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Originally Posted by Tedminator
Or better yet the USAF can bring back it's own Warrant Officer grade. The career path for rankn'file Airmen is too restricted as it stands..
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In WWII, the Army Air Force used Enlisted as Pilots and air crew in many birds. Chuck Yeager was an enlisted pilot.
I'm not opposed to forming an enlisted specialty as UAV drivers, they did the same thing for Satellite operators moving from Officers to enlisted...it worked out well.
Developing training techniques will take time, because what is in place now is geared towards college level engineering backgrounds. I hate to use the word "dumb down" but in some ways that is exactly what they may have to do.
I'm in agreement, that there is no reason why an enlisted can't learn to pilot a UAV.
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Originally Posted by Tedminator
Bottomline is the USAF has been slow to adapt to the needs of Dubya's GWOT. UAV's do not need pilots who can handle massive G loading and trained for years to the tune of about a million dollars and retained at primium MOS.
A 19year old who grew up on with Playstation, drilled on how to avoid hitting the ground and supervised to blow the crap outta anything the grunts don't like, will do.
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Exactly, a 19 y/o is used to killing pixelated characters in a video game...the Predators use real missiles...real people die. That is my point. The ROE in modern urban based combat is not a free-for-all, collateral damage must be considered; this is why an Officer is in the loop.
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Originally Posted by Tedminator
USAirForce brass primadonnas aren't helping.
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You seem to have a problem with the Officer Corps. and not the actual topic at hand, crewing UAV's.