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Scuba

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2. If this guy's plan for dealing with budget cuts is to let our planes go NORS ...

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:10 AM

Feb 2013

... then he's a lousy leader. Try closing some bases instead.

Um, for non-AF types, "NORS" is "non-operational ready status". Do they still use that?

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Air Force Chief Says 70% of ALL Combat Aircraft 'Non Combat Capable By July' [View all] unhappycamper Feb 2013 OP

Absolutely agree w/you. Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #1

If this guy's plan for dealing with budget cuts is to let our planes go NORS ... Scuba Feb 2013 #2

don't know about other commands but gejohnston Feb 2013 #9

Why is it that we spend way more than most of the other powers combined on "defense" kevinbgoode1 Feb 2013 #3

we piss a lot of it away of stupid stuff gejohnston Feb 2013 #10

Sounds like a great excuse for a false flag event think Feb 2013 #4

That strikes me as only possible if every single penny SheilaT Feb 2013 #5

Close some foreign bases and sell them Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #6

+100 more and think Feb 2013 #7

I suspect this is all a part of the various government agencies strategy to fight a budget cut Victor_c3 Feb 2013 #8

Here's a little something the Veterans For Peace put together regarding the subject: unhappycamper Feb 2013 #11