Comments on: UAV Takeover Shot Down

By: John Penta

John Penta — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:28:58 +0000

Exactly until they claw each other to shreds in the next budget cycle.

By: James R. Cooke

James R. Cooke — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 20:23:42 +0000

The decision to employ rotating command fits the ongoing attempt to use more joint command/joint ops. Maybe it’ll lead to the different branches playing together better. Let’s see how long this lasts.

By: F. Lovejoy, USAFR

F. Lovejoy, USAFR — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:10:43 +0000

It seems to me that this is just one indicator of big changes on the horizon. With our current combat environment it isn't easy to make clear distinctions between the responsibility of the branches. Air Force members have been living in many more "real" combat environments, Army and Marine infantry are getting loaded up with high tech gear and old battle structures just don't apply. I see an eventual merging of forces on the way. What it will look like and when it will happen, I wouldn't begin to guess. But joint force bases are becoming the norm and staggered branch command structures like the one slatted for the UAV Center of Excellence seem to be pointing in that direction. I have heard the pattern coined as "The Purpling of the Military". We'll see how long it takes.

By: Anonymous Troll

Anonymous Troll — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 10:41:18 +0000

I attended a lecture at the AASM in the 1980s where Gen. Chuck Yeager said that this day was comming… He could say that because he was “retired”.
I think the dividing line for Air Force control is going to be the data link. If the datalink needs to go above the armstrong line or needs to be bounced off of an Air Force asset, then it’s going to be an Air Force UAV.

By: Gerald A. Reason

Gerald A. Reason — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:46:31 +0000

To give this type of weapon to the Air Force is like a combat soldier giving his rifle to a logistition. NO WAY! These are the type of weapon one needs in minutes, not hours. The AF can send in fighters it has on station, as can the Navy. You cann’t have a drone on station. It needs to be there, at BN level and up.
LTC® U.S. Army Reserve, ORD

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:56:28 +0000

GOOD! I’m glad to see that the pretty AF boys didn’t get their way and put a whole lot of MOSQ UAV pilots in the Army and Marines out of a job. THey need to work TOGETHER not fight for a piece of the pie and rule over it all like the AF jocks love to do. GO ARMY!!!

By: anthony bauwens

anthony bauwens — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:53:56 +0000

All 4 services should use thes live saving expensive drones! Without a argument that is a bad thing for the taxpayers in these times. Show the Tax payers what for positive life threatening situations the drones has done out there for our men out there in the war zone! A.Bauwens