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Top 2 Air Force Officials to Resign
FOX News ^ | June 5, 2008

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: dod; michaelmoseley; michaelwynne; minot; minotafb; purge; resignation; usaf
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1 posted on 06/05/2008 10:45:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Something coming up soon that they don’t approve of?


2 posted on 06/05/2008 10:46:48 AM PDT by AU72
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Due to the fiasco at Minot AFB?


3 posted on 06/05/2008 10:49:01 AM PDT by hc87
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To: AU72

More likely, err, fallout from the live nukes incident.


4 posted on 06/05/2008 10:49:03 AM PDT by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but theyÂ’re really after folding money.)
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To: AU72
Something coming up soon that they don’t approve of?

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.

5 posted on 06/05/2008 10:50:22 AM PDT by American Quilter (John McCain--today's Scoop Jackson democrat. He should change parties.)
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To: JennysCool

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.


6 posted on 06/05/2008 10:51:40 AM PDT by marlon
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To: American Quilter
and an unspecified contract problem

Tankers?

7 posted on 06/05/2008 10:52:00 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

According to the article, it’s somehow related to the Thunderbirds.


8 posted on 06/05/2008 10:55:16 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

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.


9 posted on 06/05/2008 10:58:17 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Tijeras_Slim

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.


10 posted on 06/05/2008 10:58:54 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: AU72

IRAN?


11 posted on 06/05/2008 10:59:12 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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Thanks! I can always count on FReepers to read the article! ;)


12 posted on 06/05/2008 11:00:48 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
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I never trusted those damn puppets!
13 posted on 06/05/2008 11:01:18 AM PDT by Holicheese (Hillary deserves the CMoH for her time in Tuzla!)
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To: Kaslin
It seems they did not get along with Secretary Gates at all.
14 posted on 06/05/2008 11:01:19 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
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To: fooman
If it's about Iran, the Thunderbird imbroglio would be a good cover story.
15 posted on 06/05/2008 11:01:37 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Kaslin

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.


16 posted on 06/05/2008 11:01:38 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Why not just insist that the person involved with the IRAN situation be punished?


17 posted on 06/05/2008 11:04:23 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: Dawnsblood

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.


18 posted on 06/05/2008 11:04:27 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: fooman

Why not just insist that the person involved with the Thunderbird situation be punished?


19 posted on 06/05/2008 11:05:47 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Wait a minute. They are resigning because they signed a contract for the Thunderbirds to fly nukes over Iran?

Now I’m confused.


20 posted on 06/05/2008 11:06:04 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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