Jeremiah Weed

I think the F-4 is the best choice, it was really the first multi-role jet fighter. UH-1 BIG Choice as well, it changed the way we move troops around the battlefield, maid COIN operations and medivac operations so much easier. AWACS - pretty much has changed A2A combat completely The First Jets - pretty much speaks for it's self. Tankers - Pretty big deal, how many missions would not happen if not for air refueling? F-117 Actually this is iffy in my opinion. As of now. Right now non-stealth a/c are still being designed and produced and operated. War hasn't changed yet because of stealth a/c. Eventually I think it will, but it is going to take a long time. UAV - Unmanned A/C finding targets and striking targets. This is a pretty big deal, but as with stealth, it hasn't truly reached its potential as of yet, but I think it will have a bigger and quicker effect on warfare than stealth a/c. Jamming A/C -While important, they didn't change the face of warfare as much as they were created as a necessity to something not airborne that actually did change the face of air warfare, the radar and the SAM. I see their importance going away with an aging fleet of EA-6s as the only dedicated jamming A/C in all of the US Armed forces with no replacement on the horizon.(that i know of) As much as I love the BUFF, I really don't think it "changed the face" of air warfare. It had a lot of innovations that made is do a mission that had been done for quite some time better than anyone else. Other than launching cruise missiles it really hasn't done anything different than earlier bombers did just done it better. And the innovation cruise missiles brought was more of the missile not the platform. Harrier - Has this aircraft really "changed the face" of air warfare? If it truly had there would be far more aircraft designed since it with VTOL capabilities. I'm sure some people will disagree with me, but these are just my opinions. I think there is a difference between an a/c having a new innovation and completely changing the face of fighting.

Well that might have been a bit overdone, but we all know a bunch of Air Force brats could easily get all of the intel needed, manipulate flying schedules, gain access to the flight line with out line badges (during the Cold War) and help plan an intricate military operation. This is completely true. How do you think I took my date to the 1995 Minot High School Prom in a B-52H?

Come on that film is completely realistic. All control towers explode in to huge fireballs when hit with 15-20 rounds of cannon fire.

In the M1 tank, we spliced a headphones jack into the "line in" slots of the intercom system and would rock out in the field. This is pretty much common practice on all tanks. Radio traffic is still easily heard, and you can still here the crew talking over the intercom, and when you go to transmit, the "line in" cuts out.

Stealing IV's from Combat Lifesaver Bags and administering them to myself or having my roommate stick me worked when I was in the military. (Don't do this while drunk or you/your buddy WILL miss the vein more than once and you will look like a junkie.) One bag was usually good, sometime two just in case. Of course you remember to dispose of the needle and catheter properly (in the dumpster outside the barracks) and remember to order more IV supplies before you go on a deployment. Now I just don't drink, and it works very well.

I did "Air Traffic Control without a tower" for a few years. I probably enjoyed my job 40% of the time, it was stressful, demanding, and unforgiving. But it had to be. It is a lot of work and I almost washed out of training on more than one occasion. It is not for everyone and if I didn't get hurt on a deployment I would have opted to get out anyways, or tried to change to a TAC-P guy. Those are AF guys that are always with the Army doing targeting stuff and are still pretty physically active or what have you. Before I was in the Air Force, I was in the Army for 1 enlistment. If you really want to fly, and don't mind rotor-winged A/C Army Aviation is relatively easy to get into, however my biggest fear in the military was flying in a helicopter.

Yeah, the Honest John had a minimum range of 3 and a half miles and a maximum range of like 15 or something like that, and carried the W7 variable yield warhead (up to 20 KT I think) and later the W31 (up to 40 KT) I'm not an expert by any means, and I know 20-40 KT isn't that high of a yield, but I really don't want to be only 15 miles (at the maximum) away from any nuclear detonation. EVER. It could also deliver chemical cluster sub munitions or a conventional HE warhead.

I haven't picked up a weapon since I left the military in 2005, and don't plan to ever again in my life. I'm sure those "CA Legal" laws have really cut down on the number of illegal shootings in the state though.

Well I haven't had actual Strike Fighters installed since about 2003, so I am not sure then.

I really don't understand what you are trying to say, but if you click on a shortcut, or on the .exe file in the "SFGTest" directory the "SFG Test" install will run without any information from any other installs. You can name the directory anything you wish as long as you don't start renaming subfolders in the direcory like "flight" "menu" "objects" etc.

When the install program asks what directory to install the program in, name it something else like "SFGTest" or something along those lines. It is really that simple.

Tannethal, This is great, thank you. I think you forgot to add this, (I had to make this change as well in my install anyways) To get rid of the green filter It took me a couple minutes to figure that out.

Yeah but it is hard to go to your local mall while deployed. And even harder to see women when your unit is not allowed to have women in it, so after a few months they start looking like super models..

