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**John Szalay** · January 22nd 10, 08:00 PM posted to rec.aviation.military.naval

wrote in :

I wonder about the Navy sometimes. Capabilities don't seem to matter
anymore. They retired the F-14 and still don't have anything that
would match an F-14 upgraded to todays standards.

The same with the A-6. The Navy still doesn't have one aircraft that
would match it's capabilities.

Nor do they have the money to maintain what they have..plus get new stuff.

The budget reality strikes hard..

going back some years, I remember living on C's for weeks in garrison
to help free money for the war in Nam.
But then they found enough money to fly all of us over there...the whole
damned division, a short time later....