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179th Airlift Wing goes back to the future......
Posted: 28 Mar 2013, 22:32
by MIKE JG
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories ... -jobs.html
So to sum this up, just three years after getting rid of their C-130's in exchange for 4 C-27J's, they're are going to give up their 4 C-27J's in exchange for 8 C-130s scrounged from around the USAF and go back to their old mission.
What a miserable failure this whole C-27 thing has been and an even larger waste of tax payer dollars and messing with the lives of the locals.
I'm happy for the 179th and their people and the city of Mansfield but DANG this is all kinds of stupid.
Re: 179th Airlift Wing goes back to the future......
Posted: 28 Mar 2013, 23:09
by Firebird
Hmmm, are you sure that our MOD wasn't involved somewhere?
Re: 179th Airlift Wing goes back to the future......
Posted: 28 Mar 2013, 23:53
by phantomfreak
They're not the only one, the 186th ARW in Mississippi is going back to flying KC-135's instead of the C-27J.
Re: 179th Airlift Wing goes back to the future......
Posted: 29 Mar 2013, 00:40
by Victory103
On a related subject, had a Maryland ANG C-27 in pattern with me in WV, callsign: Crab 16.
Re: 179th Airlift Wing goes back to the future......
Posted: 29 Mar 2013, 01:41
by reconmercs
The USAF sucks at procurement...nothing new.
Re: 179th Airlift Wing goes back to the future......
Posted: 29 Mar 2013, 01:59
by airplanedoktor
The USAF sucks at procurement...nothing new.
Right up there with the CF....
Re: 179th Airlift Wing goes back to the future......
Posted: 29 Mar 2013, 15:25
by BadPvtDan
Read in Wiki they're canceling the entire thing.
Re: 179th Airlift Wing goes back to the future......
Posted: 29 Mar 2013, 20:35
by phantomfreak
The whole thing was screwed up from the start.
Re: 179th Airlift Wing goes back to the future......
Posted: 29 Mar 2013, 21:00
by MIKE JG
BadPvtDan wrote:Read in Wiki they're canceling the entire thing.
Yep, and the C-27A's that we bought for the Afghan Air Force.....
Those are being scrapped after just a couple years as well because the contractor can't maintain them in airworthy condition.
Billions and billions of dollars wasted, no wonder we're broke.
Re: 179th Airlift Wing goes back to the future......
Posted: 29 Mar 2013, 21:17
by BadPvtDan
I'm building a Playscape in the backyard so I'm no better with my money.
Re: 179th Airlift Wing goes back to the future......
Posted: 30 Mar 2013, 01:07
by phantomfreak
MIKE JG wrote:BadPvtDan wrote:Read in Wiki they're canceling the entire thing.
Yep, and the C-27A's that we bought for the Afghan Air Force.....
Those are being scrapped after just a couple years as well because the contractor can't maintain them in airworthy condition.
Billions and billions of dollars wasted, no wonder we're broke.
Just from what I've heard and observed a lot of the problem lies with the primary contractor of the C-27/G.222.