SAVE THE F-22 RAPTOR!
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Originally Posted by Dunk'sDad,Apr 6 2009, 11:52 AM
The F-22 is necessary...and a few more in the inventory wouldn't hurt.
Having said that, Secretary Gates is doing the right thing for the right war...and it's about damn time that a SECDEF focused on the guy on the ground for a change. I'd love to see a full paradigm shift and have new small arms for the Army and Marine Corps be developed and fielded, buy hey - we've only been using the M16 for 45 or so years now. Not to mention body armor better than the issued Interceptor.
Hmmm...wonder how the Air Force would like to go into battle with Delta Darts, Starfighters and Phantoms?
Having said that, Secretary Gates is doing the right thing for the right war...and it's about damn time that a SECDEF focused on the guy on the ground for a change. I'd love to see a full paradigm shift and have new small arms for the Army and Marine Corps be developed and fielded, buy hey - we've only been using the M16 for 45 or so years now. Not to mention body armor better than the issued Interceptor.
Hmmm...wonder how the Air Force would like to go into battle with Delta Darts, Starfighters and Phantoms?
I just dont think we need another 190 of them. I had 6 friends go to Iraq. 3 of them are back. I might be mistaken but I dont think the defense budget was cut. Its just focused in other areas now.
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Hell, we can throw more money at AIG and help keep people in homes they never should have bought in the first place.
Why would I care about something like national security and the safety of people who volunteer to defend our country when we have much better things to spend money on?
Why would I care about something like national security and the safety of people who volunteer to defend our country when we have much better things to spend money on?
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It's an uncertain time?
Stop watching Fox news, the US has a vast vast military superiority to other countries. The US spends nearly more THAN ALL of the other countries in the world combined.
http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/wor...litary-spending
The threats to the US at the moment aren't countries like north korea so much (simply put their country would be utterly destroyed if they attacked the US).
The real treat is some pissed off middle eastern person who lost his family to an American bomb in Iraq (one of the 100k civilians who have died as a result of the war) and joined Al Qaeda. That pissed off Iraqi with nothing left to live for getting into America and strapping a bomb to himself is a bigger threat.
A plane won't stop that crazed Iraqi.
Stop watching Fox news, the US has a vast vast military superiority to other countries. The US spends nearly more THAN ALL of the other countries in the world combined.
http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/wor...litary-spending
The threats to the US at the moment aren't countries like north korea so much (simply put their country would be utterly destroyed if they attacked the US).
The real treat is some pissed off middle eastern person who lost his family to an American bomb in Iraq (one of the 100k civilians who have died as a result of the war) and joined Al Qaeda. That pissed off Iraqi with nothing left to live for getting into America and strapping a bomb to himself is a bigger threat.
A plane won't stop that crazed Iraqi.
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This is funny. No other group besides the military gets second guessed so much. This country is here only because the military has gone to war many times and carried out operations that still haven't seen that light of day all for the greater good of this country. Yet people are so quick to think that the military is out to get them or do them harm (to their wallet or in countless other ways). How about people shut their mouth, give the military what they ask for, no more, no less, and just enjoy the peace and freedom that is maintained here at home, by the blood of the few over there.
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Originally Posted by DeepC,Apr 6 2009, 04:11 PM
This is funny. No other group besides the military gets second guessed so much. This country is here only because the military has gone to war many times and carried out operations that still haven't seen that light of day all for the greater good of this country. Yet people are so quick to think that the military is out to get them or do them harm (to their wallet or in countless other ways). How about people shut their mouth, give the military what they ask for, no more, no less, and just enjoy the peace and freedom that is maintained here at home, by the blood of the few over there.