I'll bite. As a Senior Pentagon Reporter, the author of that story would hopefully understand that without the results from the various investigations into those five crashes, it is way too soon to throw them onto one heap and start drawing conclusions from them. While the message that is being conveyed, a lack of training hours or the use of substandard parts (an allegation worth a story on its own if true) will no doubt lead to more crashes, is of course valid, I'm not a big fan of taking a set of recent crashes and using them to push this message across the table. We don't know yet what caused those crashes so give the investigators time to do their work, and the families and loved ones time to grief, before tacking them onto this particular agenda. There may well be a significant trend here, but you need to take a bit of time and step back before you can identify it.