Misc - HL 238 (2)

Help for the Captain with IPad login?   

From: Ray

Date: 08/27/15 16:26:05

To: PCN Forum

Subject: Computer Access

My daughter recently gave me an iPad Air and I bought an iPhone 6.  Now I find that I cannot access the Delta Extranet page nor the Travelnet page with either of these devices.  Have others had this problem and has anyone found a way to make them work?  Am going to UK in late September and don't want to lug the laptop around again!

Ray  jwilton@bellsouth.net

 

Editor:  Ray, I have an Ipad and can access travel net without problems.  First, Delta optimizes the webpage for mobile devices and when you login with an android or iphone/ipad device it should automatically load the “optimized” page, which does look a little different than the normal web page and is abbreviated.  However, I have made many reservations and changes via my mobile devices.  Open your browser and simply type in this URL in the top address line and once there “bookmark” the site, and you’ll be home free.    Visit:  www.dlnet.delta.com   Any other Apple people out there that can help the Captain out, please email him and CC the PCN.  Thanks. 

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From: dickhendrickson@comcast.net
Sent: 8/28/2015 11:11:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: Fwd: Let the Hawgs loose.

Reminds me of my year in Vietnam.

Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 10:44:21 AM
Subject: Let the Hawgs loose.

       Ya know, they say war is too important to be left to the generals, but man, the god damned politicians certainly don't do it well either.   It's Vietnam all over again, where nothing can be done without permission from the White House for fear of making a mistake and killing the wrong guy.   Maybe the Marines have it right......kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out.  The following is a note from an A-10 driver involved in the fight against ISIS to a buddy of mine

Lou

                        A-10 driver perspective. 

    The squadron is doing fine. Everybody is happy to be here and we are doing some good work.  The A-10s are holding up well and the technology we have on the jets now (targeting pods, GPS guided bombs, Laser Guided bombs, Laser guided missiles, tactical data link, satellite comms), and of course the gun, make the A-10 ideal for this conflict.  We are killing off as many ISIS as we can, mostly in ones and twos, working with the hand we are dealt. I've never been more convicted in my career that we facing an enemy that needs to be eradicated. 

With that being said...I've never been more frustrated in my career.  After 13 years of the mind-numbing low intensity conflict in Afghanistan, I've never seen the knife more dull. All the hard lessons learned in Vietnam, and fixed during the first Gulf War, have been unlearned again.  The level of centralized execution, bureaucracy, and politics is staggering. I basically do not have any decision making authority in my cockpit. It sucks. In most cases, unless a general officer can look at a video picture from a UAV, over a satellite link, I cannot get authority to engage. I've spent many hours, staring through a targeting pod screen in my own cockpit, watching ISIS shitheads perpetrate their acts until my eyes bleed, without being able to do anything about it. The institutional fear of making a mistake, that has crept into the central mindset of the military leadership, is endemic.  We have not taken the fight to these guys.  We haven't targeted their centers of gravity in Raqqa.  All the roads between Syria and Iraq are still intact with trucks flowing freely.  The other night I watched a couple hundred small tanker trucks lined up at an oilfield in ISIS-held northeast Syria, presumably filling up with oil traded on the black market, go unfettered. It's not uncommon to wait several hours overhead a suspected target for someone to make a decision to engage or not.  It feels like we are simply using the constructs build up in Afghanistan, which was a very limited fight, in the same way here against ISIS, which is a much more sophisticated and numerically greater foe.  It's embarrassing. 

Be assured that the Hawg drivers are doing their best.

 


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