The U.S. Air Force Is in Serious Decline |
12-4-23, * -- This year sees the USA Air Force’s 76 birthday; and it’s in bad shape. Despite lowering qualification standards, it can’t attract enough recruits to fill its ranks. Truncated [cut short] training has weakened pilot readiness. Today’s the Air Force would struggle to execute another Desert Storm, much less take on a peer adversary like China. Even more distressing, the service’s leaders show no interest in pulling out of the downward spiral. From its founding in 1947 through the end of the Cold War, the Air Force placed a premium on building and sustaining a cadre of the most exceptional aviators in the world. Selection for flight school was based on performance during the accessions process and previous flight experience — criteria that sent those with the highest potential to excel to flight school. Screening for excellence continued through every phase of training beyond. Washout rates [failures] for flight school exceeded 20 percent in the 1980s, and the bar was high for every successive school beyond. Currently the drive to improve racial diversity has made a mockery of pilot screening process. In 2021, just 0.27 percent of flight school candidates washed out because of performance. Screening beyond flight school is effectively non-existent, even for promotions. | Every Air Force captain without legal or ethical issues has been promoted to Major since 2017 [Obama was in WH], which means even poor performers graduate and advance. Accessions, training, and promotion standards are at all-time lows, which places the big picture—the service’s ability to execute its wartime mission—into jeopardy. At the height of the Cold War, the Air Force had 4,468 fighter and 331 bomber aircraft in its total force inventory. Roughly eight out of ten were mission capable. Today, it has just 1,932 fighter and 140 bomber aircraft. On any given day, only six of every 10 are fit to fly combat missions. At the height of the Cold War, the average fighter pilot flew more than 160 sorties/200 hours a year. Currently Air Force fighter pilots averaged just 74 sorties/129 hours a year. By the service’s own definition, there isn’t a squadron in the Air Force that could be considered mission ready. *Excerpted and adapted full original report from John “JV” Venable graduate of the U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons Instructor Course, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Policy in the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation here https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-air-force-serious-decline-207728 |
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