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Whatever funding goes to military displays at sporting events can be cut for once. We never had flyovers and 7th-inning-stretch-salutes-to-heroes 20 years ago.
by ikeyany 6y ago
Whatever funding goes to military displays at sporting events can be cut for once. We never had flyovers and 7th-inning-stretch-salutes-to-heroes 20 years ago.
- pfranz 6y agoThe argument that always comes up is that those flights are necessary because they're flight time required for training and public events are recruiting tools since we have a volunteer force. However, reducing the number of pilots/planes mean fewer training missions and reducing the military headcount reduces the need for recruitment.
- Godel_unicode 6y agoNow you're moving the goal posts. Whether paying for flyovers out of the training budget makes sense is orthogonal to how big a military we should have.
- pfranz 6y agoIf flyovers come out of training budgets it's not a cut. The whole premise was reducing unnecessary programs. That has a clear knock-on effect of reducing the need for headcount and recruiting. I'm not a fan of constant military displays at sporting events, but the argument is usually shut down very quickly as required flight-time and as recruitment. I was trying to turn that into a more productive direction.