[MilCom] AF Operating Aircraft Reductions & Expanded Civil Air Patrol Missions?

[Ken]

Hello Mike & the group:

I would think that Civil Air Patrol is well prepared to take on some of 
these missions.

Combat Air Patrols --  Just arm those Cessna 172's with air/air missiles & 
some machine guns -- quite a reduction in costs!!!
Transportation of Officials -- No modifications required, just would take a 
bit longer.
Bombing -- That's a rough one to fill, I guess they go do some shoreline 
patrols with some sort of air to surface torpedoes.

For those of you who don't know, there's still one official CAP website 
that's got frequency information posted.

Nationwide Channel/Frequency (/CTCSS) Usage:
1  148.15 (100.0)  Primary Simplex
2  148.125 (100.0)  Secondary Simplex
3  148.1375 (100.0) Ground Tactical
4  149.5375 (100.0)  Air to Ground & Air to Air
Actual SAR:  123.1
Practice SAR:  122.9
My understanding is that Aircraft contacting ground stations will use 
Channel 4 first or Channel 1

Also my understanding is that the rest of the channels are basically various 
inputs/outputs to the repeaters (would be different CTCSS's) in that 
appropriate region (or other region boundary).  HOWEVER, aircraft are 
generally limited to using simplex only and not repeaters.

Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Comer" <mikets28 at earthlink.net>
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> According to a recent issue of Combat Aircraft, the Air Force is planning 
> to
> park
> about 1,124 aircraft due to the FY 2007 budget:
> All 52 F-117's
> 38 B-52's (says half the primary authorized fleet)
> 275 F-16's
> 138 F-15C's
> 114 KC-135E's
> 38 C-21's (says that is half the fleet)
> And 507 other aircraft
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