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You're on a routine flying mission over the wash. You've done it a million times before at least two or three a week. The difference this time is you'll be put to the test. The aircraft is going down; within seconds you have to draw on all your training. As you make an emergency jump out of your aircraft all noise must be silenced and only one thing takes over your thoughts - survival. Once in the water panic grips you. You furiously try to tear the soaking parachute from your face. You identify the problem and use your training to get you out of harm's way - follow the seam. You've just punched out of your aircraft. Now you need to kick it into survival mode. Sounds dramatic but that's exactly the scenario Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape specialists train pilots and aircrew of the 100th Air Refueling Wing. 352nd Special Operations Group. 48th Fighter Wing and 56th Rescue Squadron for every day. An average class is 20 students. Six SERE specialists train them together to provide an opportunity to share information and learn from each other's personal experiences. Everyone benefits. Their mission is to better equip aircrew and high-risk-of-capture personnel with the tools necessary to survive under any conditions. So what does SERE really mean and what's it like to be a SERE specialist? Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape - that's the core of what their training instills in a two-part technical school. During an indoctrination phase at Medina Annex. Lackland Air Force Base. Texas candidates' abilities to join the SERE team are assessed. Once they've made the cut formal training begins at Fairchild Air Force Base. Wash. After successfully completing the training. Airmen join the ranks of about 300 SERE specialists in the Air Force. "The career field is in need of some good recruits," said Tech. Sgt. Robert Graham. NCOIC 100th ARW SERE Training. "We need motivated people that want to make a difference and save lives." During field training at Fairchild trainees acquire knowledge of combat and non-combat situations while learning survival skills. Mock prisoner of war camps test their ability to use what has been learned. They then experience how to live off the land and procure food and water. In combat exercises recruits learn how to evade to properly apply camouflage paint to their faces bodies and ruck sacks to move from point A to point B without being captured and to make contact with indigenous personnel. This all serves as preparation for the next phase - resistance training. By graduation new SERE specialists are expected to have baseline knowledge and skills to evade the enemy promote and aid in their own recovery effort and to resist the enemy if needed. In a very realistic setting. SERE specialists are given the opportunity to learn from their mistakes so they don't have to in a real-world situation. Here at RAFs Mildenhall and Lakenheath. SERE specialists provide Code of Conduct Continuation training. Its purpose is just what the name implies to bring information already learned to the forefront. It assesses how much Airmen have retained since formal training. It also provides an opportunity to give updated guidance with changing times. During the water survival training held at Lowestoft College. Maritime and Offshore Facilities students are hit with 5-foot waves pounding rain and brutal winds - all while soaking in valuable information crucial to keeping them alive. So how can you tell a SERE Specialist from any other war fighter? "We're the guys out there wearing the pewter green berets and we're proud of what we do," said Sergeant Graham. "We're there for the war fighter who may be in harm's way. We're going to equip them with the biggest weapon of all and that's knowledge - knowledge on how to get out of that situation."

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You're on a routine flying mission over the wash. You've done it a million times before at least two or three a week. The difference this time is you'll be put to the test. The aircraft is going down; within seconds you have to draw on all your training. As you make an emergency jump out of your aircraft all noise must be silenced and only one thing takes over your thoughts - survival. Once in the water panic grips you. You furiously try to tear the soaking parachute from your face. You identify the problem and use your training to get you out of harm's way - follow the seam. You've just punched out of your aircraft. Now you need to kick it into survival mode. Sounds dramatic but that's exactly the scenario Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape specialists train pilots and aircrew of the 100th Air Refueling Wing. 352nd Special Operations Group. 48th Fighter Wing and 56th Rescue Squadron for every day. An average class is 20 students. Six SERE specialists train them together to provide an opportunity to share information and learn from each other's personal experiences. Everyone benefits. Their mission is to better equip aircrew and high-risk-of-capture personnel with the tools necessary to survive under any conditions. So what does SERE really mean and what's it like to be a SERE specialist? Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape - that's the core of what their training instills in a two-part technical school. During an indoctrination phase at Medina Annex. Lackland Air Force Base. Texas candidates' abilities to join the SERE team are assessed. Once they've made the cut formal training begins at Fairchild Air Force Base. Wash. After successfully completing the training. Airmen join the ranks of about 300 SERE specialists in the Air Force. "The career field is in need of some good recruits," said Tech. Sgt. Robert Graham. NCOIC 100th ARW SERE Training. "We need motivated people that want to make a difference and save lives." During field training at Fairchild trainees acquire knowledge of combat and non-combat situations while learning survival skills. Mock prisoner of war camps test their ability to use what has been learned. They then experience how to live off the land and procure food and water. In combat exercises recruits learn how to evade to properly apply camouflage paint to their faces bodies and ruck sacks to move from point A to point B without being captured and to make contact with indigenous personnel. This all serves as preparation for the next phase - resistance training. By graduation new SERE specialists are expected to have baseline knowledge and skills to evade the enemy promote and aid in their own recovery effort and to resist the enemy if needed. In a very realistic setting. SERE specialists are given the opportunity to learn from their mistakes so they don't have to in a real-world situation. Here at RAFs Mildenhall and Lakenheath. SERE specialists provide Code of Conduct Continuation training. Its purpose is just what the name implies to bring information already learned to the forefront. It assesses how much Airmen have retained since formal training. It also provides an opportunity to give updated guidance with changing times. During the water survival training held at Lowestoft College. Maritime and Offshore Facilities students are hit with 5-foot waves pounding rain and brutal winds - all while soaking in valuable information crucial to keeping them alive. So how can you tell a SERE Specialist from any other war fighter? "We're the guys out there wearing the pewter green berets and we're proud of what we do," said Sergeant Graham. "We're there for the war fighter who may be in harm's way. We're going to equip them with the biggest weapon of all and that's knowledge - knowledge on how to get out of that situation."

