Government Waste or is $218,371 Just Small Potatoes?
By a Tucson Forward Member
After years of letter-writing to Washington and thousands of citizen signatures asking for an independent study of the ANG Operation Snowbird program at Davis-Monthan, on May 7, 2009 the Air Force Washington office of Legislative Liaison wrote a letter…
[Read more →]The F-35: A Weapon That Costs More Than Australia
Washington intends to buy 2,443 (F-35s), at a price tag of $382 billion.
Add in the $650 billion that the Government Accountability Office estimates is needed to operate and maintain the aircraft, and the total cost reaches a staggering $1 trillion.
In other words, we’re spending more on this plane than Australia’s entire GDP ($924 billion).
[Read more →]How the F-35 Comes in the Back Door at D-M
It is imperative that you read “A Citizen’s Guide to NEPA” to be familiar with the process and to know your rights before the Operation Snowbird EA scoping meetings in March. It is clearly written and easy reading.
[Read more →]SHOULD CITY TAXPAYER FUNDS BE SPENT ON THE MILITARY COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMITTEE?
If you would like to send an E-mail to City or County Officials, Military Community Relations Committee (MCRC) members, or base personnel about the role of the City in the MCRC at a time of layoffs and furlougs of police and fire personnel, here are some E-mail addresses. Is the City doing a job that should fall to the Chamber of Commerce, TREO or the D-M 50? Also, how is the public being treated by a supposidly open and transparent process, the MCRC? Is the City and the County doing their jobs to protect their citizens and urban Tucson? You can also send a letter to the Editor of the Arizona Daily Star letters@azstarnet.com
Keep reading for the E-mail addresses.
[Read more →]Software Fix En Route to Grounded F-35s
by Graham Warwick, Aviation Week 10/1/10
Flight testing of the F-35 is expected to resume early next week after being suspended since early this week after a problem with the software controlling the fuel boost pumps was discovered in the lab. Modified software is…
[Read more →]MILITARY AVIATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT: WHY THE MILITARY SHOULD CARE
Ian Shields | Exclusively written for sustainablesecurity.org | September 2010
Aviation has come a long way in the century or so since the Wright brothers first flew, and there can be no doubt that it has brought some great benefits: bringing people closer together, allowing…
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