How can it be? If OTS turns out the same product in what used to be 13 weeks, now around 9, I just don't see any argument other than all the Generals sitting around their Carona meetings saying "this is just the way it's always been..."
Hope not. I always thought instructors running EPs on the ground were joking about trying to avoid fire trucks after emergency ground egressing and such.
Overheard two T-1 studs in the sim building snack bar a month or two ago:
Shitpants 1- "I'm gonna try to do some hand flying today..."
Shitpants 2- "Yeah bro! Me too. I haven't actually flown the jet since transition, and somehow got 50 kts slow on that climbout yesterday..."
"Brick, where'd you get a hand-grenade?"
https://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/01/28/police-man-buys-missile-launcher-from-another-during-weapons-buyback-event/