece in then LA Times today about CURVEBALL, the Iraqi defector who's reporting on alleged Iraqi biological warfare programs was cited extensively as a key element of the case for war. HUMINT is great when it's factual and accurate, not so much otherwise - the real trick is telling the...

Hey, I loved that book! When I went on my first deployment with -209 back in 2000, it was my sole source of info on Prowler ops. It's amazing how many times I've crossed paths with guys from -136 in that timeframe - Arnie, Camper, Kwyjibo... Good dudes.

Hey! Was I just insulted...or complimented? Or both? Flash is right, though - Big Navy's outlook on advanced degrees tends to be "Right, you've got a Masters, shows at least some level of intelligence and stick-tuitiveness, ok, +1 to you at promotion board time, on to the next...

EG&G is the contractor [for JANET]. Check here: http://www.simplyhired.com/job-id/f2d6gd3ewv/first-officer-jobs/

You can change the ranks/positions to suit your own organization.... How shit happens In the Beginning was the plan. And then came the assumptions. And the assumptions were without form. And the plan was completely without substance. And the darkness was upon the face of the...

He's a good dude - level-headed, and calls'em like he sees'em. Wish there were more like him around. (One of his deputies is a DIRCOM intel bubba who was in instructor at NSAWC with me and did a tour with HCS-4 in Iraq. Also a good dude.)

He had excellent taste in menswear, too - that's one bitchin' sportcoat! :)

People who scream for more HUMINT, as a rule, tend not to have actually worked with HUMINT. HUMINT is messy, hard, ambiguous, misleading, contradictory, and often wrong. Sometimes it is pure gold. Of course, people want the latter, not the former; the real trick is telling the good stuff from...

Threadjack: If you are familiar with the new Inteldocs feature on JWICS and SIPR, then starting next Thur look up "Airwarriors" in the alpha look up and you'll find a folder there - I'll place things that I come across that I think would be of interest to this crowd. (For instance, yesterday...

Easy there, dog - the final death knell hasn't been struck yet. There are a lot of machinations going on behind the scenes. The Magic Eight-Ball still says "Future uncertain - check again later!" U-2 interservice transfer pilots may still have a future beyond the Prowler... :)

Interesting link here: http://www.medalofhonor.com/RecommendationProcess.htm Apparently, the only place Congress would play a role is if it was outside the 2-year limit. (This is an Army-specific example, but I would imagine the other Services would follow a parallel staffing path.) The...

Slight thread divergence: My favorite signage in all the military can be found over the door when entering the USAF Urinalysis Lab in San Antonio: "We Don't Take Any Shit" I guess it helps to have a sense of humor if your job is to look at urine 40 hrs/week....

Although a founding precept of this forum is that "there will be no math", I couldn't resist the urge. The following chart shows "Deaths per MoH"; kind of macabre, but is a great example of what the underlying numbers can tell us about now vs then. Although definitely more stingy than Viet...

If you have SIPR access, go to the Navy Operations Center page and dial up the OPREP/SITREP archive for yesterday for more details. Other than that, specific details of this incident should be left undiscussed for now.

Executive Order 12333 says we're not. Cross this one at your own peril. http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RS21037.pdf

Nope, she's just one of our miscellaneous O-5 Special Project Officers. We've got O-5s out the ying-yang; for a while there, the entire squadron JOPA consisted of me and another guy... :)

The billets that support this mission area are almost always associated with NCIS units. "FCI" = foreign counter-intelligence, so an FCI agent is just that; before you get too excited and order your Walther PPK and martini shaker, though, remember that as a Reservist you generally aren't out...

We'll have a jet on static display there - buy our Darth Vader crap, help reduce my mess bill!

On the boat, they compress/melt the plastic into manhole cover-sized hockey pucks that weigh about 40 pounds. They sink like stones. Back in the mid/late 90s they were still tossing them overboard (once in international waters); any change to that policy has been in the last 10 years or so.

No. Uncle Sugar pays for your travel expenses and per diem. When you get done, you file a travel claim that includes expenses, including things like mileage to the airport from your home, parking, taxis, etc. Knock on wood, but the Navy has always been quick to close out my travel claims -...

Anyone know the origin of this term? Always struck me as an odd thing to call it.

That's also why when there is a casualty from a base in Afghanistan and Iraq they almost always freeze the phones and NIPR - they don't want anyone jumping the gun and getting word to the family before the CACO gets there. I'm sure the midshipman in question didn't know any better, but they are...

Surprisingly not, at least not at the lower tiers in an organization: http://freakonomicsbook.com/thebook/ch3.html Leavitt aptly named that chapter "Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Mothers?"

I'm also surprised that no one has raised the issue of "Hey, aren't we spending an awful lot of our available time transiting to and from the Boat, rather than being on station?" Given that in the timeframe of the filming the fight was in the Baghdad-Fallujah-Ramadi corridor, and that it took...

I had a Garmin Etrex Vista that I would carry in the breast pocket of my flight suit, under all the other gear. My rationale was that I could lose things that were in the vest pockets (even if they were tied in), but things that were under all my gear would tend to stay with me longest. The...

As the Air Farce was quick to remind us, it's pronounced "Muh-rohn".... This has become a major stop on TRANSLANTs heading towards CENTCOM; not a bad deal, either, since Seville is only about 30 mins away. Not a bad place to visit when you're on Uncle Sugar's nickel... (From the interesting...