If you add a capability, the dudes in the hot seat will explore said capability to the utmost, our lives may end up depending on it. To expect anything different beyond silly.
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USN may add conformal fuel tanks to F/A-18E/F fleet
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Harrier Dude
Living the dream
They should probably concentrate on their assigned mission, as painful and tedious as it may be (not having done it).
Especially if getting way outside of their swim lane is damaging their equipment.
Brett, if there was one thing you should have learned from your time in Newport is "never say never" (especially when gov't spending is involved)
MasterBates
Well-Known Member
You're not a FAG Scoob, you're a Queer. Get your insults straight.
I was totally on board until you added this caveat. I was even ready to start calling the detailer, negotiating how many IAs I'd need to do to get those orders.
Now, I think it's a terrible idea. And I hate you.
And with that attitude, why wouldn't they want you?
Indeed. I am pretty damn awesome...just ask me.
MasterBates
Well-Known Member
I was going strictly off the time to train to get it fielded. Any tailhook guy is just going to have to do the RAG.. A P-3 guy would have to do what me and Scoober did (plus I had to do VT-31 as well). Doable, but not so much for a dissasoch.
Because nothing has gone horribly wrong if VAQ guys are going to the merge . . .
Something has gone terribly wrong if any airwing is ever doing anything that remotely resembles Air Wing Fallon without any outside assistance, or if anybody ever does a section self-escort strike, or if F/A-18s are ever really the last and only line of defense on a DCA, but we keep doing all of it.
I agree that the idea of a Growler BFM syllabus is a little puzzling (and the idea of a Growler offensive BFM flight is downright comical), but still...a lot of the training we do is based on horrifically unrealistic scenarios.
BFM, I can see. I mean if all else goes to shit, I want my pilot and I to at least have the wherewithal to prolong things and scream "defensive" long enough for my HVAAP to have the max amount of time to do his/her thing. Every little bit counts if it's my ass on the line. And then I'd come back and murder my HVAAP and my SEAD controller. 
But offensive BFM? Seriously? YHGTBFSM. Dawgfan??
But offensive BFM? Seriously? YHGTBFSM. Dawgfan??
Growlers carry AMRAAM right? And they have no gun. Can they or do they carry AIM-9's? What kind of BFM do they practice? Sorry if that's a stupid question.
Whitingorbust
New Member
I'm currently in the Growler RAG and we basically get 5 dedicated BFM flights: offense, defense, high aspect, DACT and a 2v1. The gouge we have been getting is that is all we can expect till we return back to the RAG as instructors, but I'll let the fleet guys confirm if that's true or not.
Growlers cannot carry AIM-9s due to the ALQ-218 ES Pods on the wingtips.
That is bad gouge.
If there's one thing I learned from my time at Newport is that a lot of people have hare-brained ideas. Some of them get studied as serious options... some of them get traction. My gut tells me that this one won't.