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like i said in another post, carter gutted the military...having to strip aircraft for spare parts was totally asinine...and no fuel to fly ‘em with.....or tools to fix ‘em with....yeah, i remember those days...

The funniest (saddest) thing I remember from that time, was Carter and some foreign dignitaries visited a base where I was on a TDY for a few weeks, and the base put on a show - had all of the aircraft out, parked nicely, were showing them around a couple that were on display, letting them sit in the cockpit for pictures, etc., and one of the pilots stationed there told me that of the aircraft lined up, that had all been cleaned up all nice and pretty, probably half wouldn't fly. Carter may or may not have known that, but you can bet the dignitaries sure didn't know that.

It was kind of scary at times. If something had happened to Israel, and they needed aircraft or parts and weapons for aircraft, one or the other of us was not going to have much of an air force left.