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Chicago, IL, October 01, 2009 -- UPDATE TO SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 RELEASE: Among
several items discussed in the Administration's 2010 Budget overview released this
past Friday was Boeing's C-17 Globemaster III Strategic/Tactical airlifter, and
yet again it has voiced a desire to shut down production of this critical aircraft
citing "DoD analyses".
"We were in full expectation of this move," says Myron D. Stokes, Managing Member
of Global HeavyLift Holdings, LLC, a Florida incorporated, Bloomfield Hills, MI
based DLA-listed firm (www.ccr.gov) , "And it is precisely why we restated our
position via the 9/28 release.
"Since those opposed to C-17 continue to cite "internal DoD analyses" we ask,
respectfully, that they produce same. We are, of course, cognizant of the fact
that a certain mythological place of intense heat would be altered by cryogenic
intervention before such data were produced. Short story: It does not exist."
An "Intellectual" Assault
"What many who support C-17 don't really understand," says Stokes, "Is that an
intellectual assault was launched against this aircraft beginning with the GAO and
Congressionally debunked 2005/2006 Mobility Capabilities Studies (MCS) and the
2006 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) which repeated MCS assertions of there were
'enough' C-17s, coupled with ancient and notoriuously unreliable C-5 Galaxys. The
GAO found the study analytics were profoundly flawed, and based on unsustainable,
unrealistic conflict assumptions post 9/11.
"We must re-emphasize this is the only data to which opposition parties can be
possibly referring.
"We say again, these efforts are designed to make the world safe for retro-fitted
C-5s and yet-to-fly Airbus/EADS A-400M, the latter of which EADS desperately hopes
will be acquired by the USAF. Unfortunately, the only way that Lockheed-Martin and
EADS will get their wish is if Boeing C-17, and perhaps Boeing itself (a very real
possibility if the Tanker deal is given to the Europeans) is killed.
"I daresay that data from several and quite significant resources, inclusive of
the limited availability 2005/2006 Department of Commerce C-17 Industrial Base
Impacts Study, strongly, if not overwhelmingly, suggests the direction and
viewpoints articulated by our Washington colleagues relative to C-17's continued
existence is at best flawed, and at worst, not reflective of the great
responsibilities conferred upon them by the office in which they serve.
"It should be noted that while we have the greatest respect for the offices of the
SECDEF, SECAF and those to whom they report, we feel it necessary to again invoke
the wisdom, past and present, of DoD personnel such as the late VADM Arthur K.
Cebrowski, whose vast experience and knowledge cannot be ignored. In this
instance, we feel it appropriate to highlight the conclusions of decorated U.S.
Army 4-Star General (Ret'd) Barry R. McCaffrey, Adjunct Professor of International
Affairs, United States Military Academy (USMA) West Point, as outlined in an
"After Action" Report following visits to Nellis and Scott Air Force Bases 14-17
August, 2007."
• The Rumsfeld doctrine postulated bringing home deployed Army and Air Force
capabilities from Europe, Okinawa, and Korea. This seismic strategic shift was
unexamined and not debated by Congress or the American people. We are bringing
home ground and air strike assets thousands of miles--- from basing infrastructure
paid for by allies--- to unprepared US launch platforms. If we are to pose a
serious deterrent capability in the dangerous world arena--- then we must credibly
be able to project power back into future combat areas to sustain allies at risk.
• The C-17 represents the capacity to carry out this strategic power projection
mission ---as well as providing intra-theater logistics and humanitarian lift for
pin point distribution of thousands of truck load equivalents of supply per day.
Knowledge is Power
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"I will respond preemptively to those who are quick to dismiss the views and
analytics crafted by retired DoD personnel as 'irrelevant and inapplicable', by
saying that such assertions are sophomoric, unsustainable, without merit and
wholly dismissive of the Dr. W. Edwards Deming advocated pursuit of profound
knowledge," says Stokes. "To be sure, we benefit from applying accumulated
knowledge, as has been evident since humankind first saw the need to record and
preserve what was learned. The Library of Alexandria is an ancient and
extraordinary example of this premise."
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"This is to say, even if the A330-based Tanker were indeed designed, engineered
and manufactured here, the question at the end of the day is 'Where does the money
go?' Answer: To overseas bank accounts. Also, 'Would there be any guarantees that
manufacturing and design would remain on these shores in the event of a global
economic schism (again) thereby resulting in calls by company stakeholders to
shrink the company's global footprint in the interests of 'fiduciary
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responsibility?'
Stokes suggests a much needed expansion of the DoD's paraphrased assertion that
"we are in pursuit of the best value for the warfighter" would include '...,the
American worker and taxpayer."
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"To be sure," Stokes further states, "No other country on earth, neither Germany,
France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Japan, South Korea, China... no one would give away
a core element of its critical industrial base which this Tanker, as built by
Boeing with its clearly superior aircraft build skillsets, represents."
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Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) listed, it is the goal of GHH and its strategic
partners around the planet to work with key logistics personnel within these
corporations and government agencies to conceptualize, craft and structure long-
term global supply chain alternative transportation methodologies through
continuous -- not stop gap or emergency -- air augmentation solutions. Its most
important mission, however, has been in the co-development of global architecture
for infrastructure of a new American controlled industry, Heavylift, utilizing the
excellent airlift performance characteristics of the Boeing BC-17.
Contact:
John T. Chuhran
Global HeavyLift Holdings, LLC
74 W. Long Lake Rd
Suite 103
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
248-310-2650
globalheavyliftholdings@ymail.com
http://www.emotionreports.com