Navy Dedicated SAR Squadrons

[Griz882]

Crews sleeping in tents is real vs hotels is causing friction.

I think this is why the Japanese won WWII…our poor guys were just smoked by the no hotel policy.



I have a feeling these gripes are more about airline job policies than “Iran is kicking our ass.”

 

[hscs]

FFS. I guess we hit delete on the ‘first OEF’ and OIF from our collective memory with people living in tents and CHUs and a volume of indirect fires that led us to modify a CIWS to shoot down that fire OR the length of the surge.

Maybe those things were filmed at the same sound stage at Vandenberg AFB where we faked the moon landing.

 

[robav8r]

Listen I know pilots love to complain. Plenty of hyperbole. Last weekend was a big drill weekend on both the Guard and Reserve side and I heard an earful. I don't pretend to understand all the context - but O-4's and O-5's walking and and quitting rather than deploying down range again is definitely a thing. Giving up a retirement grade. Also being deployed enough to cause strife with airline's mil leave policy. Or simply being burned out. And the danger at the multitude of exped air fields is also real. Crews sleeping in tents is real vs hotels is causing friction. Jets are being blown up in place in revetments via drones or hypersonic ordnance as well as the ongoing SAM threat. For Guard and Reserve folks I heard a lot of genuine "I did not sign up for this" - meaning - "call it a no shit war or send me home".

@ChuckMK23 YHGTBFSM. If what you are intimating above is anywhere close to reality, our country is fooked. JFC - take a breath . . . .

 

[Spekkio]

Listen I know pilots love to complain. Plenty of hyperbole. Last weekend was a big drill weekend on both the Guard and Reserve side and I heard an earful.

I wouldn't use reservists as a litmus test for active duty morale.

 

[ChuckMK23]

I wouldn't use reservists as a litmus test for active duty morale.

Agree completely.

 

[Randy Daytona]

The ranges in the Pacific are really going to challenge traditional rotary and even tilt-rotor assets.

I still hold to my opinion it will have to be some type of rescue drone and the downed aircrew will have to climb aboard themselves.

Looks like we have seen one possibility for rescue in the future:

This Is The Corsair Drone Boat That Plucked The Downed Apache Crew Out Of The Gulf Of Oman

The U.S. Navy's top drone task force in the Middle East only started operating the Corsair uncrewed surface vessels in March.

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