Call their bluff. Now.
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Not enough maintenance personnel but they are fully stocked in LGBTQ Tolerance personnel.
Actually, double-down on the bluff. Go and retire the A-10, and then open up the drone industry to Army armed-drones, with Army folks running them, and edge the AF out of the close air support game. I’d also open up the drone business to long-distance bombing, and put the AF out of that business as well. We are probably forty years from the AF dissolving away into nothing.