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MUM-T's Role In Aviation

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Tim,
I enjoyed reading your post. It is well thought out and well written. All Army pilots must realize that every airframe is required for every other airframe to accomplish it's mission. Too many times one airframe community thinks it is the main effort and does not need the other airframes to accomplish its mission. We are no longer in flight school having stupid arguments about who's airframe is better. They are all equally important even though they all have very different missions. With that being said, aviators must realize that we will never be the main effort in any war. We are here solely to support the ground force commander's mission.
I am not completly sold on the use of MUM-T yet. On one hand I can understand the importance of MUM-T for the ground force but on the other hand I believe that the system could overload pilots. I still would like to understand and see the MUM-t in use prior to saying that it is a good system or bad system. The future of warfare revolves around new technology and Army aviation is no different. Aviation must keep up with moderen advances but also needs to know when to draw the line between technology and overloading the pilots.
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Army aviation is in a sad state of affairs when it comes to future planning with the Air Force. The Air Force must understand that it still must support the ground force. The two most important ways that the Air Force supports the Army is Close Air Support (CAS) and the movement of troops and cargo. With the Air Force attempting to retire the A-10 Warthog that leaves a huge gap in the Close Air Support role that reduces the ground force commander's warfighting abilities. The F-35 Lightning II, which is slated to replace the A-10 and F-16 has been an over budge failure. The Air Force either needs to continue it's support of the Army's ground troops or allow the Army to operate it's own fixed wing close air support

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