Posted on 02/04/2008 8:00:16 PM PST by 7thOF7th
Pentagon officials will review a $40 billion Air Force program to buy 179 jet-refueling planes on Feb. 22, more than a week later than expected, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Defense Department said on Monday.
The meeting of the Defense Acquisition Board, headed by chief Pentagon weapons buyer John Young, had already slipped to Feb. 13 from late January.
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Bye the way, the buy lease deal that Boeing and the Air Force put together would have increased operational capability to the service with out increasing the cost. If you take the time to get your facts straight you would realize that McCain hurt this Country’s ability to conduct the war by doing exactly what you are doing. You are picking and choosing facts to suit your objections. As I stated earlier, you might want to be more objective in your understanding of all the facts.
Bye the way, the buy lease deal that Boeing and the Air Force put together would have increased operational capability to the service with out increasing the cost. If you take the time to get your facts straight you would realize that McCain hurt this Country’s ability to conduct the war by doing exactly what you are doing. You are picking and choosing facts to suit your objections. As I stated earlier, you might want to be more objective in your understanding of all the facts.
Whoops, sorry for the misspell on “there/their”. I should proof my posts before I hit send:-(
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