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A lot of guys like the Meindls as well, bit of a hard sole but perfect for out in the GFs.

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This whole thing is "Bush League" (not a ref to the US President) Canada looks more like a third world country pulling this stunt, the only thing missing is Dion wearing DEUs with medals hanging off all over the place like some of the leaders in those countries. Its hard to believe that the new...

Good for the Griffon guys, its a good task. Wish maybe they went with a forward firing gun though instead of in the door. Maybe put rockets on the other side and they'd have something similiar to the Kiowa Warrior (which is arguably more feared in TFA by the bad guys than the 64s and Cobras) but...

I have a feeling there'll probably be more than a few Canadians in Afghanistan long past 2011. I see the BG coming out but almost every rotation I think the OMLT grows substantially, I wouldn't be suprised to see the strength of that organization around the 500+ mark come 2011 with a mandate for...

Aerospaced_Out Glad to see you can't actually back up what your saying, where exactly is this current thinking and doctrine coming from ? Just one reference will do.  If you can't see the relevance to my other questions let me refresh your memory all led to one conclusion" FAC/TACP is more...

Aerospaced_0ut That's a horrible comment. 3rd Horseman is talking from something that he knew 20 years ago and made a general comment, that's it and you haul out something like that, it was junk and I'm calling BS. Who was it exactly who did this supposed "tremendous" study ? How many AF JTACs...

Absolutely has to be its own trade or at least sole purpose on a TF. To think that the one person who arguably controls the most firepower on the battlefield should have more than  one job other than controlling sense/strike assets(which includes integration, coordination, total and clear...

Heres a news flash for those questioning the use of a donkey, it works. Just about every FOB, SP and PSS has a pet as well and the boys need the morale more then they need to be lectured on "regs".

Hey I'm going to weigh in here real quick, I think that maybe theres a misconception that the feeds from the pod go to a satellite and then down to the Receiver............not true.........works off of sometimes a pre-set freq or in a lot of the a/c the pilot can "switch" freqs as well as go...

Spitty First of all I'm not sure of your background at all or anything but you do have a pretty good imagination and a better grasp on the working of the ROVER than you actually think you do,lol, it does indeed use the Toughbook, theres a little more to it than you describe but you're in the...

Spitty I'm not shooting down your ideas but theres a few more factors at play in CAS then just shooting up the bad guys. As was noted earlier what is this plane going to have for "play time" ?, how is it going to guide PGMs or drop JDAMs ? (that laser you talked about is an actual IR pointer...

Admittingly I haven't taken the time to read this entire thread but I'm not so sure we need a new a/c, Hornets just need a new pod ie. what we were in the process of getting, the SNIPER pod I believe. Our pilots are still CAS capable but their hands are a little tied trying to look through that...

Lone Wolf I think you might be a little off with no Chinooks being downed, I didn't read the links Roy posted but I remember at least 2 from Anaconda being downed, 1 from Op REDWING and a couple others as well, I'm not entirely sure that the MH versions fly with escorts either. Anyhow my 2 cents.

Arty Tps move by themselves all the time, they are quite capable of defending themselves. If other 'assets' are around then they may be cut to the Tp/Bty for Force Protection but is surely not the norm, especially now.

Mortarman I agree whole heartily with your comment, there is a misconception in a lot of circles with "dismounted" and "light". I personally believe they are two very different skill sets and are either all Light or all Mech, when you start crossing over, theres going to be things that slip...

Wow Wound a little tight tonight hey guys, no worries, wasn't trying to have anybody get their back up, just helping Cathy out..... who cares if my profile isn't filled out, common sense is still common sense.

Dudes You may be going a little overboard on this, I totally understand OPSEC but were talking about the job of a Sup Tech at CSOR, assuming that Cathy isn't going to an Assaulter, I imagine ,Cathy, that its just like anywhere else Sup Techs are. You may be exposed to some kit that isn't...

Good read, I would just caution that maybe the A-10 wasn't read into all the SA, unless they are doing AI, they usually have someone on the ground helping them out.

I would think that the success rate or lack thereof is probably more due to the fact that almost all the candidates are either AF/Navy. You can say what you want about guys coming out of the Army maybe with some bad habits developed already but at least most of them are solid on the basics. I...