ALERT! U.S. Air Force as you know it no longer exists: beginning today, 17 combat units grounded April 9, 2013

CURIOUS AS THIS COMES WITH THE THREAT OF EMP FROM N. KOREAN SAT.
WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK ABOUT THE TIMING????

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The U.S. Air Force as you know it no longer exists: beginning today, 17 combat units grounded April 9, 2013
Posted by David Cenciotti in : Military Aviation , trackback

According to internal documents obtained by Air Force Times, beginning on Apr. 9, 2013, the U.S. Air Force will begin grounding front line combat units as a consequence of sequestration and the need to deal with budget cuts.

Seventeen squadrons belonging to the various U.S. Air Force commands are going to be affected by the stand down order.

The grounding is aimed to save the 44,000 flying hours (worth 591 million USD) through September.

The funded 241,496 flying hours will be distributed to those squadrons that will remain combat ready or are expected to keep a reduced readiness level called “basic mission capable” until the end of the Fiscal Year 2013.

Whilst some squadron will be immediately grounded, others will be forced down as soon as they come back from their overseas deployment. Among them, the 94th Fighter Squadron from Langley, whose F-22 Raptor stealth fighters currently deployed to Kadena, Okinawa and Osan airbase amid Korean Peninsula crisis, or 354th Fighter Squadron, 12 A-10C of which are currently returning to Davis Monthan after being deployed to Afghanistan.

Raptor Langley

Other grounded units include the Thunderbirds demo team, 555th Fighter Squadron from Aviano airbase, Italy; 77th Fighter Squadron from Shaw AFB, South Carolina; 492nd and 494th Fighter Squadrons from RAF Lakenheath, UK; 18th Aggressor Squadron from Eielson AFB, Alaska; B-52 squadrons belonging to the 2nd Bomb Wing from Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, and 5th Bomb Wing from Minot AFB, North Dakota; as well as B-1 squadrons from both 2nd and 7th Bomb Wing from Dyess AFB, Texas.
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grandstanding - A means to impliment fear. Let's add this up...MSM pounding by the minute that NK is serious about using nukes. People in US beginning to question why we should be at war and spending gazzilions of $$ to support it. The threat to scale back military spending all to get people to push their local and national gov't to never allow spending to be reduced on such a machine. Get the people clamoring for their own demise to implament the means for their own destruction. Problem-reaction-solution.....Thanks for walking into the cage because it's so much easier than forcing you there.....