Yes, my little friends, there will be a time there is only one aircraft to fly. There is also very little time until the very first brand-new spanking new airplane will be within our sights. Yep, right out there on the line awaiting its first crew.
Experience tells me the new will not be allowed to fly to teach its people the capabilities for wartime strategies. The only crew to fly this thing around the stratosphere are the ones fully qualified trained to train the trainers. Otherwise, it will be the guys who were taught like professionally speaking and now they can say it's the first time they can say "Sit-back, let me show you what you can do with this thing".
That date is approaching, students are already in the pipeline and nobody has a clue of what the hell is going on with the curriculum and what stage is it in. I'll ask around, drop a few Q's around to different people.
Let's start with the main-man. The GO-TO guy, the O-4 that will be a civilian soon, the retirement cloud hanging over his head 24 hours a day. Thoughts are transfixed on a future job with enough income to support his family accustomed to their lifestyle.
Haven't heard of any apps for a cell phone that helps in the process of planning or building a syllabus for any future students. Angry Birds has been the chosen one for future training of multi-million dollar airplanes? Say isn't so, the budget cuts have trickled down that far? Give me a break, please.
How about if you drop one cell phone, save the battery, pick-up the main telephone line that reaches around the world. Excuse me, Sir, there seem to be small actual phone calls you could be making at this time. I really think with some dedication you could get to the bottom of this mess you are about to leave us in.
Can't anybody see, do they not care? This is going to be a national tragedy of some sort. How can we get through to this guy our military assets and the defense of our country is in his hands. Goodness, gracious.
Pick up the damn phone, call someone you "think" can possibly have a clue more than you to drop a few Q's and get down to the truth. While everyone means well in one way or another, I can't imagine a single person up the chain of command that knows who is making a what decision, when that decision will be made, why hasn't a decision been made about this or that.
Let's just shoot ourselves in the foot and pray the bullet comes out in my stool one day. We're going to have to shift through a lot of poop to find it, but one day it will be found.
