Build more Super Stallions now.

Don't wait, don't debate.

Place an order for a dozen CH-53E Super Stallions with Sikorsky on Monday then
ask the Congress to fund it. (Transfer funds from the DD(X) or F/A-22 or V-22
accounts to cover it in the meantime.)

http://www.wral.com/apncnews/4878005/detail.html
The Marines have been forced into taking the extraordinary step because they
have only 150 of their only heavy-lift workhorses left in their fleet. Six
Super Stallions have been destroyed in crashes since 2001 and the rest are
logging long hours in the air in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.

-HJC

HJC,

Maybe the Marines can just buy one off the lot? They may not get the
color they want though. Seriously, even if funding was made available
today, it would take almost two years to produce a helicopter. In the
mean time V-22s will be comming on line to fill the need,

CTR

CTR wrote:
Maybe the Marines can just buy one off the lot? They may not get the
color they want though. Seriously, even if funding was made available
today, it would take almost two years to produce a helicopter. In the
mean time V-22s will be comming on line to fill the need,

Read the article please.

As usual in this war our troops are searching through junkyards to find the
tools for war.

Also the V-22 will not lift as much as the CH-53E does.

http://www.wral.com/apncnews/4878005/detail.html

-HJC

AMARC isn't a junkyard.

Henry J Cobb wrote:
Don't wait, don't debate.

Place an order for a dozen CH-53E Super Stallions with Sikorsky on
Monday then ask the Congress to fund it. (Transfer funds from the
DD(X) or F/A-22 or V-22 accounts to cover it in the meantime.)

And earn a trip to the Federal penitentiary of your choice.

OK, perhaps not jail, but only because such a blatantly illegal act would be
quashed long before it could come to fruition. Certainly it would result in
the immediate dismissal of the procurement official who tried it.
Reprogramming on this scale requires explicit Congressional approval.

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"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when
wrong to be put right." - Senator Carl Schurz, 1872

Thomas Schoene wrote:
Henry J Cobb wrote:

Don't wait, don't debate.

Place an order for a dozen CH-53E Super Stallions with Sikorsky on
Monday then ask the Congress to fund it. (Transfer funds from the
DD(X) or F/A-22 or V-22 accounts to cover it in the meantime.)


And earn a trip to the Federal penitentiary of your choice.

OK, perhaps not jail, but only because such a blatantly illegal act would be
quashed long before it could come to fruition. Certainly it would result in
the immediate dismissal of the procurement official who tried it.
Reprogramming on this scale requires explicit Congressional approval.


How about rescuing some Super Stallions from AMARC then?

Being done here at Cherry Point right now. We have 3 here being restored
to flight status.

KenG

Eric Joiner wrote:
Thomas Schoene wrote:

Henry J Cobb wrote:

Don't wait, don't debate.

Place an order for a dozen CH-53E Super Stallions with Sikorsky on
Monday then ask the Congress to fund it. (Transfer funds from the
DD(X) or F/A-22 or V-22 accounts to cover it in the meantime.)



And earn a trip to the Federal penitentiary of your choice.

OK, perhaps not jail, but only because such a blatantly illegal act
would be quashed long before it could come to fruition. Certainly it
would result in the immediate dismissal of the procurement official
who tried it. Reprogramming on this scale requires explicit
Congressional approval.


How about rescuing some Super Stallions from AMARC then?

Eric Joiner wrote:

How about rescuing some Super Stallions from AMARC then?

That's what they ARE doing, which is what promted Henry's little bout of
delusion in the first place.

--
Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail
"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when
wrong to be put right." - Senator Carl Schurz, 1872