Time for an armed escort

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/confessions-of-a-usaf-kc-135-flying-gas-station-boom-op-1578048155

Is there a point to this?

 

[deltex1]

OP --

EXACTLY what do YOU believe should be done?

EXACTLY.

Please be precise.

Do I have to spell it out more clearly doooofus? Armed escort. Warn Russians...anymore stupid tricks...you die. Simple enough?

So where are you going to find fighters with long enough legs to stay airborne as long as an RC-135?

We have this newfangled device called a refueling airplane. A flying gas station.

You obviously do not understand the complexities of keeping fighter aircraft airborne for extended periods of time at extended distances from bases. The RC-135 practically is a flying gas can so it can loiter for reconnaissance, which is something fighters do not have the capability to do. Adding air-to-air refueling tankers in the mix makes it completely unworkable.

What the fuck is the purpose of air to air refueling if you can't use it to protect your resources, admiral?

 

[deltex1]

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/confessions-of-a-usaf-kc-135-flying-gas-station-boom-op-1578048155

Is there a point to this?

Check the top of your head.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

OP --

EXACTLY what do YOU believe should be done?

EXACTLY.

Please be precise.

Do I have to spell it out more clearly doooofus? Armed escort. Warn Russians...anymore stupid tricks...you die. Simple enough?

So where are you going to find fighters with long enough legs to stay airborne as long as an RC-135?

We have this newfangled device called a refueling airplane. A flying gas station.

You obviously do not understand the complexities of keeping fighter aircraft airborne for extended periods of time at extended distances from bases. The RC-135 practically is a flying gas can so it can loiter for reconnaissance, which is something fighters do not have the capability to do. Adding air-to-air refueling tankers in the mix makes it completely unworkable.

You're talking to a Retired Lt Col USAF, dipwad.

Dipwad? My specialty in my early Navy career was anti-air warfare. He is oversimplifying. If he really wanted to impress me, he should have joined the military instead of the Chair Force.

BTW, according to his own statements, he spent his entire career underground as a missile officer. That's being a groundhog.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/confessions-of-a-usaf-kc-135-flying-gas-station-boom-op-1578048155

Is there a point to this?

Check the top of your head.

If you had any clue as to what you were talking about, it would be humorous, but it is not. It's really pathetic.

 

[deltex1]

Too hard to do, says the admiral...no wonder we've lost every war since ww2.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Do I have to spell it out more clearly doooofus? Armed escort. Warn Russians...anymore stupid tricks...you die. Simple enough?

So where are you going to find fighters with long enough legs to stay airborne as long as an RC-135?

We have this newfangled device called a refueling airplane. A flying gas station.

You obviously do not understand the complexities of keeping fighter aircraft airborne for extended periods of time at extended distances from bases. The RC-135 practically is a flying gas can so it can loiter for reconnaissance, which is something fighters do not have the capability to do. Adding air-to-air refueling tankers in the mix makes it completely unworkable.

You're talking to a Retired Lt Col USAF, dipwad.

Dipwad? My specialty in my early Navy career was anti-air warfare. He is oversimplifying. If he really wanted to impress me, he should have joined the military instead of the Chair Force.

BTW, according to his own statements, he spent his entire career underground as a missile officer. That's being a groundhog.

Give it a rest already, he's forgot more about warfare than you ever learned...and cease trying to impress everyone with your "vast" knowledge in virtually every subject known to man. I sit and laugh at you

 

[deltex1]

Do I have to spell it out more clearly doooofus? Armed escort. Warn Russians...anymore stupid tricks...you die. Simple enough?

So where are you going to find fighters with long enough legs to stay airborne as long as an RC-135?

We have this newfangled device called a refueling airplane. A flying gas station.

You obviously do not understand the complexities of keeping fighter aircraft airborne for extended periods of time at extended distances from bases. The RC-135 practically is a flying gas can so it can loiter for reconnaissance, which is something fighters do not have the capability to do. Adding air-to-air refueling tankers in the mix makes it completely unworkable.

You're talking to a Retired Lt Col USAF, dipwad.

Dipwad? My specialty in my early Navy career was anti-air warfare. He is oversimplifying. If he really wanted to impress me, he should have joined the military instead of the Chair Force.

BTW, according to his own statements, he spent his entire career underground as a missile officer. That's being a groundhog.

The admiral shined the decks on the supply ship. The glare made them invisible to nazi attackers.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

So where are you going to find fighters with long enough legs to stay airborne as long as an RC-135?

We have this newfangled device called a refueling airplane. A flying gas station.

You obviously do not understand the complexities of keeping fighter aircraft airborne for extended periods of time at extended distances from bases. The RC-135 practically is a flying gas can so it can loiter for reconnaissance, which is something fighters do not have the capability to do. Adding air-to-air refueling tankers in the mix makes it completely unworkable.

You're talking to a Retired Lt Col USAF, dipwad.

Dipwad? My specialty in my early Navy career was anti-air warfare. He is oversimplifying. If he really wanted to impress me, he should have joined the military instead of the Chair Force.

