Do you think that our Congress can approve funds at will? The funds approved by our Congress must be made public and subject to supervision. If we make a fuss about the maintenance costs of an army airport, those who know the situation may understand, but the vast majority of American voters don't know about this. Do you want us to lose the voters' votes?
Therefore, let’s wait until your U.S. military has sorted this matter out!
In this way, after much wrangling, the airport has become what it is now. If the Air Force had not paid part of the airport maintenance fee to the Army every year, even the two main runways would probably be unusable now.
If Yang Jing had not seen it with his own eyes, he would have found it hard to believe that such a thing could happen in the US military.
This is a proper military airport. Although the runway is a little short, it is a modern military airport worth hundreds of millions of dollars, not a bus station!
But such a military airport worth hundreds of millions of dollars ended up like this because of the wrangling among the top leaders. What else could this be but nonsense?
No wonder Americans are clamoring that American senior officials are wasting tax money. Judging from this airport, the Americans are right.
If this happened in China, would such a good airport be left in such a state? The person in charge would have been arrested long ago...
Perhaps it is precisely this situation of being unloved by both grandma and uncle that makes the US Army stationed here not like this airport very much. Compared with the airport at Anderson Strategic Air Force Base next door, the management of the airport is like an old lady's belt - loose and sagging.
It was such a large airport, but there were only two soldiers on duty at the gate, and they both looked exhausted.
Paul was an Air Force lieutenant colonel who often led new pilots here for training. He was already familiar with the soldiers on duty here. Besides, he was a real lieutenant colonel. Although he was an Air Force lieutenant colonel, he was not someone these soldiers could afford to offend. Therefore, Yang Jing and his group entered the base with almost no effort.
Paul didn't even have to take out his ID; he could just use facial recognition here.
On the way to the hangar after entering the airport, Yang Jing realized more deeply how dilapidated the airport was.
What is an airport used for? Not everyone knows this. Military airport hangars usually house high-value aircraft, such as strategic bombers and airborne early warning aircraft, while ordinary fighter jets can only be parked on the apron outside.
But no matter what, the aprons of most US military airports are full of various military aircraft. But on the apron of this airport, Yang Jing did not see a single aircraft, but all kinds of cars.
As if sensing Yang Jing's gaze, George smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "The hangars at this airport are all filled with trainer planes, because this airport only has trainer planes left. As for the apron, it has become a parking lot."
Forget it, don't think about it. This is not the Quzhou Airport under construction, what does it have to do with me?
After the car passed the apron in the northeast corner of the airport, it went a short distance forward and arrived in front of the hangar.
Like most hangars at military airports, the hangars at this airport are mostly semi-underground, and because the hangars are surrounded by lush trees, the hangar door is difficult to be spotted from the air. If it is purely from the perspective of concealment, these large trees that have grown for decades are not completely useless.
After getting out of the car, Paul walked to the door of the hangar. After entering a series of passwords into the electronic lock on the side of the door, the door slowly opened with a rumble. The lights inside also lit up, and a light gray twin-engine heavy fighter immediately appeared in front of Yang Jing.
This is the first time for Yang Jing to have such close contact with a real fighter jet, and it is the famous F15 fighter jet.
This was the most powerful air control weapon of the US Air Force before the F22 "Raptor" officially entered service in 2005. It was also the only heavy fighter at the time. The old enemy of this fighter was the famous Su-27 heavy fighter of the former Soviet Union!
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