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HungaryGator
Doubletree Resident
(64.134.244.26) on 3/4/2013 - 11:41 a.m. says: ( 227 views
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"Washington Monument ploy" |
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Message Replied To ========== Looks like flyovers at NFL stadiums is done with.......... Posted without comment http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123338424 Air Force cuts aviation support at public eventsPosted 3/1/2013  Email story Print story
 3/1/2013 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- As the Air Force braces for potential sequester, leadership has cancelled all aviation support to public events for at least the remainder of the fiscal year and is standing down the Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team to save flying hours to support readiness needs. Effective today, active-duty, Reserve and Guard units will cease all aviation support to the public. This includes the cancellation of support to all air shows, tradeshows, flyovers (including funerals and military graduations), orientation flights, heritage flights, F-22 demonstration flights and open houses, unless the event includes only local static assets. Additionally, the Air Force will cancel the Thunderbirds' entire 2013 season beginning April 1. The Thunderbirds and Heritage Flight crews will complete their certification procedures for safely flying aerial demonstrations in case the budget allows resumption of scheduled events in 2013, but and the Air Force will cease participation in Heritage flights following certification. The Air Force will reduce flying hours by as much as 18 percent -- approximately 203,000 hours -- and impacts will be felt across the service and directly affect operational and training missions. "While we will protect flying operations in Afghanistan and other contingency areas, nuclear deterrence and initial flight training, roughly two-thirds of our active-duty combat Air Force units will curtail home station training," said Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III. Since all aerial support to public and military events is flown at no additional cost to the taxpayer using allotted training hours, the Air Force had no choice but to cancel support to these events. "Engaging with the public is a core Air Force mission and communicating and connecting with the public is more important today than ever before. However, faced with deep budget cuts, we have no choice but to stop public aviation support," said Brig. Gen. Les Kodlick, the director of Air Force Public Affairs. "The Air Force will reevaluate the program at the end of the fiscal year and look for ways to curtail the program without having to cancel aviation support altogether." The Air Force will continue to seek additional ways to remain engaged with the American public. For more information, please contact Air Force Public Affairs at aerial.events@pentagon.af.mil or 703-695-9664. For information specific to the USAF Thunderbirds, please call Air Combat Command Public Affairs at (757) 764-5007 ==============================if your funding is cut at all, make no effort whatsoever to rationalize, do away with wasteful duplication, crack down on fraud, abuse and waste, do not seek equipment that is merely silver plated instead of being gold plated. No. Find THE most visible thing you possibly can and cut that. Then cry that you're only getting tens or hundreds of billions every year instead of even more. The Air Force has learned well from the politicians in Washington. Fine by me. We don't "need" flyovers. Our military budget (along with everything else) needs to be slashed. |
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Washington Monument ploy HungaryGator 3/4/2013 - 11:41 a.m.
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