http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/06/the_f35_even_the_engine_is_compromised.html

The article posted above is similar to many statements leaked over the years about this airplane’s failures. F-35 is really not so critical to our security that it should cost so much. It’s just a corporate boondoggle piggybacked on the hype of the never ending desert wars. There are weapons which are far more important to our security being cut to pay for this compromised aircraft. I think F-35 started out as an F-117 replacement. Then some soulless executive figured out how to manipulate the congress into plugging every hole with it.

Have any of you noticed we seem to having an enormously difficult time beating up on lowly sheepherders and their 50 year old personal weapons? They have lots of McGuyver tactics and a death wish, but have no airpower, little mobility, terrible leadership, and so on and so on. They are literally rag-tag. Yet here we are, the mightiest military the world has ever known spinning its wheels in the same sand pit since the Vietnam era closed. Hmmm, do you really think we can’t wrap this up if we wanted to? Vietnam was very profitable and the desert wars are even more so. Ugly hate and long knives for the leaders who dare suggest a fast end. Sick how the media has switched teams.

I was recently reading a book by a famous admiral. Some of you know who Admiral Rickover was. He did what he had to do, but in the end he seemed to prefer plow sheers over reactors. Hard to believe so go to Wikipedia or a biography and read his words. Point is some of the strongest and most important Americans in our history looked for ways to spend less on military. They understood the waste of the necessary evil. Where are they now? They certainly are not in any of our elected offices.

http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/06/14/what_went_wrong_with_the_f-35_lockheed_martins_joint_strike_fighter_111589.html

I grew up next to the airport when the F-4 flew. The sound was beyond horrific. Those jets would shake the whole house and knock dished off the shelf.

The F-35 has been plagued with cost overruns and abysmal failures of engineering. The article I posted is just one of many failures of this worthless jet and the ONLY reason it is still in the works are due to the immense bribes paid by the manufacture to continue this defunct aircraft.

You all me and other stupid but you overlook the trillion dollars wasted on a failed idea. So either your a shill for the manufacturer or your just arrogant as you are stupid. Over 1 trillion dollars have been wasted on something that all 4 branched of the Military said they don’t want or need.

Need I point out that this costly failure is not wanted by anyone with any sense of reason. But most importantly are the words of a President that knew war and it’s cost, first hand.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children…
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think you’re greatly mistaken in everything you’ve stated and you come off as just another shill, barking at shadows.

The F-35 is bad for America, bad for Boise and bad for our servicemen and women that would be better served if we put this money (OUR TAX MONEY) to better, more peaceful solutions.

Dropping bombs on civilians only creates more enemies. This is the way of the world. Perhaps if warmongers like yourself had to sacrifice your own wealth and children, you would see things differently. But I doubt it. Ignorance is and ignorant does.

There are many other flight missions that the Air Force can locate in Boise that do not cost residents their homes or the quality of life we have in Boise.

As a Realtor I can confirm that if the F35 comes to Boise the south bench homes will suffer in value.

If Idaho Air Guard goes to Mtn Home that could be up to 155Million shifting to Elmore County. For sure some the money is redirected. Good for them- bad for Boise.

I suspect the concern is City of Boise (airport) loses payments to the airport if the Guard goes elsewhere.
What is the financial arrangement between City of Boise and the Guard?

Is the Commerce PR saying the Guard disappears? Not in context. But if the Guard gets the F-35 and it goes to Mtn Home, that is equal to “Boise loses the Guard”. That is certainly a possibility; so is a 737 falling on Mary’s house.
If no F-35 & no A-10? Then what?

EDITOR NOTE–Guard pays a mere annual $285,00 or thereabouts.

What I find increasingly annoying is the false statements being puked by people such Benjy saying the IS doesn’t publish such news.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article155416539.html
Take note, Benjy, the IS post is 3 days prior to your BBC reference.

And then Mary says “thanks for the story” as if she hasn’t already heard of it…. so Mary doesn’t pay attention to the news.
Yet she proclaims “the aircraft continues to be a problem” as if she is an expert on the daily news of F-35s. YES Mary, the F-35 and EVERY other sophisticated aircraft in the world have problems based on manufacturer, specific models, and the aircraft operators.
Here’s one for you:https://www.rt.com/usa/388030-boeing-737-grounded-engine-flaw/
Another one for you Mary: http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/investigations/allegiant-air/mechanical-breakdowns/

Aircraft crashing?
Mary wants to believe the oxygen problem “proves” an F-35 could crash on a house. Yes, that might happen Mary. A 737 plane MIGHT crash on YOUR house TODAY Mary, too. Or were all the 737s “grounded” yesterday?????

My point is, ALL of these comments have no real merit either in favor or against installing F-35s at Gowen. But they do reveal how dumb and so polar our general public has become! That is the reason we have an idiot in the White House, a circus in City Hall, and a dysfunctional Idaho legislature.
Yet, we all know who won the NBA finals.

EDITOR NOTE–Don’t forget the Chamber of Commerce guy saying he “fears we will lose the Air Guard if we don’t get the F-35.”