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RC-12 to Mississippi Air Guard
RC-12 to Mississippi Air Guard: Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and the state's Congressional delegation announced Sept. 16 that the Air Force plans to put a temporary mission qualification training detachment for the RC-12 aircraft with the Air National Guard's 186th Air Refueling Wing. The Key Field base should receive up to seven of the intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance platform beginning in January 2009. Sen. Thad Cochran (R) said the training would be "the first of its kind" and would do much to support war on terror operations. The 186th ARW, slated to lose its KC-135 tankers under BRAC 2005, will run the training program alongside its refueling mission through 2011. Sen. Roger Wicker (R) said, "This bridge mission will ensure the pilots, flight crews, and maintenance personnel at Key Field will be able to stay in Meridian and maintain their high level of proficiency." Cong. Chip Pickering acknowledged the hard work of the unit and local and state leaders in assuring "commitments … to preserve a flying mission for the 186th … are kept."
9/17/2008
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Preemptive Action
"Since the [Defense] Department's acceptance of the independent estimates last fall, we've been, in just about every respect, acting as if the program were in a Nunn-McCurdy breach. ... We've been taking all of the mitigating and corrective action that we would take as if there were a Nunn-McCurdy breach."
—Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, discussing with reporters the restructure of the F-35 strike fighter program announced in February 2010 and the probability that the program will soon exceed Nunn-McCurdy cost-monitoring thresholds that would necessitate, per US law, a program review and corrective steps, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2010. |
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Message for Grandma
"She has working for her as a citizen in the United States an Air Force Reserve that has some very talented, capable, patriotic, and willing individuals doing the business to keep this nation free. Just like her generation—the 'Greatest Generation'—was, I am very proud of the folks that we have got. If not the second greatest, then they are an extension of the greatest generation and they are ready, willing, and able to do the things that she would want them to do to make sure we keep our freedoms."
—Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, Air Force Reserve chief, responding to a reporter's question on what the reporter should tell his 85-year-old grandmother to convey to her the importance of Air Force Reservists to the nation's security, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 19, 2010.
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