Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
please explain the multiple crashes that killed people then
Did you read the thread? I don't think we were speaking above your level.

When a President who could care less about the military because he's off on his own program, such as Carter, Clinton and Obama ... the first place they look for money is the military. The military divides its funds. They present a budget to the Service Secretaries who in turn present it to the President. The budget is divided into categories for each service. In the Marines it's green (Marine) and blue (Navy). The latter being funding for those Marines assigned to Naval vessels.

The President determines for the most part our military obligations world-wide. So when he's stealing our money in terms of materiel and manpower, yet sending more troops to wherever, he is decreasing our strength while increasing our OpTempO (missions). Meaning you get less to do more with. With that "less" you have to meet all the operational commitments meant for more manpower. Fatigue alone decreases the efficiency of the force. That's fatigue to both manpower and materiel. Shortcuts get taken to keep things moving. The first thing that goes is training. The manpower is too busy working to train, The money is not there to buy the necessary materiel to train. Your choice is man the force or train the men. If your men re in training, they aren't meeting operation commitments. In the military, there are no places or people to bitch to.

So, you end up with a pilot steering a ship who has had half his training, has less hours at the helm, the watch is short due to a lack of personnel, and you're just asking for it.

We've got 8 years worth of neglect floating and flying around out there. Frankly, I'm surprised there hasn't been more accidents. That just goes to show you that you can give us shit to work with and we'll make the damned thing go. But your rulebook was used for TP in order to do so.