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Trump grows America's Military (Original Post) flying-skeleton Sep 2016 OP
Trump announced today that he will increase the Air Force to 1,200 fighter airplane underpants Sep 2016 #1
My First Thought erpowers Sep 2016 #5
Going to build more ships! Those things are just for target practice. tonyt53 Sep 2016 #2
F' tRump madokie Sep 2016 #3
Why A Bigger Military erpowers Sep 2016 #4

underpants

(182,823 posts)
1. Trump announced today that he will increase the Air Force to 1,200 fighter airplane
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 07:43 PM
Sep 2016

The Air Force has somewhere between 1,700-1,900 right now. Oh and good luck getting out of the F-35 money pit.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
5. My First Thought
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:25 PM
Sep 2016

When I first say the 1,200 number I thought, doesn't the Air Force or the military in general already have 1,200 fighters jets? I remembered seeing a article, or something about military aircraft that said the U.S. military had more than 1,000 aircraft and about half of them are routinely under maintenance.

Donald Trump really needs to be called out on his lack of knowledge and his lack of a desire to acquire knowledge. It would not be hard for him to learn this information. He just seems to not want to put in the work necessary to learn this information.

 

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
2. Going to build more ships! Those things are just for target practice.
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 07:53 PM
Sep 2016

Hell, during the Falklands War Argentina sank a modern British ship with a 20 year old missile.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
3. F' tRump
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 08:04 PM
Sep 2016

with a board sprinkled with rusty spike nails

Hey tRump what this country really needs is a Department of Peace. As Dennis said all those years ago

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
4. Why A Bigger Military
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:18 PM
Sep 2016

Why does he need to increase military spending and increase military hardware in each military branch if he wants to stop military adventurism? If he wants to stop invading foreign countries why will he not reduce the size and cost of the military?

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