[Cornpone]

I can understand that...towards the end of my career they classified the attrition rate because we were losing so many people under Clinton's philosophy of do the impossible with nothing. We cut the force to less than half of what it was when I joined and the ops tempo increased by two and a half times. I had to have my XXXXXX talk to my wife and convince her it wasn't a good idea to call my commanding XXXXX and accuse him of trying to kill me with stupidity.

[mystery-ak]

When Mike left for Iraq they had 23 pilots....one KIA...returned home and 13 of them retired...their wives had had enough....they now have nine with 6 more in flight school, they are still understrengthed. I just don't understand these wives...unless they are using their wives as an excuse.