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To: unclewest who wrote (105517)	3/23/2005 5:47:41 AM
From: LindyBill	of 793882

That is nearly 7.5 times the DOD budget the year before the draft ended. What really makes it expensive is we have the entire Military on a war footing, with half the NG and Reserves called up. The year the draft ended we were running a peacetime Military. Plus you add the enormous cost of the weapon systems we are using. Much more expensive and effective than what we had. Look at the "A Teams with CAS against four Iraqi Divisions," you mentioned. Even Central Command would have never believed the results before the war started. We need to take the committed money to the F-22 and the F-35 and spend it on trash haulers and A-10 types. They are planning to have the F-16 take over the A-10 role. Just won't work. It is too fragile for CAS. And too shortlegged.

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