"Is it just an issue of subsidies?" Kobudo prompted the major to continue.
"No, no, of course not!" Major Langeff gestured towards the airplanes behind him, "Look at our planes; they're all reconnaissance planes, not a single machine-gun plane, not one!"
Several pilots couldn't help but crowd around, voicing their complaints all at once:
"Even the reconnaissance planes are over a year old; they're constantly breaking down."
"I'm short on parts and can't fix them."
"And the infantry only cares about one thing; they need to know something and send us up to check it out. They always think it's so easy."
...
The more they talked, the more disgruntled they became, and soon, their complaints turned into outright grievances, wanting to drag those infantrymen here to experience it themselves.
Kobudo timely stoked the fire, "I heard that one of the planes shot down by the enemy recently came from your airfield?"
The pilots' anger was immediately ignited:
