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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Conflict In The Ranks
"Just look at what's been going on throughout the Air Force. It's as
if drones pose such a threat to traditional means of aerial warfare that
the flying service's historically kneejerk resistance to anything too
closely aligned with sweeping technological change finds it bristling
today at prospective gamechangers of the unmanned sort. Nevermind that
the AF's active remotely-piloted combat aircraft outnumber its active
manned bomber inventory by about 2-to-1. For perspective, as Lt. Col.
Lawrence Spinetta writes in the July issue of the Air & Space Power
Journal, an official USAF publication, consider that 'RPA [remotely-piloted aircraft] personnel enjoy one wing command' while fighter pilots control 26.
In other words, 'the ratio of wing-command opportunities for RPA pilots
versus those who fly manned combat aircraft is a staggering 1-to-26.'
Such personnel policies that seemingly favor manned standbys are part
and parcel of deep-rooted, institutional stigmas. In a 2008 speech,
General Norton Schwarz, who served as AF chief from 2008 to 2012, did
not mince words when he said that this systemic obsession with
all-things manned has turned the Air Force's swelling drone ranks into a
'leper colony.'"
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