On the 18th of April in seventy-five Hardly a Man is Now Alive Who Remembers that famous date and year Of the Mid-night Ride of Paul Revere Stray Voltage Over at Defense News retired Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Loh argues for the elimination of duplication as a means of achieving true service interdependence. What he really means is Army, Navy, and USMC give up you aircraft the USAF will take care of you. I know what that means, just like the Army gave up the C27 to the USAF only to see them cancel it [...]
Air Power Does Not Win Wars; But Neither Does Land Power!
While reading an article on Air Force Uniforms over at Battlelands; the article referred me to the letters section at Air Force Magazine who had the usual tirade against the very formal uniform being worn by the Air Force Chief Staff in theBattlelands post. Some are pretty classic, and I can see that within the Air Farce, I mean Force there are a fair share of Army despisers. Given my contempt for the Air Force I guess it is turn about fair play that the Air Force have individuals who have contempt for the Air Force—of course I don’t see [...]
BOHICA Army Courtesy of the USAF
The United States Army is really taking it in the shorts courtesy of the USAF. It would appear that the USAF is going to renege on it promise to provide the C27 as a replacement for the C23 Sherpa, as it announced it would retire the C27 currently in the inventory even though these aircraft are less than 5 years old. It also announced that it would retire 102 of it 380 or so A10 Warthogs. Both aircraft primary mission is to support the Ground Forces. In particular the A10 reduction is just part of the USAF long term distain [...]