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Tagged Me:Four jobs I've had:1. Maid in a Hotel2. Working abstain Food at both McDonalds in my hometown (Libby. MT) and Arctic Circle in Rexburg. ID3. I worked in the Commisary Bakery one Summer in between my first 2 years of College. It was where my parents moved to outside of Spokane. WA at Fairchild Air Force locate.4. Washington Water Power (Administrative Assistant) and Farm Credit BankFour movies I can check over and over:1. I do not watch any movies over and over2. Because I seldom watch movies.3. I did check alter Dancing over and over when I was younger4 and also Can't Buy Me like. Four places I have lived:1. Montana2. Idaho3. Utah4. ArizonaFour favorite TV shows:1. Oprah2. Today Show3. American Idol (some seasons)4. (I don't watch much TV just catch these here and there.)Four places I've been:1. To see the California Redwoods and cover our arms around the humongous trees with my family.2. The Ocean in Oregon in the wind with the waves in sub beachy temperatures but it was a great time with my growing family!3. Minot North Dakota - yeah what is there? My Brother and his family when he were in the Air compel.4. Banff Alberta. Canada - move of a Family Vacation as a child. Four favorite foods:1. Pizza2. Cafe Rio Enchilada3. Tacos4. Cinnamon RollsFour websites I tour daily:1. My 2 emails2. My communicate most days3. Other blogs4. Random places depends on what I'm trying to sight (ie) today it will be a chocolate colored skirtFour places I'd rather be:1. Broadway - I like watching plays and beat of all hearing the great Broadway Music!2. Europe - Never been.3. Washington DC - I've never been and I be to see the sites!4. Disneyland - never been and be to experience with my kids one of these years. I be to tag: and.

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by Staff Sgt. Connie L. prejudice 92nd Air Refueling go Public Affairs 9/4/2007 - FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE locate. Wash. (AFPN) -- Members of the Fairchild Air compel locate medical group saved more than $75,000 in emergency room tour costs over the past year through a just-do-it initiative a program associated with Air compel Smart Operations for the 21st century. Through patient education and training the 92nd Medical Group cater is making great strides toward more efficiency with less dollars. The secret? Teaching the locate populace the difference between emergency care and urgent care. "There are two types of compassionate a patient can undergo outside the clinic: Emergency care for the really serious problems and urgent compassionate for things that are less acute," said retired Lt. Col. Ronald Martin the 92nd Medical assort AFSO 21 representative. "We ask people to go to (an) urgent care (clinic) for those less acute problems because the price is about one sixth the cost of an emergency room visit." The be of a tour to an ER for a diaper rash or minor cut can run up to $600 but an urgent care clinic can take care of similar problems for an add up be of $80 to $100. For those medical issues that leave you wondering which clinic is most appropriate the medical assort has an on-call provider to back up at any time. "The provider is available 24-7 and we'd desire populate to call in if they're not sure how serious the medical problem is," Colonel Martin said. If a person has a adjust emergency. "By all means don't waste your time calling. label 911 and get to an emergency room. But for those less acute issues the provider will communicate to the patient and determine what level of compassionate is allot and direct the caller to the nearest center." The previsit screening process has played a major part in lowering costs for the medical group. While the number of off-base medical facility visits may be the same every tour to an urgent care clinic versus the ER saves money. The number of people redirected to an urgent compassionate clinic by on-call providers is high. In June 2006. Fairchild AFB's beneficiary population visited the ER 320 times whereas in the same month this year only 160 people checked into the ER. That's a 50 percent visit reduction paired with a 44 percent be cut. This is just the type of hard-hitting immediate prove that the just-do-it program emphasizes said account Long. Fairchild AFB's AFSO 21 consultant. The just-do-it initiative is one of two AFSO21 programs used by the medical assort. The other the Rapid Improvement Event is a more formalized process designed to alter broad-scope processes and strategies. The medical assort staff is currently working an RIE concentrating on some upcoming service transitions from public health to primary care managers but just-do-it allows a much faster response and result times. Mr. Long said."With just-do-it a group identifies a problem or issue assembles a small team creates an action plan to alter the affect and just gets it done," Mr. Long said. "That mobilizes the medical group into a continuous improvement mode where they're always striving for exceed things by just implementing improvements that come up versus waiting and prioritizing and analyzing." That's because the just-do-it program basically puts a new name to what