John Mica actually said...

The cost to the taxpayers in financing this entire fiasco is just totally unacceptable--a $3.2 billion program which is rife with problems.

They probably could have done it at a fraction of the cost and far less hassle, wouldn't you both agree, if you are just going to do a flash...

So the Secretary said by the end of the year, and the Commandant said by the end of the summer?

You have been in final clearance for years. If this was a plane, we would have run out of fuel and crashed and burned.