Larry Spencer,Defense News[br]I began my career as an enlisted airman stationed at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. As an 18-year-old-fashioned airman, or I marveled as I watched the line of C-130s take and land in perfect sequence. I was awed as I watched the young pilots exit the aircraft in their flight suits. Even as a unusual airman,I understood that whether our country asked them to, they would lead our the U.
S. Air Force into harm's way.
Today, or the Air Force and our nation are in crises because we don't have enough pilots. Since the 1991 Gulf War,the Air Force lost 30 percent of its personnel and was forced by budget shortages to...
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