This crap has happened before; in the Carter years. If there is anything that was learned by that painful experience with an idiotic president is that cutting back flight hours to the absolute minimum costs proficiency and ultimately the lives of aviators. The cockpit workload in a modern jet requires that the aviator get enough hours to maintain proficiency. Eleven hours is just not enough. They are endangering our force's readiness and the lives of our aviators to save $2M a month in OPTAR, but at the same time we are paying $59/gal for friggin' bio fuels for our ships and planes. We are wasting OPTAR on eco-bullsh!t that is more expensive and completely pointless, but we won't spend it on things that really matter. We have wasted billions on worthless green energy boondoggles but the White House won't cut those programs. Instead they cut funding for vital operations. That should tell you what the administration's priorities are. The Obama administration is more concerned with advancing the environmentalist agenda than maintaining our national security.
http://hamptonroads.com/2013/05/budget-squeeze-forces-navy-cut-flying-hours
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