US War Readiness In Jeopardy As Pilots Flee- 'Morale Is Really As Bad As I've Seen It'
F. Michael Maloof * WND
WASHINGTON – As if to dramatically illustrate repeated claims top generals have made to WND of a purge of senior officers and a degradation of military readiness under President Obama’s leadership, stunning testimony at a recent Senate committee hearing shows America may soon be unable to fight and win a war.
The Air Force is having problems retaining its pilots, even though they are being offered big bonuses to remain, senators learned at the Nov. 7 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
The problem appears to be partly from sequestration, which has imposed budget limitations on pilots’ ability to get in both the requisite flying time and the training needed to fly the next generation of aircraft, according to Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning.
He expressed grave concern about the trend toward budget cutbacks.
Likewise, at a recent Defense One Summit in Washington, Fanning warned that “we’re going to have flying hour issues for the foreseeable future,” a reference to the reality that pilots must fly a certain number of hours to maintain their ratings on various aircraft.
But Fanning said each U.S. squadron will be subject to rolling groundings of two to three months.
However, for the pilots, the issue isn’t just financial, as they have been offered major cash bonuses as an incentive to stay.
However, Fanning said, “pilots aren’t taking them.”
Instead, he said, pilots want to fly and are looking to the private sector where the retirement of commercial pilots is opening new opportunities.
Sequestration, those mandatory percentage cuts set up by President Obama and implemented when Congress failed to address cuts in other areas, has not only cut back operations, but necessary investment in new-generation aircraft.
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In Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” which all military commanders, especially the Russians, study closely, warns among so many other things that to stay in a permanent state of war is to eventually succumb to defeat as no country can afford to maintain a war footing indefinitely.
The wars in the Middle East were for Israel, the Banksters and Big Oil. Iraq had no WMD, and Afghanistan’s sin was to harbor Bin Laden, although they offered to turn him over to European authorities, America refused that option. Neither Iraq nor Bin Laden were tied to 9/11 and our Intelligence Agencies and Administrations have admitted the same. But then we have Paul O’Neil, former Secretary of the Treasury and CEO of Alcoa, who was present in the Oval Office when the Administration were discussing how to find an excuse to attack “seven” of the Middle Eastern countries, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon, and Iran, in order to secure these countries oil, minerals and path for future pipelines from the Caspian Sea – this also admitted by General Wesley Clark.
Now that our military has been depleted both in manpower, readiness, weaponry, and needed supplies, etc, and monies are drying up, we fall into what Sun Tzu warned about – the foolish attempt to conquer the world. The former Administrations adopted a policy of military world domination in what is called PNAC – or Project For a New American Century – that is use American lives, monies, and resources to secure Oil, minerals, wealth and geo-political power worldwide for the elite, bankers and Israel, but not for America. Now we pay the price for making so many new enemies and for the lies fostered on the American peoples through the controlled Marxist Media.
John Rolls,
How naive can you be?
This “lack of retention” of air force pilots and navy personal has NOTHING to do with “morale”.
It has EVERYTHING to do with “refusing to perform suicide missions”!
Your very smart boys and girls KNOW that they are DEAD MEAT to follow the orders of your very evil leaders anymore!
Very soon, you will see US military personal REFUSE to get on ships and in jets, because AT LEAST IN THE BRIG THEY WILL BE ALIVE!
John, people like you just refuse to see the truth!
Your very corrupt YEARLY $750 BILLION dollar “defense” budget for the last 10 years HAS BEEN UNDONE!
YOU ARE NOW technologically a distant 2nd to one classification of weapon; modified and shared by the Russians’ with all of their allies, called the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). It is called ram jet rocket engines!
Take a peak, John, you do not have to believe me!
MOSKIT – the best anti-ship missile in the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YknxpMZKAZk
S-400 «Triumph» ( SA-21 Growler )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSwQOcQ-3RI
Russian submarine TK-208 Dmitri Donskoi (06.06.2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdl1v9Y1hsk
The Ram-jet rockets can also deliver Electro Magnetic Pulse devices that will blind all of the US military spy satellites, and would likely burn out all the US CENTCOM Theater communications back to the Pentagon WORLDWIDE!
YOU MORONS OF the united Fascists States of military TERROR HAVE BEEN surrounded!
And, are about to be isolated both militarily AND economically for a long, long, time from the rest of the civilized world!
Your “country, John Rolls, HAS COME UNDONE!
Gee….the republican held congress, holds the key to this supposed situation. They are the ones blocking everything and doing all of the cutting. So…you silly righties want to blame Obama? lol
This administration spends 80 billion a month propping up the private banking sector, spends unlimited amounts on vacations, and has no limitations on entitlements. Of course; there is no money to pay its military. What about the 1.75 billion recently sent to Egypt when they have no real government ? The list goes on and on … what a farce