If congress were serious about cutting defense budgets in a sensible manner, they’d only fund projects the DoD asked for, not ones that serve the interests of constituents to influential congressmen. If the DoD were serious about trimming costs, they’d refuse delivery of non-requested equipment forced upon them by congress. Of course, both sides would be killing the golden goose by doing so...
Agree, but they are being forced to keep C-5’s well past their shelf-life. If they could replace the C-5’s with C-17’s, they would, but they are not given that option because C-5’s are being forced on them.