USAF in danger due to pilot shortage
03-19-2024 | 11:06 PM
#81
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The Navy has tried over the years several different programs not requiring a degree. What you are missing is the complexity of the weapon systems the Navy and AirForce employ off aircraft. Flying the aircraft is a means to employ weapons. The Navy and AirFrorce employ far more sophisticated systems and more types. Many of those systems are far more complex than learning to fly the aircraft.
03-20-2024 | 03:18 AM
#82
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03-20-2024 | 06:44 AM
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03-20-2024 | 10:33 AM
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Fair enough, BUT... At least when I left a decade ago, there were a mind boggling number of staff and deployed staff positions that had to be filled by rated officers. After spending years of watching the AF advance the careers of guys who planned Christmas parties and change of command ceremonies, deployed into completely superfluous billets, rode the coattails of mediocre (at best) leaders, and generally spent a ludicrous number of man-hours doing work that was exactly zero value added for the Air Force, I knew it was time to go.
03-20-2024 | 01:40 PM
#85
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Shoe clerks
Yes but don't throw out the baby with the bath water... having warfighter equities represented by WARFIGHTERS at all echelons of the defense establishment is priceless. Alternative is that it would be done by what AF folks call non-rated/shoes. Even if not all of those rated staff bodies are fully utilized in those roles, or in some cases not suitable to be fully utilized.
03-20-2024 | 07:50 PM
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The term is shoe clerk. Yes, we don’t want our staffs manned with shoe clerks who don’t understand how difficult it can be to coordinate a strike package or roll tanker tracks due to wx or unexpected needs. However, we also could approach staff structure a lot wiser than we currently do and chop some deadweight.
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