Winslow Wheeler: USAF Seeking to Kill A-10 — At What Point Does Personal Greed and Professional Idiocy Become Treason?

Yet again, the Air Force is trying to get rid of the A-10.  The matter has been covered in the defense-specialized, but not the major, news media for about a week.    It comes as no real surprise to long-time observers of the A-10, but it is a very unpleasant surprise to US ground forces who have observed–all too …

Eagle: USAF Dumps 976 Pieces of 274 Veteran Bodies in Landfill [2003-2008 Reported in 2011]

Number of dead U.S. soldiers’ remains dumped in landfill sites is revealed by Army… and it’s much higher than expected 274 soldiers’ remains were thrown in Virginia dump site Total comprised 976 ‘body fragments’, says mortuary records Gavin Allen MailOnline, 8 December 2011 EXTRACT: The scandal at Dover Air Force base began after complaints by …

Marcus Aureleus: From 1 to 10 Camouflage Patterns – Study in Washington Redundancy & Waste — USAF Denies Spending $500M on Digital Cloak to Create Invisible Airmen

With 10 patterns, U.S. military branches out on camouflage front By David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post, Published: May 8, 2013 In 2002, the U.S. military had just two kinds of camouflage uniforms. One was green, for the woods. The other was brown, for the desert.Then things got strange. Today, there is one camouflage pattern just for …

Marcus Aurelius: USAF Priorities — Relieve One Colonel of Command for a Waistline (He Passed the PT Test), Never Mind the F-35 Killing Pilots and Budgets, or Generals Who Cannot Win Wars….

Priorities! Colonel relieved of command for failing PT [Waist Measurement] By Jeff Schogol – Staff writer Military Times, Wednesday Mar 20, 2013 16:47:54 EDT The Air Force has relieved a full colonel with an impeccable resume for failing his physical fitness test [Phi Beta Iota: he passed the physical test, it was his waist measurement …

Chuck Spinney: In Face of Sequestration, SecDef Allows USAF to Slip Lockheed $6.9 Billion More — At Point Does Malfeasance Become Treason?

You really have to love these contract terms, “indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity,” especially in a time of austerity economics. Nation.Time.com, February 21, 2013 Military Spending Sequestration is for Sissies: $6.9 Billion More for the F-22 By Mark Thompson Pentagon officials took to PBS and the Pentagon press room to warn Wednesday about the impending sequester’s …

Winslow Wheeler: USAF Lies Big on F-22, Sacrifices Pilots, Zero Integrity

I have spoken to several people who have been closely following the problem of the F-22’s extremely serious physiological impact on its own pilots and ground crew.  Not one of these people found Major General Charles Lyon’s performance last week in a DOD briefing convincing.  If anything the general’s assertion that the problems can all be …