05/20/2015
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"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 ..."
"The loss of Pakistan as a land transit point would not in any way affect your plans to retire the C-5As..."