BTW, according to his own statements, he spent his entire career underground as a missile officer. That's being a groundhog.

The admiral shined the decks on the supply ship. The glare made them invisible to nazi attackers.

That dope was never an admiral...bank it

 

[bodecea]

Too hard to do, says the admiral...no wonder we've lost every war since ww2.

Well, there's that defeatist attitude we've learned to expect from the Air Farce.

 

[bodecea]

We have this newfangled device called a refueling airplane. A flying gas station.

You obviously do not understand the complexities of keeping fighter aircraft airborne for extended periods of time at extended distances from bases. The RC-135 practically is a flying gas can so it can loiter for reconnaissance, which is something fighters do not have the capability to do. Adding air-to-air refueling tankers in the mix makes it completely unworkable.

You're talking to a Retired Lt Col USAF, dipwad.

Dipwad? My specialty in my early Navy career was anti-air warfare. He is oversimplifying. If he really wanted to impress me, he should have joined the military instead of the Chair Force.

BTW, according to his own statements, he spent his entire career underground as a missile officer. That's being a groundhog.

The admiral shined the decks on the supply ship. The glare made them invisible to nazi attackers.

That dope was never an admiral...bank it

And you served when? And gained your military experience how? Date some female sailors or airmen on the down low?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Too hard to do, says the admiral...no wonder we've lost every war since ww2.

No. Not hard. Stupid!

I was on the bridge of my guided missile cruiser just south of Crete when a Greek fighter jet passed over us at about 100 feet about the time that I was getting the first report of a fast low-flyer from the combat information center. He was well past us when the sound finally reached us. Did we create an international incident over us getting caught with our pants down? No! We were in international waters and everybody does this all of the time.

Our military leaders today must obviously wear Depends under their uniforms because they seem to shit themselves at Obama's behest over incidents that we would not have batted an eyelash over years ago.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

We have this newfangled device called a refueling airplane. A flying gas station.

You obviously do not understand the complexities of keeping fighter aircraft airborne for extended periods of time at extended distances from bases. The RC-135 practically is a flying gas can so it can loiter for reconnaissance, which is something fighters do not have the capability to do. Adding air-to-air refueling tankers in the mix makes it completely unworkable.

You're talking to a Retired Lt Col USAF, dipwad.

Dipwad? My specialty in my early Navy career was anti-air warfare. He is oversimplifying. If he really wanted to impress me, he should have joined the military instead of the Chair Force.

BTW, according to his own statements, he spent his entire career underground as a missile officer. That's being a groundhog.

The admiral shined the decks on the supply ship. The glare made them invisible to nazi attackers.

That dope was never an admiral...bank it

I was a hell of a lot closer to that than you!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

So where are you going to find fighters with long enough legs to stay airborne as long as an RC-135?

We have this newfangled device called a refueling airplane. A flying gas station.

You obviously do not understand the complexities of keeping fighter aircraft airborne for extended periods of time at extended distances from bases. The RC-135 practically is a flying gas can so it can loiter for reconnaissance, which is something fighters do not have the capability to do. Adding air-to-air refueling tankers in the mix makes it completely unworkable.

You're talking to a Retired Lt Col USAF, dipwad.

Dipwad? My specialty in my early Navy career was anti-air warfare. He is oversimplifying. If he really wanted to impress me, he should have joined the military instead of the Chair Force.

BTW, according to his own statements, he spent his entire career underground as a missile officer. That's being a groundhog.

The admiral shined the decks on the supply ship. The glare made them invisible to nazi attackers.

Two guided missile cruisers and an amphibious assault carrier is my resume. Yours?

 

[JakeStarkey]

OP --

EXACTLY what do YOU believe should be done?

EXACTLY.

Please be precise.

Do I have to spell it out more clearly doooofus? Armed escort. Warn Russians...anymore stupid tricks...you die. Simple enough?

So where are you going to find fighters with long enough legs to stay airborne as long as an RC-135?

We have this newfangled device called a refueling airplane. A flying gas station.

You obviously do not understand the complexities of keeping fighter aircraft airborne for extended periods of time at extended distances from bases. The RC-135 practically is a flying gas can so it can loiter for reconnaissance, which is something fighters do not have the capability to do. Adding air-to-air refueling tankers in the mix makes it completely unworkable.

You're talking to a Retired Lt Col USAF, dipwad.

She has also briefed the Joint Chiefs of Staff, been a doctoral student in economics, and warned about the perils of losing RouteIrish. She is a gem to the universe as well as this Board.

 

[JakeStarkey]

But, bodecea, the AF mess halls were awesome. The bagged lunches they made for us on the run from Elmendorf to the lower 48 were worth the flight.

 

[my2¢]

I still prefer my initial concept of hitting them with paintballs. I imagine it would also be quite helpful in terms of recruitment.

 

[william the wie]

Having served on a sweep, MSO 443 Fidelity, at the tail end of Nam, draft number 348, my big concern was not the Russians but how much of the outer hull would end up in the wake when we went out.