Post #15,506
10/28/01 5:02:54 PM
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Only US Company that is hiring a lot is the US Military?
It seems layoffs are in thousands per company, and companies get 30 IS Resumes a week or day. Is the US Military the only US Company/Org that is hiring people?
Should we serve for a term just to get the income coming in? Will we see military action, or go camping in the middle east until the Shrub decides to play "Whack-A-Mole" with Bin Laden? ;)
Picking up the pieces of my broken life.
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Post #15,513
10/28/01 7:20:14 PM
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are you under 18-34 in good health?
No criminal history and a high school grad? Would you like to travel the world and kill people while consorting with skanky hookers in B bars being spit upon by the regular folks? Try yer luck.
thanx,
bill
Will be hiring for my American Pushtun Tribe (after I get the contract) Free transport 60 day supply of grub and ammo 4wheeler with trailer and camping gear. Dof supplied if needed.
tshirt front "born to die before I get old"
thshirt back "fscked another one didnja?"
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Post #15,520
10/28/01 10:40:52 PM
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Age 33 but poor health
Maybe I can qualify for the National Guard and drink Coffe/Soda at a Garrison Patrol at a local building and also push papers there? ;)
No criminal history, I graduated High School in 1986, not sure about the killing part, I don't hang out with hookers, and I already got spit upon by my job.
Do I have to relocate to be part of your tribe? Or can I do it from the location I am at now and start a satelite office here in Missouri or something? ;)
Picking up the pieces of my broken life.
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Post #15,570
10/29/01 12:15:58 PM
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Thinking about the Air Farce...
...secretly, I have a hard-on for the A-10. Yeah, I know what the odds are, but still...
I'd make a horrible grunt. Nothing wrong with anything but my hearing - where I have absolutely zero direction sense. I'd probably be lookin' 360 trying to figure out where the !%!@# rounds are coming in from... Not so important in a plane, where you're going by vision, not directional sound cues. Unless they've updated the control scheme lately...
BTW, most likely will end up as support staff - as will anybody joining up. AFAIK, it takes 27-30 personnel to support one man in the field, moreso with the Air Farce. After I graduate, I'll try to get in with A-10 as primary, software development as secondary.
Any suggestions?
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #15,590
10/29/01 3:10:39 PM
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Re: Thinking about the Air Farce...
I don't think the Air Force flies the A-10 warthog. Isn't it a Marine or Army weapon? I'm thinking Army.
Besides, the AC-130 is replacing the A-10, IMHO, along with the Blackhawk helicopters.
The AC-130 has a 50mm "canon".
Glen Austin
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Post #15,592
10/29/01 3:21:51 PM
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A-10 is an Air force weapon.
Mainly because they don't want anybody infringing on their "fixed-wing" territory.
Leading up to the Persian Gulf Steamroller, the Air Force wanted to nix the A-10 - it wasn't sexy enough, and actually got too close to the idea of actually *GASP* supporting the Army, as opposed to just making sure that enemy planes couldn't do anything to them.
Then the PGSteamroller came along, and suddenly the A-10 was sexy - and the Army said, "Hey, if you don't want that, we'll take it!" Smelling a turf grab, the Air Force said they would keep the A-10 program.
I honestly don't know about the AC-130 replacing the Warthog - but if it does, I'll be sad. The Warthog just sounds like a great all-around plane...
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #15,714
10/30/01 11:01:50 AM
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But just barely.
Leading up to the Persian Gulf Steamroller, the Air Force wanted to nix the A-10 - it wasn't sexy enough, and actually got too close to the idea of actually *GASP* supporting the Army, as opposed to just making sure that enemy planes couldn't do anything to them.
Oh, it was the Army trying to kill it too.
How *dare* the air force kill tanks. THAT"S THEIR JOB.
They didn't like having to "call for support" (this does make some sense, from a standpoint of differing goals). The Air Force didn't want to be in the close Air Support role, they wanted the expensive, fancy stuff.
The Army didn't want them in the close Air Support Role, and they wanted the expensive, fancy helicopters.
Whole deal smelled incredibly like the German 88 of WWII....
I honestly don't know about the AC-130 replacing the Warthog - but if it does, I'll be sad. The Warthog just sounds like a great all-around plane...
First, its not a great "all-around" airplane. :) Technically speaking. Its really built for daylight operations. It suffers incredibly in bad weather - which is one of the Army's gripes. They were considering making new ones, a few years back, wth 2 people, and that would allow "all weather" operations, but see the above battle.. and nevermind. So they've stop-gapped some, giving the pilots night-vision goggles, etc. etc...
But the AC-130 won't replace the A-10, they've got horribly different missions. The AC-130 can only be used where Air Superiority has been established (it would be easy meat for a fighter), and not hard to kill with SAM or AA fire. the A-10 comes in barely over the trees, can dodge, and even fight back, to some extent .
Having said that, this is the same DoD that introduced the 5.56mm S109....................................................
Addison
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Post #15,788
10/30/01 5:52:20 PM
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AC-130 has a 105mm cannon...
...AND a 40mm cannon AND either 2x20mm gatling guns (older, H model) or 1x25mm gatling gun (newer, U model). And as long as the bad guys don't have too much in the way of antiaircraft, there's probably no better fixed-wing ground support aircraft in the world.
Brian Bronson
AC-130U flight test engineer in a previous life
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Post #15,790
10/30/01 6:14:39 PM
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That's a mighty big if there, buster... :-)
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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