[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Ping

[GeronL]

Hey, here’s a thought.... why do we need an Air Force or a Navy anyways?? We could save a bundle!!

More money for stimulus!!

lol.

idiots.

[ClearCase_guy]

Navy ships? Don’t need ‘em.
F-22’s? Don’t need ‘em.
F-35’s? Don’t need ‘em.
C-17 Cargo jets? Don’t need ‘em.
B-1B bomber? Don’t need ‘em.
Nuclear weapons? Don’t need ‘em.
Amphibious Marine landing capability? Don’t need that either.

It must be nice to live in a peaceful world where you don’t need weapons.

[NonValueAdded]

Just yesterday there was a post about testing of the Link 16 upgrade for the whole bone pile.

[Redleg Duke]

How about cutting all benefits to illegal aliens?

[Never on my watch]

Go to google earth and look at the boneyard at DM, you’ll see a bunch there already.

[NorCoGOP]

Just like Carter, who also HATED the B-1 concept...

Hope our next President in 2012 pulls a "screw you, Carter" move and re-activates the program...again.

N O V E M B E R

[Vinnie]

Give the B-1s and F- 117s to Israel.

[GBA]

We retire ours (space shuttle, F-22, B-1B, etc.) and the Russians resume long range patrols with theirs, build a new gen5 fighter and will take our astronauts and whatnot into space for us...since we can't do it for ourselves any more.

But, we'll show them. We will have 'free' healthcare for everybody and force our 'free' citizens to buy it whether they want it or not, have nationalized most of the car manufacturing and banking and have put an end to offshore drilling by Presidential decree! Ha! Top that! And they call themselves socialists...

[NormsRevenge]

I hate threads like this, No, not in the way some might think. ;-)

So much history and emotion is tied to these ‘things’, albeit pieces of machinery , thru the men and women that flew them to the folks on the ground that made sure they were ready to fly on a moment’s notice to the folks that pumped ‘em out the assembly and production lines with loving care.

To many, they are instruments of death and war, but to some who really know what is what, they were weapons of freedom and liberty. .. and too many , an airdrop or sorte when they needed it most.

Sad to see these beasts of war go.. May their future progeny keep us safe.

[Wilum]

Granpa! What was the name of that service branch you were in?

[ops33]

What’s an F-162?

[Red6]

Stupid is a stupid does.

These airframes are not interchangeable. Whoever wrote that should get a job at Wendy's. There you can substitute something else for your fries.

[Little Ray]

And the B-52, older than its crews, keeps on going and going and going and going...

How ‘bout we retire the B-52s and keep the B-1Bs. At least the B-1 has a chance of survival in contested airspace. Any aerial dump truck can probably do the B-52s’ job.

[LS]

They need to re-fit them a la Dale Brown’s planes.

[HereInTheHeartland]

With Obamas mighty beer summit diplomacy capabilities; we should should just scrap the entire US military.

If we are just nice to them.....

Kumbaya, kumbaya....

[Ro_Thunder]

I wonder how the ground pounders feel about losing even 1 of the A-10’s...

[backwoods-engineer]

Ah, the Bone, what a plane! I've done some avionics work on it.

The slogan of the Bone crews was BOTOTCHA--Bombs On Target, On Time, Come Home Alive. As words to live by, not bad.

[Boiler Plate]

F-162?