Originally Posted by ugleeual

true... they’d need to put these individuals in flying units and move many of the career rated officers into the staff billets that are woefully understaffed for rated officers. When I worked in the Pentagon 6-9 years ago I was one of a handful of Fighter Pilots on the A3/5 staff... all the rated staff billets were filled by GS civilians who flew F4s, F111s, and F-15A models in the early 80s! It would be refreshing to have more recently qualified rated pilots filling these staff billets at MAJCOMs and Air Staff.