So we have a missing r and missing e.
REEEEEEE
Okay, don't mean this to be a slide, but I was reviewing posts from last year and came across this little item from October:
"US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has called on the Pentagon to bring at least 80 percent of its key fighter jets to combat readiness. For a country always at war with someone, surprisingly few of its warplanes are kept sky-worthy.
Consistent with Washington’s increasingly saber-rattling rhetoric, the world’s largest military is putting its money where its mouth is. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has ordered the Air Force and Navy to increase their mission-capable rates for four major aircraft to 80 percent over the next twelve months, throwing the spotlight on the lamentable state of the nation’s airborne fleet. The mid-September memo was seen exclusively by Defense News.
The planes in question – the F-35, F-22, F-16 and F-18 – are currently in a dismal state of air-readiness. Last year, fewer than half the Air Force’s F-22s were mission-capable, and the notoriously expensive F-35 saw its first crash last month, just days after the fleet took to the air for the first time."
This was before Secy Mattis resigned, but do you think he knew something then, that we are not taking into account now?
https://www.rt.com/usa/440824-mattis-pentagon-planes-war/
And POTUS and FLOTUS leave today for Japan.