some of our missils can't work because of . . . rain

[donsu]

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Raining_On_The_ABM_Parade_999.html


Raining On The ABM Parade

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For this week, the Project on Government Oversight, or POGO -- a non-government U.S. watchdog body founded in 1981 -- reported that several of the key interceptors could never even have been launched, not because of North Korea sabotage, or sabotage by anyone else, but because of rain.

The POGO report is quite extraordinary and will be quoted from at considerable length to assure our readers we are not hyping it, or exaggerating its conclusions in any way.

"A significant portion of the U.S. missile defense capability was wiped out during the summer of 2006 because torrential rains caused ground-based interceptor silos to be damaged by flood waters," POGO said in a statement.

"Boeing, the contractor that is at least partly responsible for failing to protect the silos, will most likely still receive an estimated $38 million to repair the silos and a $100 million no-bid contract to build more silos. Boeing would also receive a $7 million award fee added to the contract," the group said.

POGO noted that "the flooding occurred during a three-week period between the end of June and early July 2006 when Ft. Greely received several inches of rain. Ft. Greely and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California house the nation's only Missile Defense Agency interceptor missiles."
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and the scam continues

[Javaman]

1. The war this week was rained out, please consult your congress critter

for a rain check.

[Richard Steele]

2. "Republican Government" is nothing but a pile of scams. Thinly-veiled theft.

We should be prosecuting these companies for FRAUD, not
giving them BONUSES.

If I do a job for someone, and I mess it up, it's -MY-
responsibilty to fix it at MY expense. And to pay for any
secondary damage my mistake may have caused, such as
water damage if my mistake floods somene's property.

I don't get more money to repeat the mistake, I don't get
paid for fixing my own screwup, and I sure as HELL don't
get any "award fee".

But there's that little word that applies to me and you,
but not to Big Business: "responsibility".

[donsu]

3. govt. no bid contracts should be against the law

nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. "What has wings that go up and down and flies only when the sun shines?"

It was an all too true joke about the capabilities of the "All Weather" fighters (F8-U Corsairs) of our sister squadrons when our pilots flew outdated, destined for the junkyard, fighters that didn't have up-and-down wings but flew in all weather.

Of course, the "defense" industry will go to congress to beg for more, lots more, money to make the missiles waterproof