Pomerleau Real Estate Published 10:00 p.m. UTC Jun 19, 2018 Fed up with the smokescreens of distraction and evasion, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont took point-blank aim at the issue of what the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter means to the state’s Air National Guard. During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing May 17, Sen. Leahy asked Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson for a straight answer on the potential impact were the VTANG not to receive basing of the next-generation fighter jet. Wilson’s response confirmed what thousands of Guard members and supporters have long feared. “If the F-35s don’t go to Vermont, the F-16s will eventually age out, and it’s highly likely that Vermont will no longer have a flying mission for its Guard,” Wilson said. The grounding of VTANG would change the unit, and its role as an integral part of the community, probably forever. The most obvious impact would be job losses, which could number well into the hundreds — but the effects would extend far beyond, into the very fabric of the unit. “The bottom line is that the needs of the Air Force dictate the mission that you’re in,” said Brigadier General Dick Harris (Ret.), an 18-year-veteran pilot… Read full this story
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