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2016-05-18 Home Front: WoT

Video: Burned Out Air Force Stretched to Breaking Point

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Posted by newc 2016-05-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Throwing money at the F35 while the personnel and current equipment burn out.

Posted by Thrusoque Ebbanter8794 2016-05-18 00:25|| 2016-05-18 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 8 years of Obama and corrupt Republicrats. Destruction of the US as a world power and enrichment of corporate cronies achieved.

Posted by Elmavinter Fillmore9296 2016-05-18 00:28|| 2016-05-18 00:28|| Front Page Top

#3 And now the Trunks will have to rebuild it, and nobody will understand why.

Posted by gorb 2016-05-18 12:59|| 2016-05-18 12:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines... It's all of them. They had to get the money for Obamacare and their other little projects from somewhere.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-05-18 13:13|| 2016-05-18 13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Unfortunately the military is a spent force at this point. It needs to be pulled back and have a good 2-3 years of rebuilding done. Seriously doubt this is going to happen no matter who is in charge.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-05-18 15:36|| 2016-05-18 15:36|| Front Page Top

#6 ...going to be easier with someone who is interested in America's security than the worlds. I know the argument of consequences, but you've got to face the reality that we can not be the world's policeman and priorities have to be set. Hell, first to be is your own homeland security by securing your own borders. If you can't do that, why worry about 'what ifs' in decades or years out?

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-05-18 16:12|| 2016-05-18 16:12|| Front Page Top

#7 The other way militaries get built up is if a war jumps off.

Posted by SteveS 2016-05-18 16:49|| 2016-05-18 16:49|| Front Page Top

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