PENTAGON – Troubling reports just recently released by the Pentagon reveal that as of New Year's Eve, only 41 percent of Marine Corps aviators were able to get their aircraft up.

"Yeah, the timing was really unfortunate, not being able to get it up for New Year's or uh, since November really. I just have a lot going on right now," said an embarrassed deputy commandant of Marine Corps aviation who wished to remain anonymous.

With the stress of trying to keep up with the massively-extended election drama and the inevitable engorgement and subsequent downtime resulting from Thanksgiving and Christmas, aviators still aren't ready to go again.