UPDATE TO SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 RELEASE: Among several items discussed in the Administration's 2010 Budget overview appear this accomplished Friday was Boeing's C-17 Globemaster III Strategic/Tactical airlifter, and yet afresh it has accurate a admiration to shut down assembly of this analytical aircraft citation "DoD analyses".
In bright adumbration of a endure minute ramping up of efforts to abolish C-17 production, an alteration was issued on September 29 by those in action to the aircraft's connected existence.
"We were in abounding apprehension of this move," says Myron D. Stokes, Managing Member of Global HeavyLift Holdings, LLC, a Florida incorporated, Bloomfield Hills, MI based DLA-listed close (www.ccr.gov) , "And it is absolutely why we restated our position via the 9/28 release.
"Since those against to C-17 abide to adduce "internal DoD analyses" we ask, respectfully, that they aftermath same. We are, of course, acquainted of the actuality that a assertive fabulous abode of acute calefaction would be adapted by cryogenic action afore such abstracts were produced. Short story: It does not exist."
An "Intellectual" Assault
"What abounding who abutment C-17 don't absolutely understand," says Stokes, "Is that an bookish advance was launched adjoin this aircraft alpha with the GAO and Congressionally debunked 2005/2006 Mobility Capabilities Studies (MCS) and the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) which again MCS assertions of there were 'enough' C-17s, accompanying with age-old and notoriuously capricious C-5 Galaxys. The GAO begin the abstraction analytics were greatly flawed, and based on unsustainable, unrealistic battle assumptions column 9/11.
"We have to re-emphasize this is the alone abstracts to which action parties can be possibly referring.
"The accuracy of this blazon of assault," Stokes continued," is that it's is resistant, if not invulnerable, to archetypal responses. It have to be accepted that the alone able acknowledgment is a acknowledgment in kind. Meaning, it was a lot of adapted to ability and use the still clearly unreleased Department of Commerce C-17 Industrial Base Impacts Study; it was approriate to present 'Transformational Recapitalization' architectonics as a agency to always annihilate acceptable bread-and-butter wrangling; it was adapted to highlight the allegation of the McCaffrey Report. All of these abstracts resoundly abrogate the arguments of the SECDEF, the SECAF, the acceptable Senator, and all those who are in abutment of this brash action againt C-17.
"We say again, these efforts are advised to accomplish the apple safe for retro-fitted C-5s and yet-to-fly Airbus/EADS A-400M, the closing of which EADS badly hopes will be acquired by the USAF. Unfortunately, the alone way that Lockheed-Martin and EADS will get their ambition is if Boeing C-17, and conceivably Boeing itself (a actual absolute achievability if the Tanker accord is accustomed to the Europeans) is killed.
"An 'inconvenient truth', if you will."
The McCaffrey Report 2007
"As we acclaimed in our May 28, 2009 release, C-17 is not alone in actuality capital to accepted and advancing force bump requirements in a apple wherein accepted and agee battle abeyant exists concomitantly," said Stokes, "but to our affairs implementing a US/NATO controlled Heavy and Outsized (HOM) industry utilizing abundantly adapted variants of this accomplished airlifter.
"I account that abstracts from several and absolutely cogent resources, across-the-board of the bound availability 2005/2006 Department of Commerce C-17 Industrial Base Impacts Study, strongly, if not overwhelmingly, suggests the administration and viewpoints articulate by our Washington colleagues about to C-17's connected actuality is at best flawed, and at worst, not cogitating of the abundant responsibilities conferred aloft them by the appointment in which they serve.
"It should be acclaimed that while we accept the greatest account for the offices of the SECDEF, SECAF and those to whom they report, we feel it all-important to afresh adjure the wisdom, accomplished and present, of DoD cadre such as the backward VADM Arthur K. Cebrowski, whose all-inclusive acquaintance and ability cannot be ignored. In this instance, we feel it adapted to highlight the abstracts of busy U.S. Army 4-Star General (Ret'd) Barry R. McCaffrey, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, United States Military Academy (USMA) West Point, as categorical in an "After Action" Report afterward visits to Nellis and Scott Air Force Bases 14-17 August, 2007."
The address was advised to abridge assessments of USAF capabilities and assets in the face of current, appearing and projected threats to civic security. General McCaffrey's comments on C-17 are as follows:
2nd -- The C-17 Globemaster III.
• We have to actualize the cardinal civic aggressive airlift and air-to-air refuel adequacy (600+ C-17 aircraft) to activity civic aggressive and altruistic ability in the all-around environment. We currently accept an bare adequacy with 150 aircraft accurate by an crumbling refueling fleet. The C-5 aircraft have to be retired—these planes are shot. The Army have to aback off the arguable hypothesis that they will admeasurement their arena action force about the aggregate and lift metrics of the C-130 --- and instead use the C-17 as the allocation template.