When the Bones from Ellsworth were initially deploying to Diego Garcia for OEF, they were trying to keep their deployment secret, however its not the 300 news vans outside the gate didn't know what was going on when 12 B-1s took off in the middle of the night one right after another. Rapid City woke up that night. They were fully loaded and my dad was standing on the flight line. One A/C dropped a flare somehow and my dad and everyone around him thought they had lost a bird with a bomb bay full of bombs. But they quickly realized what happened. Pretty sure one got shot up pretty bad in Allied Force but the crew did an awesome job and came back safe and got DFC's. I might be wrong on that though, I'll have to ask my dad, but he was still on Buffs at that point. Pretty sure I saw some Bones on their way in to fire their first shots in anger in '98 while I was sitting in the desert mad that I was supposed to be back in Fort Stewart but got extended. I did for sure see B-52s fire ALCMs though, that was pretty cool, 3 ship formations with anti-collision lights on, would be over head then you would see bright orange lights below them and that would be it.

Operation Desert Fox, December 1998: Killing Fedaheen before killing Fedaheen was cool.

But not by much...

I was at Loring from 88-93, after standing down from the nuclear mission, but gaining the Harpoon and the North Atlantic anti-ship mission. From 88-91 I lived on Loring AFB on Loring Drive pretty much right by the main gate. In 91 moved to the base housing that existed in Presque Isle from when Presque Isle Air Force Base was there. PI was much nicer than Limestone or Caribou, but still not too great. There was no lobster man when I was there, but tons of people selling potatoes in the fall. I haven't been back since I left. Don't care to either. Side note, BUFF crews flew missions mostly in and maintainers maintained A/C from Castle AFB in ODS. The actual A/C from Loring flew from England and Spain with crews/maintainers from other bases. I never understood that.

When Loring closed I moved to Minot. I'm not sure which place was better (worse.) Both were better than Ellsworth though.

I don't care either way and will be happy with anything (forgive me if this has been brought up) but will be there be "early" IE: Pre START Treaty external weapons but no conventional capability. And "Late" No more external weapons but the capability to drop non nuclear weapons. Also around 91-92 I had this shirt while living at Loring AFB

So it will have Barksdale AFB, LA, bases in the UK (RAF Fairfield?) and Spain (Rota?) though. Just kidding, sounds good though.

I grew up on SAC/ACC bomber bases, more often than not near the approach, at Loring the housing wasn't near the flight line thankfully, but Minot and Ellsworth were a bit different. It gets pretty old when 3 ships of B-52s are doing touch and goes all night, or when there is a nuclear mission generation execrsise and the entire 23rd Bomb Squadron is sitting on the flight line with live AGM-129s and your friends from school you have to work on a project with aren't allowed on base (circa 1993.) The arguments I had when I was about 9 with kids who's dad's job was to fire Minuteman missiles about who's dad could kill more Russinas were pretty entertaining looking back.

I started flying an OTC campaign flying a Scooter, my first mission was to destroy an MRBM Launcher, I fly to the target, order my flight to attack ground targets and start a rocket attack on my target. Out of nowhere, one of the members of my flight streaks into my line of fire from left to right and a rocket hits him center mass and he explodes into a fireball. It took a minute to sink in that that had actually happened. That is a one in a million event I think. Has anyone else had something like this occur?

I always sort of wondered this myself. I mean the KC-10 also carries the hose system the Navy and Marines uses so on the same mission it can refuel USAF, USN, and USMC A/C. They were doing the KC-135R upgrades at the time of manufacture of the KC-10. Perhaps it was meant to be a gradual replacement, but the end of the Cold War kind of made people making the defense budget lose their heads, perhaps acquisition of more A/C was scrapped. I don't know, but this is a good question.

While the move certainly doesn't help the need for new tankers, it makes political sense. If it is awarded to Boeing, US tax dollars will be funding US made aircraft and putting money back into a weakened American economy instead of US tax dollars paying for aircraft assembled in Europe by Europeans putting money into the European economy. Also civilian technicians and support contractors are more likely to be American adding even more jobs to America. I'm not totally sure on this, but hasn't Airbus been having troubles completing orders in the amount of time they were contracted for or something along those lines? I am not sure If I read this or dreamed it up. Also I believe that Northrup-Grumman was basically only on the project thinly in a political move to put an American name with the EADS/Airbus guys. I think in the long run it will be better for the United States as a whole to have the aircraft built in the USA, while maybe not the best move for the military immediately, the United States will benefit more overall.

As soon as I saw this thread I knew Dos Gringos would be in it... I like "Going In For Guns" better So many great lyrics in that one. BVR is great but now it's time to have some fun So Darkstar: Judy, Judy I'm going in for guns And only a big p*y would use his two FOX 1's It's time to get medieval I'm going in for guns