Originally Posted by gsu50

The "skills" I was referring to was supposed to be a sarcastic remark about the massive amount of people the Air Force has firehosed into the system to produce more pilots since the 1999 "We are in a critical shortage of pilots" line that was given to Congress. In fact, that is what I'm writing my masters paper on.....that it is actually harder now to wash out of pilot training than at any other time in our history, and that there are more than a few that are slipping through the cracks that should not have wings.