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The Air Force wants fighter pilots to end up as generals. In order to do that and compete in the promotion system that is in place in the Air Force, they need t
by zip1234 8y ago
The Air Force wants fighter pilots to end up as generals. In order to do that and compete in the promotion system that is in place in the Air Force, they need to do more than just fly. The fact is that the Air Force wants officers first and pilots second. Perhaps the answer is that pilots should just be warrant officers like in the Army. They can fly their entire career and do just that and nothing else. There would be really good pilots. However, the Air Force wouldn't have fighter pilot generals. The training now takes so long and is so expensive that it seems like a huge waste for a pilot to go through all that and do other things most of the time.
- Jtsummers 8y agoThis is an issue on the civilian side as well. They're strongly encouraging engineers and scientists to pursue management positions and degrees. They're tacitly discouraging pursuit of higher degrees in science and engineering outside of a few areas (and even there it still turns into resume fodder for management positions). So there's becoming a huge drain on the civilian workforce of experienced people and the new people are too young (fresh grads) to keep up the level of capability their predecessors (now bosses) had (and now expect, but don't understand that the new people have no guidance or mentors).