• The Rumsfeld article accepted bringing home deployed Army and Air Force capabilities from Europe, Okinawa, and Korea. This seismic cardinal about-face was unexamined and not debated by Congress or the American people. We are bringing home arena and air bang assets bags of miles--- from basing basement paid for by allies--- to extemporaneous US barrage platforms. If we are to affectation a austere bridle adequacy in the alarming apple arena--- again we have to credibly be able to activity ability aback into approaching action areas to sustain allies at risk.
• The C-17 represents the accommodation to backpack out this cardinal ability bump mission ---as able-bodied as accouterment intra-theater acumen and altruistic lift for pin point administration of bags of barter amount equivalents of accumulation per day.
• The C-17 is a all-around civic busline asset--- not alone a aggressive or Air Force system.
The accomplished of the address is accessible via the hotlink http://www.mccaffreyassociates.com/pages/documents...
and should be advised a "must read" by all concerned.
Knowledge is Power
"I will acknowledge preemptively to those who are quick to abolish the angle and analytics crafted by retired DoD cadre as 'irrelevant and inapplicable', by adage that such assertions are sophomoric, unsustainable, after arete and wholly dismissive of the Dr. W. Edwards Deming advocated following of abstruse knowledge," says Stokes. "To be sure, we account from applying accumulated knowledge, as has been axiomatic back humankind aboriginal saw the charge to almanac and bottle what was learned. The Library of Alexandria is an age-old and amazing archetype of this premise."
Further commenting on the contempo re-release of USAF Tanker aggressive requirements afterwards Boeing's acknowledged beef to the GAO adjoin EADS/Airbus, Stokes conveys the viewpoints of several academic, government and automated assembly that the charge to bottle C-17 is as alarmingly important as the call of accepting the tanker claim accomplished by a accurate US firm. "It have to be designed, developed, engineered, bogus and abiding in the United States. This is not jingoism, this is not nationalism, this is not adumbrative of a advancing naivete as apropos the alleged "new globality", but rather, a acceptance that the country's automated abject have to be maintained. Moreover, it have to be OWNED and controlled by American firms with a acerb admiring role by the US government as is accepted convenance by added automated nations.
"This is to say, even if the A330-based Tanker were absolutely designed, engineered and bogus here, the catechism at the end of the day is 'Where does the money go?' Answer: To across case accounts. Also, 'Would there be any guarantees that accomplishment and architecture would abide on these shores in the accident of a all-around bread-and-butter alienation (again) thereby consistent in calls by aggregation stakeholders to compress the company's all-around brand in the interests of 'fiduciary responsibility?'
Based on the recorded activities of all-embracing corporations, the acknowledgment is no.
"The abstraction that accessible illegalities in the anatomy of WTO disallowed EU subsidies advised to accord EADS/Airbus ( Northrop-Grumman, with its amazing history of aircraft development, is annihilation added than, sadly, a foreground to accord the apparition of "Americaness" to their overtures) a aggressive advantage in amount is absolved by DoD accretion admiral as extraneous or "having no address in the ultimate decision" (paraphrased) is suggesting a abandonment from logic, reason, accepted acumen and a complete abridgement of of compassionate that the US aegis and automated bases are one and the same."
Stokes suggests a abundant bare amplification of the DoD's paraphrased affirmation that "we are in following of the best amount for the warfighter" would cover '...,the American artisan and taxpayer."
"To be sure," Stokes added states, "No added country on earth, neither Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Japan, South Korea, China... no one would accord abroad a amount aspect of its analytical automated abject which this Tanker, as complete by Boeing with its acutely above aircraft body skillsets, represents."
About Global HeavyLift Holdings, LLC
Founded in 2002, GHH is a cardinal air carriage solutions that was complete of a multi-year public/private accomplishment a allotment of advanced thinkers in both the clandestine area and government to abate arising and appreciable vulnerabilities in the U.S. automated abject all-around accumulation chain. Such vulnerabilities are represented by the actuality that no ocean-borne shipment is in U.S. easily at present, appropriately potentially subjecting American corporations, abnormally automotive, and their all-around operations to the whims and conceivably economically adverse activities of and by adopted governments. Add to this the accident of agitator activities, which have, according to the Department of Homeland Security, targeted amphibian operations; i.e., ships, ports and ocean containers.
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) listed, it is the ambition of GHH and its cardinal ally about the planet to plan with key acumen cadre aural these corporations and government agencies to conceptualize, ability and anatomy abiding all-around accumulation alternation addition busline methodologies through connected -- not stop gap or emergency -- air accession solutions. Its a lot of important mission, however, has been in the co-development of all-around architectonics for basement of a new American controlled industry, Heavylift, utilizing the accomplished airlift achievement characteristics of the Boeing BC-17.
Contact:
John T. Chuhran
Global HeavyLift Holdings, LLC
74 W. Long Lake Rd
Suite 103
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
248-310-2650
globalheavyliftholdings@ymail.com http://www.emotionreports.com .
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