Without more money, B-2 could be grounded

[unhappycamper]

Without more money, B-2 could be grounded
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Feb 15, 2008 17:10:07 EST

Aging displays in the B-2 fleet could force the Air Force to ground one of the stealthy bombers by the end of fiscal 2009 unless Congress ponies up money for upgrades.

The service requested $71.7 million for B-2 upgrades in its unfunded priority list submitted to Congress Feb. 8. The “wish list” includes items the Air Force says it needs but could not fit into its 2009 budget proposal.

A portion of the requested money would pay to replace obsolete displays, according to the wish list document.

Air Force spokeswoman Vicki Stein said the service’s supply of spare displays will run out by the end of fiscal 2009, and the number of displays available will only be enough to upgrade 20 of the 21 B-2s.

But even if the money is not provided, she said, grounding one of the aircraft will not hurt the Air Force’s strategic capability.


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/02/airforce_b2_grounding_080215w/

[izzie]

1. At the rate this is going I guess we will need to hire a private army

Or we could stop paying these private armies at the DOD and put it back into our own army. Just how much of the tax payers money is coming out of the DOD for all these crazy things Bush has wanted any how? Faith based military churches, private armies, 'friends' making army goods, second rate men because they can not keep good people, military hospitals run by second rate people, and a super spy system that the DOD runs along with the regular spy system the country already has. Just what is going on with this Bush and the DOD any how? We spend more money than the rest of the world on this stuff. The army is not a business and Bush just can not make it one if we wishes to keep it any good. Capital and profit is not what makes every thing work well. I am sure the tax payers do not like this or this one does not. Congress? Well for almost 8 years they have just let Bush have his way. What a mess.

[unhappycamper]

2. It is indeed a $735,700,000,000 mess.

[izzie]

3. It is hard to believe that the GOP has done this.

Every one in my family were in that party and so I was until I gave it some time and thought on just how I really think but having a family that had some reason I still find it hard to believe the GOP has done this. It is almost as if it is a last stand in an old way of thinking and Bush just ran with it and to hell with what he left behind. My sister said when he got in' Just watch what a mess this guy will leave. I have known men like him and they always do leave a mess for others to clean up'. She really hit it right.