[ODC-GIRL]

I respectfully disagree. While the current enemy may not require a well-trained, well-equipped Air Force, tomorrow’s may be another story.

This kind of short-sightedness ALWAYS gets us in to trouble. If we had not down-sized air defense as part of the “peace dividend” at the close of the Cold War, 9-11 might not have been so tragically effective.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I agree with you and add with the President along with navy brass pushing for L.O.S.T. and wanting to turn the Navy into a type of foggy bottom peace corpse.

[2CAVTrooper]

“This kind of short-sightedness ALWAYS gets us in to trouble. If we had not down-sized air defense as part of the “peace dividend” at the close of the Cold War, 9-11 might not have been so tragically effective.”

That may be true, but NORAD was designed and equipped to “look out” to aquire, track, and intercept threats from the outside.