This statement on the budget by Secretary Gates.
I’ve only had a chance to quickly peruse it-but I think he’s made some of the right calls on first glance.
F-22 -How many yachts are enought Gordon?
DDG-1000? Right call there.
VH-71? Did it to itself.
Missile defense? No comment for a whole bunch of reasons. It looks though like the program dodged a much bigger cut though.
Ordering the Navy and Air Force to stop end strength cuts-Two thumbs way up.
C-17? Mixed feelings on that. He’s probably right-IF the USAF would change its stupid rules. And stop charging the other services for airlift.
FCS? Don’t know enough about it.
More Arleigh Burkes-two thumbs way up for that.
More UAV’s-definitely needed.
Of course the problem will be the whining from the military industrial complex-you remember, that thing Eisenhower warned us about but we did not listen.
Let the whining begin.
Skippy, I’m not going to rehash all my arguments as to why the 22 should be built out to it’s original numbers here, but Hugh Hewitt pretty well summarizes all the arguments pro and pokes some serious holes in the critic’s arguments in an article online at the DCExaminer@:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Hugh-Hewitt/Trillions-for-pork-but-nothing-for-the Raptors-42891817.html
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Sorry, screwed the link. Try http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Hugh-Hewitt/Trillions-for-pork-but-nothing-for-the-Raptors-42891817.html