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...join with us as Bush's resolve grows clear. In 1990 the much vaunted "international coalition" developed only after Bush Sr. dispatched 540,000 troops to the Persian Gulf. We enlisted others precisely because we were willing to "go it alone." Besides, when did "standing alone" become the big bugaboo? Our Founding Fathers proudly stood alone in 1776. In 1940 Churchill proclaimed that Britain was fighting "by ourselves alone; but we are not fighting for ourselves alone." Similarly, President Bush must fight to fortify international law and the U.N.'s effectiveness "not for ourselves alone...
...Osprey's real bugaboo is the amount of maintenance it requires, which is why Leberman ordered his troops to falsify records. "Maintainers are being told they have to lie on maintenance records to make the numbers look good," a V-22 mechanic said in an anonymous letter to the Pentagon. What is amazing is how bad the numbers are--even after the deception. A recent independent review, apparently incorporating the misleading data, said the V-22s were fully prepared for their missions just 20% of the time, well short of the corps' 75% requirement. An Osprey crash last April...
...Osprey's real bugaboo is the amount of maintenance it requires, which is why Leberman ordered his troops to falsify records. "Maintainers are being told they have to lie on maintenance records to make the numbers look good," a V-22 mechanic said in an anonymous letter to the Pentagon. What is amazing is how bad the numbers are - even after the deception. A recent independent review, apparently incorporating the misleading data, said the V-22s were fully prepared for their missions just 20 percent of the time, well short of the corps' 75 percent requirement. An Osprey crash last...
...when my husband and I argue over who has to do the dishes, we are really questioning each other's emotional investment in our marriage. Whose turn is it to take out the garbage? Could be that old control bugaboo again. Do we both need to visit the accountant at tax time? Autonomy, pure and simple...
Maintenance has long been a bugaboo of such aircraft, especially older ones that have been sold or given to U.S. allies. When Colombia got 12 old Hueys in 1997, for example, each could be flown less than 10 hours before it needed a major required overhaul for continued safe flight. Only two of them were flying two months after their arrival...