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...employed for a time devising "lanes training," a set of simple, pre-scripted troop exercises. The assignment misfired. "Koernke came up with these wildly ambitious, grandiose scenarios," says the officer. "Nobody bought them." Every year the reservists gathered for two weeks of concerted drill, and the G-2s were allowed to train briefly with active-duty troops. Koernke returned with stories of espionage derring-do that were so rococo they became the talk of his contemporaries. Says one today: "He was in this dream world. You would sit and have a drink and say, 'Guess what that jerk said today...
...while, it seemed as if there were as many potential John Doe No. 2s as clowns tumbling out of a circus car. An Australian tourist in Ontario was dragged from his car at gunpoint and questioned for four hours by authorities; a hitchhiker was detained in Ohio; a man driving through Georgia in a BMW with Oklahoma plates was stopped by a local sheriff's deputy. The most colorful detainees, Gary Allen Land and Robert Jacks -- two drifters whose travels mysteriously paralleled McVeigh's in the days before the bombing -- were arrested on Tuesday in Carthage, Missouri, and released...
...carry popular weapons configurations. Why then are we rapidly modifying our new aircraft to match the capabilities of our old aircraft so that these still viable planes can be retired? Yes, I want a strong defense, but imagine how far the $20 billion being spent on unnecessary B-2s would go toward improving readiness...
Your article, for which I was interviewed, misrepresents several key points regarding the discussion of the need for more B-2 bombers. You say that Northrop Grumman's firm fixed-price offer for 20 additional B-2s is ``dubious,'' that these aircraft will be ``stripped-down'' versions with ``scant strategic value.'' Northrop Grumman's firm fixed price offers new B- 2s for an average price of $570 million each. Those who question the validity of this price fail to understand the meaning of the term firm fixed price. It means just what it says. It's true there are additional...
...backbone'' of the U.S. nonnuclear bomber force. But four years later, only half the 95 B-1s can drop nonnuclear bombs, and they're limited to a single type of dumb bomb whose primary guidance system is gravity. Thus, after some $65 billion invested in B-1s and B-2s over the past 15 years, the lone U.S. bomber capable of striking with pinpoint weapons is the Eisenhower...