The good news is that our pilots, for now, remain qualified, talented, and highly motivated. Unfortunately the brass has done everything possible to change that. And our men struggle with outdated aircraft that their fathers and even grandfathers were flying, and with highly expensive, erratic, and unstable new fighters that enriched defense contractors and the retiring brass who lobbied for them. The brass are well aware of the crisis. That’s why, like so many corporate monopolies who go woke to cover up their brokenness, they focus on identity politics.
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Sums up so much of what is wrong, not just in the Air Force, but every branch of government. The woke, like a cancer, are not just destroying the institutions, they’re actively hostile and see the people of the U.S. as the enemy. in a word, the elites hate us.
The A-10 and F-16 are still around for a reason.
I don’t know if it’s true, but I recently read the F-16 defeated the F-35 in simulated air-to-air combat.
“The good news is that our pilots, for now, remain qualified, talented, and highly motivated”
True, but what is their motivation? To fly, and fly cool airplanes, but to eventually get out and fly for the airlines making bank.