via Marine Corps Times.
Speaking alongside the other service chiefs at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Nov. 7, Gen. Jim Amos said the more than 10 percent in budget reductions the Marines are being forced to make over a 10-year period means they cannot sign new multi-year contracts and are being forced to cancel some current ones, paying a penalty for doing so.Read the whole thing here.
“In Marine aviation alone, it’s going to cost me $6.5 billion of inefficiences,” he said. “That’s four (F-35B Joint Strike Fighter) squadrons and two MV-22 Osprey squadrons.”
Sorry Amos.
I don't care.
The F-35 is prohibitively expensive and we have enough MV-22s to take care of a heliborne assault. The rest of our lift can be taken care of by buying MH-60's and tagging onto either the Army or Navy's buy of them.
Its stunning.
We have Marines about to do another decade in a Vietnam war era vehicle and the air power zealots don't understand and don't care how dangerous that is.
No. Instead we have trolls that work for the F-35 office coming onto my page spreading disinformation.
Marines get it. We need a new vehicle. We need to hold onto those combat experienced Marines so that the knowledge can be passed along in SOI/MCT/OCS and TBS.
Marines get it but Amos doesn't.
