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Subject:
Four-Star Chief of Air Combat Command Calls Current F-22 Plan ?High Risk?
Phaid
6/19/2009 2:29:29 AM
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A top Air Force general says President Obama?s plan to end production of the F-22 Raptor fighter jet puts U.S. military strategy at ?high risk.?
Gen. John D.W. Corley, the four-star chief of Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base, Va., wrote a letter to Sen. Saxby Chambliss , R-Ga., about the impact of Obama and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ? decision to limit the number of F-22s in the U.S. inventory to 187.
?In my opinion, a fleet of 187 F-22s puts execution of our current national military strategy at high risk in the near to mid term,? Corley wrote in the June 9 correspondence. ?To my knowledge, there are no studies that demonstrate that 187 F-22s are adequate to support our national military strategy.?
Corley?s command organizes, trains and equips the Air Force?s squadrons. His letter represents the clearest rebuke yet from within the military of the administration?s decision to end production of the F-22 and could give some in Congress pause about ratifying one of the highest-profile proposals in Obama?s first defense budget request. There are growing signs that some pivotal lawmakers may be leaning that way.
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