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Air Force

Air Force Makes Renewed Case For Managing Inventory Without Legislative Restrictions

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Friday, October 26th, 2007

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By Michael Sirak The Air Force's leadership made the case once again to Congress earlier this week that legislative restrictions on retiring aircraft that have exceeded their useful service lives are draining away critical resources from the service's much-needed modernization and recapitalization initiatives. "Our preference would be to be able to manage our own inventory and retire those airplanes," Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley told the House Armed Services Committee Oct. 24 during a hearing on Air Force strategic…

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