“The disposition listed, of combat aircraft, represents about 9 months of aquisitions for the USAF.”
Man you have one REALLY CRAPPY job - defending the decisions of a bunch of MILITARY-HATING IDIOTS running the US as they manage to simultaneously get us into huge land wars, and then THROW OUT perfect good hardware, AT THE SAME TIME.
You can keep that job, I want NOTHING to do with it.
I merely put this stuff in context.
The job of a military, among other things, is to manage inventory. If squadron A is shifting to another type of aircraft then you have to do something with the old aircraft.
What?
Btw the JASDF (Japanese military) is also getting rid of dozens of F15s, as they are receiving their F35s. They offered them to the Filipinos, but they cannot afford to run them, so they are buying new JAS-39s instead. This goes on everywhere. Thats one reason the Euros have so many F16s to give to Ukraine. Also other surplus F16s have gone or are going to the Romanians and Bulgarians.