Originally Posted by
rickair7777
They can't recruit their way out of it either.
Not enough training bandwidth.
Indeed. Back in WWII the military was turning out 50,000 pilots a year. The Army Air Corps had over 100 training facilities in the state of California alone. Now there are only a very few air training bases. And every graduate they recycle as a FAIP is just one more loss to the operational side.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Not to mention they need to retain some mid & senior leadership.
They’ve had some major failures there as well.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/y...op-misconduct/
https://www.military.com/daily-news/...plea-deal.html
https://www.military.com/daily-news/...-attempts.html
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/y...igation-finds/
https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr...investigation/