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2008-07-18 Home Front: WoT

Air Force brass seek anti-terror funds for luxury 'comfort capsules'

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Posted by ryuge 2008-07-18 02:52|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Elitism knows no bounds it would seem.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-18 08:22|| 2008-07-18 08:22|| Front Page Top

#2 The Air Force's top leadership

Please explain the above term. I always felt it an honor to sit in troop seats in the back of a C-17 medivacs carrying the wounded from Balad to Ramstein and Landstuhl.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-18 09:38|| 2008-07-18 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 And they wonder why the other services make fun of them as "Chairborne".

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-18 09:58|| 2008-07-18 09:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Not a good way to endear yourself to the troops or the people considering buying you more F-22s.

Asshats.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-07-18 10:26|| 2008-07-18 10:26|| Front Page Top

#5 37-inch flat-screen monitor with stereo speakers, and a full-length mirror.

Equal height, hope the mirror is designed by folks what understand foreshortening.

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-18 11:49|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-18 11:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Of course, the toilet in this capsule will have the luxury class $600 toilet seat.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-07-18 11:51|| 2008-07-18 11:51|| Front Page Top

#7 What'd Ike have in 1944?

Posted by Fred 2008-07-18 12:35|| 2008-07-18 12:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Ike didn't shit. He was strong that way.
He did pee pee, but only after a bad hand.

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-18 12:37|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-18 12:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Then there are THESE Comfort Capsules available for only $89k:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nicolebrodeur/2008058612_brodeur18m.html

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-07-18 13:59|| 2008-07-18 13:59|| Front Page Top

#10 They always assume that it is being done for petty reasons.

That is, why go to all this trouble for a military aircraft when you can get much better right now on civilian aircraft? This is not an idle question. Who wants to fly in a military aircraft when you have a *choice* to fly in a luxurious civilian aircraft?

Obviously, someone who does not want to get noticed, either traveling discreetly, or in an area with a lot of surface to air missiles.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-18 14:05|| 2008-07-18 14:05|| Front Page Top

#11 What's next: the escape capsules as wonderfully demonstrated in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK?
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Snake Plissken Rules! Purple Hearts in Leningrad and Siberia for operations "Black Light" and "Texas Thunder"!

Posted by borgboy 2008-07-18 14:10|| 2008-07-18 14:10|| Front Page Top

#12 They always assume that it is being done for petty reasons.

Yep, the idea of strategic comfort is lost on the n00bs.

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-18 14:26|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-18 14:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Ike's trip to Casablanca 1943

Then, just as the bomber reached an altitude high enough to go over the mountain range, the engine abruptly stopped. Eisenhower was not very concerned since a B-17 with a light load could easily fly on three engines. But then there was something to worry about when an engine on the left wing began shaking and belching black smoke. Fortunately, the aircraft had just passed over the mountain peaks and had clearance to make a long, almost gliding, descent towards their destination. But just as they started down, the cranky engine on the left wing stopped. Then a third engine began to misfire. They werent far from Casablanca, but not close enough to make the airfield on one engine. The pilot ordered all of the passengers to put on their parachutes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-07-18 16:41|| 2008-07-18 16:41|| Front Page Top

#14 Rantburg Hall of Fame stuff! LMAO!

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2008-07-18 17:10|| 2008-07-18 17:10|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm smelling Manned "MOTHERSHIP" + DUAL-PURPOSE COMFORT/SURVIVAL CAPSULE, ala GLOBAL STRIKE + SPACE STRIKE.

The USDOD-USAF has plans for 24-7-365 C&C crafts [Nodes/Nodal]flying "permanently" in
low-orbit pre-assigned paths around the Earth.

* "SPACE PLANE" > NON-COMBAT/MIL MANNED SPACECRAFT???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-18 19:36|| 2008-07-18 19:36|| Front Page Top

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