106-1 Field Hearing: the Impact of Pilot Shortages on Air Service to Smaller and Rural Markets, S. Hrg. 106-991
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PAIS International in Print
Author: Catherine Korvin
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Published: 2003-05
Total Pages: 2046
ISBN-13: 9781877874284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains bibliographic references with abstracts and subject headings to public and social policy literature and to world politics published in print and electronic formats; international focus.
The Air Force Pilot Shortage
Author: William W. Taylor
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780833028570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Air Force is facing a pilot shortage that is unprecedented in history. Unprecedented losses are occurring for pilots reaching the end of their initial active duty service commitment as well as for pilots who complete bonus-related obligations. Operational units are the only assignment options for newly trained pilots while they mature and develop their mission knowledge. Thus, these units require enough experienced pilots to supervise the development of the new pilots. As the proportion of experienced pilots in a unit drops, each one must fly more to provide essential supervision to an increasing number of new pilots. When the unit1s flying capacity remains fixed, new pilots must each fly less, extending the time needed to become experienced themselves. This report quantifies these experience problems and examines options that can alleviate them. The options include Total Force alternatives, such as associate programs in active units and aging active pilots in Guard and Reserve units.
Reducing Air Force Fighter Pilot Shortages
Author: Albert A. Robbert
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780833091734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines potential paths for overcoming the persistent and critical shortage of fighter pilots that the Air Force has faced over the past several decades.
Evaluating the Impact of a Total Force Service Commitment Policy on Air Force Pilot Manning
Author: David Schulker
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Published: 2018-11-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781977400291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a high level of concern among senior Air Force leaders about projected pilot shortages, which are so severe they have been labeled an "aircrew crisis." The Air Force asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to evaluate whether a Total Force service commitment (TFSC) policy could reduce or eliminate these shortages. Such a policy would replace the current active duty service commitment and reserve service commitment of 10 years with a TFSC longer than 10 years. The new TFSC policy would also permit the level of cross-flow between the Regular Air Force and reserve components that best addresses Total Force shortages. The authors used a modified version of RAND's Total Force Blue Line model to project future pilot numbers under different assumptions about the TFSC policy. The model results show that a TFSC policy could reduce, but not eliminate, shortages if production plans are unalterable; if certain production adjustments are possible, the benefits of longer service commitments become less important. Moreover, the results paint a clear picture that increasing production (and incorporating new pilots into operational units and affording them sufficient flying time to gain experience) is a required way forward in addressing this aircrew crisis
JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER ACQUISITION REFORM: WILL IT FLY?... HEARING... SERIAL NO. 106-202... COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM..., 106TH CONGRESS, 2
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
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Published: 2001*
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe BCCI Affair : a Report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Author: Narcotics United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Terrorism (and International Oper)
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 794
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLivelihood and Landscape Change in Africa: Future Trajectories for Improved Well-Being under a Changing Climate
Author: Sheona Shackleton
Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 3039214691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is based on a Special Issue of the journal LAND that draws together a collection of 11 diverse articles at the nexus of climate change, landscapes, and livelihoods in rural Africa; all explore the links between livelihood and landscape change, including shifts in farming practices and natural resource use and management. The articles, which are all place-based case studies across nine African countries, cover three not necessarily mutually exclusive thematic areas, namely: smallholder farming livelihoods under new climate risk (five articles); long-term dynamics of livelihoods and landscape change and future trajectories (two articles); and natural resource management and governance under a changing climate, spanning forests, woodlands, and rangelands (four articles). The commonalities, key messages, and research gaps across the 11 articles are presented in a synthesis article. All the case studies pointed to the need for an integrated and in-depth understanding of the multiple drivers of landscape and livelihood change and how these interact with local histories, knowledge systems, cultures, complexities, and lived realities. Moreover, where there are interventions (such as new governance systems, REDD+ or climate smart agriculture), it is critical to interrogate what is required to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of emerging benefits.
Beyond the Water's Edge
Author: Kathleen H. Hicks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1442280883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report assesses domestic political support for internationalist foreign policy by analyzing the motivations of members of Congress on key foreign policy issues. It includes case studies on major foreign policy debates in recent years, including the use of force, foreign aid, trade policy and U.S.-Russia relations. It also develops a new series of archetypes for describing the foreign policy worldviews of members of the 115th Congress to replace the current stale and unsophisticated labels of internationalist, isolationist, hawk and dove. Report findings emphasize areas of bipartisan cooperation on foreign policy issues given member ideologies.
Western Diseases
Author: Norman J. Temple
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1468481363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSir Richard Doll, FRS, FRCP ICRF Cancer Research Studies Unit Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK The twentieth century has seen few changes more remarkable than the improvement in health that has occurred nearly everywhere, most spectacularly in the economically developed countries. In these countries improved nutrition, better housing, the control ofinfection, smaller family sizes, and higher standards of education have brought about a situation in which more than 97% of all liveborn children can expect to survive the first half ofthe three score years and ten that formerly was regarded as the allotted span oflife. From then on, however, the position is less satisfactory. Some improvement has occurred; but the proportion of survivors who die prematurely, that is under 70 years of age, varies from 25% to over 50% in men and from 13% to 28% in women, the extremes in both sexes being recorded, respectively, in Japan and Hungary. Most of these deaths under 70 years of age must now be called premature, even in Japan. For most of them are not the result of any inevitable aging process, but instead are the consequences of diseases (or types of trauma) that have lower-often much lower-age-specific incidence rates in many of the least developed countries.
