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wassup USAF - is there a problem? Uhhh... Go Navy!
U.S. Senate - 2017 Defense Appropriation Report
Joint Strike Fighter [JSF] Production.--The fiscal year 2017 budget request includes 63 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, six fewer than were provided in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114-113).
In comparison to quantities planned in the fiscal year 2016 budget request, the Air Force's fiscal year 2017 request includes five fewer aircraft in fiscal year 2017 and 45 fewer aircraft from fiscal years 2017 to 2021. The Committee is concerned that the current programmed quantities will not support the fielding of F-35 squadrons, as initially planned. As a result, the Committee recommends an additional $100,000,000 in advance procurement for the F-35A and encourages the Air Force to revisit F-35A procurement quantities in the fiscal year 2018 budget request.
The Committee notes that the Navy continues to delay previously planned production increases of the F-35C carrier variant and has budgeted for no more than four F-35C aircraft since fiscal year 2014, even though prior budget requests planned for more aircraft. The fiscal year 2017 budget request again includes only four F-35Cs, two fewer than were provided in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114-113). The Committee notes that it is challenging to efficiently manufacture a small number of F-35C aircraft on the same production line as the F-35A and F-35B aircraft, given the unique items associated with the carrier variant. Therefore, the Committee encourages the Navy to maintain, at a minimum, the current procurement plan in the fiscal year 2018 budget request. -
who was the guy here forever going on about that (fake/trumped-up/propaganda based) USMC IOC... forever hyping it? Of course, the IOC charade has already been relayed here in prior related F-35 threads. And now this - oh my! And somehow the postured 2019 full-rate production for the F-35 is to be... believed?
US Marine Corps recovering 'boneyard' Hornets to plug capability gapThe US Marine Corps (USMC) is having to recover Boeing F/A-18C Hornet combat aircraft from the 'boneyard' at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB) in Arizona to bridge the delayed introduction into service of the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), a Boeing official said on 10 June.
Speaking at Boeing's Global Sustainment and Support (GS&S) site at Cecil Field in northern Florida, Bill Maxwell, senior manager F/A-18 operations, said that the USMC has contracted the company to recover 30 legacy Hornets from the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) facility at Davis-Monthan AFB to cover a projected shortfall in numbers and capability as the service transitions over to the JSF.
"The USMC wants 30 Hornet aircraft - two full squadrons - recovered from the boneyard and 'reconstituted' for fleet service. These aircraft were never meant to fly again, but Boeing is bringing them to Cecil Field and extending their airframe lives from 6,000 hours to 8,000 hours, replacing all the old avionics with the latest systems, and returning them to the marines," Maxwell said.
Boeing Restores 30 F/A-18C+ Models for Marine Corps
Maxwell said F/A-18Cs arriving from Davis-Monthan AFB are generally lower-time fighters that hadn’t reached their full service lives..
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The Yazidi are more likely to be compatible with our culture than the ones Trudeau wants to bring here.
c'mon Archie... I asked you nicely once already for a cite.
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Waldo, you seem to forget a lot of stuff trudeau said during the election and one was he would do what the UN experts came up with over the arctic. Not once id d he say he would fight for it no matter what. And now this, the boy is a true believer when it comes to the UN.
but you're not helping with your perception of, "seemingly forgetfulness" with your anecdotes and unsubstantiated statements. Who knows what you're referring to most of the time? If you have a straight opinion that doesn't presume to rely upon factual accounting and presentation, then all good. However, if your statement relies upon actual circumstance in past event/occurrence, I would suggest making a statement, add in context if you can, add in attribution if you can - otherwise, how do you expect anyone to respond?
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Let me know what you come up with on that front.
take it to the right thread and I'll continue letting you know... as I am in that very thread. Somehow, you're conveniently choosing to ignore parts of my "letting you know" - go figure.
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I got it from Waldo in post 1617.
The F18s are an unproven product? I did not know that.
Look Waldo, I get it that the wholesale idiocy of buying Super Hornets via sole source to avoid breaking a political mistake with a far worse one is embarrassing, but you don't have to personally compound His blunders with your own.
