Quote:Broken down fighter jets and tanks weaken the alliance, more than internal funding debates.
It is our military readiness that is in question, not NATO's. The reason for this is actually quite simple. We keep flying our planes into the ground and deploying soldiers and equipment to pointless "wars"! The rest of NATO largely avoids that little bit of stupidity.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2017...aders.html
Quote:Only three of the Army's 58 Brigade Combat Teams are ready to fight; 53 percent of Navy aircraft can't fly; the Air Force is 723 fighter pilots short; and the Marine Corps needs 3,000 more troops.
"We're just flat-out out of money" to address those immediate needs and provide the additional personnel and maintenance funding to plan for the future, Navy Adm. William Moran said Tuesday in summing up the concerns of four-star officers across the services.
And of course, the Pentagon's answer to everything is "give us more money." No matter how much they get it is never enough. In that, they are much like churches.
