Posted on 04/16/2015 9:02:32 PM PDT by Nachum
The Air Force confirmed this week that it is shuttering a vital airlift wing at Fort Bragg, N.C., that trains the Army’s airborne and special operations forces, prompting outrage from the state’s lawmakers.
The Air Force finally submitted on Tuesday its “Report on C-130 Force Structure” to Congress after its release had been delayed since January. Units such as the 440th Airlift Wing at Fort Bragg’s Pope Army Airfield fly the C-130s to prepare airborne forces for emergency operations overseas.
The report affirmed that the Air Force would close the 440th, which it said would save $116 million during a time of severe budget constraints for the military. Lawmakers raised concerns last year when the Air Force began transferring airmen from the reserve unit before providing the report to Congress.
“The Air Force will retain the ability to support the Army’s training and contingency response requirements at Pope AAF” despite the closing of the 440th, the report said.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R., N.C.), one of the sharpest critics of the Air Force’s plan to deactivate the 440th, said he would ratchet up the pressure on service leaders to change course. He has placed a hold on all civilian Department of Defense and Air Force appointments and pushed for language in next year’s defense appropriations bill that would prevent the transfer of personnel or aircraft from Pope.
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That sucks, I’ve got friends in the 440th. It was a great unit when it was in Wisconsin. Flew a lot of miles over the years covering stories about that unit.
...because we won’t ever have to rapidly deploy for a forced entry anywhere...
PUFF the magic Dragon will not be happy about this at all..
One of the best close air to ground support platforms apart from the A-10 Warthog...
Isn’t the Sec of the Air Force a non military alternative lifestyle woman?
Is the White Mosque going to send the equipment
to al Qaeda, or his Moslem Brotherhood, or Iran,
or just to ISIS on the Mexican border?
Treason fills the air from coast to coast, from Mexico
to Canada, and the EXEMPT in Congress do NOTHING,
except inviting in MORE terrorists, MORE incurable
diseases, and MORE foreign money ... for themselves.
The Army won’t need military air transportation.
When Obama orders their deployment it will be on the ground in the USA against American citizens.
Obama sees no need for emergency operations overseas. The only enemies he sees is us, right here in the continental United States.
This is idiotic. The war on the military by these libs continues.
I remember now, she wants transvestites to serve..
Can a transgender actually be called a “woman?
“Isn’t the Sec of the Air Force a non military alternative lifestyle woman?”
I can’t find anything that says what her preferences are, nor anything that says she has a husband or family.
I couldn’t confirm anything either. But wanting trannies to serve openly is a red flag..
Humph: Closet lesbo huh?
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