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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Case for why its not a waste of taxpayer money: Military pilots are required to log a certain number of flight hours periodically to stay current on their training. IIRC this number varies by platform and service but its generally pretty high. Simulators have started to take some of this load, but simulators are not perfect replacements for real-world experience, so a percentage of hours are still mandated to be in the air.  

So military pilots can get their training hours flying circles around empty fields for the enjoyment of cows, or they can do flyovers of public events and return some entertainment to the people who ultimately funded this training.   

Now, one could say that we don't need all these military pilots and aircraft, but thats honestly a separate debate. The current fact is that we do have them, and it's far cheaper to you, the taxpayer, for a B-2 to pass over the Superbowl than it would be for that same B-2 to crash into the side of a mountain because the pilot hasn't flown in 18 months
gpt
I'm with you all the way. I'm somewhere between top and bottom right above. I just wanted to capture the quadrant infighting over things like this.