In the last month or so, I have read that fighter pilot readiness has been affected by a reduction in flight hours in recent times. Just anecdotally, but it seems like they are working hard to polish the rust off of skills. In the winter, we are under the edge of a military training area, and the fighter jet training activity seems to have dramatically increased in the last few days.
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Yeah. It’s been busy up there.
Working diligently to enlarge my group size.
Interesting. Driving home over the GG Bridge the other day I was surprised to see a couple of fighters hauling ass westward out over the ocean. Assuming they came from Travis. Unusual, because the military presence in the Bay Area is a shadow of its former self. We generally only see fighters during Fleet Week.Originally Posted by GJM
In the last month or so, I have read that fighter pilot readiness has been affected by a reduction in flight hours in recent times. Just anecdotally, but it seems like they are working hard to polish the rust off of skills. In the winter, we are under the edge of a military training area, and the fighter jet training activity seems to have dramatically increased in the last few days.
While not everyone is getting 'busy' in that way - it's very safe to say that the leadership of every element in a US military uniform is talking to their formations about world events right now.
I sincerely hope that things calm down substantially in the coming weeks.
But I hope that our senior leadership has heard the wake-up call and realized that we are not at peace, and therefore we should not be prioritizing endeavors that are best left to peacetime. We need broken in boots, zeroed and cleaned rifles, a commo fill, and packed rucksacks.
Everything else should be strongly and emphatically secondary to those requirements. Too many of those secondary/tertiary/sounds-good-to-politicians sorts of things have been taking primary priority in training schedules, budgets, and leadership requirements. I hope we see the end of that very soon.
Anecdotally, the good news I've observed is those of us ready to get on a plane tomorrow to go kick in Russian teeth tend to be EXACTLY the ones you'd want with you and leading you.
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Not that I'm advocating, but every time I hear a politician state we can't risk a NFZ over Ukraine because it might lead to WW III, I question their grasp on reality.
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Nothing is simple. This does a good job of looking at the costs of doing that. Are we ready to pay the price?
https://warontherocks.com/2022/03/th...e-no-fly-zone/
Of that I have no doubt! I tell friends who get all Chicken Little and send me vids of Russian mil recruiting vids with their underwear models and I'm pleeeez, how many warfighter type folk do you know? I'm rubbing their noses in those model's vids this week.
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Well around here many people are still spending a lot of time complaining about too many military aircraft flying around, making too much noise.
Good read, appreciate the link.
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I'm about 15 air miles from NAS Whidbey Island. All of the Navy tactical electronic attack squadrons flying the EA-18G Growlers are there if they aren't at sea. They do carrier qualifications and training there. Flight ops up until about two weeks ago were 2 days a week in good weather. Now the flight ops are everyday in all types of weather, sometimes late in the evening after dark. It's damn noisy around here.
Clearly, things are starting to spool up on the home front.
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