— former Air Force general, fighter pilot and retired chief of staff Ronald Fogleman. He was speaking Wednesday outside Washington on why the Pentagon would be better off keeping its assembly lines now building F-15, F-16 and F-18 fighters open. He fears they’ll be shut down by the time the military figures out it can’t afford the 2,443 F-35s the Air Force, Marines and Navy want to buy over the next two decades.
“They'll go dead about the time that we wake up.”
