“The Department has an Urgent Operational Need (UON) for the capability to strike hard and deeply buried targets in high threat environments. The MOP is the weapon of choice to meet the requirements of the UON.” It further states that the request is endorsed by Pacific Command (which has responsibility over North Korea) and Central Command (which has responsibility over Iran).
link to official USAF request to speed up procurement of special bunker buster bomb
The Marines’ Infantry Immersion Trainer combines live role-players, virtual characters and pyrotechnics in an intense simulation.
Retired Naval officer, Adm. Paul Rohrer, assesses Obama’s budget cuts in today’s SF Examiner op-ed.
Key to Adm. Rohrer’s analysis is Obama’s dependence upon the development of the new proposed F-35, Joint Strike Fighter, that was “originally designed to save costs by providing a single fighter-jet platform that could then be custom fit to serve the Air Force, Marines and Navy.”
Problem is the development, currently at an estimated cost of $400 bil is overbudget by 45%, and years behind schedule.
Say it with me boys and girls,
“It happened on Obama’s watch”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy shrank at a worse-than-expected 6.1 percent pace at the start of this year as sharp cutbacks by businesses and the biggest drop in U.S. exports in 40 years overwhelmed a rebound in consumer spending.
The Commerce Department’s report, released Wednesday, dashed hopes that the recession’s grip on the country loosened in the first quarter. Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected a 5 percent annualized decline.
The Labor Department on Wednesday said that all 372 metropolitan areas tracked saw their jobless rates rise in March from a year earlier. The rate in Indiana’s Elkhart-Goshen region soared to 18.8 percent, a 13 percentage-point increase that was the most in the country.
The national jobless rate is now at a quarter-century high of 8.5 percent and is expected to hit 10 percent by the end of this year. It will probably rise a bit higher in early 2010 before starting to slowly drift downward. Still, the Fed predicts unemployment will stay elevated into 2011, and economists don’t think it will return to normal — around a 5 percent jobless rate — until 2013.
Help me out here….
6-7million Americans out of work
Obama and Democrats’ pseudo-”stimulus” plan is sold as a way to “save or create” 2-3 million jobs.
Now, my math might not be as good as theirs, but that seems to leave juuuuust a little shortfall. No?
Also, how does killing the F-22 program (thereby killing another 100000 Lockheed jobs) and allowing GM & Chrysler to sink HELP the economy?
Ladies and Gentlemen!!!!
Step right up and watch the battle of the ill-informed…
On this side, we have an Administration that opposed the war in Iraq in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, but in 2009 not only supports it…they ADVOCATE IT. Pres Obama even stopped for gas in Baghdad on his way home from Europe, and he thanked his troops for their efforts to succeed in the very same efforts he opposed: creating a secure and stable Iraq that wouldn’t require a 3rd invasion.
On the other side, we have Congressional Democrats who-like the former Senator/current President-opposed the war in Iraq, but these people STILL DO. Ouch!
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It’ll be interesting to see who authorizes THIS funding yet opposed such funding during the Bush Admin (I believe that list would include Senator Obama and Senator Biden, no?)
WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama asked the U.S. Congress for an additional $83.4 billion to fund the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan on Thursday, saying the security situation along the Afghan-Pakistan frontier was urgent.
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The only campaign promise Obama will keep is the one to gut our military.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Gary J. Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly of the American Enterprise Institute describe the cuts in our military that Obama and the Democrats are proposing.
After years of bashing Bush for either not having enough troops or not providing them the tools they need to do their job safely it’s interesting that the Democrats would be so eager to weaken our defenses at a time when threats around the world are multiplying fast.
Here are some highlights from Schmitt and Donnelly’s report:
The lessons of History
From history we have learned that when the U.S. is strong and our defenses are maintained the risk of war is diminished. Few nations will start a fight with us or our friends if they have certainty that overwhelming military power will be used in our defense. The very threat to peace comes not from an America that is strong but an America that shows weakness and a disinterest in maintaining our military power. There is no other nation in the world that can provide that security and protect the peace.
Obama and the Democrat’s plan threatens peace and risks war!
Face to face with the worst economic crisis confronting our nation in decades, our dedicated public servants are hard at work on our behalf.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is busy launching an online petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. This, coming on the heels of triumphant Democrats confirming a tax cheat as our new Treasury Secretary, which came on the heels of giddy Democrats spearheading a new bill through Congress that would require camera phones to make a sound when taking a picture.
Six Democrats were busy enjoying a Caribbean junket sponsored by Citigroup after Congress obligingly approved the $700 billion bailout of financial services firms in October, while others were hard at work crafting a $819 billion spending package under the guise of stimulating the economy.
What spending millions of bucks on sexually transmitted diseases and giving billions of our tax dollars to corrupt left-wing groups like ACORN has to do with stimulation has yet to be explained. Instead, we’re urged to look at ‘the larger picture’.
The ‘larger picture’ that immediately comes to my mind is Father Earth, Algore, testifying before Congress, warning of the imminent demise of the human species because of global warming, while the storm of the century rages across 1,400 miles of the U.S. I digress… Read the rest of this entry »
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