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2015-03-02 Home Front: Politix

"Enough Is Enough:" Cuts To Air Force Reduce Squadrons By 75 Percent

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Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 The Obama REGIME wants to transfer money from defending Americans to staffing up federal agencies to go after Americans.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-03-02 00:15|| 2015-03-02 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Take the DHS budget and give it to the military.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-03-02 01:37|| 2015-03-02 01:37|| Front Page Top

#3 The funding to pay for food stamps must come from somewhere.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-02 02:24|| 2015-03-02 02:24|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Unfortunately, from what I've seen the current leadership of the USAF will be perfectly happy with ONE fighter squadron, as long as it has F-35s.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-03-02 05:06|| 2015-03-02 05:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Unit cost of squadrons circa 1990, unit cost of squadrons circa 2015? Self inflicted wound? Lamborghinis are expense. BTW there's something about the ration of 49/188 that doesn't quite match 311,00/511,000. How about the number of AF General Officers circa 1990 vs today?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-03-02 08:31|| 2015-03-02 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 #2 Take the DHS budget and give it to the military.

Yes!

If the military needs more, check into Energy, Education, Environment, WH budget, IRS, and HHS. No need to cut the military. The first and main job of Washington is to defend the country.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-03-02 09:18|| 2015-03-02 09:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Besoeker: I would rather it go to foodstamps here than aid overseas. Would rather it not be cut at all but we know thats not gonba happen.

Posted by chris 2015-03-02 10:08|| 2015-03-02 10:08|| Front Page Top

#8 You make a valid point Chris. Valid indeed.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-02 12:03|| 2015-03-02 12:03|| Front Page Top

#9 USAF - Economize by turning 90% of the missions into DRONE based operations.

Posted by Thumper Thumsock4507 2015-03-02 12:15|| 2015-03-02 12:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Thumper Thumsock4507, you really think drone/operator communications can't be jammed?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-03-02 12:25|| 2015-03-02 12:25|| Front Page Top

#11 More importantly, g(r)om, do you think the fighter Mafia is going to turn over their mission to a bunch of chair bound drone jockeys?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-03-02 13:10|| 2015-03-02 13:10|| Front Page Top

#12 RiV, let me repeat something: drones can only be used against primitives.

As to fighter jocks, given the amount of sh*t US military have taken from its political masters* in recent years...

*It wasn't Obama who attached JAGs (in effect politruks) to combat units.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-03-02 13:42|| 2015-03-02 13:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Just another Feel-good = PCorrect-Deniable reason why OWG Globalist Amerika can't andor won't stop its OWG Co-Superpower Siblings from expanding their spheres of influence vee the Weak-n-Declining "Sole" Superpower USA.

The OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRoA Global SSR + NAU won't be able to unilaterally go to war nor defend itself, etc. widout de facto assistance from its Co-Superpower Siblings + related Global Fed Unions.

AGAIN, IFF THE GLOBALISTS DID NOT MISCALCULATE OR ERR, WHY MUST GUAM + OTHER KEY PACIFIC ISLES IN FUTURE - OR MORE SPECIFICALLY THE PHYSICAL LAND UNDERNEATH THEIR MIL-CAPABLE AIRFIELDS + SEAPORTS, ETC. - BE SUNK INTO THE SEA IN ORDER TO DENY THEIR MILPOL OR GEOPOL UTILITY TO CHINA + PLA, NUCLEAR ISLAM, ...@ETC. US RIVALS???

Its either PCorrectly-Deniably sink 'em, or else allow any poten Great Power or "Co-Superpower" Confrontation to resort or devol towards MAD = Mutually Assured Destruction = Total/Global Nuclear War.

Personally I blame sexy slinky Rhonda Roussey from Sly Stallone's "EXPENDABLES 3".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-02 19:18|| 2015-03-02 19:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Meanwhile, not to be outdone by the USAF in assuring PCorrect = "Globally-Correct" PLA + Jihadi success vee Globalist USA unilateral-n-voluntary "selfie" rollback of its own "Sole" Superpower Power-n-Influence across the Pacific + around the World ... ...

[Whew! Dats a long one].

* RUSSIA TODAY > "VERY CONCERNED": TOP US GENERAL [USJCS Chair Gen. Odierno, USA] ATTACKS UK [Defence] SPENDING CUTS.

ARTIC = GEN. ODIERNO denotes that ...
> Central Pillar of NATO Alliance being undermined, i.e. UK hardware support of US-Led military campaigns.
> HE IS SEEING "THE MOST UNCERTAIN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT EVER SEEN IN THE LAST 40 YEARS".

D *** NG IT, THATS RIDICULOUS, GENERAL, ITS THE MOST CERTAIN INTENTIONALLY DESTABILIZED GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE LAST 40 YEARS!

Again, I wish to remind that the Globies have NOT answered the questions of "how much" is TOO MUCH", or "how far" is TOO FAR", etc. for the US-N-ONLY-THE-US to give up or pull back around the World.

'TIS ARE SIMPLE QUSTIONS TO ASK BUT ALWAYS A GOODIE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-02 21:36|| 2015-03-02 21:36|| Front Page Top

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