Rand兰德：2024抓紧时间等待：飞行员短缺下的过度吸收报告（英文版）

the U.S. Air Force (USAF) continues to face a significant shortage of pilots, particularly those who fly fighter aircraft. Though senior leaders have pushed to dramatically increase the production of new pilots, downstream operational squadrons are wrestling a countervailing issue: there are too few experienced and instructor pilots to timely train the growing numbers of inexperienced pilots destined to replace them – in Air Force parlance, units are suffering from over-absorption. Given the