No, ask John McCain. He is the one that opposed Boeing getting the contract to begin with.
F. U. John
I agree with you John McCain was against this deal from the get go. At first the Air Force was going to rent to own these or lease to own!
Didn’t he have a good reason? The original plan (to lease them, IIRC) sounded like a huge waste of taxpayer money.
“No, ask John McCain. He is the one that opposed Boeing getting the contract to begin with.
F. U. John”
He was opposed to the Airforce LEASING the tankers.
The Airforce was going to lease 100 767’s from Boeing, and use maintenance funds to convert them to tankers so that after ten years they can use more maintenance funds to strip them of military equipment to return them to Boeing.
It would have cost us billions of dollars more to lease the planes than if they were bought outright.
“No, ask John McCain. He is the one that opposed Boeing getting the contract to begin with.”
Is this true?
Can you cite a source for this?
The original contract was a major rip-off of the military. With the lease deal the Air Force would have paid billions more for fewer airplanes. $100 billion for 100 planes. This contract will apparently provide 180 for $40 billion. Much as I hate to admit it, McCain was completely right to oppose the original deal.