New Report Shows That The U.S. Air Force Is Dying Before Our Eyes
By Michael Ware May 14, 2016
Many
films have been made, documenting the rise and fall of great military
forces. The Romans, the Greeks, the Nazis, and many others have been
shown to have won significant victories, then lose. This is the way it
seems that the world works. Great beginnings, then great tragedy.
But,
there is something else that these great militaries have in common. The
people that they were fighting for never thought that they would have
to face defeat. No Roman ever dreamed at the height of their power that
the Visigoths would so cripple them.
We have the same problem, even as our Air Force is reduced to near inoperability.
Fox reports
The
U.S. Air Force is now short 4,000 airmen to maintain its fleet, short
700 pilots to fly them and short vital spare parts necessary to keep
their jets in the air. The shortage is so dire that some have even been
forced to scrounge for parts in a remote desert scrapheap known as “The
Boneyard.”
Who
would have ever thought ten-years-ago that our Air Force would be
reduced to scraping for spare parts? But, here we are. Operations and
training exercises not fulfilled. On top of this disgrace, there are
fewer airmen and pilots to do the same jobs.
This
is wearing on these people. They are being stretched to the point that
many are giving up and going back to civilian life. And this leaves us
with less and fewer men and women with experience. Which makes our Air
Force weaker and less likely to fight efficiently.
We are seeing the administration taking its quest from the second worst president in history, as the last time our military was in such dire straits was when Jimmy Carter was president.
If Obama is doing an imitation, I am impressed.
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