Comments on: Gates: Air Force Lagging In War Effort

Pentagon Chief Says Getting Air Force To Send Aircraft To War Zones "Like Pulling Teeth"

[lowell43]

dragonweed5:
Just one comment, really minor, I think it is spelled offended.
Thanks for the correction.

[donbl1]

The USAF is worried they will be known as the unmanned reconn force......

The USAF wants expensive toys to fly by pilots but the best weapons in this war are unmanned long on-station drones.

Give the program to the Army. The Army has more airplanes than the Air Force anyway.

[jerr11]

Good for the airforce!

They know a scam when they see one.

They''re not going to die for Halliburton''s war.

[hucklebarry4]

This is and has always been a real and factual problem ... and it really is a military structural issue facing the Air Force: The US Air Force aircraft are NOT all simply commanded by Air Force Headquarters in Langley Va....Some are under NORAD command for the defense of the North American Continent, some are under NASA command, some are under CIA, secret service...etc. The structure of the US Air Force assets are not black and white and not under one central command as many might assume. The Air Force does need to be restructured into a single command center in times of war.

[rob416]

Follow up to last posting.

Just another example of how the Bush Administration does not run Government the way it was set up to run.

[rob416]

Who is running the show at the Pentagon? Perhaps more important to ask, can''t the Commander and Chief in The White House get the Air Force to play better with others? After all Sec. Gates is a Bush appointee and I thought the main reason a civilian runs the Pentagon is to prevent the military from getting too much power.

Apparently the Air Force has enough power to cause our Defense Secretary to test his dental skills (pulling teeth) in order to get more participation in wars. How comforting is that?

[excoachken]

A new episode of the "Blame Game" for Prime Time News, so that this failed War policy can be put on the shoulders of the next President! Just who does he think he''s fooling?

[inventagod]

Maybe Mr. Gates will re-instate the Draft...

...and the Pentagoons croon ''cry me a river''...

[bgwinnett]

Bush can fly a jet can''t he?.Come on George we need a modern day Henry V.

[lowell43]

You mean to tell me that Mr. Gates can not give direct orders to the top Air Force General to do it share of fighting in Iraq?
I overreacted when Secretary of Defence Gates made his comment "Air Force Lagging in War Effort".

A native of Kansas, Secretary Gates received his bachelor''s degree from the College of William and Mary, his master''s degree in history from Indiana University, and his doctorate in Russian and Soviet history from Georgetown University.
In 1967 he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and served for a year as an intelligence officer at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

I believe he will discuse more in detail what he really meant by his comment. If anyone wishes to give me some constructive critisim on my comments, I will not be affended.