[Lorianne]

Why would you want to fly in support of either team Sunni or team Shia getting the upper hand in the MENA? Maybe that's part of the problem?

[bakeneko]

But they have plenty of LGBT Compliance Commissars and No-Religion-For-You hall monitor officers. So it’s all good.

[DesertRhino]

Has there ever been a time, even at the height of WWII or Korea, or Vietnam, when we had a hard time finding young men who wanted to be an Air Force pilot? Think about something...our population is larger than ever, and we have fewer planes than ever. It should be easier than ever before to find pilots.

Something is wrong... and it isn’t just the wars, or the commercial market, etc. The USAF and the other branches have stripped everything macho, cool, and ballsy out of the “flight station”. (the term cockpit has even been banned)
Women who have never flown a plane run the Air Force in the entire pacific. Trannys and lesbos and homos and atheists wield immense power.

That’s the biggest reason.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Yes. Perhaps our pilots are tired of bombing Assad's bases in support of ISIS, or climbing into fighter jets with FAILED PARTS IN THEM BECAUSE THERE ARE NO SPARES. Notice all the jets crashing lately?

Today's patriots in our military are forced to commit treason because of their traitor 'boss'. And people wonder why our veterans commit suicide. So many gains then 0dunga P*SSES IT ALL AWAY IN THE NAME OF 'ALLAH'.

[Ace's Dad]

Muzzie pilots or aircraft won’t be much I wouldn’t think, but ground attack could do some major damage; but there’s more, as civilian aviation will need lots more jet-qualified pilots in the future, and for instance my son “Ace” earns $200,000 a year for just a few hours flying a week. Big difference nowadays!

[blueunicorn6]

They think they will be short 1000 pilots, so they increase the number they want to train by 85?

The problem is with the generals.

[PLMerite]

I take it none of the illegals streaming in are air-worthy?

[onedoug]

They’re going to have to pick apart reserve and NG units.

This is enemy islamist agent ø’s doing.

[drypowder]

No loyal Americans welcome in the US military, especially in the officer ranks. This is just part of the quietly orchestrated demise of the US military by the commie and chief and his boss handlers.

[SkyDancer]

F-35?

[Stingray51]

1. Don’t we graduate almost a thousand officers from the Air Force Academy each year - could not more of them be this kind of pilot?
2. Do we use fully trained fighter pilots for Air Force drones?
3. How about Warrant Officer pilots? The Army has had warrant officer helicopter pilots for years and they are first rate.

It seems to me that this must be a planning failure by the Air Force brass. There are LOTS of young Americans who would love nothing more than to be a fighter pilot.

Heaven forbid we ever need to mobilize with this kind of “can’t do it” mentality. There are some things we legitimately cannot do (e.g., civilize the Middle East) but there are others that should be pretty easy if we are willing to try hard enough and devote enough resources.

[TADSLOS]

Lucrative airline job or risk getting shot down by Obama's US backed jihadis.

Decisions, decisions...

[Lower Deck]

A big problem is the Air Force insistence that only officers can fly. So they take trained officer pilots out of F-15s or B-1s or C-17s and put them in a trailer somewhere where they fly Predator drones thousands of miles away. These are billets that are roundly hated by pilots and which could be as easily done by NCOs trained to fly them. But instead the Air Force runs pilots through these posts time and time again. No wonder pilots are bailing.

[Rebelbase]

When the going gets tough we have plenty of volunteers.

[PCPOET7]

I believe a lot of good men are waiting till “Obama” is no longer in office. I would not be surprised if a lot of the military positions like special forces and pilots are short on numbers.

[onona]

Bring Back The FLYING SERGEANTS !!!

[The Working Man]

I’m sure that part of the problem is that the Air Force insists on getting promoted or you get out. Some of these men and women just want to fly and don’t want the bureaucratic paperwork shuffle lifestyle of the modern Air Force officer.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Oh gee, you think it could have anything to do with them forcing a bunch of people who had planned and were qualified to do their twenty being forced to retire early? Which left them with no pension.

With the military current "up or out" policy, their tendency to ignore that policy if they want to cut people and those same cuts making it harder to find slots to promote people into any pilot would be justified in thinking that the Air Force is not exactly a optional career move.

Not to mention the PC nonsense in worse in the Air Force then anywhere else.

[Jeff Chandler]

Obama's Military

[adorno]

It could be that, the military commanders, aka: those civilians who actually run the military, have been eyeing the day when pilots won’t be necessary anymore.

Even today, we have drones being piloted from thousands of miles away, running bombing strikes against ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Eventually, there might not be a need for even a single pilot, other than those sitting on the ground piloting the “alternate Air Force” from thousands of miles away.

[Jack Hammer]

Anyone with any sense is getting out of obama’s military.

Except women, homosexuals, and transvestites, of course.