: Absolutely. Arrogance blinds you to your own shortcomings and
: obscures the strengths of others. So like they say: Pride
: comes before a fall. In this regard it is worth considering
: the following: Recent reports from Russia would seem to
: indicate that NATO forces sustained far heavier losses in
: the Balkans campaign than was publicly acknowledged. A
: steady stream of factual information from the Russian
: media, mostly based on official Russian military sources -
: who were in a position to know, Russia having had two ships
: in the Adriatic during the Balkans campaign, which

: monitored the fighting through electronic surveillance -
: would seem to indicate that NATO suffered some significant
: losses. Amongst these were nearly 60 aircraft, including 3
: F-117A Stealth fighters, helicopters and an RAF C-130
: Hercules which crashed on June 11 in Albania. At the time,
: according to Tass, the Hercules was transporting a British
: SAS unit who were trying to beat Russian paratroopers in
: the race to the Slatina base.
: These figures are close to the figure of 68 NATO planes and
: helicopters downed by the Yugoslavs, a claim made by Gen.
: Spasoje Smiljanic, the then commander of Yugoslav Air Force
: and Air Defence.

: According ITAR-TASS the reason the US did not use its Apache
: helicopters in Kosova was not technical problems or
: insufficient training, as was claimed by NATO spokesmen at
: the time. In fact, the article says, the real reason was a
: daring ground attack carried out by Yugoslav
: "Galeb" fighters against the "Rinas"
: airport in Albania, where the helicopters were based; as a
: result many of the helicopters were either damaged or
: destroyed. A similar operation was carried out on April 18
: against the Tuzla airport in Bosnia, used as an emergency
: landing site for NATO aircraft, and in this attack some 15
: NATO aircraft were destroyed on the ground.

: In short NATO air power suffered some considerable battle
: damage and this has been partially corroborated by an
: article published in London's Observer, earlier this year.
: In an investigative report writer Anthony Barnet discovered
: that: 124 of the RAF's fleet of 186 Tornado bombers are
: grounded.

: Fewer than 40% of other frontline aircraft, including Harriers
: and Jaguars, are ready to fly at short notice.

: In addition low morale has become something of a problem and
: the RAF is having severe problems retaining trained pilots.

: Any guesses as to why? Source: truthinmedia.org
: First published in the Seeker no 5.
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Rixon,
Thanks for responding. I do not have the opportunity to speak with alot of pilots, however, I ran into a pilot about a year ago who was a captain, who trained fighter pilots. He was very straight to the point with me. He stated he was leaving because he was sick of the new world order, taking orders from superiors who were incompetent, promoted because of their sexual orientation, their sex, or their ethnic background. He was enraged about the missions over Iraq in the no-fly zone and many other ridiculous missions in which they were risking their lives for no apparent reason other than to be servants of the NWO. He stated he could make more out of the military for alot less risks.
This was straight from the horses' mouth!
I personally believe it is designed to break moral. The powers that be want America to end up with a shell army with very little power and a disarmed citizenry. We are being groomed for the global plantation.