[hinckley buzzard]

What the article talks around is, nothing lasts forever...and the guys who designed these beasts, know fundamentally how they work, are mostly all retired or dead. Loss of institutional memory is a potentially crippling side effect of the draw down on national defense.

[dr_lew]

Loss of institutional memory is a potentially crippling side effect of the draw down on national defense.

That doesn't mean they won't still work, in situ as is. Hey what the heck ...