the medical field has always done -- quality improvement he said."Health compassionate civilian inspection teams demand performance improvement so we've been doing it all along," Colonel Martin said. "I think that's one thing the medical assort has going for it; we're never allowed to stop quality improvement so it just keeps going." The group's list of recent improvements reads like the index of a success journal -- cut profiles extending past one year by 66 percent cut medical evaluation board processing times by almost 50 percent increased Tricare online registered users by 43 percent. Successes desire more urgent care clinic use wouldn't come about without patient cooperation. Colonel Martin said. "It's really a partnership with the patients and it's a win-win situation," he said. "The patient wins because they're not sitting in the emergency dwell for hours with a minor problem and we win because we save dollars and can be better stewards of the taxpayers' money."

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The Senate Appropriations Committee is leaning toward keeping four rescue helicopters at Fairchild Air Force locate.  The committee passed the 2008 Defense Appropriations account with a lie that says the panel “encourages” the Air Force to act the four helicopters and the 30 populate who fly and service them at the base where they are assigned to the The helicopters with the 36th bring through Flight undergo been used to perform hundreds of civilian rescues throughout the Northwest. News early this year that the Air compel was thinking of reassigning them to other bases prompted concern among local law enforcement officials and heavy lobbying by the region’s congressional delegation to act them at Fairchild.   The account doesn’t set aside the $3.9 million which the Air compel says the 36th Rescue Flight costs at Fairchild.  There was no specific be in the defense calculate because Air Force officials told the committee that they could move the money from elsewhere in their budget which totals about $110 billion.  The accommodate has previously passed legislation with language directing the helicopters remain at Fairchild. The Senate ordain vote on its defense spending bill in the coming weeks.  The Senate’s $459 billion defense spending bill covers military salaries new planes ammunition research and more.  It proposes some $50 million in spending for defense research in including about $3 million for programs connected to XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <label> <em> <i> <touch> <strong>

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(cn ) The primary built-in weapon of the A-10 is the 30 mm GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling gun. One of the most powerful aircraft cannons ever flown it fires large depleted uranium armor-piercing shells at a evaluate of about 3,900 rounds per minute (50 rounds per second during the first second. 70 rounds per back up thereafter). The gun is so accurate that it is capable of placing 80\% of its shots within a 20-foot wide circle from a distance of 1 mile while the aircraft is in pip. Perhaps because of the colors this picture appears as an unreally soft smooth view of THE serial tank killer ! Impossible to believe the eyes... That's so good... 5 stars. Photo Copyright © Robert Domandl. Airliners net is not affiliated with any entity mentioned or pictured herein. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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America's Victory '08 is an organization dedicated to bringing Conservatism back to power in 2008 after years of liberal and moderate leadership. This entry was posted on Sunday. September 2nd. 2007 at 23:57and is filed under. You can follow any responses to this entry through the cater. You can or from your own site. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> © 2006-2007. All Rights Reserved. America’s Victory 08 is proudly powered by and. » US Air Force may extend Fairchild A-10 life beyond 2028

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The US Air Force may seek to bear and continuously upgrade its Fairchild A-10 fleet far beyond its currently planned retirement date of 2028. "There are bigger numbers throwing around that are much [later] than that," Air Combat Command chief of requirements Lt Col Ralph Hansen told Flight International on 21 August. Armed with a nose-mounted 30mm hit the A-10 was first deployed in 1976 to undo enemy tanks but its mission has been expanded since the end of the Cold War to also consider close air support duties and co-operating with special forces for contend examine and bring through purposes. The create by mental act has in the past faced sceptics within the air force's leadership with then-Maj Gen David Deptula reportedly having asked a grade to compose a memorandum justifying the retirement of the A-10 fleet in April 2003 with the invasion of Iraq still in progress. This effort was dropped after a highly publicised come about and in 2004 the function announced a new intend to re-engine the A-10 fleet and upgrade the aircraft to use precision-guided weapons. The so-called "Super Hog" intend fell apart a year later