More good news for the Armed Forces/Pilot Training Time Slashed

[Contrary1]

Good ole Shrub...he sure knows how to run a war, don't he?
Must be all that "hard work" he got done while in Tang.

"Tight budgets are forcing the Air Force's combat squadrons to cut back their training hours by nearly 60 percent -- "leaving frontline units unprepared to go to war," according to Defense News.

Air Combat Command (ACC), the primary provider of combat airpower, is cutting 32,000 flying hours to help compensate for its $825 million operations and maintenance shortfall.

The cuts come as Air Force aircrews are heavily worked, flying missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and over some U.S. cities in an attempt to prevent another terrorist attack.

"Starting early this summer, units may have aviators unable to get required training to maintain full combat-ready status," Col. Jim Dunn, deputy director of flight operations for ACC, said in a written statement. "Overall effectiveness will become a growing challenge."

More...http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001581.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Tell me again, how are these folks GOOD for the armed forces?

Just wondering

[snowbear]

2. Oopers... we lost the weapons again!

This is rolling across right now.. They lost track of a bunch of weapons they were supposedly keeping an eye on..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5048966,00.html