Excargodog

Generally speaking, no. In fairness, the military traditionally has been over staffed for peacetime needs because war is sort of a come-as-you-are activity, so a fair amount of what you did was make-work activity, squadron officer school, Air Command and Staff, War College, all good things if you are going to become Chief of Staff I’d admit, but they only have one of those and the job tends to only turn over every three years or so.

But historically, better trained pilots was a huge advantage over our opponents. The thinking now is that we can do that with better technology. That needs to be proven and some are very skeptical that that theory is true.