Apparently it's community and squadron dependent. We have way too many pilots, not enough aircraft, and the ones we have are broken. MULTIPLE months <10hrs, and sometimes I've gone a week or multiple weeks without breaking deck.
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Sequestration Impact on the Navy
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Apparently it's community and squadron dependent. We have way too many pilots, not enough aircraft, and the ones we have are broken. MULTIPLE months <10hrs, and sometimes I've gone a week or multiple weeks without breaking deck.
Yes however the definition of "defense" and what gets thrown into that budget that shouldn't be there is amazing.
Like what? Not arguing, just curious what it is you are talking about specifically.
^^Absolutely right! And we like other squadrons have had dets and missions removed from our hands while kicking and screaming. The NAAD was a BIG mission and with that gone we (but even moreso with 21) have to justify why the hell we EXIST, not to mention being one of the largest helo squadrons. Things don't look good with huge numbers and diminishing missions and needs.
This is why tactics, esp. SUW, are the future of HSC. Anyone can sling loads or carry pax.
This is an interesting breakdown - http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...0oGwBw&usg=AFQjCNGzUw0o1vOSPK-pdwiaYPC7bus4Ng Alas it doesn't include real details of the "Defense Related Activities" that much of this falls under. As an example, the FBI gets $4.6 Billion of the DoD budget every year.
It's simply not easy to think about the defense budget and relate it to what we see in the fleet and I'm certainly not saying that the "Defense Related Activities" money is not well spent but it's a significant chunk of money that, just like core DoD, needs to get looked at. My role these days is deeply buried in the MIP budget and I know there's lots of efficiencies to be gained there.
One of the core problems is the budget is decided not by the people best positioned to determine what affects national security but by the people in the legislature who determine it by what it takes to get the voters to relect them.
MasterBates
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So you guys have just now caught up to HSL circa 1997. And still don't have torps.
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And with tactics there is a need for tactics instructors
Do you know any patch-wearing Tactics Instructors?
Cool, but you're coming across as contributing nothing but potshots at high level theater/strategic decisions with the benefit of hindsight. How do you propose we do it better?
And I would bet history bears out we can ramp up training faster than some of the specialized defense industries. China still doesn't build its own high performance jet engines. If you want to burn down the industrial expertise, you better be ready to get out of that game for good.
Let's not forget to account for the stewardship role the government provides to maintain the potential capacity of the military-industrial complex. This is done deliberately to preserve more ship-building facilities, aircraft production and other technologies at a level greater than the current demand so that it's there if we need it. There are a lot of perceived inefficiencies in the system and buying of things we may not necessarily need, that are done in the name of industrial infrastructure and capacity maintenance.
Wow, it's sounding like everyone is becoming HS.... to bad that community was sacrificed to the HSL/HC gods....