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Dec 4, 2015
December 3, 2015 here we go
All combat jobs open to women in the military
but now A Year In, No Female SEAL Applicants, Few for SpecOps
A little more than 12 months after training pipelines for previously closed elite special operator jobs opened to women, the U.S. military has yet to see its first female
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or Green Beret.

The component commanders for each of the service
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commands say they're ready to integrate female operators into their units, but it's not yet clear when they'll have the opportunity to do so.

The
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is closely monitoring the interest of female applicants. In fact, Naval Special Warfare Command is eyeing one Reserve Officer Training Corps member who's interested in the SEALs, and another woman who has yet to enter the service but has expressed interest in becoming a special warfare combatant craft crewman, a community even smaller than the SEALs with a training pipeline nearly as rigorous.

But it will likely be years until the Navy has a woman in one of these elite units.

Rear Adm. Tim Szymanski, head of Naval Special Warfare Command, which includes the elite SEALs and other Navy special operations units, noted that the enlisted training pipeline for SEALs is two-and-a-half years from start to end, meaning a female applicant who began the process now wouldn't join a team until nearly 2020.

And that assumes that she makes it through the infamously grueling Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training.

"Just last week, we secured Hell Week ... [we started with] 165 folks. We finished with 29. It's a tough pipeline and that is not uncommon," Szymanski told an audience at the National Defense Industrial Association's Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict conference near Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. "Five classes a year, and that's what you have, demographically."

While the
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famously had three female officers
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in a special program ahead of the December 2015 Defense Department mandate that actually gave women the right to serve in the Rangers, the elite regiment remains male-only, at least for now.

To date, one female officer in a support military occupational specialty has completed the training process and will likely join the unit by the end of March, said Lt. Gen. Kenneth Tovo, commander of Army Special Operations Command.

In other previously closed
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special operations elements, he said, two enlisted women have attempted special operations assessment and selection but haven't made it through. One, who was dropped due to injury and not to failure to meet standards, is likely to reattempt the process, Tovo said.

Two female officers are also expected to begin assessment and selection in the "near future," he said.

"So we're going slow," Tovo said. "The day we got the word that SF and rangers were available to women, our recruiting battalion that actually works for recruit command sent an email to every eligible woman, notifying them of the opportunity and soliciting their volunteerism. We are working things across the force through special ops recruiting battalion to talk to women and get them interested."

Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command was the first service to report publicly that it had women in its training pipeline. But in a year,
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, and
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of assessment and selection, commander Maj. Gen. Carl Mundy III said at the conference. Currently, he added, there are no women in training, and none on deck to enter the pipeline.

The
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, which opened its combat control, pararescue and tactical air control party jobs to women last year, has had several applicants, but all have been dropped from training due to injury or failure to meet standards, said Lt. Gen. Marshall Webb, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command.

"I think this is a slow build … and we'll keep after it," Webb said, noting that that the service observed similar trends when it opened other jobs up to women decades ago. "AFSOC is looking for the highest caliber candidates, and when a person meets that standard, she will be joining our ranks."

For some of the services, the challenge is twofold.

Tovo said Army Special Forces recruits primarily from the infantry, which opened to women at the same time SF did. And women are moving quickly into these previously closed jobs; the
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graduated from the Army's infantry officer course in October, and 140 women are reportedly on deck to enter infantry training in 2017, while more have already been reclassified. But it's still a small field.

MARSOC also recruits heavily from
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ground combat MOSs. To date, just three female Marines assigned to one of these jobs have entered the fleet.

"This is a process; it's going to take time," Tovo said. "We are focused on it, we're ready for it and I have no doubt when we get the opportunity to put women through our qualification courses, it going to be done to a professional standard and we will be proud of the results of the female operators who come out the other end."

Szymanski suggested that social barriers to women serving in units such as the SEALs may no longer be the impediment they once were, as younger, more tolerant sailors enter the force.

"The students coming through, it's no big deal to them," he said. "This generation's much more tolerant of society than our generation -- a multi-diverse, gender-neutral society. Some of the integration [challenges] will be with our older cohorts."

It's possible, however, that the services will have to rethink recruitment in light of a widened field of potential applicants. Szymanski said his contracted SEAL scout teams visit high schools to recruit talent, but tend to target events with high male participation.

"Typically in the past, that's been things like wrestling matches and those types of things," he said. "So I now have to be sure that they're thinking about, how do they incentivize or attract younger females at some of those events. Maybe swimming meets; swimmers typically will fend well in the pipeline if they're good in the water."
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waters extending at most 12
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(22.2
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Like I said, still pretty close.
 

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(22.2
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He talks about it here page 191 U.S. T-AGOS Ships
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US Army helos arrive for Atlantic Resolve

On February 11 a total of 49 US Army helicopters arrived in Europe for a nine-month deployment in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve.

