Man…. just when we’re getting ready to go to war with Russia over Syria, Ukraine and Queen Hillary’s hacked e-mails. I guess we’ll just have to speed up the deployment of robot aircraft.
Jeremy, I have an answer, 700 welfare hos to be trained to fly—it will be a great way to get rid of those extra planes. Let Tommy Sotomayor commentate from a bunker as the Ho Force wrecks in martyr-making profusion. This will be the new version of the Tuskegee Airmen and will inspire the construction of Queen Ratchet's drone fleet, with The First Paramour bringing cigars to hospital bedsides to comfort the wounded...
A shortage of 700 pilots? This one's easy. First, they made it so you have to serve 10 years after flight school if selected to be a jet jock. Thus, you might as well stay in 20. But now staying in for a career isn't looking so attractive after politically-correct "reforms" accelerated under the Obama administration. Often now you will be flying a drone instead of an F-16 at certain points in your career. You will be held accountable according to he UCMJ for any weapons you deploy based on sparse information fed you along a satellite data backhaul with significant time delay. This information may be low-res video or information from a forward observer. The JAG corps are zealous SJW prosecutors.
Further, aviation itself isn't looking as attractive as a career path as airlines now pay peanuts else they get pilots from the Third World. I rode on a domestic flight where the pilot could barely speak English being a Chinese. Aside from the Japanese, who proved their flight skills in WWII, flight schools in other Asian countries are known for their graft and incompetence.
The latter, however, suggests a way forward. Since our enemies are mostly a hornet's nest stirred up by Washington DC, perhaps we ought to just bring in H1B fighter pilots from Third World flight schools. AFter a minimal checkout (can't the autopilot takeoff and land?), these H1B fighter pilots could be forward deployed to drop bombs on the Syrians fighting to free themselves from foreign intervention (US and ISIS).
Shoot, I could work as a consultant to the Pentagon.