re: Military Brass gives report. 74% are not combat ready

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I swear the biggest waste of money is due to how inept the Pentagon is with the money it's given. Just streamlining the military would save this country more money than most of the committees on the chopping block combined.

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I used to work with a guy who was a technical writer, also a pilot. He told me this story.

Back when they had the first WestPac deployment of the F-22 four of them left Pearl Harbor for Guam or whatever gets them ultimately to Japan. This was maybe 2005 or '06.

Any way the four aircraft hit the International Dateline and their GPS systems shut down. They had to declare an emergency and go back to PH. They couldn't find the tankers.

The point is, they probably had 400 retired colonels working on the damn thing, and no one thought about the IDL. Geez.

They downloaded a patch at PH and were able to continue, but gee whiz.