These photographs, supplied exclusively to AirForces Monthly by Oliver Jonischkeit, show the unloading of the ship Endurance at the port of Bremerhaven, northern Germany.

The helicopters are from the 10th Mountain Division’s Combat Aviation Brigade at Fort Drum, New York. They comprise 12 CH-47F Chinooks, 12 medevac-configured HH-60Ms, and 25 UH-60L/M Black Hawks operated by the brigade’s 2-10th Assault Helicopter and the 3-10th General Support Aviation Battalions. The rotorcraft were accompanied by 350 vehicles and 1,800 personnel from the 10th CAB. In addition, at least 20 AH-64 Apaches are due to arrive in the coming weeks

Although the main force of helicopters will be based in Illesheim and Katterbach, Bavaria, five UH-60s will operate from Lielvārde air base, Latvia, and five UH-60s will be stationed at Mihail Kogălniceanu air base, Romania.

Additionally, the 1-501st Attack Reconnaissance Helicopter Battalion deployed 24 AH-64Ds from Fort Bliss to Illesheim. The ‘Iron Dragons’ will reinforce the 10th CAB. The battalion’s Apaches were flown to Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, where they were prepared from shipment to Europe at the Port of Corpus Christi. The aircraft arrived at the port of Antwerp, Belgium, on February 9.

Whereas Army Aviation units that previously rotated to Europe have been attached to the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade for command and control, the 10th CAB will be responsible for its own units.

Launched in the wake of the Russian intervention in Ukraine, Operation Atlantic Resolve is intended to demonstrate the United States’ continued commitment to collective security and to reassure NATO allies and partners in the region.

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Again :rolleyes: but planned if i can say :)

KC-46A tests delayed until January 2018

Initial operational test and evaluation on the Boeing KC-46A tanker will begin in January 2018 at the earliest, US Air Force officials tell FlightGlobal.

In a 10 February interview at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, KC-46 programme manager Col. John Newberry told FlightGlobalthat testing will begin pending the results of a US Air Force IOT&E readiness review in the fall of 2017.

Last year, the Pentagon’s top weapons tester estimated a May 2017 start for IOT&E and an April 2016 Milestone C date. But after Boeing discovered higher than expected axial loads on the refueling boom last May, the programme was forced to rebaseline its schedule. When Milestone C shifted from its expected April 2016 date to August, it initiated a domino effect that pushed other programme events, such as IOT&E, further out.

The air force negotiated the timeline for the updated schedule within the last month, Brig Gen Duke Richardson, programme executive officer for the service’s tanker fleet, tells FlightGlobal. Delivery of the initial 18 aircraft is projected for February of 2018, rather than the August 2017 date announced last May. The spare engines and Cobham-made wing aerial refueling pods (WARPs) will be delivered in October 2018 as expected.

In a 2016 report, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation Michael Gilmore warned that Boeing’s past performance would not bode well for a timely schedule. Based on the tanker replacement programme’s history, its current schedule is “aggressive and unlikely to be executed as planned,” he wrote.

But that report was released before the air force reached an agreement with Boeing on the new schedule, Richardson says.

“That will help alleviate some of the pressure the DOT&E report talks about,” he says. “We’re still worried there’s pressure there, we’re going to monitor it closely.”

In addition to USAF requirements, Boeing must unlock test points required by the Federal Aviation Administration, he says. Overall, Richardson is encouraged by the programme’s progress, noting Boeing has completed 54% of all test points and is reporting on schedule.

Gilmore’s report also noted that before IOT&E closes, program managers should correct at least some of the cybersecurity vulnerability discovered during a second operational test. Richardson clarified that the assessment was completed in a systems integration laboratory and the USAF believes the findings are related to the laboratory environment. The service plans to test for cyber vulnerabilities again on an actual aircraft before IOT&E, he says.

“We don’t think they’re our cyber vulnerabilities,” he says. “I would hesitate to use the word correction because I don’t think there are any actual problems. It (happened) in the lab environment, which isn’t a complete match to the airplane.”

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Dec 4, 2015

but now A Year In, No Female SEAL Applicants, Few for SpecOps

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So this whole process sucks, women do not want or need to be special operators, hell, I don't want to be a special operator, more stoopidity, from the last "brain dead" regime..

kinda like the pregnant man???
 
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US Naval Institute said:
ug boats maneuver the aircraft carrier Pre-Commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) into the James River during the ship’s turn ship evolution June 11, 2016. US Navy Photo

This post has been updated to correct the title of Ye-Ling Wang, who now serves as program manager for future aircraft carriers. A previous version of this post referred to her as deputy program manager, which is her previous title.

Aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) will head to sea for builders trials next month, a next step leading up to its commissioning later this year.

