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It's unbelievable to me that the Air Force is allowing this tanker debacle to carry on this long. I know that there are older planes in the inventory (B-52s for example) but by time we get a new tanker these KC-135s are going to be 75 years old or older! It seems like the father of the last tanker pilot hasn't been born yet! The fact is that someone will have to die before anyone in Congress and the Air Force takes this seriously. It's a damn shame.

Boeing or Airbus, I don't give two *****. Give us something that works. Anything. It's just like the stupid process for getting a new ABU or PT gear. Ponder and experiment for 10 years then mass produce a lousy excuse for a uniform that is neither useful nor comfortable. Oh, and make it out a fabric that traps heat against the body. Especially the desert kind of heat because we never fight in the desert anymore. And then ask airmen for feedback but tell them to quit complaining about it.

The Air Force is on a one-way street to a strategic disadvantage in this world. And not only because good people are sick of serving in the Air Force.

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