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Pentagon meeting on aerial tanker slips to Feb. 22
Reuters ^ | Feb. 4th 2008 | Reuters

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: airforce; boeing; dod; kc30; kc767; usaf
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To: PAR35
Once again all I am reading is the rant of someone who gets there information filtered through a sippy straw lens. You might want to be more objective in your assessments.

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.

21 posted on 02/05/2008 6:44:22 AM PST by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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To: PAR35
Once again all I am reading is the rant of someone who gets there information filtered through a sippy straw lens. You might want to be more objective in your assessments.

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.

22 posted on 02/05/2008 6:44:28 AM PST by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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To: PAR35

Whoops, sorry for the misspell on “there/their”. I should proof my posts before I hit send:-(


23 posted on 02/05/2008 6:47:42 AM PST by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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