Comments on: The Wing

By: Nimitz Blogger Embark: Intro & Links « Altimeter Group : Digital Strategy by Charlene Li, co-author of “Groundswell”

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:35:15 +0000

[...] “Lex” LeFon: The Embark, The Ship, The Wing, and The Bloggers. Perspective from Lex is especially helpful given that he used to be a Navy pilot [...]

By: Jim Howard

Jim Howard — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:36:34 +0000

“ALQ-99, but was not a like for like capability swap for the EA-6, ergo, not as many bodies required.”

That’s true, we always flew with 10 jammers, the Prowler usually only had four. The Raven was a far more powerful jammer than the Prowler.

The F-111 is also far more airplane than the Prowler, starting with the fact that our pointy end faced forward.

But OTH the Prowler had HARM and some ELINT and communications capability we did not.

I’ll be honest. Everytime I talked to a Prowler EWO, including many of the USAF EWOs who flew it, nobody could really tell me what there was to keep three busy doing what I did by myself.

Except for playing bridge.

By: Bill the Shoe

Bill the Shoe — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:34:35 +0000

The ability to kick a$$ is a desirable command qualification in any community. But you have to know when to employ it, as well as how to do it so that the impacted posterior doesn’t fester.

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:37:57 +0000

A fossil? You, Virgil?

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:34:26 +0000

Maybe we should lock out Nose.

Like it or not, the presence of women in combat units is corrosive. It has long ceased to be a questionable assertion. PC is the only thing that keeps it going.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:14:59 +0000

Scott/

Yeah, I think the 111 was far more automated in the soft-ware pkg allowing for 1-man ops., IIRC. Where are the ex-Raven drivers on this ?