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| USAF inactivating two C-17 squadrons |
| 2015-01-02 |
| Two Air Force squadrons of C-17 transport aircraft are being inactivated over the next two years as a cost-saving measure, the service announced. The two squadrons -- 16 planes in all -- are located at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. The inactivation, the Air Force said, is based on President Barack Obama's defense budget for fiscal 2015. "In this fiscally constrained environment, we have to balance readiness, capability and capacity," said Maj. Gen. Michael S. Stough, the AMC Strategic Plans, Requirements and Programs director. "To best preserve this capability, the intent is to fund these aircraft back into primary mission aircraft inventory in future years, and transfer them to the Reserve Component -- and we're working with our Air National Guard partners to do that, perhaps even as early as FY16. "We rely on our total force partners to meet our global mobility requirements; we couldn't do the mission without them. We'll continue to leverage the unique strengths of the active and Reserve components to meet current and future requirements with available resources," he said. The fiscal year 2015 budget transfers the 16 aircraft from the primary mission aircraft inventory to backup aircraft inventory. As part of the backup inventory, the planes will continue to receive funding to support weapon system sustainment but there will be no funding to assign personnel to the aircraft or to aircraft flying hours. The Air Force said the move will save about $110 million annually. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #10 Yeah - I'm sure that Valerie Jarrett will still get a full Air Force One type aircraft with escort fighters to take her and her Secret Service attachment to fund raising and political strategy sessions. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2015-01-02 21:08 |
| #9 So how many pentagon positions are going away? How many fighter jets? |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2015-01-02 20:34 |
| #8 Good thing that F-35 is almost ready. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-01-02 19:15 |
| #7 Pappy, seriously? You got a link or a book title. That's some strange stuff I'd like to read up. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-01-02 17:35 |
| #6 Russian cargo plane climbing out of Ramstein AFB, GE. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-02 17:10 |
| #5 #3 Another business development opportunity for Aeroflot. Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-02 15:17 Don't laugh. A fairly common sight at Charleston AFB are the big Russian airlifters that we charter to carry outsized stuff to the Af or Iraq. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2015-01-02 17:02 |
| #4 We spend billions, literally billions, on subsidizing illegals, known fraud in Social Security and Medicare, IRS tax credits, and force the US military to cut back capability in the first obligation of government, national defense. We are not far from insurrection I fear as government has become our Master, not our servant, and uses our money and credit to buy the loyalty of imported masses to overwhelm our actual citizens. |
| Posted by: NoMOreBS 2015-01-02 16:10 |
| #3 Another business development opportunity for Aeroflot. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-02 15:17 |
| #2 I imagine the VIP transport aircraft remain fully funded... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2015-01-02 15:04 |
| #1 I'm waiting to see if the Navy starts using (auxiliary) sails, like they did in the 1920s and 30s. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-01-02 14:37 |