training officers, a problem some pilots say it can never made up. today that number has been reduced to 750 flight hours and 150 carrier landings. on our recent visit to uss george h.w. bush, the head of the ships air wing says his pilots are as ready as he was. there are hours are indicative of the hours i got sprayed when i would say is that our training system to include our aircraft as well as our training evolutions are far superior to what i received when i was a young guy. some critics question whether the u.s. can fight to conflicts at once. all we can handle is one major theater of war, then that encourages adventurism on the part of someone else. we have to be able to fight and win in a minimum of two major
some pilots say it can never made up. today that number has been reduced to 750 flight hours and 150 carrier landings. on our recent visit to uss george h.w. bush, the head of the ships air wing says his pilots are as ready as he was. there are hours are indicative of the hours i got sprayed when i would say is that our training system to include our aircraft as well as our training evolutions are far superior to what i received when i was a young guy. some critics question whether the u.s. can fight to conflicts at once. all we can handle is one major theater of war, then that encourages adventurism on the part of someone else. we have to be able to fight and win in a minimum of two major theater wars simultaneously or
the training evolutions going on, training the police and the afghan army they re also out on patrol with afghan forces. american forces are standing side by side, shoulder to shoulder with afghan forces. you have to wonder about the level of trust. that will undermined the training and undermined the effectiveness of them working together in the field against the taliban. heather: i put this question online and on twitter and facebook and the response i always get back from troop members who are there, they want to know what is the biggest threat to stabilization in afghanistan? well i think it obviously is the insurgency. there are many, many challenges in afghanistan, heather. economic challenges. this is a country that doesn t have, it is not industrialized. there are the drug problems. remember afghanistan is the largest producer of opium in the world. you have governmental problems. governance is new to these people. democracy is new to these people. you have the insurgency are