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Behind the changes at the Air Force

Posted by NJ Mike on Friday, June 06, 2008 10:19:06 PM
A little background on me: I was an officer in the Air Force from 1984 - 1996.  From 1984 - 92 I was involved with ICBM operations (nuclear weapons)
 
According to this article, the Secretary of the Air Force and Air Force Chief of Staff ( CSAF) were fired because of problems handling nukes.
 
"Gates acknowledged that problems in securing the nuclear arsenal go back decades" 
 
In the lead up to the first Gulf War (1990), Gen Mike Duncan was fired for making inappropriate comments to the press, and he was replaced by Gen Merrill "Pete" McPeak.  As CSAF, McPeak reorganized the Air Force, taking apart the Strategic Air Command, and pretty much putting fighter pilots (with limited experience with nukes) like himself in charge, instead of bomber pilots (who have experience with nukes). 
 
Bottom line, McPeak put into motion this tendency to have fighter pilots, with no experience in nuclear weapons, in charge of the branch of the military with two of the three legs of the nuclear triad.
 
And now McPeak is advisor to the campaign of Barack Obama.
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Democrats - Just Encouraging the Enemy

Posted by NJ Mike on Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:19:17 PM
Example of typical, no-nothing liberals:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/05/01/push_for_anti-war_language_in_dem_platform

Ever since the 1960's, the radical liberals who basically run the Democratic Party have been against wars and any military action at all costs (except when directed by a Democratic President).  Because of this, they have very little knowledge of military strategy, thus they say things that make the jobs of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan much more difficult.

First of all, there is no way those Iranian-backed terrorists in Iraq can defeat our military on the battlefield.  So they've adopted the strategy of the North Vietnamese and jane fonda (a traitor who doesn't deserve her name capitalized), and that is to destroy our will as a country to fight.

So every time the see extensive news coverage of a Code Pink protest, or hear Barack Obama saying he will immediately and unconditionally pull our troops out of Iraq, they see their strategy is working.  This just encourages to plant one more road-side bomb, or ambush another convoy (even if they suffer more casualties), etc.  They know the biased media will play up their actions.

I recently saw a bumper sticker that said "Dissent is Patriotic" - well, that is half right, dissent is patriotic BEFORE THE TROOPS ARE IN THE FIELD!!!  After the vote is taken, and troops are deployed, the debate should end.  Unfortunately, liberals and democrats are driven more by their hatred of President Bush and their lust for power, than their concern for our troops in the field.



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