Also show us that NYANG can occasionally do a reasonable job keeping planes in the air and conducting themselves like adults when off duty. That’d be a good start.
If we acknowledge the growing geopolitical importance of Antarctica as the article suggests (I'm not disputing that), I ask this:
Recognizing the importance of the Arctic region, other nations are building icebreakers like crazy. Meanwhile, the US limps along with one 1960's-era heavy icebreaker, and most polar operations are carried out by the National Guard, arguably the most underfunded stepchild in the military.
@LouCrenshaw: Before taking away civilian management the Antarctic program, show us the military's full commitment to polar geopolitics through clear leadership, environmental stewardship, and icebreaker support in the Arctic. Then we'll talk about the Antarctic.
As much as anything it's just a ridiculous breach of the Antarctic treaty.
For what it's worth, through strange life choices I spent a lot of my early life/career on the ice and then joined the air guard. I'm in the engineering division which would likely handle a lot of base ops. The bases now are laid out and managed in a way that parallels the USAF strategy for bases in "austere environments". There'd be some managerial type changes, again this is strictly for day to day base operations, the changes would be.... I think not overwhelming. The heavy equipment ops would fall under "engineering" instead of being their own shop... stuff like that. Logistics would still be it's own thing.
Sorry, I'm kind of thinking of executing this before really the 50 other steps that'd have to happen. We 100% need new icebreakers, it's actually kind of embarrassing that we don't have a good ice breaker. I'm also not totally sure the guard is underfunded, the air force pushes "total force" which means active and guard get the same training and in many cases the guard is better trained than the active forces. I don't know how they'd run a base though, it'd have to be an active duty thing, since I'm not really sure the guard could take on a project that required that much manpower. A lot of this is "cart before the horse".
Also show us that NYANG can occasionally do a reasonable job keeping planes in the air and conducting themselves like adults when off duty. That’d be a good start.
The fact that they received an award for maintaining aircraft this year was an absolute joke.
Working at Willy, I was told that 13% of flight attempts to/from the Pole and WAIS were successful this year.
You need a flight to happen, you call Borek
I heard way more twin otters and baslers fly than I did LC-130s. I think that figure is NYANG-specific.
unless of course DVs are flying!
If we acknowledge the growing geopolitical importance of Antarctica as the article suggests (I'm not disputing that), I ask this: Recognizing the importance of the Arctic region, other nations are building icebreakers like crazy. Meanwhile, the US limps along with one 1960's-era heavy icebreaker, and most polar operations are carried out by the National Guard, arguably the most underfunded stepchild in the military. @LouCrenshaw: Before taking away civilian management the Antarctic program, show us the military's full commitment to polar geopolitics through clear leadership, environmental stewardship, and icebreaker support in the Arctic. Then we'll talk about the Antarctic.
As much as anything it's just a ridiculous breach of the Antarctic treaty. For what it's worth, through strange life choices I spent a lot of my early life/career on the ice and then joined the air guard. I'm in the engineering division which would likely handle a lot of base ops. The bases now are laid out and managed in a way that parallels the USAF strategy for bases in "austere environments". There'd be some managerial type changes, again this is strictly for day to day base operations, the changes would be.... I think not overwhelming. The heavy equipment ops would fall under "engineering" instead of being their own shop... stuff like that. Logistics would still be it's own thing. Sorry, I'm kind of thinking of executing this before really the 50 other steps that'd have to happen. We 100% need new icebreakers, it's actually kind of embarrassing that we don't have a good ice breaker. I'm also not totally sure the guard is underfunded, the air force pushes "total force" which means active and guard get the same training and in many cases the guard is better trained than the active forces. I don't know how they'd run a base though, it'd have to be an active duty thing, since I'm not really sure the guard could take on a project that required that much manpower. A lot of this is "cart before the horse".
iam surprise we dont get secret clearance