A brain drain combined with a shortage of recruits is the air force's nightmare scenario. This year the Air Force Academy accepted its first women officer and pilot cadets, looking to women for desk jobs, ground maintenance work and piloting relatively safe, slow-flying aircraft, so as to allow the men to concentrate on fighter aircraft.
今年空軍官校首開先例招收女性軍官和飛行員，希望在兵源不足的情況下，由女性分擔一些文職、地勤修護，以及危險性不高的慢速機駕駛工作，以便將男性主力集中在戰鬥機上。