{"id":69560,"date":"2016-12-26T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69560"},"modified":"2016-12-26T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T13:32:11","slug":"air-forces-personnel-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69560","title":{"rendered":"Air Force&#8217;s personnel shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/12\/23\/air-force-facing-dire-personnel-shortage.html\">Fox News<\/a> which reports that the Air Force is suffering severe manpower shortages &#8211; 700 pilots and 4,000 mechanics &#8211; as well as fighting time with their aging fleet;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve got a geriatric Air Force,&#8221; said retired Lt. Gen. David Deptula. \u201cWe&#8217;ve got bombers and tankers that are over 50 years old. We have [training aircraft] that are over 40 years old, and we have [fighter jets] and helicopters that are over 30 years old. So this is a terrible place to be in when you have a world of ever-expanding threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Air Force officials say they need forces to bolster nuclear, intelligence, space and maintenance jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Goldfein called the pilot shortage alone a crisis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, that&#8217;s what happens when you balance the budget solely on the back of national security. If they had their way, there would be no A-10 to provide close air support to troops on the ground in Syria. The Department of Defense threw good money after bad into the F-35 money pit betting on systems that wouldn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>And, oh, yeah, the Navy needs more ships, the Marines and Army need more people. The needs don&#8217;t disappear just because you don&#8217;t want to spend the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom sends us a link to Fox News which reports that the Air Force is suffering &hellip; <a title=\"Air Force&#8217;s personnel shortage\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69560\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force&#8217;s personnel shortage<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69560","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=69560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}