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Trouble at the Air Force Academy

Stearmann4

Stearmann4

I'm here for the Jeeehawd!
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Old R.O. said:
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The fellow in the middle of the sea of blue made the mistake of shooting off him mouth, and paid the price. You don't boast that you're going to be the first man on Mars and that the Academy will be a stepping stone to that goal without suffering the consequences.
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I'm fairly certain he learned that false motivation during his last CAP summer encampment...

MR-
 
Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester

Robot Pimp
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Catmando said:
...The 11 Days of Christmas; Marshall Michel (a well researched, balanced, and great read.)
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Just got it from Amazon and started reading on your rec. Good read so far, esp re: the AF politics driving tactics. The more things change...

Noteworthy so far: When the BUFF's began hitting NV targets in 1971, 8th AF recommended a series of shallow 15-deg turns off-target, instead of the SAC-mandated sharp 45-degree "post-nuke" turn. Reason being, the 45-deg turn would mask the B-52's ESM antennae and increase vulnerability to the SA-2. But admitting that SAC was wrong would mean they could be wrong about other things, tres horror! So, SAC insisted that the 45-degree turn worked fine, since they didn't lose any planes on the early missions. Come Linebacker II...
 
HeyJoe

HeyJoe

Fly Navy! ...or USMC
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Uncle Fester said:
Just got it from Amazon and started reading on your rec. Good read so far, esp re: the AF politics driving tactics. The more things change...

Noteworthy so far: When the BUFF's began hitting NV targets in 1971, 8th AF recommended a series of shallow 15-deg turns off-target, instead of the SAC-mandated sharp 45-degree "post-nuke" turn. Reason being, the 45-deg turn would mask the B-52's ESM antennae and increase vulnerability to the SA-2. But admitting that SAC was wrong would mean they could be wrong about other things, tres horror! So, SAC insisted that the 45-degree turn worked fine, since they didn't lose any planes on the early missions. Come Linebacker II...
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Even worse, the mission routes, tactics, everything was being planned and dictated from SAC HQ in Omaha. The Wing commander in Thailand proposed a mod to tactics and got sat on hard. They also had same 3 day turnaround do-loop/lag in their ATO cycle that hampered Desert Storm Ops. meanwhile, the North Vietnamese were modifying their tactics daily and went to school on the Buff tactics and eventually cracked the countermeasure vulnerability. Same type stuff resulted in loss of F-117 over Kosovo.
 
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