Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training

[Pooter]

I think we need to stop kidding ourselves that anyone in senior leadership is concerned with actual skillsets or experience. 

What is happening is very simple:

We can't maintain the jets we have and we can't acquire new ones in a reasonable timeframe.  At the same time we must keep the slides green at all costs. The only answer left (short of offloading the entire operation to the civilian world) is to retcon what a UPT grad is.

It costs AETC nothing to churn out crap and dump it into b-courses across the other MAJCOMs. B-course instructors will still wash out the weak swimmers, but at that point finding them a new home is an ACC/AMC/AFSOC/AFGSC problem.  AETC's hands are clean (on paper) and the brass at Randolph have figured this out. They can even pitch the UPT cuts as #innovation and cost saving to keep the (even more out of touch) GOs in the Pentagon happy.