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Read an article like this, and you just have to LAUGH at all the people that say defense corruption is just 'a conspiracy theory'.

Unbelieveable.

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I've been hearing bits and pieces of info about Rumsfield and certain projects meeting his resistance - is he a good SECDEF for the good of the military?

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He sucks as SecDef and only 911 has kept him in office. Pre 911 the Brass were more than upset with Rummy. His claim to fame, while avoiding the Korean War, he joined the Navy in 54 and spent 3 odd years IPing in T-28s.

The only new weapons system he stopped was the cold war Crusader. Everything else is in play. None of these weapons would do squat in Iraq/Afghan.

Rummy will go down in history along the lines of former SecDef McNamara. Neither one has a clue on combat.

This crap of leasing tankers is really BS. Ain't nothing wrong with the KC-135 fleet of tankers if the pour a few bucks into updating aircraft that normally fly in the middle of the envelope. With lots of airframe life left.

Just ask Sen. John McCain his thoughts on 767s, ROFL.

Jack

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An S-3 only provides a few hundred gallons of bring back capability to help Carrier Fighter aviation return to a boat. Their busy nursing the Tit on a C-130 or KC-10...For Mission needs.

A 70,000 Gallon tanker can only supply x amount of Fighters before it has to RTB, Refuel and Get back up on station. The only thing that has released the burdon was in the more Capable multi role fighters not requireing extra special mission aircraft in their package. if their ever was some type of Dollar savings. Fuel per package would probably be it.

I think its time to retire them 1960-70's birds and save our "Aviation industry"

Who ever thought we needed to solicite the french to save our defense logistic plan, needs to loose citizenship and become a french citizen.

Frances only contribution to modern warfare has been the term "surrender" to the warfighting dictionary

"The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see their near and dear bathed in tears, to ride their horses and sleep on the white bellies of their wives and daughters."
-Genghis Khan

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