{"id":183246,"date":"2015-01-16T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/16\/seriously-the-usaf-has-degenerated-into-a-shill-for-defense-contractors\/"},"modified":"2015-01-16T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T01:13:00","slug":"seriously-the-usaf-has-degenerated-into-a-shill-for-defense-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/16\/seriously-the-usaf-has-degenerated-into-a-shill-for-defense-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously, the USAF Has Degenerated into a Shill for Defense Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Case in point, Major General James Post, USAF, just said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2015\/01\/16\/general-praising-the-a-10-to-lawmakers-is-treason\/\">praising the A-10 close support aircraft to Congress is treason<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A top U.S. Air Force general warned officers that praising the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/equipment\/a-10-thunderbolt-ii\">A-10 attack plane<\/a> to lawmakers amounts to \u201ctreason,\u201d according to a news report. <\/p>\n<p>Maj. Gen. James Post, vice commander of Air Combat Command, was quoted as saying, \u201cIf anyone accuses me of saying this, I will deny it \u2026 anyone who is passing information to Congress about A-10 capabilities is committing treason,\u201d in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arizonadailyindependent.com\/2015\/01\/15\/posts-comments-send-chill-through-air-force-ranks-a-10-panics-isis\/\">a report published<\/a> Thursday on The Arizona Daily Independent.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is all about making sure that Lockheed Martin gets it&#8217;s vig, and that retiring generals get their cut.<\/p>\n<p>They just deployed the A-10 to fight ISIS because they don&#8217;t have anything else than can do the job, and an Air Force senior leader is telling his subordinates to conceal information.<\/p>\n<p>Making the USAF an independent branch of the military was a seriously stupid thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case in point, Major General James Post, USAF, just said that praising the A-10 close support aircraft to Congress is treason: A top U.S. Air Force general warned officers that praising the A-10 attack plane to lawmakers amounts to \u201ctreason,\u201d according to a news report. Maj. Gen. James Post, vice commander of Air Combat Command, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,970,1008,1006,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}