As an Air Force vet, I think he accurately identifies the problem but I don't think the solution is what he thinks it is. The Army has been flying with Warrant

As an Air Force vet, I think he accurately identifies the problem but I don't think the solution is what he thinks it is. The Army has been flying with Warrant Office pilots for years. They make less money, but they don't require a college degree so they have a _much_ larger pool of applicants. The solution is to disentangle leadership and piloting. Currently, because they're all officers, pilots view themselves as leaders of men. However, as the author of this post says, the most leading a pilot will ever do is lead a flight of jets. Piloting has always been a tactical skill, and its place as an officer-exclusive job makes it incorrectly perceived as a gateway to a strategic career. You only needed a high school degree to fly in WW2, and I honestly believe the Air Force should be hiring pilots based solely on ability to fly vs credentialism. As a funny aside, the Air Force originally gave up Warrant Officers so that they could have have higher ranked enlisted personnnel (E-9). Afterwards, all of the other services complained that their enlisted personnel were outranked by the Air Force so they got E-9s and didn't have to give up their warrants.