Friday, April 22, 2011

MUST READ!! McQuain strikes back!

The time has come.

We finally have a counterweight to all the nonsense that is being spouted by the critics of the F-35 program.

Bruce McQuain has written an article for the Washington Examiner that I will be forwarding to certain 'critics', writers and even to my Congressional Delegation.

It is a must read.

7 comments :

  1. Wish McQuain had suggested some specific DOD cuts he IS in favor of. Some capabilities will be cut and I'd like to know where . . .

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  2. i'm sure thats coming but i guess what he's after is to first identify what mistakes not to make before making suggestions on what TO axe.

    the US has a problem...its entangled world wide in dubious missions that certain policy makers continue to want us involved in. my opinion not McQuain's.

    i just heard the Senator from Arizona talk in Libya about us becoming more involved! this from a military guy! he wants us not in one, or two but involved in three wars simultaneously.

    is he off his meds?

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  3. Get out of three wars, that'll save us some money. Much of our equipment across the board is in desperate need of replacement and our industrial base has contracted about as much as it can and still be effective. You just know that's where the pols will reach for though. Screw our industrial base, our expertise, high tech jobs, and the safety of our men and women in uniform, we gotta have something to hold up and point to right? Our nuclear expertise is pretty much gone. Our long range ballistic missile expertise is going (cobbling together pieces of missiles someone else designed does not constitute design expertise in my book). Ship building? Look how many quality problems we're having and the root causes. Airframe developement? Same thing. We absolutely cannot gut those areas that took over half a century to achieve and would take decades to get back.

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  4. one thing we need to do is to start massive base consolidation and closing in foreign nations, we dont need to be in S. Korea, most bases in europe, etc. Lets leave skeleton crews and only materials forward deployed in places like okinawa, japan, etc, so if we need to surge we can, but re-deploy those infantry divisions that are stationed in the pacific to Ft. Lewis or other places and bring them home. We should start ranking bases as to their needs by the military and start closing those that are only serving to prop up the economies of their local towns in foreign countries.

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  5. agree somewhat but Ft. Lewis is in Washington state which isn't military friendly ... better to station them in Alaska or work out a deal and place them in Guam or Australia.

    as for Europe, they can afford there own defense. no troops there.

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  6. well i had to plug Ft. Lewis because i am in seattle now and they could use the economic boost, and the proximity to the naval fleet and McChord could allow them to be transferred quick. I am unsure Alaska would be good because transportation and basing there is limited, maybe Hawaii, or maybe provide for an expansion of 29 palms in California?

    hell right now, we take the military to the border, we string out a light infantry company every so many miles (closer together in mountainous regions) and allow for border control. Change the law to allow for military to enforce immigration law within a few miles of the recognized international borders, and re-alighn the border patrol to only enforce immigration within the municipalities and established entrances and exits to the nation. Also immigration would still do the civil side of stuff like investigations, military would just transfer people to immigration officials. This would prevent troops from being in the cities and would provide good training, but dont need any heavy vehicles, just humvees, other light vehicles, helos and UAV's.

    Regarding Europe, for the most part, Yes i agree, but a few bases are too important and we need to keep. We need to keep a few (or maybe one or two big ones) of our naval facilities in italy as a key supply and repair, and transit point, we need to keep Ramstein AFB as its a key air base for supply, medical transportation and such from middle east, and Landstuhl hospital which provides critical care to GI's. Also our bomber bases in Britain should stay open as our B52s fly out of there.

    OK sorry for the long rant :)

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