This is how this works. ALL of these boys and girls...are on someone's payroll (Lockheed-Martin, SAIC, Mantech, etc)...and they will simply state what their company needs to make a huge profit. None of these people ever modernized anything while in uniform...nor can they claim that. But their retired status is all that Kerry needs now. He is hoping that some GI's may see his approval by these dimwits...and plus up his points amongst today's military. Most of us had very poor ratings (AF dimwit: McPeak, was one of the biggest losers of the last 20 years, and most organizations were happy to see him go).
pesionice wrote: " ALL of these boys and girls...are on someone's payroll"
Good point! As far as McPeak goes, the Air Force has spent years steadily fixing and reversing everything he stood for. He wanted to treat the Air Force like a business, when any idiot knows the military doesn't fit the free market mold. A couple examples: an NCO cannot freely hire/fire his personnel--he must deal with what the recruiters supply him, and contracting agents can hardly reduce costs when they are buying one-of-a-kind parts for decades-old equipment. The military is most definitely NOT a business.