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Re: Air Force may recall up to 1,000 retired military pilots to address 'acute shortage'
Savageduck (savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com) 2017/10/21 18:51

On 2017-10-21 23:42:04 +0000, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> said:

> "Miloch"  wrote in message news:osgahp0em6@drn.newsguy.com...
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>> http://abcnews.go.com/US/air-force-recall-1000-retired-military-pilots-address/story?id=50629597

The
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>> United States Air Force could recall as many as 1,000 retired military
>> pilots to active-duty service to address an acute shortage in its ranks.
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> Sounds like "stop-loss" to me. If these pilots are of retirement age,
> how well are they expected to perform in the cockpit of, say, an F-35?

My 94 year old P-47/P-38/P-51 pilot father was thinking the same thing,
but then he went into reserve in 1947.
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Regards,

Savageduck


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