You bet - and no apologies needed. This is sort of like "Inside Baseball" to the Nth degree.
General Moseley and the Air Force Secretary, Mike Wynne, were fired simultaneously in June.
The "For Public Consumption" reason was the B-52 nuke scandal.
Even fired Secretary Wynne admitted that wasn't the real reason in interviews with the press last month. He cited disagreements with Gates over procurement items and the role of the Air Force in the War on Terror.
But part of the "unsaid" reason may be that Moseley was also caught up in a contract scandal that has already claimed the careers of several high ranking officers.
The AF paid millions to a company in a sweet heart deal to make videos for the Thunderbirds. The contract was illegally steered to buddies of Moseley who had retired, including for Air Combat Command chief General "Hal" Hornburg. E-mails relating Moseley to the scandal have been requested by Congress. The matter is still under investigation, even though Moseley has been fired.
As his Exec, Gen Tinsley would have been privy to all of this.
Air Force chief under fire over contract scandal
I actually agreed with Gate's decision. The AF also developed myopia where all it could see brand new F-22s on the ramp. In order to help pay for them, it tossed out thousands of people who wanted to serve their country.
I wasn't one of them, but I saw it as a tragic decision.
Meanwhile, the AF continues to bleed.
This is getting ridiculous.
Look at yesterday's news: