Pentagon Cancels Tanker Bidding

By The Associated Press
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The DOD will wait until the next administration to award a disputed $35 billion contract to build a new fleet of aerial refueling tankers. Pentagon Cancels Tanker Bidding
Published: Wed, September 10, 2008 - 7:51 am Last Updated: Wed, September 10, 2008 - 1:22 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Defense Department will wait until the
next administration to award a disputed $35 billion contract to
build a new fleet of aerial refueling tankers.
Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., says the Pentagon has canceled the
latest round of bidding between Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman
Corp. for the 179 planes, and now plans to hold a new competition
next year.
Northrop won the contract earlier this year, but the competition
was reopened after the Government Accountability Office found fault
with the decision.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Wentworth, most industry is built on the Gulf Coast you have transportation by land sea and air.  From what I am hearing from you, you are probably from somewhere else and need to go back where you came from.  We have so much industry and economical growth in Mobile you probably can’t handle it.  Every city has their good and bad areas.  So if you can’t handle the down home kick butt that has made our neck of the woods prosperous forever,  go back where you came from, you don’t have to understand us because we sure don’t agree with you.

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Spek your right wentworth, since I live in Mobile & have for goin on 18 years, oh & by the way, I have been a Licensed A&P;Aircraft Mechanic for over 35 years, seems we at Mobile Aerospace have been making money for our company & the city of Mobile since 1991, on Major Airlines such as Fedex, UPS, NorthWest, U S Air, Continential, Air Canada, Tower Air, Polar Air, just to name a few,
reckon YOUR RIGHT, WE ARE STUPID.

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I have clicked on the ignore button under one persons name.  The comments are not informative, nor do they elicit the need to further investigate his beliefs.  By clicking ignore, I don’t have to deal with ignorance wasting my time.

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People don’t even comment to wentworth his ignorant comments are not even worth reading or commenting on..

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Wentworth since you don’t like Mobile and everybody is a dumdass why don’ you pack you stuff and get out. I am just one person who feels that a person who can find so many negative aspects in Mobile that you are surely unhappy. Go find a town that doesn’t have areas of the town that were devistated by the pull out of a large Military base Families were displaced incomes were wiped out, they have suffered enough .They don’t need your negetivity.This town has been here for hundreds of years and will be here long after you are gone.
DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT SOME DUMDASS CAN DO YOUR JOB
Alabamaoutlaw

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Wentworth, reading your continuous babble and rants about this city and it’s people and the little comments back and forth are fun,,,, BUT today is not the day to make such comments about this subject.  I stood along with hundreds of firefighters, NYPD, rescuers and other military people looking first hand at the damage that was done by these cowards watching grown men on thier knees praying friends would be pulled from the rubble we were surrounded by.  So at this time I would like to request you not make anymore comments about 911. A tragic day in Americas history, should not be the subjects of jokes or rampant rumors from the far left and conspiracy nuts.
Thank You,
T.

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I never said i did not like my job. i merely said i worked 40 hrs a week and work nites. By the way, in commemmoration of 9/11, did you know, by the way,
that it was an inside job?

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Wentworth you are embarrassing and I don’t even know you ! You lost any credibility you might have had in any argument you were trying to make when you started making statements like that, it just reflex back on you and any position you might have had. Now you are regarded as nothing more than someones hand puppet and to be laughed at. Go smell the coffee and get a reality check then come back and make a sensible case for your views.

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Wentworth, your ignorance is astounding.  You say you are from this area, yet you call Mobilians stupid.  Just because you have no education and have to work at some meaningless job doing something you hate doesn’t mean that everyone does.  Please run to the closest mirror, right now, look long and hard, are you proud of what you do, what you are, what you say about your fellow Alabamians? I bet you sit around watching the grass grow for fun, don’t cha? Come on I know you have it in you, say something, anything, good about Mobile. It’ll make you feel better.

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Wentworth, you must be referring to yourself when you say Mobilians are too stupid to work as aircraft builders. I myself am from the mobile area and have a bachelors in electrical engineering. I guess being from Mobile makes me too stupid to build this plane, regardless of my education? There are many talented individuals in the Mobile area, so please stop with your degrading comments. Mobile is a prime area for this tanker to built at. I personally am for the best tanker to be built regardless of the location. I have not followed closely, but from my vantage point, it seems as if Northrop Grumman has/had the best chance at winning this contract. I disagree with the Pentagon’s decision to cancel this acquisition. Our men and women in uniform need a new tanker for operations at home and abroad.

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