Posted on Apr 16, 2023
The Air Force plans to eliminate nearly half of the jobs in the tactical air control party |...
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Not a smart move IMO.
The Air Force plans to eliminate nearly half of the jobs in the tactical air control party |...
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TAC Fire Operations Specialist
TAC Fire Operations Specialist
Posted 1 y ago
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Translation: AF is going to focus more on air to air and surface to air. F the ground troops.
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Being retired AF Sir, any plans on what the AF plans are for ground air support? First they push hard to get rid of the A10 and now this. I cannot believe our AF would grossly abandon the ground troops as it would appear.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
The stated AF position is that the F-35 can assume the CAS role. You and I know that's bogus but with shrinking budgets and both fighter and bomber buys pending the AF is never going to champion development of a new CAS platform. Technically the AF has never developed a CAS aircraft; the A-10 was developed as a Soviet tank killer that could also take out the mobile SAMs that traveled with their armor units. The fall of the Soviet Union left the A-10 with no mission but fortunately some forward thinkers in both the Army and AF conceived the CAS mission they now have.
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The Army should have invested in Army Aviation Close Air Support back in 1947 like the USMC did. CAS only matters to the Army.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
A lot of truth there. The pendulum is starting to swing away from jointness again so we might just see that.
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1SG Russell S.
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - the A10 would be one of the logical choices for Army Fixed Wing Aviation. The Air Force does not want it and the Army needs it.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
1SG Russell S. But I'm not sure the Army is prepared to maintain, let alone fly it.
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1SG Russell S.
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - yea I doubt it too. Might be a good chance for the flight line guys to stay MOSQ by transferring to the Army to maintain them at the same rank
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