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2015-03-29 Home Front: WoT

Questions About Plans to Shutter Vital Airlift Wing

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Posted by Steve White 2015-03-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 “Of all places in the world, why would we take that capability away from Fort Bragg?” he said.

Time tested USAF funding strategy. Oh, you don't like beans and cornbread? Fine! Dinner is over forever.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-29 07:33|| 2015-03-29 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Two ways to look at this:

1) Who in NC pi$$ed off the Administration?
2) The USAF is so damned obsessive over the F-35, that they're about to slit the throat of the last real rapid forced-entry capability we have left so that they can afford the overruns on the Block 1 cupholders for the blankety-blanking things. And if that's the case, then the USAF leadership is literally out of control.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-03-29 07:52|| 2015-03-29 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I vote for obsessive U.S. Air Force overstepped bounds in SpaceX certification: report

Posted by 3dc 2015-03-29 10:52|| 2015-03-29 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 another comment seen on the AF:
The Air Force is offered a better (cheaper) mouse trap, they agree to to buy said mouse trap if you make it just like the expensive mouse traps we have been buying all along. This is why the private sector has raced ahead of the military, Darpa, and other government research programs in many critical areas.

Posted by 3dc 2015-03-29 10:56|| 2015-03-29 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 I know I will take some heat for this but maybe the Air Force should be subsumed into the Army Air Corps again. They seem to be enamoured in winning wars solely through air power again. Which doesn't happen.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2015-03-29 13:51|| 2015-03-29 13:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Flying transports into combat areas isn't glamorous like flying around as a zoomie. Well, being part of a team for a mission bigger than all of you is a pretty neat thing.

I do this as an engineer designing a water treatment or a waste heat recovery project. We are a team, including drafters, planners, procurement people, construction superintendents, local laborers.

We don't have room for hyper inflated egos or ulterior motives. Just basic honesty. The Air Force needs to do some serious soul searching. They are part of a big team. Should be an integral part.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-03-29 14:44|| 2015-03-29 14:44|| Front Page Top

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