Comments on: Project Valour-IT: Calling Out The Junior Service http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/11/12/project-valour-it-calling-out-the-junior-service Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and serendipitous items as strike me at the moment... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:52:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Valour-IT Naval Aviation History Factoid: 16 November | Steeljaw Scribe http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/11/12/project-valour-it-calling-out-the-junior-service/comment-page-1#comment-3114 Valour-IT Naval Aviation History Factoid: 16 November | Steeljaw Scribe Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:17:53 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/?p=1695#comment-3114 [...] of the competition to provide an educational experience for the others - specifically team Chair Air Force   Said service will provide a nugget of naval and/or naval aviation history for the day in [...] [...] of the competition to provide an educational experience for the others – specifically team Chair Air Force   Said service will provide a nugget of naval and/or naval aviation history for the day in [...]

]]> By: Mike http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/11/12/project-valour-it-calling-out-the-junior-service/comment-page-1#comment-3105 Mike Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:49:02 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/?p=1695#comment-3105 Currently semi-incommunicado while working on an 8 page paper due tomorrow and a Wing/CC packet due Fri, but will try to get a coherent response up this weekend. The (alleged) pic of the Raptor brings up an amusing discussion I had a few years ago with a rather less educated fellow cadet whose dream was to fly the F-22...and fight in a dogfight. When I heard him utter such heresy, I immediately launched into a tirade of supercruise, BVR Slammer shots, and how with off boresight heaters and HMS, everyone dies in a WVR furball. You could see his dream breaking apart as I ranted. Of course, you could easily make the case why all of what I said is wrong (ref. the debrief video you put up last week or the RAND study) but it was worth it just to see the look on his face. As for the JSF...I already have a headache from this damn paper, I don't need another one. How many missiles does it carry again? Does that include the gun it may or may not have on board? Ugh... Currently semi-incommunicado while working on an 8 page paper due tomorrow and a Wing/CC packet due Fri, but will try to get a coherent response up this weekend.

The (alleged) pic of the Raptor brings up an amusing discussion I had a few years ago with a rather less educated fellow cadet whose dream was to fly the F-22…and fight in a dogfight. When I heard him utter such heresy, I immediately launched into a tirade of supercruise, BVR Slammer shots, and how with off boresight heaters and HMS, everyone dies in a WVR furball. You could see his dream breaking apart as I ranted. Of course, you could easily make the case why all of what I said is wrong (ref. the debrief video you put up last week or the RAND study) but it was worth it just to see the look on his face.

As for the JSF…I already have a headache from this d*** paper, I don’t need another one. How many missiles does it carry again? Does that include the gun it may or may not have on board? Ugh…

]]> By: Steeljawscribe http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/11/12/project-valour-it-calling-out-the-junior-service/comment-page-1#comment-3092 Steeljawscribe Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:50:15 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/?p=1695#comment-3092 Hey Buck: Yea - caught me by surprise too - I was doing my morning pull of blogs when I found the announcement over at Maggie's site and shifted into gear after that. The team sign up age is <a href="http://soldiersangels.org/index.php?page=join-air-force-team" rel="nofollow">here for Team Air Force</a>. - SJS Hey Buck:

Yea – caught me by surprise too – I was doing my morning pull of blogs when I found the announcement over at Maggie’s site and shifted into gear after that. The team sign up age is here for Team Air Force.
- SJS

]]> By: Buck http://steeljawscribe.com/2008/11/12/project-valour-it-calling-out-the-junior-service/comment-page-1#comment-3091 Buck Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:26:27 +0000 http://steeljawscribe.com/?p=1695#comment-3091 I'm kinda non-plussed in the Valour-IT space. For the last two years running I've had advance notification of the fund drive and this year... nothing. I also checked my favorite <a href="http://soldiersangelsny.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Soldiers' Angels blog</a> yesterday and today and found... nothing. Is SA running a stealth campaign this year? I'm all up for for your challenge, SJS... even though I don't "do" Flightdeck Fridays or anything remotely like it. I suppose I could post a pic of me kissing a Navy icon or something similar (DON'T get carried away in this space, tho!). :wink: I’m kinda non-plussed in the Valour-IT space. For the last two years running I’ve had advance notification of the fund drive and this year… nothing. I also checked my favorite Soldiers’ Angels blog yesterday and today and found… nothing. Is SA running a stealth campaign this year?

I’m all up for for your challenge, SJS… even though I don’t “do” Flightdeck Fridays or anything remotely like it. I suppose I could post a pic of me kissing a Navy icon or something similar (DON’T get carried away in this space, tho!). :wink:

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