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2015-03-21 -Land of the Free

What they've Been Learning At Obama's Transformed NAVAIR

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Posted by charger 2015-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 I spent 3 months at Navair about 10 years ago doing a systems project audit when they were attempting to install the SAP software.

That experience led me to understand why things in military procurement are so screwed up.

It also leads me to believe that they would DO this. Picture the most effete back-stabbing bureaucrats en masse and you have the main contingent of those in and around HQ.................then I met some of the real fighters. How the latter allowed the former to survive is beyond me.

Posted by AlanC 2015-03-21 08:33|| 2015-03-21 08:33|| Front Page Top

#2 ...because they want to train, fight, break things and the rest of the bureaucracy insists that they manage stuff like budgets, tech, procurement, et al. So they get saddled with people that they insist wear a uniform which falsely assumes that 'going through the course' makes them sensitive to what 'closing with and destroying the enemy' involves.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-21 08:54|| 2015-03-21 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 In one of Stephen Coonts books his comment about Navair is that he's surprised the Navy even owns an airplane.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-03-21 09:56|| 2015-03-21 09:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Just yet another another example of 'corporatism' running amuck in the Navy

Posted by Pappy 2015-03-21 10:56|| 2015-03-21 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Just the natural evolution of what once was called "Watermelon U" only the poor down trodden victim is changed but still the white boys fault.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2015-03-21 10:58|| 2015-03-21 10:58|| Front Page Top

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