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Originally Posted by Hacker15e  Yes, currently the UAV community is manned primarily with pilots with one tour in a MWS aircraft. There are some dogs-and-cats, such as the navigators/WSOs with Comm pilot licenses, but it is still primarily a rated pilot game.
The plan in the next couple years is to pull them directly from SUPT. My bet is that when the current CSAF retires, the next one will make UAVs their own flying career field (the current one is very much against that).
WRT "the only AF platform blowing anything up nowadays", I suggest you check out the daily CENTAF updates that show what is happening in OEF and OIF.
I spent last summer at Bagram, and dropped nearly as many bombs as I did during the Shock N Awe portion of OIF.
There is still a #####-ton of iron being dropped by A-10s, F-15Es, B-1s, etc over in theater. |
Apologies Sir, not doing my homework. I was just lucky enough to have Baghdad proper for both of my deployments and I was just going by what I observed in the postage stamp sized area I was in.