
After more than 10 years of speeding aviators through school and into war zones without adequate funding, the Army has a shortage of attack helicopter pilots even though it has the money to train them.For at least a decade, the Army has fallen short of its training goal of 1,300 pilots per year. Funding constraints held the Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker to about 900 pilots a year, most of which were trained to fly utility aircraft like…