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Bomber-jacket leather and our law
from http://www.washtimes.com/national/inring.htm
Buy Pakistani? The Pentagon is about to waive "buy American" provisions of U.S. law and allow Pakistan to provide the goatskin leather used in the distinctive U.S. aviator bomber jackets. The Defense Department has notified a U.S. leather tanner that it will waive provisions of the law known as the Berry Amendment that requires the Pentagon to buy key components from U.S. manufacturers. In April, the Pentagon announced it would buy 12,000 to 30,000 of the brown, fur-collared bomber jackets over the next several years. According to congressional aides, the Defense Department in the past allowed the jackets to be made with Pakistani goatskin. This is because the military did not believe either that U.S. suppliers had sufficient stocks of raw U.S. goatskins, or that U.S. tanners were capable of making the soft brown leather. According to the aides, the Pentagon believes the buy-American law does not apply to the leather used to make the bomber jackets, only the jackets themselves. We are told that the United States has plenty of suppliers of raw goatskin for the jackets and at least seven tanners who can make the jackets. "The Pentagon's disregard of the Berry Amendment to allow foreign leather to be used in this procurement is entirely unnecessary, as well as unlawful," one House aide said. "The Defense Department should be urged to reconsider its waiver." Proposed changes to the Berry Amendment in the House version of the pending defense-authorization bill would include bomber-jacket leather in the buy-American law. |
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"Mike Yared" wrote in message ... from http://www.washtimes.com/national/inring.htm Buy Pakistani? The Pentagon is about to waive "buy American" provisions of U.S. law and allow Pakistan to provide the goatskin leather used in the distinctive U.S. aviator bomber jackets. The Defense Department has notified a U.S. leather tanner that it will waive provisions of the law known as the Berry Amendment that requires the Pentagon to buy key components from U.S. manufacturers. In April, the Pentagon announced it would buy 12,000 to 30,000 of the brown, fur-collared bomber jackets over the next several years. I'm around the USAF a lot and I don't remember any such item as a brown fur-collared bomber jacket as current issue. A-2 aircrew jacket maybe but I think someone is describing a WWII item. Tex |
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sound like US Navy G- jackets
how ironic flying over arab land wearing arab clothing oh the irony probly made by terrorists to Tex Houston wrote: "Mike Yared" wrote in message ... from http://www.washtimes.com/national/inring.htm Buy Pakistani? The Pentagon is about to waive "buy American" provisions of U.S. law and allow Pakistan to provide the goatskin leather used in the distinctive U.S. aviator bomber jackets. The Defense Department has notified a U.S. leather tanner that it will waive provisions of the law known as the Berry Amendment that requires the Pentagon to buy key components from U.S. manufacturers. In April, the Pentagon announced it would buy 12,000 to 30,000 of the brown, fur-collared bomber jackets over the next several years. I'm around the USAF a lot and I don't remember any such item as a brown fur-collared bomber jacket as current issue. A-2 aircrew jacket maybe but I think someone is describing a WWII item. Tex |
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"Aerophotos" wrote
sound like US Navy G- jackets how ironic flying over arab land wearing arab clothing oh the irony probly made by terrorists too As opposed to a minority contractor front for the Mob. |
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Aerophotos wrote: sound like US Navy G- jackets how ironic flying over arab land wearing arab clothing Pakistanis are not arabs, nor is Arabic their language. --Mike Buy Pakistani? The Pentagon is about to waive "buy American" provisions of U.S. law and allow Pakistan to provide the goatskin leather used in the distinctive U.S. aviator bomber jackets. The Defense Department has notified a U.S. leather tanner that it will waive provisions of the law known as the Berry Amendment that requires the Pentagon to buy key components from U.S. manufacturers. In April, the Pentagon announced it would buy 12,000 to 30,000 of the brown, fur-collared bomber jackets over the next several years. |
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"Aerophotos" wrote in message ... sound like US Navy G- jackets how ironic flying over arab land wearing arab clothing Pity you're an idiot. Pakistanis aren't Arabs. |
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Aerophotos wrote in message ...
sound like US Navy G- jackets how ironic flying over arab land wearing arab clothing oh the irony probly made by terrorists to If you had read the previous message better, you'd have seen it said that this particular jacket would *not* be made in the U.S. |
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Subject: Bomber-jacket leather and our law From: "Tex Houston" 777 Date: 9/12/03 6:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time I'm around the USAF a lot and I don't remember any such item as a brown fur-collared bomber jacket as current issue. A-2 aircrew jacket maybe but I think someone is describing a WWII item. Tex If you go to my website and click on "After Koblenz" I am wearing a fur collared flight jacket, but I don't recall the designation. It sure wasn't an A-2. The shot was made in 1944 at Florennes Belgium after the Koblenz mission. Arthur Kramer I'm not doubting the issue in WWII (I remember them), I'm doubting the description in the article against what the USAF is buying now. Tex |
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I just skimmed the article, but I don't recall it mentioning the air force
(the original spec USAF jacket was horsehide IIRC). OTOH the Navy (remember those guys that fly off boats?) G-2 is goatskin. R / John |
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