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Airmen from the California Air National Guard's 129th Rescue Wing switched on July 17, 2008, from fire duty to sea rescue to aid a seaman aboard a Canadian fishing boat. Here, a 129th RQW HH-60G Pave Hawk hovers over a pond near Sacramento, Calif. July 2, 2008, as unit members trained with water buckets, becoming USAF's first and so-far only helicopter rescue crews certified for firefighting suppression duty.

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To Be Clear
“Just like in my business, the issues that go badly get all of the attention. I think, to be clear with you, there are many things that are managed well every day in the Air Force.”
—John Young, Pentagon acquisition executive, speaking to defense reporters on the state of Air Force acquisition, Washington, D.C., Nov. 20, 2008.

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F-22 Options
“They have two choices. On January 21st, they can obligate the $90 million and decide there's some chance ... that they will buy the airplanes and they'd rather preserve the option to buy [them] at no additional cost to the taxpayer. Or, they could chose not to obligate the $90 million and accept that they still have a decision to be made between then and March 1st. But that decision may cost the taxpayer more money.”
—DOD acquisition czar John Young on how releasing only $50 million of the $140 million authorized by Congress to keep the F-22 production line active until March 2009 still preserves options for the new Administration, Capitol Hill, Nov. 19, 2008.