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Originally Posted by Zulu29
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News story the other day saying the Air Force is relaxing medical benchmarks for fighter pilots as they are having a hard time retaining/recruiting pilots. They are also hiring British pilots released due to budget cuts in the UK. The medical issue is a cause for concern to me, hiring Brit pilots not so much.
Also semi related, the Sea Kings will be retired next year as the government forges ahead with its Cyclone program. Sikorsky says that we will have fully operational cyclones in......2018. So what do we do for the two years in between? Perhaps the entire fleet will be ready in 2018 and as we get a cyclone we retire a sea king?
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If the medical benchmarks are only based on theoretical situations, but nothing that would realistically hinder them, then I think it is fine.
Recruiting talent from other countries is perfectly fine IMO (whether British or whatever).