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Post by texiban001 on Jul 10, 2008 13:19:46 GMT -5
The USAF has gotten their behinds smacked by the SECDEF. AF awarded a tanker contract to Lockheed/Airbus for a new aerial refueling tanker. Thing is though is that the AF changed the rules in the middle of the game and failed to tell Boeing.
My question to all of you is this:
Do you want to send 40,000 AMERICAN jobs to the EUROTRASH and have our pilots depend on a jet that is not AMERICAN MADE?
My answer is no! I know that we do indeed buy some of our military equipment from Europe, but I do not want to send that kind of money and jobs to countries that have forgotten how much they owe this country and try to stab us in the back every chance they get. F**K EUROPE!
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Post by texiban001 on Jul 31, 2008 10:31:04 GMT -5
Different issue but still applies.
Why did it take the Air Force over 6 months to discipline officers over letting a B-52 fly across the country loaded with nuclear weapons but the Navy can dismiss 2 commanding officers, one commanded an LHD, USS Pearl Harbor, that grounded on a sandbar, the other was CO of USS George Washington(CVN-73) and the Executive Officer of same for damages caused by crew and unauthorized storage of flammable material, in less than a month?
Sounds like the Air Force could take a few command management lessons from the Navy!
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Post by jamesa46 on Jul 31, 2008 21:07:28 GMT -5
The Air Force also let one of their pilots take one of their B-52's on a personal flight to show off. The guy had a reputation for taking wild risks and they let him take that giant bomber anyway to let a local station tape him doing some of his wild antics with a B-52.
He did a 45 degree turn just above the ground with the bomber flying sideways just to show off. He didn't have a enough lift to get the bomber to straighten out and gain altitude. Instead, it crashed and burns and this hotshot cowboy also kills his co-pilot in the meantime. Plus he destroys a multi-million dollar bomber paid for by us because he was just trying to show off.
This happened about two years ago.
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Post by texiban001 on Aug 1, 2008 10:08:52 GMT -5
The Air Force lets their pilots get away with a lot of sh*t. My boss was an F-16C pilot in the AF and he told me that they used to let the pilots fly to different locations for "cross country navigational exercises". During the course of this "training" they got the opportunity to go to Los Angeles for the Rose Bowl and other sporting events. They got to fly these state of the art fighters to these events at taxpayer expense!
I know for a fact that the Navy strictly limits any use of their aircraft for public display and does not allow overnight stays with a fighter aircraft. Most public appearances are done by the Blue Angels, not regular squadron Fleet aviators.
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