A lot are overmanned on paper. Friend of mine was told by the "Chiefs group" that you need to forget about the airplane. He's like "but that's my job" they wanted to move him to a minimal flying billet to increase chances for promotion. So who takes up that slack? The on paper overmanned dudes.
If night two of Eagle Claw happened we wouldâve been going against our own stuff, I Hawks, there was no kill switch. Intell said they were pretty sure they were in a state of disrepair.