Why the Number of Military Aviation Accidents Has Increased

[grapes]

NPR Why the Number of Military Aviation Accidents Has Sharply Increased:

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/60163017 ... -increased

Interviewing Tara Copp, Pentagon Bureau Chief for the Military Times:

Copp: So when the first cut in 2013 occurred, the services had to basically take out $37 billion in their base budget in 10 months. And when you have to make that kind of level, steep cut, you go for personnel; you go for training because those are easier things to cut than major weapons systems. And so you saw that they cut training. They cut joint exercises. They started to cut pilot hours.

Whereas, the simple cutting of a single major weapons system might have saved lives? If (expensive) training was necessary in the first place, how is it not necessary in the second place. O well

[SciFiFisher]

The theory is that it is easier to replace personnel and ramp up training when you get increased budgets down the road. What did not happen is the risk analysis and mitigation that would have prevented some of the predictable results of decreased training and maintenance.

Of course, the military will blame operator error for a lot of that.

[Thumper]

[geonuc]

The theory is that it is easier to replace personnel and ramp up training when you get increased budgets down the road. What did not happen is the risk analysis and mitigation that would have prevented some of the predictable results of decreased training and maintenance.

Of course, the military will blame operator error for a lot of that.

Yes, but operator error is exactly what training is designed to mitigate.

[SciFiFisher]

The theory is that it is easier to replace personnel and ramp up training when you get increased budgets down the road. What did not happen is the risk analysis and mitigation that would have prevented some of the predictable results of decreased training and maintenance.

Of course, the military will blame operator error for a lot of that.

Yes, but operator error is exactly what training is designed to mitigate.

I didn't say it was smart. Or that it wasn't a recursive loop.