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The Pentagon is Screaming About the Sequester and Yet Now This...

on Fri, 02/22/2013 - 19:00

So, let me get this straight. The Pentagon is crying bloody murder about a sequester it's had well over an entire year to prepare for. Yet, in spite of the coming money crunch and impending doom on Wednesday out came this little goodie about the F-22 Raptor:

"Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (FA8611-13-D-2850) with a ceiling of $6,900,000,000 for F-22 modernization."

Mind you this contract was released at 5pm on Wednesday February 20, 2013; or about twelve hours before the Air Force Chief of Staff