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Congresswoman to Air Force: Put down the tuba, pick up a gun

Rep. Martha McSally has this piece of advice for the Air Force: Ditch the bands and put musicians to work in jobs that boost U.S. national security. McSally, R-Ariz., on Tuesday said that the service easily complains about its manning levels, and officials make it "their newest excuse" for prematurely retiring essential, close-air support aircraft like the A-10…

Rep. Martha McSally has this piece of advice for the Air Force: Ditch the bands and put musicians to work in jobs that boost U.S. national security.

McSally, R-Ariz., on Tuesday said that the service easily complains about its manning levels, and officials make it "their newest excuse" for prematurely retiring essential, close-air support aircraft like the A-10 Warthog, yet "we have hundreds of people playing the tuba and clarinet."

"If we really had a manning crisis, from my perspective, we would really tell people to put down the tuba and pick up a wrench or a gun," McSally said at a House Armed Services Committee hearing at which Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford testified. "But we're not at that place, and I'm just concerned over these conflicting statements."

via www.airforcetimes.com

I like McSally a whole heck of a lot better than the two idiots Arizona has elected to the Senate.

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  1. Casey

    Anyone tell her about SAPR yet? 😉

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  2. R

    I’m pretty sure that most members of service bands are professional musicians (many with advanced degrees) who enlisted with guaranteed MOS contracts after a very competitive audition process. The vast majority of them can’t be reclassified into other positions.
    Whether we need so many service bands and ceremonial units is a different discussion.

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  3. Xbradtc

    I think Rep. McSally’s point was that the AF likes to cut important stuff first, and fat later. It’s much like when a city has to trim its budget, it’s always police and fire services that get gutted, not the Office of Diversity.

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