I never trusted those damn puppets!
Posted on 06/05/2008 10:44:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON — Both the top uniformed officer of the Air Force and its civilian leader have been asked to submit their resignations, FOX News confirms.
Air Force Chief of Staff Michael Moseley and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne will resign by the end of the day, two sets of sources tell FOX News.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Something coming up soon that they don’t approve of?
Due to the fiasco at Minot AFB?
More likely, err, fallout from the live nukes incident.
No, they're being asked to resign. They're apparently being fired. Wow--big shakeup at the highest levels. The article mentions issues like nuclear weapons being transported on a B-52, and an unspecified contract problem.
I think I read someting recently that Gates was very critical of the Airforce and felt they weren’t doing enough in the Iraq theater. He thought they were underutilizing their drone capability and were basically not being proactive.
Tankers?
According to the article, it’s somehow related to the Thunderbirds.
There was some allegations that some deals were made to get the Thunderbirds to appear at an airshow. Never heard anything more about it until now.
Nope...check on google for a Thunderbirds article. The leadership involved in the episode...pushed every single button...over various objections of contracting and their own audit folks....to give a contract to a favorite character of theirs. This went very high...and demonstrated absolute incompetence amongst AF leadership in achieving such corrupt action and then just standing there condoning what had been done. They weren’t even willing to punish the folks involved to the letter of the law involved...had it been a Captain or NCO, it would be a major criminal offense. They just wanted to look the other way and pretend it wasn’t that bad.
IRAN?
Thanks! I can always count on FReepers to read the article! ;)
I never trusted those damn puppets!
The article gives a variety of POSSIBLE reasons why Gates would be unhappy, but of course Gates did not give them his actual reasons.
One more possible reason was given, not yet mentioned: “Sources tell FOX News that the Air Force has drawn criticism for back-channel dealings on Capitol Hill.”
This could be Murtha, it could be McCain and the tanker contract, or it could just be general disloyalty to the administration in cutting deals with fatcat Democrats.
Why not just insist that the person involved with the IRAN situation be punished?
Good article. There certainly seem to be a lot of reasons to dump these guys.
I was none too happy when Bush brought in Gates, but so far I think he’s done a pretty damned good job, at least as far as an outsider can tell.
Why not just insist that the person involved with the Thunderbird situation be punished?
Wait a minute. They are resigning because they signed a contract for the Thunderbirds to fly nukes over Iran?
Now I’m confused.
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