{"id":67768,"date":"2016-09-03T08:53:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T12:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67768"},"modified":"2016-09-03T09:20:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T13:20:28","slug":"military-aircraft-crash-more-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67768","title":{"rendered":"Military aircraft crash more often"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=29408\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29408\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Plane-crash.png\" alt=\"Plane crash\" width=\"580\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Plane-crash.png 580w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Plane-crash-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/09\/02\/military-jet-crashes-on-rise-as-some-cite-training-and-fleet-issues.html\">Fox News<\/a> reports that Because of cuts to training and maintenance, US military aircraft are succumbing to gravity more often.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Fox News investigation reveals that, overall, the entire U.S. military saw a 48 percent increase in non-combat aviation crashes in 2014 and 2015 compared with the two prior years, based on press reports.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are going up partly because they are not getting the training they should get. They&#8217;re going up because maintenance is harder and harder to accomplish. They are going up because the airplanes are getting older and older,\u201d said House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, in an interview with Fox News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sequestration has played a major role in the state of disrepair. Pilots&#8217; flight hours have been slashed because of cuts to military spending while there is war being conducted against terrorism. Congress and the White House won&#8217;t cut social spending, so the military takes on the entire burden of spending cuts &#8211; that costs lives and it reduces readiness. Who could have seen that coming? We went through this all once before &#8211; during the Carter years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that Because of cuts to training and maintenance, US military aircraft are succumbing &hellip; <a title=\"Military aircraft crash more often\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67768\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military aircraft crash more often<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}