Isn’t it odd the USAF is still flying the B-52? Upgraded and so forth many many times, the pilots today are at the least the grandchildren of the pilots who started flying the BUFF in the 1950’s. Of course the USAF has modern bombers which oddly they find that they can integrate with the missions of the B-52. Maybe, just maybe the AV8B could carry on a while longer, and further this whole mess just proves how wrong (completely wrong) FD2030 is and was, oh damn sorry General Smith, it’s just Force Design now. When you’re wrong and have a new lousy product you often try rebranding it. Ask Coke A Cola how that works out. One wonders where the millions of cases of New Coke are stashed.
The US has deployed one or two aircraft carriers with all of the service members, aircraft, ammunition and logistics required and the Houthis are deploying drones and missiles. The imbalance is embarrassing. This Iran proxy is causing the US to continue to deplete munitions and put a strain on ships, planes and people. Our country does not have a stockpile of weapons as we once did now that the US is supplying Israel and Ukraine. I don't know the number of ships in the Navy inventory but I am sure it is not enough to cover the increasing needs around the globe. It seems to me the "bad guys" in the world have figured out a cheap way to degrade the overall readiness of the American military. In my opinion, the administration needs to take more aggressive, more decisive action which will stop draining our military resources. We need to show we want to win.
War story time. I was a member of VMA-311 in late 69 and early 70 as part MAG-12 located at Chu Lai Air Base.
We were instructed that should a USAF controller ever have the audacity to ask what a Tomcat was, we were to respond,^Sir, a Tomcat is a member of the famous day-night, all weather, light bomb bardment, strikers for freedom squadron, VMA-311, flying the versatile, single seat, single engine A-4E Skyhawk that is flown by individuals who do everthing by themselves very well.^
VMA-311, better than ever, deployed today on the Bataan with 26 MEU out on the frontiers of democracy remains among our nation^s finest. Semper Fi
Isn’t it odd the USAF is still flying the B-52? Upgraded and so forth many many times, the pilots today are at the least the grandchildren of the pilots who started flying the BUFF in the 1950’s. Of course the USAF has modern bombers which oddly they find that they can integrate with the missions of the B-52. Maybe, just maybe the AV8B could carry on a while longer, and further this whole mess just proves how wrong (completely wrong) FD2030 is and was, oh damn sorry General Smith, it’s just Force Design now. When you’re wrong and have a new lousy product you often try rebranding it. Ask Coke A Cola how that works out. One wonders where the millions of cases of New Coke are stashed.
Sadly, the Corps is divesting of aircraft not keeping them. They have even reduced their numbers of F-35’s .
The US has deployed one or two aircraft carriers with all of the service members, aircraft, ammunition and logistics required and the Houthis are deploying drones and missiles. The imbalance is embarrassing. This Iran proxy is causing the US to continue to deplete munitions and put a strain on ships, planes and people. Our country does not have a stockpile of weapons as we once did now that the US is supplying Israel and Ukraine. I don't know the number of ships in the Navy inventory but I am sure it is not enough to cover the increasing needs around the globe. It seems to me the "bad guys" in the world have figured out a cheap way to degrade the overall readiness of the American military. In my opinion, the administration needs to take more aggressive, more decisive action which will stop draining our military resources. We need to show we want to win.
War story time. I was a member of VMA-311 in late 69 and early 70 as part MAG-12 located at Chu Lai Air Base.
We were instructed that should a USAF controller ever have the audacity to ask what a Tomcat was, we were to respond,^Sir, a Tomcat is a member of the famous day-night, all weather, light bomb bardment, strikers for freedom squadron, VMA-311, flying the versatile, single seat, single engine A-4E Skyhawk that is flown by individuals who do everthing by themselves very well.^
VMA-311, better than ever, deployed today on the Bataan with 26 MEU out on the frontiers of democracy remains among our nation^s finest. Semper Fi
Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.
HOORAH!!!