04/12/2011
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"This is the opinion not just of the Department of the Air Force and TRANSCOM. This is DOD, the Secretary, presumably as General McNabb said, all the CINCs, commanders, have been able to weigh in."
"had we not added additional C-17s, either at the request of the Air Force or the request of Congress, then we would not be able to retire these C-5As."
"General Johns, is there any attrition reserve in the 301 number, or back-up aircraft inventory, or provisions for training aircraft?"
"Have you done--and this is, again, the worst-case, and again, we have to ask these questions--an analysis of how much it would cost you to take a C-5A out of the desert and put it back in the air, if ..."