Quote:
|
Originally Posted by GunPig
I won't reply on the article other than using the phrase "inaccurate reporting"...but I suppose we are all used to that anyhow.
TS...you are partailly correct...but ("green aircraft") AC-130s are owned and funded by the AF. OPCON is chopped to USSOCOM however, and all special mission equipment and support is an MFP-11 bill.
Truth is there isn't enough money in USSOCOM POM to support the huge O&M bills of AFSOC Aircraft. This "split" funding has been a source of grief since AFSOC came to be.
v/r
gunpig
|
That's a problem with the Navy assets and Army aviation too. Not a lot of money left for the trops by the time the hardware gets funded. Lousy reporting aside, I want the T's to have to change their pants every time ANY C-130 flys over their heads at night. They should have the poor bastards in trash haulers out there flying orbits just to confuse the issue. My .02 - Peregrino