On 10/28/2003 6:30 AM after considerable forethought, G.R. Patterson III
wrote:

Larry Dighera wrote:

This sounds like a bad idea to me:


Doesn't sound good to me either. I took a tour of McGuire AFB a couple years
ago. They had staffing problems. This was before Iraq, and they had several
civilian controllers manning screens 'cause there weren't enough military ones
to go around. They said lots of them only do one hitch and it takes much of
that enlistment to train them.

George Patterson
You can dress a hog in a tuxedo, but he still wants to roll in the mud.

I think the current trend is to privatize even the military ATC.
Vandenburg AFB CA is now staffed by a private company "freeing up
military personnel".

Steve P