06-19-08, 03:34 PM
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Sea Lord 
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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
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Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth
You are naieve thinking this is about getting our troops the best gear. This is about Boeing owning more of Congress than Northrop Grumman. The decision to reverse came through Congress's research office, not the USAF. Even if the Boeing plane was clearly less capable this would be happening. As has already been said, politics.
The USAF is, unfortunately, a service with no future vision other than snagging funding and keeping things as status quo as possible. And they have shown they are completely incapable of managing a large program too many times lately.
A blog I frequently read had a picture to describe Congress killing the F-22 in favor of funding F-35 and Congress reversing the tanker decision. It was a still from the tape of Rodney King getting beat by the LAPD, Rodney being the USAF here. 
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I don't agree, but I'll leave it at that.
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Deal. 
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