F-22 Supplier-Base Management?

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Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 11:17 am

Remember the PreserveRaptorJobs Website? The one portraying the F-22 Raptor fighter jet as an economic engine; and one that seeks to mobilize people to write in for protection of the aircraft?

I’ve been emailing with the F-22 spokesman for Lockheed Martin, the jet’s manufacturer –  a nice fellow named Rob Fuller. When I asked Fuller about the Website, he kept coming back to this point: “The website was established to provide information primarily to this supplier base about the current F-22 program status and provide them with an opportunity to voice their support for continued production.”

While nothing on the site explicitly contradicts that, it sure looks like a mechanism for anyone, whether they are involved in the supplier base or not, to lobby for the Raptor. And there isn’t any mechanism on the site for the trading of information, unless one counts the presence of booster-y F-22 talking points that anyone involved in the supplier base would already have available.

And there’s nothing wrong with that, per se. People have the right to lobby for whatever they want. But why not call that what it is?

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ModerateWarrior
Comment posted March 12, 2009 @ 12:42 pm

So WHAT? WHO cares, really? Of course the workers and engineers who build the F-22 will lobby to protect their jobs. That's news, Spencer?

Why don't you start writing about why OSD UN-constitutionally denied the entire USAF HQ corps of their responsibility and right to communicate with Congress over their combat need for more F-22s? Because you have a sophomoric hatred of the Raptor and cannot possibly consider that MAYBE, just maybe, OUR USAF IS RIGHT!? Why don't you talk to the Intel Agencies and ask them about the growing Chinese air and naval threat? 500 Chinese Flankers sitting across a small pond from Japan and Taiwan by 2010. No, that's too hard. Let's just repeat what the dunce-corps says about F-22. You sat on your journalistic data storage unit and watched with glee while OSD gagged the uniformed members of our armed forces and wrote nothing about it. THAT is NOT what our founding fathers had in mind when they envisioned civilian control of the military… or freedom of the Press. And by the way, that same Constitution which you failed to notice as being buggered by small-brained ninnies like Gordon England and John Young says that the CONGRESS has the final say on equipping and maintaining our armed forces, not DoD or the President. They obviously knew what they were doing. Which is more than I can say for your drivel.


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ModerateWarrior
Comment posted March 12, 2009 @ 7:42 pm

So WHAT? WHO cares, really? Of course the workers and engineers who build the F-22 will lobby to protect their jobs. That's news, Spencer?

Why don't you start writing about why OSD UN-constitutionally denied the entire USAF HQ corps of their responsibility and right to communicate with Congress over their combat need for more F-22s? Because you have a sophomoric hatred of the Raptor and cannot possibly consider that MAYBE, just maybe, OUR USAF IS RIGHT!? Why don't you talk to the Intel Agencies and ask them about the growing Chinese air and naval threat? 500 Chinese Flankers sitting across a small pond from Japan and Taiwan by 2010. No, that's too hard. Let's just repeat what the dunce-corps says about F-22. You sat on your journalistic data storage unit and watched with glee while OSD gagged the uniformed members of our armed forces and wrote nothing about it. THAT is NOT what our founding fathers had in mind when they envisioned civilian control of the military… or freedom of the Press. And by the way, that same Constitution which you failed to notice as being buggered by small-brained ninnies like Gordon England and John Young says that the CONGRESS has the final say on equipping and maintaining our armed forces, not DoD or the President. They obviously knew what they were doing. Which is more than I can say for your drivel.


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