Oh and the 'delay' is not with production of the F18, the delay is with Trudeau now, who refuses to contemplate an assessment of the available aircraft. Like He promised He would. . Delays past 2025 for deliveries is entirely your invention, and entirely hypothetical since no competitive or transparent(remember those words Waldo?) procurement has or will take place. You are talking about outcomes- of a process that has been flushed for the most partisan, shameful and spineless reasons imaginable.. Nice try though!
ok - again, only because I'm online and following the thread I see your quote of something I said... but again, WdaF! Why do you insist in purposely removing the names of members form quotes? Again, that doesn't allow the person you're quoting to leverage the notification feature of the board to be alerted to the fact you're actually quoting them. Now, of course, you clearly like it that way... as I've only stumbled upon statements of mine you've quoted in the past... weeks later as I wind on through a thread! Again... stop it!
in your referenced post 1617, I speak to the cost as ~1/2 billion. The $400 million figure, oft produced, is an estimate for the cost of modifications to keep the F-18s flying until 2025. I've read that referred to as a 'low-ball estimate'... with suggestion it will be closer to (and likely above) 1/2 billion.
no - the unproven product is the F-35... what you're relying upon being there!
if you want to talk about "wholesale idiocy", "embarrassment", "blunders"... and your absolute insistence in not accepting the potential Super Hornet purchase as a "gap-filling interim" measure... then simply do the math for me... and produce the timeline. In all your emboldenment, this should be quite easy for you - yes? Here, let me put it forward again - I'm sure you didn't intend to ignore it!
Here, try again:do the math! Spend the estimated ~1/2 billion to get the CF-18s to 2025... now, with YOUR total reliance on an unproven {F-35} product, start the timeline as to when Canada needs to sign a contract for the F-35, pay monies, get lined up in "the presumptive assembly queue (against all that expected crushing RUSH of foreign nations and respective U.S. military branches" and have the beginnings of 65 F-35s delivered. When's the start and finish of that "production" F-35 Canadian delivery, particularly in relation to 2025? Do the math... and provide the timeline - yes? (Notwithstanding, that will be $2.5 billion needing to have been spent to keep the CF-18s flying... because of the ongoing saga/delay that is the F-35).
do the math... and provide the timeline - yes?
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Because paving your street matters more than brutal rapes or murders.
Could we defer the line painting on that new road and help a couple of them out maybe?
can we defer the purchase of your "at all costs - whatever it costs" F-35?... maybe purchase a "gap-filling interim" alternate at a significantly reduced price.... and help a couple of them out maybe? Because doing so matters, as you say, more than brutal rapes or murders. Didja catch that... didja see what I did there?
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oh wait, BUT HARPER!
do the math! Spend the estimated ~1/2 billion to get the CF-18s to 2025... now, with YOUR total reliance on an unproven product, start the timeline as to when Canada needs to sign a contract for the F-35, pay monies, get lined up in "the presumptive assembly queue (against all that expected crushing RUSH of foreign nations and respective U.S. military branches" and have the beginnings of 65 F-35s delivered. When's the start and finish of that "production" F-35 Canadian delivery, particularly in relation to 2025? Do the math... and provide the timeline - yes? (Notwithstanding, that will be $2.5 billion needing to have been spent to keep the CF-18s flying... because of the ongoing saga/delay that is the F-35).
do the math... and provide the timeline - yes?
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He looked foolish against Rona ,over the genocide motion. He needs the UN to tell him what to do. Just like the arctic, where he said what the UN says about the borders is fine with him. And then by buying super hornets, it seems we could lose the arctic, to everyone else that has stealth fighters.
your posts continue to be your anecdotal reminisces that provide no accountability... for you... and provide no reference for others to question/challenge you on. Clearly, you like it that way!
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Oh Waldo! Have I wounded the tender feelings of this site's most aggressively rude, in-your-face, disrespectful, mocking arch-partisan by speaking disrespectfully of progressives? I do apologize!
I appreciate and recognize your sensitivity; thanks for acknowledging your described disrespect... and apologizing for it. I expect we shouldn't see you using the label 'regressives' again.
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COUNTDOWN TO ANOTHER THREAD CLOSE... 10, 9, 8...