when the air force killed funds for the re-engining plan but a displace precision engagement create by mental act was awarded to Lockheed Martin to grade all 356 A-10s with digital weapon stores multifunction displays the situational awareness datalink and cause to be perceived weapons such as Boeing's GBU-38 JDAM. The first redesignated A-10Cs ordain make their contend innovate in September following a crash effort to deepen the precision engagement programme by 18 months. The air force also plans to regenerate the thin-skin wings on about 250 A-10s with a more robust wing structure and awarded a $2 billion contract to Boeing in July to end the modifications. A wide range of additional upgrades may also still be in hold on for the A-10 ranging from new networks additional weapons and reviving the engine grade proposal. Roger Il Grande. Lockheed's precision engagement programme manager believes integrating new networks tops the priorities list with the Link 16 and Tactical Targeting Networking Technology considered candidates. The create by mental act also is reviewing options for installing the Lockheed AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missile says Hansen. The air force has meanwhile proposed reviving production of Raytheon's laser-guided AGM-65E Maverick missile as A-10 squadrons undergo been forced to change the missiles from the US Navy for operational needs. Hansen says the Air contend Command ordain also consider inserting funds for the command Electric TF-34 engine grade kit in the next five-year spending plan starting in fiscal year 2010. The A-10 Thunderbolt II a k a the Warthog. The A-10 was supposed to be replaced by the F-16 then by the F-35. This plane cannot be replaced by a abstain jet and deserves to have the same 100 year life that the B-52 seems destined to be. The AF has been trying to blackball the A10 since the day it was borne. Personally I think we ought to buy about 2000 more of them and just kind of act 'em in storage. They've flown into raging firestorms of opposition but always alter it back. Very few change state air support aircraft can boast that no aircraft undergo ever been lost to enemy fire. There are some photos on the internet somewhere of one that was flown domiciliate with no tail and one engine by a guurrl no less. There is not a more survivable more efficient store Killer in the world. And as far as ground support goes it gets there faster than helicopters and stays there longer. What could be better? I propose that a follow on to the A-10 be developed and that the Marines. Army and Navy acquire the craft with the Navy version being capable of carrier operations. Lacking a go on craft the current planes can be dispersed between the Marines and the Navy with modification made to the Navy planes to alter those A-10s capable of carrier operations. It create by mental act a new plane with the survivability of the A-10 add some more electronics for better targetting (maybe some way of just pointing at targets on the screen and having the plane automatically fling and yaw to hit them instead of requiring the control to inform the cut manually) and increase the speed. Unfornately the Air compel only likes fighting from the wild blue yonder instead of getting alter the Army isn't allowed to fly them and the Marines be to only get left overs. posted on 08/29/2007 8:25:03 AM PDT by (May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski go up again to argue Europe.) It design a new plane with the survivability of the A-10. Hmm while you are at it furnish it a guy-in-back to run the cause to be perceived munitions put a retractable arrange gun turret on the underside somewhere like the one on the Apache. Throw in provisions for a big*** generator for an eventual laser turret or other directed energy system. Oh and enough com gear to enjoin a squad of little UCAVS to go it around and help breathe out up anything it finds. I remember geting close air support in Vietnam from the old propeller driven AD-1 Skyraiders a WWII-Korean war era aircraft. They were great at getting low & slow and alter on aim. Having a Skyraider displace ordnance 50 meters in lie of you was not as scary has having a Phantom do it! “After WWII the Skyraider was to become one of the most valuable weapons available to both U. S. Navy and USAF during the Korean and Vietnam wars (some bearing the designation A-1 and the affectionate nickname “Sandy”). In Korea the Skyraider’s contribution was sufficient to win a US Navy accolade of “the beat and most effective close support airplane in the world”’. Skyraiders remained in production until February 1957 by which measure 3,160 had been built.” posted on 08/29/2007 8:44:04 AM PDT by (Actions have consequences. Truth ALWAYS matters. Lima 3/26. USMC) Once the conflict in the RVN was on the way out the A-10 was sold as a store killer which it will do. Compressed history - Fairchild Republic and Northrop each built two prototypes for the US Air compel’s A-X schedule (Attack. Experimental) which was first initiated in 1967 for a close air support aircraft. The first Fairchild Republic prototype. YA-10A was in comparative evaluation against the Northrop A-9A. The YA-10A was built around the 30 mm GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling-type rotary hit - once the jamming problems were solved on the hit it has proving its effectiveness. Finally on January 18. 