Well, to get back to this becoming a serious discussion...
So, what causes military aviation mishaps? Why do we have so many accidents when we know the costs are so high, both in the lives lost and the machines our tax payers paid so dearly for?
No really easy answer here, but it was touched on a little in the other thread. What we find is the vast majority of military aviation mishaps will include pilot error as either the primary cause or a contributing factor.
Now, are we training a bunch of idiots, or do we have a population of stupid people who have somehow gravitated towards the military aviation career field? Quite the contrary; most, if not all, of the aviators you will find are VERY intelligent, extremely competent, and extra-ordinarily gifted. Not a boast, we simply maintain that standard by making the initial training process extremely exacting and difficult to succeed in if you don't possess those qualities (myself being an exemption to that trend). In short, we WEED OUT those who will be a danger, both to themselves and their fellow aviators.
But why the mishaps then? Simple -- people make mistakes. All the time! Granted, there are those examples where some will ignore rules or common sense in their duties. THOSE few are the stupid ones, the dangerous ones.
But mistakes happen. And in the environments the military aviator flies, the risk that those mistakes will lead to more mishaps is greater simple because the margin for error is smaller than say your typical airline type of sortie. Quite simply, the military requires our aircraft to DO MORE, RISK MORE, and FLY HARDER than what would be acceptable in the civilian world. And we do this because our mission REQUIRES it. We fly faster, lower, higher, slower, closer to each other, in more crowded airspace, pulling more Gs, executing more maneuvers, etc. than the civilian world. All factors that make our missions more riskier.
With all that being said, how do we try to achieve safety? Another simple answer; by learning from the mistakes others have made. When I flew in F-15Es, the pre-flight brief for EVERY training sortie included a portion that went over the "Training Rules", things we were supposed to do (or not do) while flying that day's mission. Where did these rules come from? From the lessons learned (the hard way) from those who have gone before us.
So, to summarize this long post: Mishaps happen usually because someone made a mistake (not because someone is stupid as has been suggested). The margin for error in military flying usually means that those mistakes will have higher risks towards a mishap. We also try to minimize those mistakes by adhering to lessons learned and training rules designed to minimize those mistakes and their consequences.
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