Operation Midnight Hammer F-16 Pilots Grounded After Refusing to Fly With "Broken Common Sense"
So the Pentagon confirms the "operation midnight hammer f-16 pilots" were sent home from a secret mission because they refused to take off without proper rest? I saw this on the local news feed. These kids want to treat a combat sortie like a 9-to-5 desk job. My grandpa flew missions in Vietnam on three hours of sleep and a cup of black coffee. What happened to grit? What happened to "mission first"? We're paying these pilots six-figure salaries to sit on the tarmac because they're "too tired"? That's not common sense, that's a sense of entitlement. Our tax dollars are buying us a generation of pilots who need a nap before they'll defend the country. Absolute joke.