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on October 8, 2013 in World News

New Air Force Planes Go Directly to ‘Boneyard’

                                      New Air Force Planes Go Directly to ‘Boneyard’ New cargo planes on order for the U.S. Air Force are being delivered straight into storage in the Arizona desert because the military has no use for them, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. A dozen nearly new C-27J Spartans from Ohio and elsewhere have already been taken out of service and shipped to the so-called boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. Five more are expected to be built by April… View Article

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on September 8, 2013 in Right Edition

Cost of Air Force 1 – Conservatives low in Polls

Cost of Air Force 1 – Conservatives low in Polls The U.S. military has provided an updated estimate on that cost, first published by a taxpayer watchdog group and confirmed by FoxNews.com, and the number is staggering — $181,757 per hour. That’s the price tag for shuttling around President Obama, who, as it turns out, has spent more days abroad in his first two years than any other president. Estimates over the years based on government reports and independent number-crunching have always reflected a steep cost for presidential travel, but the figure provided by the 89th Airlift Wing appears to… View Article

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