No dog in the hunt... but... if enough eligible FO's aren't applying doesn't using DECS as the solution doom the current FO's to their current job? So why would a well qualified FO apply if he knows he's going to get stuck in the right seat????
And if the requirements have dropped and the candidate pool still isn't large enough what's that say about the future manning/hiring cycle?
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