Comments on: Gates Fires JSF Program Manager

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:29:28 +0000

Desception through one’s eye’s, is but hidious into mind, for desception, is the great deciever, but the mind is the follower. So barney & friend’s, skate free at will to decieve. Your going burn with Satan & follower’s.

By: The RAM

The RAM — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:31:19 +0000

Agreed ! Focus, Focus„ Focus. I’ve yet to see anything that is all thing to all missions.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:28:29 +0000

It's not "whom" but "who." The word "whom" is properly used when it is a object pronoun of the verb, but you are trying to use it as the subject of the verb. So be careful when you rip someone else's grammar. "One would never use whom as the subject of a verb" cf. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whom#Usage_notes

By: Mech86

Mech86 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:09:17 +0000

With the JSF they are trying to make a jack of all trades, but as the saying goes, Jack of all trades master of nothing. Expecting one plane to master all these tasks for each service is foolish at best.

By: Steve F.

Steve F. — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:58:16 +0000

Common sense. Lessons to learn. Not sure we are better tha them.

By: William C.

William C. — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:34:54 +0000

Considering the F135 generates some 40,000+ pounds of thrust with afterburner, some 28,000 pounds of thrust without AB, and is therefore one of the most powerful fighter engines in existence, I think there are far bigger problems than the F135 if that isn’t enough thrust.

Perhaps GE should continue work on the F120 and F136 for the sake of the ADVENT program, but otherwise I see no need to them. And P&W makes remarkable engines with just a portion of the political love that GE gets.

By: Usetobe

Usetobe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:29:50 +0000

I sure do.…have 550 hours in the “clever McNamara multi-role” machine

By: Usetobe

Usetobe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:28:16 +0000

Dial up the chaplain’s site if you want a pity party, pinhead. The Marine will be likely end up in better shape than the F35 program.…a program designed to build a sub-optimal weapon as a one-size-fits-all to save money and support military missions that time has past by

By: L. Twigg

L. Twigg — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:12:26 +0000

I am just submitting a uneducated guess, but do you know if Secretary Gates was ever in the military???
Typical military in numerous cases; the guys in the Ivory Towers, making stupid decisions that could be life-threatening for the guys in the trenches!!!!

By: robertro2

robertro2 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:00:39 +0000

this program from the beginning was bad ‚you got people that only care about paying some one off and taking care of there friends .…..and now this sec. is going to fire the guy he just put there last year…this shows me they all are useless in what they do,so there is only one thing to do,stop the program now and then they should all quit.…

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:34:57 +0000

duh!!! check out Wikipedia and you’ll see that Vice Admiral is equivalent to a 3 star general.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:19:59 +0000

Interesting that a DOD journal cannot get their rank identification straight. A Vice Admiral is not a three-star general — duh!!!

By: colstevehasty

colstevehasty — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:55:16 +0000

I spent a year with Dave Heintz at the Naval War College. He was and is a highly respected Marine and leader. He’s a fall guy for this one. I hope the Marine Corps gives him an Air Wing and continues to march.

By: SeaBee

SeaBee — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:13:18 +0000

They should all be fired. It’s amazing how most of the fools want to keep alive the industrial military welfare complex, building junk we really don’t need or/ and afford. Soon we will be Argentina w nukes, with all this hardware, while this country crumbles from underneath us. You were the same fools that love Gates while a Bush official, but now you don’t. Maybe we should bring back the incompetent loser draft dodger of Rumsfeld. He was a real loser, like some of you are. Guy’s face it, we can’t afford all this crap, or maybe we can borrow more money from China to build it.

By: Erik Krats

Erik Krats — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:47:06 +0000

Greetings,
I don’t know much about anything, but I’ m wondering when was the last time any kind of high level military manager actually knew when he was being lied to by those below him? How can he? Everyone has their own interests in mind. The contractors and the politicians, especially. Was Gates appointed on merit? Or was he a political appointee? Like I said, I don’t know much except that we can’t be pointing fingers at anyone for their corruption when the stink at home is overwhelming. Folks, money is involved. When you’ve been involved in federal law inforcement over 30 years, you know that gold is king, not the president, not the chairman, not the town sheriff. The international scheme is milking us. You all know it but don’t want to talk about it.
Sorry, I had to get this off my chest.

By: Bart Malodore

Bart Malodore — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:52:28 +0000

LH: I like your commentary, but asking for disclosure is a bit much when you, understandably, do not identify yourself–unless you are the LH scrawled.… In any case, replies to your commentary seem to imply that the F-22 was obviously needed. When will the gluttonous grip on taxpayer money be loosened. Congress people, warfighters, contractors think they are entitled to almost anything they want. I love that because the first engine program is botched, our approach is just to start a second engine program, which will have a similar fate, regardless of the purported “lower” cost. Get real, people, Gates is on our side. He hates waste and the line of bloviation that can be expected from the Services and their lacky suppliers.

By: Darryl Mishbucca

Darryl Mishbucca — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:39:16 +0000

Hey, Mrs. Usetobe: we can consider those good, weighty issues, AND can the MG for his contribution to further waste and delay and confusion. Sure we need the plane, but we need stronger program executives.

By: Richard Barfon

Richard Barfon — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:34:46 +0000

How about doing a nice Aerospace Corp or MITRE or RAND study on what the problem is. So we will then know whom to fire or pillory. How about replacing the contractor? Just kidding. But they need to suffer financially for their performance, too. Oops, did I say that?

By: Marvin Gardens

Marvin Gardens — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:32:33 +0000

Could it be that he is a great leader, but an ineffective program manager? Or do we wanna just tag Gates as a mindless political guy? Heck no.

By: Jawarlal Bernstein

Jawarlal Bernstein — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:29:27 +0000

Does this mean: you actually might agree that no one should be accountable? LM maybe? Perish the thought. Our billions disappear into the ether. Everyone is a real great manager and a noble patriot besides. When will the waste stop? When we are out of money. Or when the DOD and its components all agree that there are other priorities in this country, besides defense.