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I expect to hear a 'mission accomplished' in the next few months from Our Boy. The cut and run will be complete...
you and Rona... you've got to let it go! Your want to, 'bomb, bomb, bomb', didn't fit within the strategies of the newSherriff's government. It's not healthy for you - get over it!
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What the Harper government said was entirely accurate and logical; the Christians, Yazidis and gays were in more danger and had less chance of safety in and around that region than Muslims did, thus they should be prioritized. It's unfortunate the regressives felt affronted that Muslims, who regressives feel are the most admired people with the most wonderful culture and value system in the world, might be considered to have been insulted by that decision.
you had a chance to actually make a real point - I intended to ask you exactly what Trudeau Liberals (pre-election) and the Trudeau government (post-election) actually said in regards to prioritizing within refugee groupings... I was off researching that on my own... and then your post, as quoted, arrives. Reading you revert to the realArgus, repeatedly using the term "regressives", that alters any interest in further dialog with you I might have chosen. Why bother?
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Amazing that the authorities have the power to add guys like Mateen to a no fly list, but cannot prevent him from legally buying guns.
N.....R.....A!
NRA, Republicans block proposed law to stop suspected terrorists from buying guns in U.S.
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When it emerged that the Harper government was giving preference to Christians, Yazidis and gays the Liberals roundly criticized them.
How the Harper government is manipulating the refugee crisis --- Harper is pandering to the dangerous stereotype that all Muslims are potential terrorists, whereas non-Muslims may be squeaky clean.
The Harper government has long resisted bringing in Syrian refugees, an overwhelming majority of whom are Muslims. But it has been keen on fast-tracking Christians, Yazidis and others from Syria and Iraq.
Its rationale for the first is that with so many extremist militias operating there, terrorists could sneak in masquerading as refugees. Its explanation for the second is that the Islamic State is targeting minorities.
Both are reasonable propositions. But they also hide the government’s terrible record on refugees and provide a cover for bigotry, that of the Harperites themselves or of the Conservative base of fundamentalist Christians and other right-wingers to whom the government caters.
Harper is pandering to the dangerous stereotype that all Muslims are potential terrorists, whereas non-Muslims may be squeaky clean. In fact, Christian and other non-Muslims have also been involved with the many ruthless militias in Syria and Iraq. They all need to be checked out, as security experts have said.
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We have many skilled advisers deployed by Trudeau in the region. They could advise the Yezidi women to leave.
why didn't Rona Ambrose bring forward that gem of yours when she asked the question in Parliament back in March? Would Yazidi peoples actually need advice to leave... some 400,000+ Yazidi have left... they're called refugees! That profiled attack on Yazidi's and takeover of Sinjar was back in August 2014... if we accept the 'ISIS is on the run' pronouncements, I don't expect there to be many Yazidi left in the province - yes? But... do you have numbers?
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His whole government is in denial to what is going on over there. Brought in the Syrians just for the election and screwed that up big time.
"denial of what is going on over there"... what is going on over there, and what is being denied?
uhhh... please if you're going to spout talking point platitudes, best to get your timing right on promise versus start/end of Syrian refugee resettlement. Can you further elaborate on what was, "screwed up, big time"?
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Because Harper made trudeau'a hair a big part of his 2015 campaign and It's ironic coming from the guy with Lego hair.
sorry... can't help myself!
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Nope, nobody was thinking that because it would stupid to compare mistakes, or collateral damage during a war to this. Amazingly, disgustingly stupid. O course we could for good measure throw in every terrorist attract, tally it all up, and see what we get, but that would just reduce us to your level of silly bugger, arguing with a propagandist just isn't worth the trouble, we already know you're wrong, you either never will, or don't care.
no - that post from MLW member marcus was a perfect response to the standard DOPloy; he (DOP) who took it to much more than this localized incident focus. Your described collateral damage does have implications - yes?