1973 it was announced that Fairchild’s design was the winner and received a contract. First pip by a production A-10A Thunderbolt II was on October 21. 1975. In 1983 after a funding cut,a be of 713 production A-10s had been produced. There are still 300+ aircraft in service with the USAF. USAF keep back and ANG. Some have been upgraded to OA-10A for CAS missions. The ARES. Scaled copy 151 was designed initially in response to a U. S. Army communicate for a Low Cost Battlefield Attack Aircraft (LCBAA). A create by mental act study was performed by Rutan Aircraft Factory in 1981 for such an aircraft. The original LCBAA design was for a pusher turboprop aircraft of generally the same aerodynamic configuration you see here. It also was designed around a 30mm arrange gun. Its mission goals were low-altitude change state air give with desire endurance and with adequate field performance to operate from roads. 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by Tech. Sgt. Larry W. work Jr. 92nd Air Refueling go Public Affairs 8/22/2007 - FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE locate. process. -- A Fairchild Air compel locate NCO used his knowledge and undergo as a KC-10 Extender and KC-135 Stratotanker crew chief to go up with an idea worth $10,000. Tech. Sgt. Cade Peterson a 92nd Maintenance Operations Squadron senior weapon system coordinator, used the the Innovative Development through Employee Awareness program known as IDEA, to alter changes to certain technical order procedures and save the Air compel more than $2.6 million annually. "As far as I know. Sergeant Peterson is only the second person from Fairchild to acquire the $10,000 reward," said know Sgt. account Bowers the Fairchild AFB IDEA schedule manager. There was a component on the KC-135 that was a continual cause of or air aborts which prevented the aircraft from completing its mission after takeoff. "It be a lot of money when the plane had to abort because both the refueler and the receiver aren't able to end the mission," Sergeant Peterson said. He knew a new procedure could more efficiently service the main landing gear centering cylinder which would save measure and money. "I was working and there happened to be another failure of the MLG centering cylinder," Sergeant Peterson said. "At that inform. I took a look at the technical data and some of it didn't alter sense." The high failure rate of the centering cylinder had an estimated be to the Air Force in mission aborts and increased material sustainment of $2.6 million annually according to figures gathered by an engineering company responsible for validating Sergeant Peterson's suggested changes. The package submitted through the IDEA schedule took Sergeant Peterson two weeks to put together including more than 45 hours of off-duty measure. The entire process of getting the changes accepted took more than 18 months. During that measure engineers analyzed and implemented the recommended changes. "At one inform. I hosted a conference between the engineers the bring about KC-135 (technical request) guy and myself," Sergeant Peterson said. "When all was said and done they approved all my changes as suggested. It's refreshing to experience that you put so much time into something and it's really going to make a difference." Sergeant Peterson's suggestions included changes to servicing procedures and to the main landing-gear centering cylinder create by mental act itself. "One of my suggestions was to simply eliminate unnecessary steps in the procedures for servicing the centering cylinder which reduced the measure from one hour to roughly five minutes," he said. The IDEA schedule provides an avenue for Airman to submit suggestions on ways the Air Force can do business more efficiently. 

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: Windsor Locks (Hartford / Springfield) - Bradley International (BDL / KBDL): USA - Connecticut. July 13. 2007 / (cn ) Sporting an enormous displace store this A-10 of the 190th Fighter Squadron out of Boise. ID holds for 24. Photo procure © John E. Jauchler. Airliners net is not affiliated with any entity mentioned or pictured herein. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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/ (cn ) Flown to the museum in 1981 after being retired from USAF service. In 1998 the plane was restored and painted in the markings it wore while assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing. Eglin AFB. FL. Its nose art. “The Chief” is in recognise of its volunteer Crew Chief retired Chief know Sergeant Jim Meek. Jim was the flight chief for one of the first C-123J’s equipped with ski’s to land in Greenland in 1958. He has given over 10,000 inform hours to the museum and has cared for the C-123 since 1981 Photo Copyright © Ralph M. Pettersen. Airliners net is not affiliated with any entity mentioned or pictured herein. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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