it had been gaining strength and, you know, people in the bahamas right now, i feel for them. we are on ground zero for hurricane katrina. i ve lived through this and lived through it many times being a resident of the mississippi gulf coast, new orleans, all the way to florida. i ve never left the gulf coast and never will. there is always this threat every year this time of the season. what safety pressures do hurricane hunters follow? one of the biggest things is we fly training missions pretty much on a daily basis and train all year. i m flying again wednesday and bringing up one of our brand new pilots so this will be one of his first major hurricanes he s had the opportunity to fly in. we stick to our training and follow the rules and regulations that we have. we have a phenomenal team of maintainers here at the 403rd air lyft wing. these guys are doing an incredible job at keeping these planes going for us. we have ten aircraft. the wing is comprised of about 1300 citizen a
barack obama took effect. so colonel, how can we reverse that? well, part of it is a big part is funding issue or if you re not going to fund the military for global operations then you to scale back what your aspirations are, national interests are at. as an example, fighter pilot in cold war would fly 220 to 250 hours a year, the average fighter pilot is 120. half of the time, maybe two out of 5 aircraft that are even available to train on and it just creates a situation where no funding minimum min maintainers, active fuel, operational costs for getting planes up and then you have a young captain and his crew that gets on the plane and you re asking them to undertake this fairly risky operation. so america has to decide is it worth to have military that we have to secure interest globally or not.
across the marine corps, navy, 24/7 operation, you know, factors, fatigue, maintainers, lack of aircraft for pilots to maintain certifications, again, they all contribute to risky situation. eric: let me tell you what military times reported a few months ago, in-depth investigation of these and say the accident rate up is about 40% from 2013 to 207, 133, 133 service members have been killed in these type of unfortunate and tragic accidents. this is what the military times quote, massive congressional budget since 2013, exodus of personnel, flight training hours, spike began in 2013, that was the year sequestration, automatic budget cuts agreed to by congress and former president
which indicates that they were treating this as a terrorist incident as we said the republicans and president trump have often cast themselves as the maintainers of law and order and as we heard the attorney general say this is a law and order administration the president also came out and said we need to unify the country we can t allow this sort of political violence to go forward it seems that they are sort of trying to backpedal a little bit and put forward the message that we don t like this any more than you do we are not condoning this even if it looks like this guy might be a present president from supporter we don t like this we don t want this guy associated with us thank you so much for that want to take our viewers now to new york city to our correspondent. who had a son in new york abbie it s been a very eventful day where you are even more packages and bomb scares today
data to support a direct correlation. i spoke with a senior navy official who tells me folks deploying are having what they need at the expense of those at home because of the way the military has been funded over the past eight or nine years in terms of making sure that those who are deployed are getting what they need but then you have to consider how the military planning is done and training is done. if people don t have the training that they need they aren t proficient enough to handle emergencies when they happen. it s a matter of maintenance, having the right parts and also having the right pilot hours and the right training for our maintainers and air crew. sandra: the southwest flight you can weigh in on as well. another incident with a southwest airlines plane. another cracked window. this flight was taking off from chicago headed to newark made an emergency landing in cleveland. what do you know about this? first of all i want to mention they did not actually declare an