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The Afghanistan Option
The Afghanistan Option: The Air Force is already at workpreparing for the expanding US mission in Afghanstan, said US Central Command air boss Lt. Gen. Gary North in a Thursday night meeting with reporters at AFA's Air Warfare Symposium. The Air Force is already "growing" some of the in-country aerial port facilities and has been pouring a lot of concrete to expand ramp space and aircraft parking areas at the Bagram and Kandahar air fields in Afghanistan. This is being done in anticipation of the 17,000-man expansion of the US military force this year. North said other preparations for the force expansion will include movement of Air Force engineers from Iraq to Afghanistan, construction of helicopter landing zones, and general USAF assistance in building the support and bed-down infrastructure needed to support the larger force.
2/27/2009
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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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