Originally Posted by
camelspyyder
What personnel?
Currently there are 2 crews worth of seedcorn guys who may or may not come home. The first student crew don't start training until late next year. It's going to take a more than a while to work up the 24 crews required.
And to imagine that the Sentinel can be in any way replaced by the GMTI/SAR Lite sets that RPA or Helicopters can carry is pretty fanciful as well.
I see that as far as many on here are concerned Groundcrew still dont exist! However, many of the ground crew were given Part 66 AMLs to work on these aircraft , and now have a very desirable civil aircraft licence to walk out the door with...with or without sentinel on ops.