The ship is currently participating in a series of certifications – part of the critical path testing that ensures the ship is in good material condition to go to sea and the crew is proficient enough to safely operate the carrier, Ye-Ling Wang, program manager for future aircraft carriers at the Program Executive Office for Aircraft Carriers (PMS 378), said today at the American Society for Naval Engineers’ Technologies, Systems and Ships event.

As part of this “safe to sail” event, she said navigation certification activities are currently taking place, as well as an overall crew certification effort run by the type commander.

Before the ship can go to sea for builders trials, the crew and the ship will go through certifications on navigation, communications, ship handling, habitability, propulsion plant, damage control and more. Those involved will also be looking ahead for any possible hazards during the planned builders trials and, if any exist, find ways now to mitigate those potential problems.

Builders trials are hosted by the contractor to demonstrate the ship’s quality and ability to perform at sea. Wang told USNI News that Ford would not launch or recover any airplanes during this test, but rather just demonstrate the ship’s more basic functions.

Acceptance trials would be the next step, when a government team of evaluators would ensure the ship and crew are ready to join the fleet. PEO Carriers officials told USNI News that a commissioning date has not yet been scheduled and is currently slated for “later this year.”

I am really looking forward to seeing this carrier go out to sea!
 

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US M1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks Arrived in Romania

The American troops arrived in Romania with their military technic in endowment: M1 Abrams tanks, M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and 155mm self-propelled howitzer M109A6 Paladin type.

US troops began to disembark their armoured vehicles on Tuesday at the MK Base, Constanta, as part of the US commitment to secure and to reinforce the Eastern NATO flank. The deployment is part of Operation Atlantic Resolve.

500 troops of the 1st Battalion ‘Fighting Eagles’ will be using M1 Abrams tanks, some which had barrels were adorned with insignia including ‘call me maybe’ and ‘cash me outside’, M2 Bradley armoured vehicles, M109A6 Palladin self-propelled howitzers, as well as M88A2 recovery vehicles.

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Mayport Named East Coast Base for MQ-4C Triton UAS

NORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. Navy has selected Naval Station (NS) Mayport, Fla., as the East Coast Forward Operating Base (FOB) for the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS), U.S. Fleet Forces Command announced in a Feb. 15 release.

Mayport will be a permanent duty station for about 400 Triton UAS personnel and will support rotational deployments outside the continental United States. Facility construction will begin this year with the first Triton UAS scheduled to arrive in 2020.

“The MQ-4C Triton’s advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities bring enhanced battlespace awareness for the fleet to achieve full spectrum superiority,” said Adm. Phil Davidson, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces.

Triton is an unmanned, unarmed, remotely controlled aircraft employed to enhance maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data collection to the fleet, providing both tactical and strategic mission capabilities as part of the U.S. Navy’s Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force, headquartered at Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Fla.

Triton is a multiple-sensor unmanned aircraft that is 48 feet long with a wingspan of 131 feet. The MQ-4C Triton UAS will conduct operations over water, with most operations occurring over international waters 12 miles or more offshore.

Triton uses a “remote split” operational concept, where mission crews are located at a Main Operating Base (MOB), while air vehicles and maintenance personnel are located at a FOB. The MOB for the East Coast Triton UAS squadron, VUP-19, is NAS Jacksonville.

As the East Coast FOB, Mayport will be the launch-and-recovery site for four forward-based MQ-4C Tritons and consolidated maintenance hub for up to four additional aircraft.

The Navy completed an Environmental Assessment (EA) that analyzed the environmental impacts associated with establishing facilities and functions to support the East Coast home basing and maintenance of the Triton. The EA looked at three potential locations: NS Mayport; NAS Key West, Fla.; and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The final EA identified no significant environmental impacts at any of the three sites.

Since there were no significant environmental impacts associated with the three locations, the Navy’s decision was based primarily on its operational needs and its responsibility as a steward of taxpayer resources.

Located in a fleet concentration area, NS Mayport provides the most operational, maintenance, and family support for the least cost within its existing Navy facilities and services.

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68 MQ-4C planned first years 2-3 by year after 5-6 but a UAV is not used an an maned aircraft coz they flight very long missions especialy this one so much in reserve, maintenance in addition to about 32+ in units to see definitive numbers.

It takes about 3 drones to have one H-24 named an orbite. Planned 5 orbites
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Units :
VP-30 to Jacksonville : 8 + also training unit for P-3C and P-8
VUP-19 " " : 12 whose 4 - 8 to Mayport unit yet created

After to Whidbey isalnd VUP-11 will stand up for 2020 about with also 12 waiting this unit VP-19 provide to Point Mugu a FOB 4 MQ-4C for Pacific.

Others FOB normaly Sigonella, Guam maybe in the Gulf.

A good team with the P-8.
 
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