Subjectivist wrote:The other thing is the US Navy boomer force is a shadow of its former self.
Well that was sure stupid. That shouldn't have been cut.
Your earlier crack about the USAF readiness was actually quite unfair,
I certainly didn't mean it as a crack, that's the just the gist from the articles I've noticed about it (it's been reported on MSNBC as well). I can't remember the details, but they've failed some kind of inspections / drills several times.
Some of the analysis I saw was that one problem is that those positions aren't prestigious anymore / top people aren't gravitating to those jobs. That could be wrong, I don't know, I just read too much news.
BUT -- there is no being unfair about it. These guys need to be *perfect*, no exceptions. That's just my opinion, and the buck stops with Obama on that one and his defense secretary and on down. That shouldn't even be in the news as a problem, failing drills or whatever.
(thanks for your info, and yes that was smart to retarget those to the pacific ocean because back in the clinton era a darn norwegian science missile caused the Russian nuke football to be brought to Yeltsin *with all the keys activated*. Was the Russians fault, they didn't pass the notification up the chain, and thank goodness Yeltsin didn't push the darn button.)