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Given the new developments on this today, I've changed my position. I no longer think this was a mass shooting, I agree that it was Islamic terrorism.
a whole lotta people in 'shift mode'... why, a new 'experts-from-afar' position holds that this incident has little/nothing to do with 'Islamic terrorism' - simply because the guy was so unknowing and all over the map claiming ties/allegiance to disparate groups like ISIS/al Qaeda versus Hezbollah; groups that actually oppose each other. How does a so-called 'internet inspired' lone-wolf gain inspiration from and attachment to such dissimilar sources? Other "experts-from-afar" are now speaking to 'gay-on-gay' killing... that the shooter was so conflicted over his own sexuality that he went to such an extreme. Then we have the "mental instability" camp! Through all of this gyration, such a burning need to quickly place the guy in "one-box" and wrap a tidy bow around it! Throw in azzholes like Trump taking advantage of the situation... add in the gun-nutter crowd... and it's a multi-faceted palooza of swirling feces that plays to the best strengths of pliers of hate and the worst fears of the insipid meek/mild.
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This is not going to turn into a generalized Bash Islam thread.
So before the thread got locked, some people were mad that I was less-than-impressed by the Muslim community's efforts to show "solidarity" with the LGBT community.
Put flowers at a crappy memorial? Who cares? Put a rainbow bumper-sticker on your car? Who gives a shit?
Considering that Orlando Muslims invited this guy to their community to speak just a couple of months ago, their attempts to tell people how much they love gay people ring really hollow to me.
ya ya, kimmy... that's right, "Orlando Muslims" did that... all of them! It wasn't just "some number" within that particular mosque in question, right? It was your described, "Orlando Muslims" - all of them!
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Of course. The only people that liberals want to bring to Western countries now are those that most directly stick it in the face of conservatives who have reservations about mass Muslim immigration. It's not about keeping vulnerable people safe, rather it's all about the "culture wars". Yezidi girls look a bit "whiter" than some other Iraqis and so are left to be tortured and raped and murdered.
you forget the sarcasm tag/emoticon... right? If not, setting aside your wedge play, who/what exactly do you proclaim as, "leaving the bit whiter Yazidi girls to be tortured, raped and murdered"?
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I would rather bring in those women and girls instead of the thousands of war-hardened military-age Muslim men that our PM wants to let in.
"instead of the thousands of war-hardened military-age Muslim men that our PM wants to let in"... citation request for your bullshyte statement
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Yezidi girls are being treated as sex slaves by terrorists. They are being kidnapped, raped even burned alive if refuse to have sex with terrorists. Canada must help these vulnerable displayed defenseless women and children to come and settle in Canada or be sponsored by good-hearted Canadians who are plenty in our great land of ours.
Following Trudeau’s vague answer which did not address Abmrose’s question, Ambrose posted the following comment on her Facebook page: “On International Women’s Day, of all days, I hoped he would have simply answered yes.”
am I improperly interpreting your emphasis that presumes to 'help' within an active war zone, notwithstanding what Rona Ambrose politicized for purely partisan gain? As I understand, given the principal concentration of the Yazidi within a single Iraqi province, over 400,000 have escaped ISIS/Iraq as refugees... with estimates that some 5000-7000 girls/women have been targeted/captured directly as your described, 'sex slaves' (just in 2014 alone), with latest estimates suggesting there are some 5000 Yazidi girls/women currently being held by ISIS. Certainly, I would expect that Yazidi refugees would fall into the broader mix of the collective refugee assistance program efforts being led by the UN. The plight of those ISIS captured Yazidi girls/women has been taken before the UN and an assortment of country governments appealing for the international community to act. But, of course, in an active war zone, what does that mean... how does the international community 'act'... exactly?
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Still Going to Buy the F-35, Really?
in Federal Politics in Canada
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once again, concurrency bites the F-35 program in the azz! (notwithstanding the "no worries" here from MLW F-35 fan-boys over that quoted statement I've trotted out a couple of times from Michael Gilmore, the U.S. Department of Defense's director for Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E): "The current 'official schedule' to complete full development and testing of all Block 3F capabilities by 31 July 31, 2017 is not realistic"
... IOT&E will test the F-35's full combat capability, verifying the jets can fly real, operational missions as intended.
so... about that "optimistic" full rate production in 2019... where does that slip to now? Gap? What gap?
Final F-35 Testing Slips To 2018 (at the earliest)
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