Re the 12 hours and:
From a lay perspective, that seems appallingly little practice for someone who's supposed to be a professional doing complicated, risky work in a modern and well-funded military.
FWIW I seem to have hazy memories of something like 15 hours a month being the NATO requirement/norm way back when I was squadron stats officer on a fast jet squadron 30 plus years ago...
I spend more time than that eating lunch.
I'll refrain from further comment
