Two points here. It seems like red on several occasions that the military is getting away from manned aircraft and going with unmanned such as the drums which can be piloted from a remote location. These particular aircraft do not require the same training as as far as the pilot goes.
I think it would be a good idea to recall some of the really fine generals who had retirement forced on then because they didn’t fit Obama’s politically correct world and furlough some of the ones he kept just to make room.
“I think it would be a good idea to recall some of the really fine generals ...”
There aren’t any.
For decades, USAF has been promoting officers “below the zone,” to the point where every conventional thinker has come to believe that they cannot succeed unless they gather a bevy of these fast-burning hotshots unto their own unit. What everyone ends up with are high rankers who haven’t been around long enough to develop any seasoned judgment or maturity of character, who are impatient to a fault, ambitious to the extreme, and who never stick around any one place long enough to face the consequences of their bad decisions.
If that isn’t enough, USAF insists on promoting only fighter pilots, and on putting them in command everywhere. Foments naught but trouble: they are technically competent - sometimes - in their own specialty, but too big of ego, too little mature in judgment. Hopeless as leaders.