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.
Interesting. I did not know this.
They should go recruiting among the Drone Shooter game guys living in basements. Give them a real Predator, a thousand cases of Mountain Dew, a ton of Doritos, pay them minumum wage, and they'd be thrilled.
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