Fewer planes are ready to fly: Air Force mission-capable rates decline amid pilot crisis

The readiness of the Air Force’s aircraft fleet is continuing its slow, steady deterioration — and this could spell trouble for the service’s effort to hold on to its pilots and its ability to respond to contingencies around the world.
— Read on www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/03/05/fewer-planes-are-ready-to-fly-air-force-mission-capable-rates-decline-amid-pilot-crisis/

The market forces at work, more pay more pilots. Less pay, less pilots, this is not complicated.

Republican lawmakers in tight races now embrace gun control measures

A majority of Republican lawmakers in the tightest congressional races are changing their message on guns, expressing new support for restrictions after last month’s high school shooting in Florida, according to a Reuters review of the candidates’ public statements.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-guns-insight/republican-lawmakers-in-tight-races-now-embrace-gun-control-measures-idUSKCN1GJ1EL

A bad idea