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From AF Daily Report 2 APR 09

**Timely coincidence with the new MAIW Elmendorf release

Next Red Flag-Alaska Gearing Up, 174th FW Viper Swansong: About 1,400 US and foreign military forces will descend upon Eielson and Elmendorf Air Force Bases for the April 16 to May 1 iteration of Red Flag-Alaska (RF-A). French units will join NATO and US forces in this Pacific Air Forces-directed training event that offers offensive counter-air, interdiction, close air support, and large force employment training, played out over the Joint Pacific Alaskan Range. (For more on RF-A, read Air Force Magazine's Red Flag Over Alaska) Part of the RF-A mix will be USAF's new F-22 Raptor, which, according to a new Popular Mechanics article, means the guys in the fourth-generation fighters "die wholesale." The article zeroes in on airmen from the New York Air National Guard's 174th Fighter Wing on their final deployment with the wing's F-16 Vipers, this time in training at Nellis AFB, Nev. The unit shed its first two fighters last fall as it began the transition to an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle mission. (Elmendorf report)

I'm not sure why the AF Daily Report felt that quoting or even referring to a Popular Mechanics article was relevant.

It strikes me as equivalent to asking Walter Koenig (Ensign Checkhov/Star Trek:Original series) to evaluate or comment on NASA plans to go to Mars.

Ford Friendly wrote:I'm not sure why the AF Daily Report felt that quoting or even referring to a Popular Mechanics article was relevant.

It strikes me as equivalent to asking Walter Koenig (Ensign Checkhov/Star Trek:Original series) to evaluate or comment on NASA plans to go to Mars.

Who knows? Often the writers are not really all that familiar with what they are writing. He may usually cover something else and just tried to find something on a subject he knew little about.

Glad to see my tax dollars going to train an F-16 unit that come this time next year, won't be flying F-16s.

Seems like typical management SNAFU to me.

Where I work they paid for a guy to go on training course then made him redundant a few weeks after he got back to work! So they never got the benefit of the training!