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Originally Posted by Bullet
Easy answer. Your numbers a WAY off. According to the March 23rd data from the AF's Manpower Center, their are a little over 14.1 thousand pilots on active duty right now, 2600 of which are rated in fighters. Comes out to about 18% of the active duty pilot strength.
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Seems like a huge change in just over two years since this article was written indicating a primarily fighter pilot shortage and the ratio still at 30%. I don't remember any major realignments (but I am gray haired and half senile):
http://www.airforce-magazine.com/Mag...6shortage.aspx
What would account for the decrease of 1700 fighter pilots during the same period when at the beginnning of the period AF Magazine was describing a shortage?
Could you give a link to your 2600 numbers? Or maybe give a definition of 'rated'?
Or maybe Air Force Magazine is simply publishing bad gouge?
28th March 2009
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