I don’t get it. The military needs trained pilots for all kinds of equipment and assignments. Yet as an example, a close relative was trained to fly in the Navy, went on to fly and command heavy communications platforms, but that assignment including training to fly big iron only lasted about 3 years. Then they assigned him as a flight instructor, and then finally as a non-flying officer on an aircraft carrier before he retired at a young age, to go fly commercially. The assignments pushed him out, even though he was a young line officer, had a spotless record and amazing skills. The military needs to have their collective heads examined. Any pilot shortage is the fault of woke politics and the US military, not the economy or those already in the service.