There will always be some excuse for not stopping the illegals.
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Tell you what...train me, and make sure I get to control the Reaper variant of the Predator, plus add a pair of .50 cal chain guns.
Heck...I’ll work cheap.
Quit dilly-dallying around! Build a wall/fence!
Sorry, but this one IS squarely George Bush's fault for promising it and then not making it happen...
High-tech 'virtual fence' on U.S.-Mexico border plagued by glitches, long delays
There are tens of thousands of level-headed American citizens who would gladly take on the jobs as police or Border Patrol of enforcing U.S. border security and deporting illegal aliens IF ONLY THE GOVERNMENT WOULD PERMIT THE JOB BE DONE.
We have enough people that we COULD place teams and observation posts along the entire border between Mexico and the U.S. so that every team was in sight of the adjacent team,and no one could cross un-noticed.We have the people who COULD be waiting to arrest and escort the illegalls back to their homelands,after confiscating all the drugs and weapons they might be carrying.We have enough people to search every suspicious vehicle and interdict a huge percentage of the drug traffic ,if only the government would do its Constitutional duty.
And while we're at it, we should be patrolling the Canadian border more,checking more ships and containers in ports, too.
Being a free nation does not automatically mean we need have no borders .
We didn't need Clinton's 100,000 more police as much as we needed 100.000 more Border Patrolmen and Immigration agents.
Flying UAV’s is anathema for newly minted Air Force pilots. Maybe they should use recently retired and qualified Air Force pilots with the appropriate payscale.
Don’t use drones, don’t build the fence (it’s too long a border), don’t send illegals back (it’s not possible with so many) don’t stop suspects (it might offend somebody) - don’t do anything for America. Signed, International Communism.
Seems to me the US isn't to concerned about safety when they fly the drones into Pakistan. What are all the drone pilots doing when they muster out of the army? Seems to me there is a job waiting for these war heroes.
The last I heard there are millions of kids in arcades who can fly space ships. It shouldnt be too hard to recruit them and train them as student pilots for drones.
There is no minimum aeronautical knowledge or experience requirement for the issuance of a student pilot certificate other than the medical requirements for the class of medical certificate (see below) the student certificate is based upon. There are, however, minimum aeronautical knowledge and experience requirements for student pilots to solo, including:[7]
Hold at least a current third class medical certificate (except for glider, balloon or sport pilot).
Be at least 16 years of age (14 for glider or balloon)
Read, speak, write, and understand the English language.
Demonstrate satisfactory aeronautical knowledge on a knowledge test, including knowledge of the following areas:
Airspace rules and procedures for the airport where the solo flight will be performed
Flight characteristics and operational limitations for the make and model of aircraft to be flown
Receive and log flight training for the maneuvers and procedures appropriate to the make and model of aircraft to be flown, including:
Preflight operations
Taxiing or surface operations, including run-ups
Takeoffs and landings, including normal and cross-wind
Straight and level flight, and turns in both directions
Climbs and climbing turns
Airport traffic patterns, including entry and departure procedures
Collision avoidance, wind shear avoidance, and wake turbulence avoidance
Descents, with and without turns, using high and low drag configurations
Flight at various airspeeds from cruise to slow flight
Stall entries from various flight attitudes and power combinations with recovery initiated at the first indication of a stall, and recovery from a full stall
Emergency procedures and equipment malfunctions
Ground reference maneuvers
Approaches to a landing area with simulated engine malfunctions
Slips to a landing
Go-arounds
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As well as the risk to illegal border crossers, right?
” ...a shortage of remote pilots have slowed the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles into security plans for the Southwest border, “
I’m taking bets on how long it takes them to hire illegal aliens to “do” the job.