General Johns, normal Air Force planning for force structure includes additional aircraft for attrition reserve, so-called back-up inventory aircraft that protect against aircraft ...
I think this hearing has been very useful to me, and I thank her for urging us to do it.
So, have you effectively factored in a situation, and particularly in the surge, where, for many reasons, just the insurance companies simpl...
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,...
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 th...
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 t...
The loss of Pakistan as a land transit point would not in any way affect your plans to retire the C-5As...
I hope that is not the case going forward.
One other follow-up, and that is part of the savings going forward that you are projecting are a function of Congress changing the law.
The surge is not only Homeland security. It is also a major campaign, which would be a conventional fight, unlike the irregular warfare we a...