On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 04:50:20 GMT, Juvat
wrote:

How 'bout this for another perspective? Rarely carry them because
it's too much trouble for maintenance (that's what we were told), and
and don't think of turning them on because they were programmed with
"war files," we don't want those pesky Warsaw Pact ESM assets
detecting our EC plan. So go to STBY...that's it unless you're at
Red/Green Flag.

Going to Spade Adam in the UK? Take a training pod, yeah it turns on
the same way, but the button pushing for countering the threat
symbology (on the ALR-46) was not what you would do in combat. Hmmm,
train in a way you won't fight...okay, color me confused.

Basically it would seem to be a command - higher up the ladder than
the flying crew problem. Expect crews to know the equipment, but don't
let them use it.

Wonder what B-52 EWOs had to go against in Europe? Fly around and run
everything in Standby?

Read somewhere that was a problem in SEA with B-52 EWOs along for the
ride basically when bombing the trails. I believe the fix was to bring
in an RBS site so the EWO's could keep up their proficiency..

I'll agree that the 119 could be a most confusing piece of equipment
to operate when you personally fly with one maybe 6 times a year.

I'm starting to catch on to why a couple of ECM troops out of fighters
in Europe came into our shop at K.I. and couldn't wait to get back to
Europe ASAP. K.I. Sawyer B-52H we were working 12 hr days 7 days a
week supporting training missions where they actually used the
equipment. B-52 crews in the states trained as they would fight, but
fighter crews that were much closer to the "enemy" trained with one
hand tied behind their back?