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The U.S. Air Force as you know it no longer exists: beginning today, 17 combat units grounded
The Aviationist ^ | 4/9/13 | David Cenciotti

Posted on 04/09/2013 10:43:33 AM PDT by Nachum

According to internal documents obtained by Air Force Times, beginning on Apr. 9, 2013, the U.S. Air Force will begin grounding front line combat units as a consequence of sequestration and the need to deal with budget cuts.

Seventeen squadrons belonging to the various U.S. Air Force commands are going to be affected by the stand down order.

The grounding is aimed to save the 44,000 flying hours (worth 591 million USD) through September.

The funded 241,496 flying hours will be distributed to those squadrons that will remain combat ready or are expected to keep a reduced readiness level called “basic mission capable” until the end of the Fiscal Year 2013.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaviationist.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: air; airforce; bhodod; cicobama; defensespending; force; grounded; military; sequester; usaf; usafsequester; usmilitary
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Not sequestration: just castration

1 posted on 04/09/2013 10:43:33 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 04/09/2013 10:43:53 AM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Food stamps and section 8 are still untouched though, right?


3 posted on 04/09/2013 10:45:22 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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May as well send a strongly worded letter to the invaders inviting them to attack us at any time....


4 posted on 04/09/2013 10:46:15 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Nachum

Meanwhile we are arming jihadist that what to slit our throats in the middle east .


5 posted on 04/09/2013 10:47:16 AM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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End It In April!


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6 posted on 04/09/2013 10:48:30 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: Nachum

but what about their commitment to diversity and sustainabilty?! That’s something we can all be proud of!


7 posted on 04/09/2013 10:51:23 AM PDT by wny
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To: SampleMan
Food stamps and section 8 are still untouched though, right?

They will be eliminated when the time for riots is right.

8 posted on 04/09/2013 10:51:39 AM PDT by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them.)
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To: Nachum

Communists empire destroying America. All hail King Obama


9 posted on 04/09/2013 10:51:50 AM PDT by Logical me
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In before the “You all are fools for caring about this, we still have plenty of firepower” posts....


10 posted on 04/09/2013 10:52:00 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Nachum

Obama and his crew are carefully selecting the most obvious high profile things to cut, and blaming them on the sequester, which is only a cut in the rate of increase of spending.

What a treasonous jerk.


11 posted on 04/09/2013 10:53:08 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Nachum

Hey now we know where Egypt’s 250 million in aid came from.
0 said he was going to redistribute wealth and it is going from American pockets to jihadist pockets , from our military to their military. Someone tell me again how 0 isn’t a muslim . This isn’t even counting what they have been funneling in on the sly to other countries.

Kerry Announces $250 Million in U.S. Aid for Egypt
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/world/middleeast/kerry-announces-millions-in-us-aid-for-egypt.html?_r=0


12 posted on 04/09/2013 10:54:02 AM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: Nachum
This is why the Air Force has simulators.

Besides, those little fighter planes will kill you.

13 posted on 04/09/2013 10:54:47 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: null and void; SampleMan
"Food stamps and section 8 are still untouched though, right?"

Like a bunch of Air Force officers were ever going to vote for Obama?

14 posted on 04/09/2013 10:57:17 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Nachum

No wonder that air strike I keep calling in isn’t happening! Day-um.


15 posted on 04/09/2013 10:58:55 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Nachum

AF1 - $180,000.00 an hour.
Party time at the WH.
Obama and Biden vacations
Golf lessons.
Seperate planes for the Resident and the Beast.
The Liars daughters spring breaks. (I’m sure the SS that went with them should have been doing the tours).

He wants to destroy this nation. Weaken the military, destroy the economy. Create dependence on the Gov. Nothing could be clearer.


16 posted on 04/09/2013 11:00:25 AM PDT by mardi59 (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!!!)
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King Hussein is just doing what communists do best.


17 posted on 04/09/2013 11:01:04 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: SampleMan

Looks like 0bama is gutting our military while reinforcing foreign gov’t militarys. An international ‘Leveling of the playing field’.


18 posted on 04/09/2013 11:01:08 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Nachum

Go through the DOD employees and fire the bottom half. Take all the cooks, fire the bad half. Take all the generals, and fire the bad half. Take all the truck drivers, and fire the bad half. Half of DOD employees are there to make employment “fair”. Fire that half.


19 posted on 04/09/2013 11:01:19 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: mardi59

Bump!


20 posted on 04/09/2013 11:03:26 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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