I am sorry, but I am not going to let the Air Force get away with moving families, disrupting communities, and moving our airmen around whenever they feel like it without justification.
Steven Palazzo
The Public Record
I am going to fight to kill this one just as I fought to kill the other two.
I want to know exactly how much it is going to cost in actual dollars, fuel, MILCON, other relocation costs, manpower downtime, for these planes to move to Little Rock Air Force Base from Keesler Air Force Base.
It seems like the Air Force is hellbent on moving these aircraft out of South Mississippi.
We have a bipartisan and bicameral support of Congress in the last NDAA. Congress wants CHAMP.
I have serious questions about the speed at which the drawdown of the A-10 is going to occur prior to another weapon system being put in place.
So the Marines clearly want and need a 12th LPD [landing platform/dock] and the LPD maintains the critical industrial base hot for rolling right into procuring the next amphibious ships based on the LPD hull form.
the world is not getting safer but is becoming more dangerous and that we need more ships, not less ships.
That same individual told me that they knew that the Department of Defense was going to continue to take painful cuts from the military until BRAC was viewed as the lesser of two evils, would you agree with that statement?
It has often been said that space exploration is a 'go as we can afford to pay' endeavor.





