We had literally thousands of people going to school for electronics and various maintenance fields at any given time, it’s not even close to 0.1%. More like 20-30%.
Yes, absolutely. Who do you think is fixing all the tanks, ships and planes? You think we outsource that shit?
For every person who fights there are ten who fix their various equipment. Go look up AFSCs and Navy rates and at least half are directly maintenance related.
Every branch has fixed wing aircraft and helicopters, Army and Marines have ground vehicles that need repaired, and the Navy has ships and submarines jam packed with warfare and fire control electronics. It’s crazy you think otherwise and it’s obvious you have no actual knowledge.
You can look up the numbers, each year 6000 people are trained in repair by the united states military, that’s not 200000. The united states military contracts 350000 civilians for contract work. The united states military only gets about 60000 new people a year, that’s still not 200000 people. I’m not saying there are not educated people in the military I’m just saying it isn’t 200000. According to you we need 200000 highly educated people to fix our 5,500 tanks, and 13000 planes. Your numbers just don’t make sense
I didn’t say 200,000 people were trained every year, you did. What’s the total volume of the military at any point in time per capital that are in maintenance roles? Whether that’s the FC’s who fix CIWS or the AS’s who repair electrical issues on support equipment, everyone who uses tools to fix something.
Our squadron had almost 100 people in maintenance for 7-10 aircraft depending on mission requirement, that’s not even counting I level who fixed the circuit boards and did soldering which we never even saw. If you saw maintenance to flight hours depicted on a spreadsheet you’d realize it’s not remotely unrealistic for that many people to be in maintenance. Plus, planes and tanks make up less than half of the equipment that needs fixed, what about all the other vehicles infantry uses? The hundreds of ships the Navy uses? How many airman work on nuclear missiles and satellites?
You’re blindspots in how many things need repaired are huge, and your assessment of how many people it takes to fix one plane or one tank is totally off.
You said 20% which would be a little more then 200000. The current military is roughly 1.4 million people. I have no blind spot in how much repair things need but you have a blindspot in the actual technical training required to repair. Most jobs are hyper focused and dummy proof. You are saying over 200000 military people are highly skilled and trained in high tech which is simply not true. Majority is grunt work any yockle could do. There is a reason they have been lowering the education levels required, it’s because you just don’t need a lot of brain power to follow orders and perform basic tasks repetivly
Correct, however I never said that was the amount trained per year which is the only data you’ve shown. I’m not arguing your math, you’re just misrepresenting the problem.
That depends heavily on branch, in the Air Force one guy takes a tire off and another installs it. In the Navy the guy running Quality Assurance checks on your engine swapout might be the guy fueling your plane or launching you out. Same with the Marines.
It’s true that the job of removal and installation is fairly dummy proof given you can read and follow instructions, but actually being able to lay out a schematic/circuit diagram and troubleshoot? Absolutely not lol get the fuck out of here.
We had literally thousands of people going to school for electronics and various maintenance fields at any given time, it’s not even close to 0.1%. More like 20-30%.
Out of 1.4 million I’ll give ya the thousands in electronics but it ain’t 20%
Thousands in training at any one time, there’s tens of thousands actually in the fleet.
You think over 200000 people are high level tech people in the military? Lol
Yes, absolutely. Who do you think is fixing all the tanks, ships and planes? You think we outsource that shit?
For every person who fights there are ten who fix their various equipment. Go look up AFSCs and Navy rates and at least half are directly maintenance related.
Every branch has fixed wing aircraft and helicopters, Army and Marines have ground vehicles that need repaired, and the Navy has ships and submarines jam packed with warfare and fire control electronics. It’s crazy you think otherwise and it’s obvious you have no actual knowledge.
You can look up the numbers, each year 6000 people are trained in repair by the united states military, that’s not 200000. The united states military contracts 350000 civilians for contract work. The united states military only gets about 60000 new people a year, that’s still not 200000 people. I’m not saying there are not educated people in the military I’m just saying it isn’t 200000. According to you we need 200000 highly educated people to fix our 5,500 tanks, and 13000 planes. Your numbers just don’t make sense
I didn’t say 200,000 people were trained every year, you did. What’s the total volume of the military at any point in time per capital that are in maintenance roles? Whether that’s the FC’s who fix CIWS or the AS’s who repair electrical issues on support equipment, everyone who uses tools to fix something.
Our squadron had almost 100 people in maintenance for 7-10 aircraft depending on mission requirement, that’s not even counting I level who fixed the circuit boards and did soldering which we never even saw. If you saw maintenance to flight hours depicted on a spreadsheet you’d realize it’s not remotely unrealistic for that many people to be in maintenance. Plus, planes and tanks make up less than half of the equipment that needs fixed, what about all the other vehicles infantry uses? The hundreds of ships the Navy uses? How many airman work on nuclear missiles and satellites?
You’re blindspots in how many things need repaired are huge, and your assessment of how many people it takes to fix one plane or one tank is totally off.
You said 20% which would be a little more then 200000. The current military is roughly 1.4 million people. I have no blind spot in how much repair things need but you have a blindspot in the actual technical training required to repair. Most jobs are hyper focused and dummy proof. You are saying over 200000 military people are highly skilled and trained in high tech which is simply not true. Majority is grunt work any yockle could do. There is a reason they have been lowering the education levels required, it’s because you just don’t need a lot of brain power to follow orders and perform basic tasks repetivly
Correct, however I never said that was the amount trained per year which is the only data you’ve shown. I’m not arguing your math, you’re just misrepresenting the problem.
That depends heavily on branch, in the Air Force one guy takes a tire off and another installs it. In the Navy the guy running Quality Assurance checks on your engine swapout might be the guy fueling your plane or launching you out. Same with the Marines.
It’s true that the job of removal and installation is fairly dummy proof given you can read and follow instructions, but actually being able to lay out a schematic/circuit diagram and troubleshoot? Absolutely not lol get the fuck out of here.