The Air Force claims they went by the checklist and this time....it was entirely done in the interest of getting the best aircraft at the cheapest price.
Don’t we have a domestic content requirement or something?
A Hunter shout-out.
B4DH
Boeing is raking it in. The tankers have to be replaced, Boeing tried to pull a fast on and lease the tankers and 2 of their execs went to prison over it. (Deserved) The second and more important is France elected a america friendly president. We want to reward those that are moving in the right direction. It is a smart move and a lesson to many other nations.
Well, this will mean 7,500 jobs for California where Northrop is based.
Hunter had a hand in virtually every military scandal involving large sums of money that has gone down over the past 2 decades. He was a key participant in getting Air Force funds questionably diverted to his campaign contributor, Boeing (the bi-product of which was the disgrace and resignation of Air Force Secretary Jim Roche). Bush replaced Roche by an even sleazier Air Force Secretary, Peter Geren (who owns a cabin with Hunter and who continued pushing Hunter’s outrageous schemes for funneling taxpayer dollars to Boeing— a percentage of which was, of course, always kicked back to his campaign coffers). Two Boeing executives and an Air Force procurement official were convicted and imprisoned